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GIS-T Workshops
Sunday, April 11, 2010
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.
CANCELLED WORKSHOP - The GIS Return on Investment workshop has been cancelled!
People who have signed up for the cancelled workshop will be asked to select another morning session.
Introduction to Agile: Project Management & Development
Instructors: Dave Bouwman, Brian Noyle Data Transfer Solutions
Winkipedia describes Agile software development as ".. a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams." This Agile Workshop will be divided into two 2-hour sessions. The first session will address agile project management practices and the second session will address agile software development and engineering practices. Both sessions will provide general overviews of agile practices as well as discussions about the practical applications of each in a GIS software development environment.
The first part of the workshop will be dedicated to discussing agile project management practices. This session will include an overview what agile is and how it differs from other more traditional development methodologies. We will also demonstrate how agile practices are used to manage scope, estimating project sizes and duration, and monitoring project task progress. Most importantly, we'll address the collaborative nature of agile practices in terms of managing client expectations, managing change, and ensuring the delivery of value to customers quickly and effectively. This session is appropriate for project manager as well as the development staff as it will cover the foundations of agile practices for all team members.
The second half of the session will focus on providing an overview of agile practices for software development and engineering. This session will provide an overview of the Extreme Programming (XP) practices that are useful for agile development teams. This session will be technical in nature and is probably most appropriate for development teams. For project managers, it provides a basic understanding of how agile development practices differ from traditional development methodologies."
Using LiDAR Project Data for Transportation Applications
Instructor: Chris Markel Penn Dept. Natural Resources, PAMAP Program
This LiDAR Workshop will focus on the use of LiDAR data for transportation applications. Thus, the workshop will be centered on the use of airborne LiDAR data, and still touch base on the uses of mobile LiDAR mapping. Statewide LiDAR data projects have been completed in several states and are underway in many more. In addition, federal agencies such as the USGS and FEMA are encouraging and providing funds for large LiDAR acquisitions. This large amount of available data can be very useful for GIS-T practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines, and the workshop will help attendees to understand what they can do in their own locations. The workshop will be based largely on the Pennsylvania's PAMAP experience and discuss how the PAMAP data is used by PennDOT and others. However, experiences from other areas and practices will be used and the attendees should be able to apply the lessons to their own available data stores. The proposed content is presented in outline form below.
1. Statewide Programs and what they mean for transportation. Discussion of statewide or other large-area LiDAR acquisitions, their status, what their purpose is, what the funding possibilities area.
2. Data Particulars and Specifications. What data is being acquired. What format? What are the specifications and accuracies? What exactly is the point cloud?
3. Derived Data. LiDAR projects usually include data processing to produce derivative products such as digital elevation models (DEM), contours, or digital surface models (DSM). What are the characteristics of these data products? How can they be used for transportation applications?
4. Transportation Applications. What has LiDAR data been used for? Examples of use for transportation applications such as identification of potential landslide areas, visualization, road modeling with elevation, etc.
5. LiDAR Software. What software products are available to use LiDAR data and derived products? What are the characteristics of the software? Demonstration of using LiDAR data by a software vendor or services provider for a particular application.
6. CAD Environment. What can be done with the data in the CAD/design environment? What software might be needed? What system requirements must be addressed? Demonstration of using LiDAR data in the design environment by a software vendor or services provider for a particular application.
7. GIS Environment. What can be done with the data in the GIS environment? What software might be needed? What system requirements must be addressed? Demonstration of using LiDAR data in GIS software by a software vendor or services provider for a particular application.
8. Mobile LiDAR Mapping. Discussion of mobile LiDAR, equipment used, data acquired, and applications. Current and potential uses of the data. Considerations of this platform for the future.
GIS Technology, Interoperability and Asset Management
NEW WORKSHOP The vision for GIS has been as a data and application integrator. However, while at times achieving this goal, GIS also sometimes can also act as an agency stove-pipe. GIS data is shared, but not as universally as it should. Transportation agencies run duplicate code to meet similar ends, with increased costs and sometimes varying results. Is the agency getting its full return on investment from it expenditures on GIS data and technology? Agency LRS update efforts to date have not always been successful -- why is this, and where is LRS best supported?
This workshop reviews the different technical options for interoperating GIS and other transportation applications. It provides an agency check list for "agency GIS interoperability health". A number of best practice case studies of interoperating GIS and PMS, MMS, Safety, Bridge and other applications are provided.
This workshop focuses first on technology options. It is thus a complement to that offered by the Symposium in the afternoon, which focuses more on aspects such as transportation asset strategy, data collection, GASB 34, etc. The workshop has been draws on the results of 2 years review undertaken by the Philadelphia Area Transportation GIS SIG, as well as work on IT best practices and successful transportation agency case studies from across the US."
Census 2010 / New Urbanized Boundaries
Instructors: Ed Christopher – FHWA Resource Center & Michael Ratcliffe Chief, Geocartographic Products and Criteria Geography Division U.S. Census Bureau
Sponsored by the Census Transportation Planning Products (CTPP) Program
April 1, 2010 will mark the 23rd time that the US population will be counted. As part of this process a variety of activities take place that affect those responsible for the geographical construct of the data. For example, new Urbanized Areas (UAs) will be defined, Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZs) constructed and Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) built. During 2009, The Census Bureau developed new rules for defining urban area boundaries, Traffic Analysis Zones and the Public Use Microdata Areas.
Coupled with this, new Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER)/Line shapefiles will be released. In this workshop, participants will receive a general overview of these and other Census geographic information files as well as learning where to get and take home valuable resources.
Iowa's Multi-level Linear Referencing System and Response to Minnesota's LRS RFI
Instructors: Eric Abrams (GIS Coordinator Iowa), Steve Kadolph (LRS Technical Expert,Iowa), Ryan Wylie (GIS Quality Administrator Iowa), Matthew Koukol and Thomas Martin (Minnesota DOT)
This workshop will include an introduction to Iowa's Linear Referencing System (LRS), the NCHRP 20-27 Model Architecture, the AASHTO Technology Innovation Grant (TIG) Project and what Iowa and other lead state teams can do for other states under the TIG grant.
The discussion of Linear Referencing Methods (LRMs) will cover how they are used by business data, the Linear Reference System including its components and what is required of business data to use these LRMS to give business data a common spatial location.
Part of the workshop will show how Minnesota's business requirements (producing a log point listing showing both business data and linear location) were accomplished. Minnesota's location data was entered into the Iowa LRS and then LRMs in this system were used to show both business and location information in a log point format.
Iowa will also demonstrate their LRS maintenance tool with an emphasis on quality control, change propagation, and business rules.
This workshop will include an introduction to Iowa's Linear Referencing System (LRS), the TIG Project and the NCHRP 20-27 Model Architecture. The discussion of Linear Referencing Methods (LRMs) will cover how they are used by business data, the LRS including its components and what is required of business data to use these LRMS to give business data a common spatial location.
We will show how Iowa responded to Minnesota's Request for Information by leveraging their LRS to add the Minnesota data to the Iowa LRS data. The workshop will demonstrate how LRM transformations were run to stage the business data against the added Minnesota LRS data including the temporal components (route changes, deletions, etc. over time). The creation of new business data was made by leveraging the Minnesota LRS data, staging the Minnesota business data against their LRS data, and finally creating a logpoint listing of that business data by using the Linear Referencing System.
Iowa has created an LRS Maintenance Tool which puts an emphasis on quality control, change propagation, and business rules.
Asset Management: Planning, Strategy, and Implementation
Instructors: Jason Amadori and Allen Ibaugh, Data Transfer Solutions
***URISA CERTIFIED WORKSHOP***
Public and private agencies face continuous challenges to accomplish more with less as increases in demand, regulatory requirements, infrastructure deterioration, and political and economic forces have significantly outpaced increases in capital and operating budgets. Many of these agencies are turning to Asset Management to cope with these challenges and improve business performance and effectiveness. This workshop will focus on several aspects of developing an asset management system that could help improve performance, reduce long-term costs, and maximize return on investment in infrastructure assets.
Specific topics include:
- Strategy and Planning
- Data Collection Methods
- Software Solutions
- Information Management and Decision Support Tools
- Evaluation and Performance Measures
- GASB34 Reporting
- Life Cycle Costs
Intended Audience: This workshop is intended for utility, transportation, engineering, planning, and environmental managers and analysts of the public and private sectors.
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