IGI Progress Report – 3/31/09

IGI Progress Report – 3/31/09

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. County GIS service bureau pilot project
   • LGIF funding returned to state general fund due to budget shortfalls – no money for LGIF projects this year
5. 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
6. State Agency GIS Group
   • upcoming meeting April 10 at Wallace Building
   • Homeland Security grant application for infrastructure funding not accepted
7. 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)
8. Lidar Production
   • continues: contact Chris Kahle (chris.kahle@dnr.iowa.gov) for specifics
9. 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
10. 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