Northwest Washington GIS User Group Agenda
December 16, 2005
Skagit County Public Utility District No. 1, Aqua Room
1415 Freeway Drive, Mt. Vernon
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9:00 – 9:45 Round Table
9:45 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 10:35 SSHIAP – ArcHydro: Integrating information for Puget Sound Salmon
Recovery
Tyson Waldo, Northwest Indian
Fisheries Commission
10:35 – 11:10 Orthorectification of Air Photos with OrthoRec and Image Analysis
Victor Johnson, Lummi Natural
Resources Department
11:10 – 11:45 Modeling the Urban Environment using ArcScene and Sketch-Up
Kate Newell & Chris Behee, City of
Bellingham Planning Department
11:45 – 12:00 Wrap-up
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Driving Instructions:
o Take Interstate 5 North or South to Exit 227, Mount Vernon College Way
o Take College Way west 1 block.
o Take your first left (south) at the light on Freeway Drive
o The PUD is about one block south, on the right (1415 Freeway Dr.)
o Parking: Park in the lot behind the PUD building, entrance at rear of building
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SSHIAP-ArcHydro: Integrating information for Puget Sound Salmon Recovery - Tyson
Waldo, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Puget Sound salmon recovery is an issue for local tribes, all levels of
government, non-profit organizations, academia, businesses and private citizens.
The efforts of all interested parties has resulted in a regionally rich if not
very well integrated Puget Sound salmon information base complete with field
data, GIS data, research reports, policy documents, planning documents, and
methodology papers. With fewer funds annually available for salmon recovery, all
parties interested in Puget Sound salmon recovery are forced to become more
resourceful with the information already at hand. This has led the Salmon and
Steelhead Habitat Inventory and Assessment Program (SSHIAP) at the Northwest
Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) to use the ArcHydro data-model and the
ArcHydro and WRAP Hydro ArcGIS extensions to create a water resource information
system that is multi-scaled and fully integrated to better use available data
and to better serve tribal salmon recovery efforts. This presentation is a
demonstration of how SSHIAP is putting an ArcHydro information system together,
and a demonstration of how the SSHIAP-ArcHydro may be applied in the larger
context of Puget Sound salmon recovery.
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Orthorectification of Air Photos using OrthoRec and Image Analysis - Victor
Johnson, Lummi Natural Resources
The Lummi Natural Resources Restoration Division has been working to restore and
conserve the upper South Fork watershed of the Nooksack River. One of the key
tools that Lummi is using is GIS with orthorectified aerial photos. Lummi is
using historic photos to digitize the old river channel, forest roads,
clear-cuts, and to evaluate habitat changes.
In the process of orthorectifying the photos, Lummi tried two different types of
image processing software. The first was OrthoRec and the second was Image
Analysis. This presentation will review our experiences with these software and
the results.
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Modeling the Urban Environment Using ArcScene and Sketch-Up – Kate Newell and
Chris Behee, City of Bellingham Planning Department
Displaying and navigating urban landscapes in 3D provides planning professionals
and the public a means to see beyond traditional maps and architectural
renderings. Lending a sense of context, place, and scale to individual building
proposals helps people visualize impacts and to separate the real from the
perceived. This presentation highlights the development of urban models for
Bellingham's Downtown, and the Fairhaven Historic District. The discussion will
focus on developing accurate building layers, techniques for representing
structural details, and integrating structural and terrain data. The talk will
also include a brief tour of the Sketch-Up design tool, and its use and
application with respect to ArcScene and the urban modeling environment.
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