IGI Progress Report – 3/31/09
IGI Progress Report – 3/31/09
- 2008 CAP Grant – Building Stewardship Capacity for Structures and Transportation
- project deadline extended 6 months until end of September
- footprint web update tool progressing – using 2006 Des Moines lidar as test data
- progress on producing of structures from lidar using lidar analysis program – large buildings easy to extract, houses and smaller structures are difficult to extract from trees
- Statewide 2′ leaf-off 4-band ortho-imagery
- no progress on creating mosaics of 17 NW counties
- Aerial Services selected as contractor for spring 2009 and 2010 flights
- About half of western project area flown in March; pilot project in Woodbury Co produces excellent imagery
- Funding for 2010 flights in eastern part of state in jeopardy due to flood recovery and economic downturn
- In March, released Request for Proposals for horizontal accuracy assessment of ortho-imagery using NSSDA criteria
- Geocoding Project – create address points for 30-50 counties, with address validation and geocoding web services
- funding in jeopardy due to flood recovery and budget shortfalls
- County GIS service bureau pilot project
- LGIF funding returned to state general fund due to budget shortfalls – no money for LGIF projects this year
- IGI Outreach
- IGI talk to Central Iowa GIS Users Group on March 25
- IGI session at IGIC Conference in April – status and future plans during morning of April 226) Iowa 2008 Flood Return on Investment Project
- MAS has interviewed 50 persons about their flood experiences in 2008
- Developing cost/benefit scenarios for having GIS available during disasters
- project extended
- State Agency GIS Group
- upcoming meeting April 10 at Wallace Building
- Homeland Security grant application for infrastructure funding not accepted
- Hi-resolution land cover
- next meeting of land cover producers on April 8 in Iowa City
- proposals for Skunk River Basin land cover sent to WIRB (no go) and NRCS CIG (pending)
- Lidar Production
- continues: contact Chris Kahle (chris.kahle@dnr.iowa.gov) for specifics
- Hydrography Production
- DES delivered local resolution NHD for 27 HUC12s for pilot project
- DNR given training on NHD conflation tool by USGS – will reprocess pilot data to conform to NHD standards
- Geospatial Interns
- developed proposal to hire 10-12 Geospatial Interns through DNR’s Americorps program
- if funded will place interns in 10 local gov’t GIS offices across state to help get data into IGI and assist local gov’t with their GIS projects
- summer and one year appointments if funding becomes available
Jim Giglierano
4/1/2009
