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Lower Mississippi Valley Geospatial Information Conference

Mon, 05 May 2008 10:45:00 CST

Memphis, TN - Lower Mississippi Valley Geospatial Information Conference: June 17 and 18, 2008. The U.S. Geological Survey, the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture, and Duck?s Unlimited announce the Lower Mississippi Valley Geospatial Information Conference to be held on June 17 and 18, 2008 at the Ducks Unlimited Headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee.

It has been 11 years since the last LMV Geospatial conference and 6 years since the last LMVJV Geomatics Network meeting. During that time the numerous federal and state agencies, NGO?s, academic institutions, and other entities have continued to develop geospatial data and information to meet changing requirements and needs.

We believe that the context and focus of the conference should be:

Discovery of information
Producers of data
Identification of data and information gaps

This will be a working conference. We will have presentations, but we will also have some working/break-out sessions to solicit ideas from the participants about cooperation, data integration, data availability, and data gaps.

This is a Call for Presentations for the Conference. We would like presentations that will contribute to a resurvey of the LMV geospatial community about activities and answer such questions as:

What are internal agency needs
How are the internal agency needs being met
Are the needs similar across the LMV
How consistent are data content, formats, systems and platforms being used among producers and users
Harvesting and providing access to existing geospatial resources from Federal, state, and local agencies
What are the areas of coverage and how up-to-date is the inventory of data among the partners?
What framework datasets exist, currency, scales, formats?
What is currently being developed from the federal, state, academic, and private sides?
What special projects are being developed?
What Science Needs are being answered with the geospatial data resources in the LMV?
LMV geospatial data roles
Distributed geodatabases, NBII nodes, gateways, metadata catalogues - how can the agencies provide better or more coordinated access to geospatial data.

Please send presentation title, a short abstract, author(s) and affiliations to larry_handley@usgs.gov in a Word .doc format by May 15, 2008.

The organizing team of Larry Handley of USGS, Chris Cretini of USGS, Bill Uihlein of the LMVJV, and Dawn Browne of Duck?s Unlimited believe that this will be a tremendously valuable meeting for all geospatial activities within the LMV, and will be a great opportunity for us to get together again after 11 years.

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LGISC Emergency Data Committee Meeting 8:30-10:00am

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:58:00 CST

Baton Rouge, LA - The Louisiana GIS Council - Emergency Data Committee will hold a meeting on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 8:30am in 212 Efferson Hall on the LSU Campus.

Agenda items include:

USGS International Charter
Emergency Data Basemap of Louisiana
Distributed Data Services & Storage

For more information, please visit the LA GIS Council Web site.

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GIS Inventory Workshop

Fri, 02 May 2008 15:56:00 CST

Baton Rouge, LA - LAGIC is hosting a GIS Inventory Workshop: Powered by RAMONA on May 15, 2008 from 10am-12pm. This free workshop will be held in 212 Efferson Hall on the LSU Campus in Baton Rouge.

The workshop will focus on:

Inventory of Existing & Planned Data, Policies, Systems, and People
Simple Query Tool for Information About Users and Data Availability
Directory of GIS Users
Source of Key Information for Collaborative Strategic and Business Planning
Tool for Use During Emergencies
Ways to Minimize the Need to Respond to Pesky Data Surveys
Resource to Help Create Partnership Opportunities

and more…

For more information, download the Louisiana GIS Inventory flyer [PDF].

Free USGS Landsat Data

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CST

RESTON, VA – The USGS Landsat archive has announced that the any Landsat archive scene selected by a user will be processed, at no charge, automatically to a standard product recipe and staged for electronic retrieval. In addition, newly acquired scenes meeting a cloud cover threshold of 20% or below will be processed to the standard recipe and placed on line for at least three months, after which they will remain available for selection from the archive.

All Landsat data purchasing options from the USGS will be discontinued by February 2009, once the entire Landsat archive can be accessed at no charge. Landsat scenes can be previewed and downloaded using the USGS Global Visualization Viewer at http://glovis.usgs.gov[under “Select Collection” choose Landsat archive: L7 SLC-off (2003-present)]. Scenes can also be selected using the USGS Earth Explorer tool at http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov [under “Select Your Dataset” choose Landsat Archive: L7 SLC-off (2003-present)]. For further information on Landsat satellites and products, see http://landsat.usgs.gov.

Details can be found in the USGS Technical Announcement [pdf (66.8 KB)].

May 2008 LA GIS Council Meeting

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:01 CST

Baton Rouge, LA - The next meeting of the Louisiana GIS Council has been scheduled for Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 1:30 pm in room 212 Efferson Hall on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. Free parking is available at the building.

For more information, visit the GIS Council web site.

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TechMeGIS.Com GIS Server Training Classes

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:19:00 CST

Houston, TX - TeachMeGIS.com is offering the ESRI 2-day “Introduction to ArcGIS Server” course on June 4-5, 2008 in their Houston, TX facilities. Details about their couse is available online: 29.73114 -95.5727