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Presenter Title Description
Joe North Panhandle Land Use Land Cover The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Watershed Restoration is currently creating a GIS layer that depicts Land Use / Land Cover in the Suwannee River and Northwest Florida Water Management Districts and is based on 2007-2008 aerial imagery. This presentation will discuss this classification scheme and project’s methodology in detail and will provide an update on the progress toward and availability of deliverables.
Joe North Florida National Hydrographic Dataset (NHD) The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Watershed Restoration participates in a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Geological Survey that provides that the Bureau serve as the officially recognized data steward for 1:24K NHD products for the State of Florida. This presentation will present an introduction to the NHD data model, the NHD’s place in the National Map and the Bureau’s activities in support of this effort.
Jessica Rogers From DGN to GIS The conversion process of the FDOT County General Highway Maps from a CADD format (MicroStation) into a GIS format. Presentation will include information on cartographic database development as well as future applications such as map publication via ArcServer.
Mike Kissane The ArcGIS Server Simple Map Using the ArcGIS Server .NET SDK to build data or department specific applications. Some examples will be shown and discussion about some of the tools and code used.
Judith Ippolito Inspected Environmental Health Facilities on the Web The Florida Department of Health, Environmental Health Division creates and posts to the internet inspected Environmental Health facilities. This presentation will discuss the process and methodology in detail.
David Kelly The Marathon Use of GIS in Hurricane Ike This presentation will discuss how GIS was used in the response and recovery efforts for Hurricane Ike in Texas and the challenges of doing GIS in such a massive effort.
Greg Mauldin, GISP The Use of Lidar Point Cloud Data for Line-of-Sight Applications Traditional line-of-sight and viewshed analyses are performed using ground elevations surfaces. While this process takes terrain relief into account, true visibility is often impacted by objects above the ground surface. This is particularly true in low-relief scenarios. With the advent of Lidar, it is possible to collect data points of both the ground surface and above-ground objects. Visibility studies can then be performed using an integrated surface. The process is described and some examples are provided.
Kevin Armstrong Using the JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight APIs for ArcGIS Server Learn how to access and start using the free ArcGIS Server APIs to develop modern and fast web applications.
Erika Pittman US National Grid (USNG) Lessons learned have taught us that standardized grid maps for emergency operations are a necessity. In an effort to standardize maps in Florida for both emergency and other operations, the State Fire Marshal and the Division of Emergency Management have embarked on a program to adopt the US National Grid (USNG) as the standard in Florida. This project ensures a uniform grid mapping system across cities and counties in Florida, and will match the system used by the US Coast Guard and the US military. The state's latest revision to the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan establishes USNG as the coordinate reporting system for emergency operations, and several agencies have adopted the USNG for deployment. This presentation will review why we need the USNG, introduce using USNG coordinates, and delve into using ArcGIS to produce maps and data compliant with USNG standards. This presentation will conclude presenting the concept of county-wide USNG-compliant map books as a standard tool for Florida's emergency managers.