LINK TO
NWWaGIS MEETING FOR MARCH 2009
Northwest Washington GIS User Group Agenda
December 12, 2008
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Directions & Abstracts below)
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9:00 – 9:30 Round Table
9:30 – 9:45 Break
9:45 –
11:50 Mapping Riparian Land Use within Agricultural Zones: A Case
Study in Skagit County
Josh Greenberg, Skagit County GIS
GIS and NWIMT (Northwest Washington Incident
Management Team)
Sean Carson & Kari Secrest, Skagit County GIS
Depiction Software Demo
Mike Geertsen and Bill Bothell, Depiction, Inc.
11:50
Wrap-up, Announcements
12:15
Optional Lunch at local restaurant
(TBA)
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Interstate 5
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Take
your first left (south) at the light on
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PUD is about one block south, on the
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Park in the lot behind the
PUD building, entrance at rear of building
ABSTRACTS
Mapping Riparian Land Use within Agricultural Zones: A Case Study in Skagit County, Josh Greenberg, Skagit County
As part of Skagit County’s salmon policy resolution, the GIS department was directed to map the land use in the riparian zones of Agriculture and Rural Natural resource lands. The analysis was performed using the time consuming method of heads-up digitizing from high-resolution aerial photos. Over 16,000 acres were digitized of which 8,000 acres were found to be within a standard buffer distance of 200' from Type 1 streams, 100' from Type 2 and 3 streams, and 50' from Type 4 streams. Within the standard buffer, 22% is in agricultural land use and 73% is forested, wetland or fallow. Of the agriculture land use, 42 acres are already protected, 75 acres are publicly-owned, and 64 acres are functionally separated from the watercourse—totaling 10% of the total agriculture land cover. Variations among regions of agriculture land use varied from 13% in the Sauk region to 35% in the Nookachamps region. The results of this study were compared to other land use analysis created using satellite data and found that those coarser studies overestimated agricultural land use by as much as 289%. While this approach is time-consuming, the information gathered is both useful and unique for assessing riparian land cover. This data will be useful in policy discussions and future planning of riparian protection programs.
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GIS and NWIMT (Northwest Washington Incident Management Team), Sean Carson & Kari Secrest, Skagit County GIS
NWIMT is an "All Hazards" team serving a 5-county area in northwest Washington State. The team primarily serves Snohomish, Whatcom, Skagit, Island, and San Juan Counties, but may be deployed to other geographic areas of the U.S. An Incident Management Team (IMT) is a team of trained, experienced and credentialed people that can come together and deploy to emergency incidents with appropriate equipment and personnel. The team functions under the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to support the incident management needs of local communities and agencies when requested during major emergency events. This presentation will include an introduction to incident management and specific information about the NWIMT with an emphasis on the role of the GIS Technician.
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Depiction Software Demo, Mike Geertsen and Bill Bothell, Depiction, Inc.
Depiction, Inc., a small software startup based north of Seattle, will be showing their recently released product and demonstrating how it can be used to interactively map different ‘what-if’ scenarios facing western Washington. Depiction is an easy-to-use software that lets you visually depict what-if scenarios or stories about your community.
See also http://www.depiction.com/
