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GIS-T Workshops
Sunday, April 5, 2009
All GIS-T workshop registrations include your choice of 2 half day workshops and a lunch. Please indicate which sessions you would like to attend when you register. Registrants will be asked to sign up for specific sessions at time of registration so that we can plan for the appropriate room sizes. Materials will be available on the morning of the workshops. Students registering for the Symposium are automatically entitled to two workshops. If you have any general questions concerning the workshops contact Ben Williams.
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | | Registration | | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Using the New FHWA HPMS Geospatial Data Model
Ron Vaughn, FHWA Office of Highway Policy Information
Ben Williams, FHWA Resource Center | Developing Quality Assurance Programs for Large Area Geospatial Projects
Drew Meren & Gerhard Sehnalek, Infotech Enterprises America | Integrating Civil Engineering and GIS/IT Disciplines (URISA Workshop)
Jacob Merriman, First Energy Corp. & Jeff Siegel, HNTB |
| | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | | Lunch | | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Hybrid GIS Solutions
Casey Donovan,
IS Consulting | Obtaining, Integrating, Maintaining and Sharing Local and State Transportation Data, using a centralized data store and automated processes
Michael Leierer
Washington State DOT | Integrating Civil Engineering and GIS/IT Disciplines (continued)
Jacob Merriman, First Energy Corp. & Jeff Siegel, HNTB | Introduction to GIS Web Services
Frank Winters, New York State CSCIC |
Using the New FHWA HPMS Geospatial Data Model
Instructors: Ron Vaughn, FHWA Office of Highway Policy Information & Ben Williams, FHWA Resource Center
Beginning with the submittal of 2009 data in June 2010, The Highway Performance Monitoring System will use a new data model that has a geospatial component. This has opened up many challenges as we strive to meet customer requirements while at the same time decrease burden to State DOTs. This workshop will focus on methodologies that States will use tomeet these challenges.
Topics to be addressed include the overall reassessment of the HPMS, a description of the Data Model, the foundation of a National LRS Network that will be made up of data from State DOTs, Methods to import the Network/Attribute data, and methods for sampling data. Informal discussions are encouraged.
Developing Quality Assurance Programs for Large Area Geospatial Projects
Instructors: Mr. Drew Meren Infotech Enterprises America, Inc. & Mr. Gerhard Sehnalek CP, PLS Infotech Enterprises America, Inc.
The States of Ohio and Virginia (USA) have yearly digital Orthophoto and Digital Terrain Model (DTM) acquisition programs exceeding 45,000 tiles each for multiple image resolutions and map scales. The State of Ohio selected the ADS40 sensor for imagery and the LiDAR ALS50 for terrain data acquisition; whereas, Virginia selected conventional film and photogrammetric DTM collection. The QA services for the digital orthophotos focused on the geometric and radiometric quality. In order to provide high quality imagery and data to the participating counties, cities, and other users within a short timeframe, all deliveries require compliance with specifications and consistent quality. Infotech was hired for these multi-year programs because of experience, expertise, and the availability to provide a large number of skilled QA specialists. This workshop will describe the development of automated and interactive workflows and review processes for the QA of digital Orthophotos, LiDAR, and Digital Terrain data for large area datasets based on different data sources. Various acceptance criteria for multiple resolution digital orthophotos will also be presented with supporting sample imagery to aid in the assessment for acceptance or rejection along with qualitative assessment tools developed to efficiently analyze LiDAR and DTM data.
Integrating Civil Engineering and GIS/IT Disciplines (URISA Workshop)
This URISA Certified Workshop is Newly Updated for 2009!
"Wow! I just accomplished in 10 minutes with one program [GIS] what took me two or three days using MicroStation, Excel, and the online Property Appraisers site! I am incredibly impressed by what this program can accomplish." The integration of GIS technology into civil engineering has seen a dramatic increase in recent years.
Solutions have become more sophisticated as the usefulness of GIS has become increasingly apparent to civil engineers. GIS and related information technologies are now being used by civil engineers in many aspects of project development and infrastructure management - from preliminary studies thru final design and for day-today
operations, facilities maintenance and asset management.
Specific topics include:
* Engineering industry trends and opportunities for integration
* GIS and the infrastructure lifecycle
* CAD interoperability/integration
* GIS fundamentals (in engineering terms)
* Modeling and simulation
* Asset and maintenance management
Intended Audience: This workshop is intended for GIS/IT professionals that support engineering functions within an enterprise; project managers and analysts dealing with both CAD and GIS data; as well
Hybrid GIS Solutions
Instructors: Casey Donovan
A hybrid solution is an integrated solution that is the result of combining two different things. Hybrid GIS solutions result from combining or mashing up consumer map services with geographic information systems.
This workshop will describe the new opportunities that have been created for geospatial visualization and analysis by recent changes in the industry. Specifically, we will examine the impact that consumer map services including Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps have had on the demand for advances in geospatial visualization and analysis. Next we will discuss the new concepts that consumer map services have introduced to the GIS professional, and the obstacles that these new concepts present for geospatial visualization and analysis. Prominent among these new concepts is tile based mapping. Tile based mapping systems can provide a much richer user experience over demand-driven, non-tiled map visualization, but they also introduce new obstacles and complexities. For example, a mashup that provides visualization of pre-rendered map tiles overlaid within the VE or Google map control can't easily be extended to provide dynamic symbology. Users can't view parameter driven thematic map overlays, or perform a variety of useful visual analysis.
Fortunately, the obstacles can be overcome. Whether a mashup includes an AJAX user interface, uses a REST API, or access map tiles directly, even the more advanced types of geospatial visualization and analysis are possible in a hybrid solution.
Obtaining, Integrating, Maintaining and Sharing Local and State Transportation Data, using a centralized data store and automated processes
Instructors: Michael Leierer, Washington DOT
The Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in partnership with the six other departments of transportation are involved in a consortium of public and private entities. The consortiums purpose is the development of computer based tools that facilitates geo-spatial transportation data sharing and integration providing a multitude of business benefits. This workshop will review the technical processes that obtain data and place the data in a centralized database, QA/QC processing and reporting, integration and conflation, production data and serving this data as products to data users. There will be an overview to administrative processes and business needs supporting WA-Trans, but slanted and only enough to support and explain the design, architecture and technical processes.
1. Identifying the administrative processes necessary to support data providers and submittal of data.
a. Vetting data providers
b. Agreement Points between jurisdictions
c. Data Agreements
2. Overview of the architecture needed to support the processes used in the workshop,
3. Obtaining provider data (This involves a demo of the WA-Trans Data User Portal and the back end translators),
a. Overview of Data Provider Portal requirements,
b. Translation of disparate provider data to a centralized database,
c. Submittal of data, by a provider, using a Data Provider Internet portal,
4. Change Detection/Change Management (Includes a demo of the Change Detections and Management processes),
a. Detecting changes to a providers submitted data based on data previously submitted by that provider,
b. Manage the detected changes,
c. Logging errors
5. QA/QC (Includes a review of some interesting reports),
a. Review submitted data for types of changes, connectivity and possible errors,
b. QA/QC Reports and error logging, some reports being available to the data provider,
6. Integration processes,
a. Coincident data at jurisdictional boundaries,
b. Differences in geometry,
c. Multiple LRS's
7. Promotion to Production,
a. QA/QC,
8. Production data and the Data User Portal (Includes a demo of the WA-Trans Data User Portal),
a. Data structure needs for data products,
b. Security,
c. Overview of Data User requirements
d. Obtaining data,
Integrating Civil Engineering and GIS/IT Disciplines (continued)
This URISA Certified Workshop is Newly Updated for 2009!
"Wow! I just accomplished in 10 minutes with one program [GIS] what took me two or three days using MicroStation, Excel, and the online Property Appraisers site! I am incredibly impressed by what this program can accomplish." The integration of GIS technology into civil engineering has seen a dramatic increase in recent years.
Solutions have become more sophisticated as the usefulness of GIS has become increasingly apparent to civil engineers. GIS and related information technologies are now being used by civil engineers in many aspects of project development and infrastructure management - from preliminary studies thru final design and for day-today
operations, facilities maintenance and asset management.
Specific topics include:
* Engineering industry trends and opportunities for integration
* GIS and the infrastructure lifecycle
* CAD interoperability/integration
* GIS fundamentals (in engineering terms)
* Modeling and simulation
* Asset and maintenance management
Intended Audience: This workshop is intended for GIS/IT professionals that support engineering functions within an enterprise; project managers and analysts dealing with both CAD and GIS data; as well
Introduction to GIS Web Services
Instructors: Frank Winters New York State Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure Coordination
The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Web Services by State agencies and local government has been growing rapidly. We have witnessed the growth of both GIS and web service uses for emergency services, capital project planning, real property assessment, economic development, health services, environmental analyses, land use planning, facility management, highway safety, and much, much more. In short, both GIS and web services are vital tools for effective decision-making and improving government services.
This workshop will introduce attendees to the fundamental concepts of GIS web services and raise their awareness of how to leverage the Internet to utilize geographic data without having the need to host the GIS data and/or develop necessary tools. Topics to be incorporated in this workshop include an explanation of web services, the various web service types and their application, the basics of data use via web service platforms and current programs and available resources for use in the integration of web service with GIS technologies. Demonstrations will cover the existing methods of integrating GIS data with web services. This is not a hands-on GIS developers' workshop meant to provide attendees with technical content on how to build web services. The target audience for this workshop is GIS practitioners and those who would like to understand what web services are and how they can be utilized in the workplace.
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