Complete LibTech 2013 Print Program

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Framework for a spatial Decision Support Tool for policy and decision making

The main challenge of developing of a spatial DST (Decision Support Tool) to support the decision making on future livestock production will not be a technical one, but instead a challenge of meeting the con-text requirements of the tool, such as the characteristics of the country-specific spatial plan-ning and decision-making process, the wishes of the potential users of the tool and its output as well as the country-specific policies and regulations. The spatial DST which is being pro-posed in this report therefore does not include complex and state-of-the-art GIS techniques, but instead tries to be as clear and simple as possible, in order to give the potential users a full understanding during the analysis process and with using the output of the tool. A spatial DST can easily become a ‘black box’ if the users do not fully understand the limita-tions of the tool and its output. Despite the fact that output maps of GIS systems may look very detailed and suggest a high degree of accuracy, they are often not. This will entirely de-pend on the availability of reliable and detailed input data. Most likely, many of the produced output maps should be used in an indicative way only. Therefore, the output of the spatial DST needs to be accompanied by supporting information on the reliability of the output and the shortcomings due to unreliable or missing input data, as well as the consequences for use of the output. Therefore, a comprehensive meta-data assessment system is proposed as an in-tegrated part of the spatial DST. The distribution of the output will also require tools to pro-duce more sketch-like presentations, e.g. using fuzzy borders and aggregated maps, which are another important feature of the spatial DST

Seafloor characterization using airborne hyperspectral co-registration procedures independent from attitude and positioning sensors

The advance of remote-sensing technology and data-storage capabilities has progressed in the last decade to commercial multi-sensor data collection. There is a constant need to characterize, quantify and monitor the coastal areas for habitat research and coastal management. In this paper, we present work on seafloor characterization that uses hyperspectral imagery (HSI). The HSI data allows the operator to extend seafloor characterization from multibeam backscatter towards land and thus creates a seamless ocean-to-land characterization of the littoral zone

INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY – SOME STUDY CASES

A critical factor in search, rescue or criminal investigation is time – specifically, the time needed to complete a big number of tasks that occur in any emergency. A critical asset in assisting disaster relief teams and public safety personnel in their mission to save lives and defend property loss is the access to resources data – location of personnel, emergency service resources, streets, buildings. The ability to locate resources, on foot or in vehicles, in relation to the local transportation infrastructure in a specific geographic area need to be considered in a new way of managing emergency situations. The TETRA based systems integrated with a wide range of mapping, tracking, alarming and resource-allocations applications used in conjunction with a dispatcher tool allows operational teams to manage a large ground, water and air-based emergency teams using voice and text communications.Public Safety, Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC), AIS, RIS, Air Traffic Management (ATM), Incident and Operative Scenarios, Operability, Efficiency

Spatial Methods for Green Infrastructure Planning. Strategies for Stormwater Management and Park Access

M.A.M.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 201

Enterprise GIS & Architecture

Enterprise GIS solutions are becoming more attractive to companies to implement because of the ability to leverage system of record portals. Information is largely regarded as a company’s competitive advantage enabling organizational capability to operate and build capital and equity within a business. And with good reason large amounts of data and information are difficult to collect and organize within a digital framework. Building a GIS enterprise is a solution for data organization and management. Workflows must be in place to collect, process, calculate, and store data with high regard to timeliness and accuracy. Business decisions are made based on information that a company has access to and thus reflects on the importance of database systems as a medium. How efficient a company organizes its information will easily set it apart from others in the competitive realm. Information is knowledge, and how a company can leverage it within an organization or across business assets, will impact how successful the company operates. Building a GIS enterprise on a central server infrastructure enables the expansion of GIS processes and services to both professional GIS users and non GIS users throughout an organization. This proposal is a framing document of why and how a GIS enterprise would be beneficial to implement within an organizations information technology framework environment

Server‐side workflow execution using data grid technology for reproducible analyses of data‐intensive hydrologic systems

Many geoscience disciplines utilize complex computational models for advancing understanding and sustainable management of Earth systems. Executing such models and their associated data preprocessing and postprocessing routines can be challenging for a number of reasons including (1) accessing and preprocessing the large volume and variety of data required by the model, (2) postprocessing large data collections generated by the model, and (3) orchestrating data processing tools, each with unique software dependencies, into workflows that can be easily reproduced and reused. To address these challenges, the work reported in this paper leverages the Workflow Structured Object functionality of the Integrated Rule‐Oriented Data System and demonstrates how it can be used to access distributed data, encapsulate hydrologic data processing as workflows, and federate with other community‐driven cyberinfrastructure systems. The approach is demonstrated for a study investigating the impact of drought on populations in the Carolinas region of the United States. The analysis leverages computational modeling along with data from the Terra Populus project and data management and publication services provided by the Sustainable Environment‐Actionable Data project. The work is part of a larger effort under the DataNet Federation Consortium project that aims to demonstrate data and computational interoperability across cyberinfrastructure developed independently by scientific communities.Plain Language SummaryExecuting computational workflows in the geosciences can be challenging, especially when dealing with large, distributed, and heterogeneous data sets and computational tools. We present a methodology for addressing this challenge using the Integrated Rule‐Oriented Data System (iRODS) Workflow Structured Object (WSO). We demonstrate the approach through an end‐to‐end application of data access, processing, and publication of digital assets for a scientific study analyzing drought in the Carolinas region of the United States.Key PointsReproducibility of data‐intensive analyses remains a significant challengeData grids are useful for reproducibility of workflows requiring large, distributed data setsData and computations should be co‐located on servers to create executable Web‐resourcesPeer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137520/1/ess271_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137520/2/ess271.pd

Creating an Automation Tool for Checking Data Integrity of CAD Files

Boundaries of land have been documented and recorded throughout history dating back over 2000 years ago. Land has been an important commodity throughout time, and a move toward building a coordinate-based land cadastre has been implemented in other countries across the world. It is used in parts of Europe, British Columbia, and the Middle East to manage land records. The County of Riverside needed a process for checking and reporting surveyed land divisions that were submitted in the form of computer aided design (CAD) files, and loading them into a geographic information system (GIS). The current CAD data submitted had errors with the geometry, and in most cases did not have a projected coordinate system. Most of the CAD files were not used for their intended purpose: which was to be shared with the Riverside County Assessor’s staff to aid them in creating and updating their Assessor Parcel Layer. Without the digital data the Assessor’s staff followed its business practice of re-entering the parcels one at a time. This created redundancy of work since the same data supplied by the Land Surveyor or Civil Engineer was identical. Some of the problems listed above uncovered the need to come up with a digital submission standard, and an automation tool to help prepare the data for loading into the Parcel Fabric. The goal of the project was to create a tool that will automatically check the surveyed land division for compliance prior to approval; this tool is named County Automated Terrestrial CAD Helper (CATCH). CATCH uses GIS technology to automatically identify mapping errors and report these errors back to the Land Surveyor or Civil Engineer who created the data. CATCH has been well received by the professional engineering community, from a series of stakeholder meetings held at county offices to introduce the project to private industry professionals and county staff. These meetings were critical in the success of CATCH, and helped bring up issues that the industry have had in submitting their digital files in the past. Also, CATCH could be well suited as the platform for tracking and maintaining other county assets in a GIS such as: grading plans, storm drains, gas lines, and other critical utilities that come in the form of digital CAD files. The problem that was solved was having an accurate foundation: and that being the boundary survey tied to a CAD file that utilized global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and global positioning system (GPS) technology

Business plan for the statewide Geospatial Clearinghouse

tableOfContents: 1. Executive summary -- 2. Program goals & context -- 3. Benefits and justification -- 4. Requirements and costs -- 4.1.Organizational approach -- 4.2. Suitability assessment of existing infrastructure -- 4.3. Data requirements -- 4.4. Functionality and technology requirements -- 4.5. Resource requirements -- 4.6. Standards and policies -- 4.7. Costs -- 4.8. Examples from other states -- 5. Implementation plan -- 5.1. Implementation details -- 5.2. Phasing and milestones -- 5.3. Budget plan -- 5.4. Marketing outreach -- 6. Measuring progress and success -- Appendix A. Informational material -- Appendix B. Document historyabstract: This Business Plan for the Statewide Geospatial Clearinghouse is focused on Strategic Goal #1 of the state's recent GIS Strategic Plan, to 'Facilitate the productive application and sharing of geospatial data and GIS and location-based services to address the needs of Arizonans by establishing a Clearinghouse with statewide accessibility