Northwest Washington GIS User Group Agenda
September
19, 2008
10441
Bayview-Edison Road
Mt. Vernon
,
Map
(See Directions & Abstracts below)
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9:00
– 9:45 Round Table
9:45
– 10:00 Break
10:00
– 11:55 What’s
New in ArcGIS 9.3
TJ Abbenhaus, ESRI
NOAA Coastal Change Analysis
Program (C-CAP) & Data
Nate Herold, NOAA
11:55
Wrap-up, Announcements
12:15
Optional
Lunch at local restaurant (TBA)
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Map
/ Directions
Interstate
5 (from the North or South)
o
Take
Exit 230 (Hwy 20, north of
o
Go
West on Hwy 20 about 6 miles (towards Anacortes)
o
Turn
Right at the stop light onto Bayview-Edison
Rd. (the Farm House Inn Restaurant is at this intersection on the
Southwest corner)
o
Drive
North on Bayview-Edison Rd. for about
5 miles, past the town of Bay View and the Bay View State Park
o
Turn
Right at the
If you get lost, call 360-428-1558
ABSTRACTS
What’s
New in ArcGIS 9.3
TJ
Abbenhaus, ESRI (Olympia, Washington)
An
overview of the new & improved functionality in ArcGIS 9.3 (ArcGIS Desktop
as well as ArcGIS Server) for better data management, analysis and cartography,
including both demonstrations and discussion.
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NOAA
Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) and Data
Nate
Herold, NOAA (Charleston, South Carolina)
The
NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) is a nationally standardized
database of land cover and land change information, developed using remotely
sensed imagery, for the coastal regions of the U.S. C-CAP products inventory
coastal intertidal areas, wetlands, and adjacent uplands with the goal of
monitoring these habitats by updating the land cover maps every five years.
The
development of standardized, regional land cover information enables managers to
coordinate the planning of shared resources, facilitating an ecosystem approach
to environmental issues that transcends local and state regulatory boundaries.
C-CAP has recently released two time periods of mapping for all of the
Conterminous United States (CONUS), and is now working to update these products.
Their goal is to have this 2005/06 update complete by 2010, so that they can
then start on the next update cycle.
NOAA
works with the U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) and several other federal agency
programs to produce a consistent, comprehensive National Land Cover Database (NLCD) for the
nation. This coordination is facilitated by the Multi-Resolution
Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC is a group of
Federal agencies working together to obtain imagery and derive land cover data
for the nation.
Data
products are produced through documented, repeatable procedures and use standard
data sources and classification schemes. C-CAP provides the "coastal
expression" of these national products.
For
more information see http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/lca/ccap.html
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