Proceedings of the
April 24-28, 2006
Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5094
P. Lynn Scarlett, Acting
Secretary
P. Patrick Leahy, Acting
Director
Edited by John W. Brakebill, Jennifer B. Sieverling, and Peter G. Chirico
Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5094
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CONTENTS
Participating Organizations. 2
USGS GIS 2006 Planning Committee Members
Table 1. USGS GIS 2006 Schedule, Monday
Table 2. USGS GIS 2006 Schedule, Tuesday
Table 3. USGS GIS 2006 Schedule, Wednesday
Table 4. USGS GIS 2006 Schedule, Thursday
Table 5. USGS GIS 2006 Schedule, Friday
Presentation Titles and Abstracts, Monday, April 24, 2006
Monday Plenary, 8:00 am 10:15 am
Extraterrestrial GIS at the USGS, By Trent M. Hare
Web GIS Lingua Franca: Open Source Geospatial Visualization, By Patrick Hogan
USGS Hazards Program, By Bill Werkheiser
ERDAS IMAGINE: Fundamentals with ArcGIS Image Analysis, 10:30 am 3:25 pm, By Joe Mostowy
3-D Volumetric Analysis, 10:30 am 3:25 pm, By Skip Pack
Hazards 1, 10:30 am 3:25 pm, moderated By Catherine Costello
DHS FEMA: GIS for Situational Awareness, By Drew Douglas
Programming, Scripting, and Tools, 10:30 am - 3:25 pm, moderated by Roland Viger
GIS Tools for Area-Weighted Transfer: The NAWQA Area-Characterization Toolbox, By Curtis Price
Water Availability Screening Tool, By Scott Hoffman
ArcMap Tool for NWISWeb, By Steven K Predmore
Utilizing Mobile Computing to Inventory Ground-Water Sites, By Steven K Predmore and Tyler Johnson
WebGIS and Data Visualization, 10:30 am 3:25 pm, moderated by Luke Blair and Jacqueline Fahsholtz
Visualizing spatial data with Google Earth, By Amar Nayegandhi, John C. Brock, and C. Wayne Wright
Solutions to Post-Earthquake Information Response and Visualization, By David Wald
Delivering Scientific Information on the Web Using Google Maps, By Gregory L. Gunther
A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake, By Luke Blair
Mapping Data Warehouses with a Web Browser, By Nathaniel L Booth and Eric Everman
Realtime Earthquakes in Google Earth, By Scott Haefner
Implementing a database IMS - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, By Susan Rhea
Elevation 1 (LIDAR), 10:30 am 3:25 pm, moderated by Silvia Terziotti
LIDAR 101 Video, By Jason Stoker
Some Challenges in Using LIDAR-Drived Data for Hydrologic Applications, By Silvia Terziotti 20
Deriving vegetation metrics using LIDAR, By Amar Nayegandhi, John C. Brock, and C. Wayne Wright
Monday GIS Town Hall Meeting, 4:00pm 8:30 pm, moderated by Jennifer B. Sieverling
STS-99, Radar Mapping the Earth in 3-D, By Captain Dominic L. Pudwull Gorie
Establishing a Center of Excellence for GIScience, By Stephen C. Guptill
Presentation Titles and Abstracts for Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Tuesday Plenary, 8:00 am 11:45 am
Geospatial Line of Business and Geospatial Modernization Blueprint, By Karen Siderelis
Keynote Presentation: What you Need to Know, By Patrick Leahy
Protecting Americas Health using GIS, By Brian Kaplan
Advanced Image Processing, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Joe Mostowy
Using XTools Pro 3.1, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Andrei Elobogoev and Viatcheslav Ananev
Introduction to ArcGIS, 1:00 pm 5:10 pm, By Andres Abeyta
Metadata in the Real World, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Sharon Shin and Peter Schweitzer
IMAGINE Spatial Modeling and Volumetric Measure Using VirtualGIS, 3:15 5:10, By Joe Mostowy
Making Maps with ArcGIS, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Heather Paskevic
ArcGIS Spatial Analyst 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Steve Kopp
In the News: GIS and Public Health, 1:00 pm 5:10 pm, moderated by Yvonne Baevsky
Mapping Naturally Occurring Asbestos using Imaging Spectroscopy, By Gregg Swayze, Ph.D.
Overview of Activities Linking USGS-NAWQA Data to Public Health, By Patty Toccalino Ph.D.
Spatial and Temporal Autocorrelation of Emerging Diseases, By F. Lee De Cola
ArcGIS Road Ahead, 1:00 pm 5:10 pm, By Bart Killpack
CLICK: The New USGS Center for LIDAR Information Coordination & Knowledge, By Jordan Menig
USGS Digital Imagery Quality Assurance Plan, By Gregory Stensaas
Physical Terrain Modeling in a Digital Age, By Lawrence Faulkner
Enriching the Geospatial Web Experience, By Peter N. Schweitzer and Bruce R. Johnson
Guidelines on Releasing Geospatial Data, By Jennifer B. Sieverling and Gregory Allord
National Datasets 1:00pm 5:10 pm, moderated by Catherine Costello
CENSUS Data, By Jim Castagneri
National Map Vector Dataset Development, By Paul Wiese
NASA LP DAAC and USGS EROS Data: What We Have and Where to Get It, By Roger Oleson and Jon Walkes
Progress and Status of the Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD), By Michael T. Laitta and Karen Hasen
Tuesday Poster Session, 5:15 pm 7:30 pm
Digital Data Atlas of the Fort Cobb Watershed, By Jason Masoner and Seth Tribbey
Presentation Titles and Abstracts for Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Wednesday Plenary, 8:00 am 11:30 am
State/local Partnerships and the 50 States Initiative, By Gene Trobia
NBII's Geospatial Interoperability Framework: Making Standards Work!, By Donna Roy
Introducing the NHDPlus, By Alan Rea
Image Processing with ENVI, 1:00 pm - 2:55 pm, By Adam OConnor
Implementing ArcGIS Server, 1:00 pm - 5:10 pm, By John Waterman
Geospatial One-Stop, 1:00 pm - 2:55 pm, By Robert Dollison and Jacque Fahsholtz
ArcPad 7.0, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Finn Dahl
Hyper-spectral Analysis with ENVI, 3:15 pm - 5:10 pm, By Adam OConnor
Finding USGS Geospatial Data Online - 3:15 pm - 5:10 pm, By Joseph Kerski and Curtis Price
Geoprocessing in ArcGIS 3:15 5:10 pm, By Corey Tucker and Steve Kopp
Modeling with ArcGIS, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Corey Tucker and Steve Kopp
GIS Partnerships and Education, 1:00 pm 5:10 pm, moderated by Joseph Kerski
Development of Local Resolution National Hydrography Dataset in North Carolina,
By Christopher Kannan, Silvia Terziotti, Steve Strader, and Chad Wagner
Project Homeland - Colorado Pilot, By Chuck Matthys
Educational Developments in GIScience, By Joseph J. Kerski
National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Stewardship and Maintenance Program, By Paul Kimsey
Productivity Tools, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm
Data East's Productivity Tools For GIS, By Andrei Elobogoev and Viatcheslav Ananev
Elevation 2, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, moderated by Pete Chirico
New, Weird, Wonderful, and the Kitchen Sink, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, moderated by Roland Viger
Open Source Software tools to create web-based GIS solutions, By Rafael Moreno
Filling in the DLG Gap: A Data Thesaurus Experiment, By Barbara P. Buttenfield
Hazards 2, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, moderated by Catherine Costello
HAZUS-MH, Multi-Hazard Loss Estimation Tool, By Doug Bausch
MARS: LIDAR Processing Software, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Bill Emison and Mark Romano
Presentation Titles and Abstracts for Thursday April 27, 2006
Thursday Plenary, 8:00 am 11:30 am
Land Remote Sensing Program, By Ron Beck
Colorado State University and NSF, By Melinda Laituri
Thursday Special Lunch Session, 11:30 am 1:00 pm
How Me 'an Teddy Mapped San Juan Hill, By Kenneth J. Lanfear
Feature Extraction from Imagery, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By eCognition
ArcSDE for SQL Server, 1:00 pm 5:10 pm, By Tom Murray
Geoprocessing in ArcGIS, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Corey Tucker
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) 101, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Steve Reiter and Joseph Kerski
Surface Interpolation, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Steve Lynch
PLTS Data Creation Tools, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Jonathan Weaver
Fly Through Your Data, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Tamrat Belayneh
GPS for GIS, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Steve Reiter and Joseph Kerski
Land and Water Characterization, 1:00 pm 5:10 pm, moderated by Carma San Juan and Stephen J. Char
Land Cover TRENDS Project Results for the Puget Lowland Ecoregion, By Daniel G. Sorenson
Referencing and Analyzing Stream Gages to the National Hydrography Dataset, By David Buchholz
Ecosystem Mapping, By Roger Sayre
GIS Interoperability and Standards, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By Jeanne Foust
GIS Supporting Decisions, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, moderated by Mike Mulligan
USGS/NPS Vegetation Mapping supporting management decisions in the Parks, By Karl Brown
GIS System Design, 1:00 pm 2:55 pm, By David Peters
ArcGIS Data Interoperability Extension, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, By Don Murray
Round Table Discussion, 3:15 pm 5:10 pm, moderated by Mike Mulligan
Presentation Titles and Abstracts for Friday, April 28, 2006
Introduction to Geostatistical Analyst, 8:00 am 9:55 am, By Steve Lynch
ARCSDE for Oracle 8:00 am 11:55 am, By Tim Clark
Making Maps with ArcGIS 8:00 am 9:55 am, By Heather Paskevic
GPS for GIS 8:00 am 9:55 am, By Steve Reiter and Joseph Kerski
ArcGIS 3-D Analyst 10:10 am 11:55 am, By Steve Kopp and Tamrat Belayneh
Surface Interpolation 10:10 am 11:55 am, By Steve Lynch
ArcPad 7 - 10:10 am 11:55 am, By Finn Dahl
Feature Extraction from Imagery 1:05 pm 3:00 pm, By eCognition
ArcGIS Spatial Analyst - 1:05 pm 3:00 pm, By Steve Kopp
PLTS Data Creation Tools - 1:05 pm 3:00 pm, By Jonathan Weaver
Fly Through Your Data - 1:05 pm 3:00 pm, By Tamrat Belayneh
Introduction
The U.S. Geological Surveys (USGS) Sixth Biennial
Geographic Information Science Workshop April 24 - 28, 2006, at the
Several prominent speakers are featured at this Workshop. Monday evening Star Guest Speaker and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astronaut Captain Dominic Gorie will talk about his experiences as a veteran of three space flights and over 32 days in space, including the NASA Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission that mapped more than 47 million miles of the Earths land surface. Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in December 1994, Captain Gorie is currently Chief of the Astronaut Shuttle Branch. Monday evening also features a town hall meeting with Geographic Information Office (GIO) leaders Karen Siderelis, Kevin Gallagher, Bob Pierce, Steve Guptill, Mark DeMulder, John Mahoney, and Mark Negri, who will discuss changes and activities within the GIO in an open discussion format.
Tuesday plenary sessions feature keynote speaker Dr. P.
Patrick Leahy, Acting USGS Director. Dr. Leahy holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in
geology (1968) and geophysics (1970) from
The purpose of this proceedings volume is to serve as an activity reference for Workshop attendees as well as an archive of technical abstracts submitted, presented, and discussed at the Workshop. Author, co-author, and presenter names, affiliations, and contact information are listed with presentation titles along with submitted abstracts. Some hands-on sessions are offered twice. In these instances, abstracts submitted for publication are presented in the proceedings on both days they are offered. All acronyms used in these proceedings are explained in the text of each abstract. The term ArcGIS refers to an integrated collection of GIS software products produced by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI).
Workshop Schedule
The Workshop schedule is presented in the table of contents and in tables 1-5. Tables 1-5 contain a complete list of activities and specialty meetings, including the time, building, and room locations of scheduled events. Morning plenary sessions are held Monday through Thursday and focus on changes within the USGS, trends in GIS, extraterrestrial GIS, data visualization, hazards, health, data standards, enhancements to the National Hydrography Dataset (NHDPlus), GIS partnerships, remote sensing, and USGS geospatial liaisons.
Concurrent hands-on and lecture sessions occur each day after the morning plenary sessions. Plenary and lecture sessions will not be held on Friday, however several hands-on sessions are scheduled. Lecture sessions are approximately 25 minutes in length with 5 minutes for discussion. Hands-on sessions are of variable length and cover a variety of topics including but not limited too: the availability and use of national-scope data, GIS system administration and design, web-based GIS data dissemination, metadata generation, geoprocessing, land and water characterization, GIS-integrated Decision Support Systems (DSS), GIS and public health, image processing, new tools, data sharing, cartography, hazards, modeling, and a variety of USGS programs related to geospatial data.
Several additional topical meetings are scheduled during lunch breaks and in the evenings. These meetings include discussions on USGS Geospatial Liaisons, stream statistics and characterization (StreamStats), Enterprise GIS (EGIS), LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR), and geoprocessing. A poster session is held on Tuesday evening from 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm, and awards for various categories are presented at the Thursday morning plenary session. Please see the workshop schedule in Table 1 for details of these and other specialty meetings.
Participating Organizations
Federal Departments and Agencies:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Coastal
National
Geophysical
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): Veterinary Services Centers
for Epidemiology and Animal Health
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
National Park Service (NPS)
Universities:
Commercial:
eCognition
Data East, LLC
Definiens, Inc.
Digital Globe
Dynamic Graphics
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
GeoEye
GCS Research LLC
IGIS Technologies, Inc.
Leica Geosystems
Merrick & Company
Rockware, Inc.
RSI, Inc.
Safe Software
Sanz Geospatial Solutions Group
Solid Terrain Modeling
SPOT Image Corporartion
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the many scientists whose contributions
and accomplishments are reflected in these proceedings, as their efforts ensure
continued success for the USGS. We would like to acknowledge Valerie Gaine,
James Gerhart, Andrew LaMotte, and David Litke, for their review comments, and
Betzaida Reyes for her assistance with the layout of this manuscript. Thanks
are extended to the
USGS GIS 2006 Planning Committee Members
Workshop Coordinator:
Jennifer Sieverling
USGS Discipline Coordinators:
Biology: Mike Mulligan
Geography: Steve Helterbrand
Geology: James (Luke) Blair
Geospatial Information Office: Barb Ray
Hydrology: John Brakebill
Topic Specialists:
Yvonne Baevsky (In the News: GIS and Public Health)
Steve Char (Land and Water Characterization)
Pete Chirico (Remote Sensing)
Jacque Fahsholtz (Server Technology)
Catherine Costello (Remote Sensing)
Joseph Kerski (Education)
Bill Oatfield (Systems Support)
Curtis Price (Geoprocessing and Analysis)
Barbara Ray (NSDI Partnerships)
Carma
Silvia Terziotti (LIDAR)
Roland Viger (Programming and Scripting)
Table 1. USGS GIS 2006 Schedule, Monday
