Cross Cutting Decision Support System Project

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Cross Cutting Decision Support System Project

• April 5, 2006
• IAGT Project Team
• Ben Houston Nate Krause Emily Mercurio Kevin
  Neimond Matt Starr

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Who is IAGT?

• Established in 2002
• Private 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
• Located on the campus of Cayuga Community College
  in Auburn, NY
• IAGT works closely with NASA to advance the use
  of geospatial technology in society.

Above the James T. Walsh Regional Economic
Center At Right IAGTs MODIS Direct Broadcast
System
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Cross Cutting Decision Support System Project

• Enhancement of a Prototype Crosscutting
  Multi-Jurisdictional Decision Support System in
  the Greater Northeastern Region of the United
  States (CCDSS)
• NASA Grant March, 2005 February, 2007
• Project Goals
• Investigate the integration of USGS ground
  monitoring technologies and water resources data
  with NASAs Earth Observing System data and
  systems to enhance Decision Support Tools
  (DSTs)
• Development of tools and applications that reach
  across levels of government (Cross Cutting)

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Cross Cutting Decision Support System Project
cont.

• Project Objectives
• DST Development Based on Stakeholder Needs
• Leverage Existing DST Technologies and Experience
  Where Possible
• Enhancement and Benchmarking of Prototype
  Decision Support Tool(s) (DST) and Deployment
  to14 State Region
• Enhance DSTs Through Integration of NASA and
  USGS Assets

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General Project Structure

• Regulatory/Operational Needs
• Existing DSTs, Visualization Technologies
• NASA/USGS Technology Integration
• Result Decision Support Tools To Support Water
  Resource Management Needs

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Northeast Affiliates (NEAF)

• What is the Northeast Affiliates (NEAF) group?
• The state GIS coordinators for 14 Northeastern
  states.
• NEAF was formed in 2000 after the NASA Northeast
  Regional Conference.
• Mission is to promote the use of remote sensing
  and geospatial information technology and data in
  state, local, and regional government
  organizations in the Northeast US.

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Northeast Affiliates (NEAF) (contd)

• NEAF Mission Accomplished Through
• Workshops
• Remotely Sensed Data Acquisition and Distribution
• Quarterly Conference Calls
• Conferences

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Project Initiation RFI Process

• Step 1 NEAF Involvement
• Distributed an initial request for information
  (RFI) to the 14 Northeast Affiliate
  representatives
• Contacts to key water resource (and related)
  management leaders in their states.
• Step 2 NEAF-Identified Contacts (_at_ 50)
• Distributed a second RFI to the identified
  leaders from Step 1
• Water resource management/regulatory issues that
  could benefit or be improved from remote sensing
  and geospatial information technologies.

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The Results from Our RFI Process

• Two water resource management issues were
  continually cited across the 14 states
• Flooding
• Water Quality
• Project stakeholders were chosen from the
  initial group of leaders based on their expertise
  in water quality, flooding, and/or technology.

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Monitoring Network

• Enabling Technology to be Integrated with DST(s)
  and Visualizations
• Address Needs and Issues of Stakeholders
• Not Just a New Set of Tools
• Possible Functional Elements
• Single Point of Access for wide range of Systems,
  Data Access/Reporting, Models, WMS
• Data Portal
• Enhancement of Data Web Services through Mapping,
  Visualizations, Graphics

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Sample Technologies For Consideration

• NASA Data, Technologies, Systems
• Landsat, MODIS, LiDAR
• Decision Support Systems
• Visualization (Google Earth VMOCTM NASA World
  Wind, )
• Field Data Systems and Data Links
• Stream Gage Networks (USGS, Local/Regional)
• Nutrient Monitoring (Local/Regional)
• Weather (NWS, NRCC, State, Educ. Facilities)
• Buoys (Great Lakes, Coastal, Finger Lakes)
• Data Gateways Web Map Services Web File Services

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Project Phases

• Phase 1 (January June 2006)
• Discussions with stakeholders to gather feedback,
  ideas, and requirements for the development of
  geospatial based flooding and water quality
  decision support tools.
• Phase 2 (July December 2006)
• Development, prototyping, deployment and testing
  of DST, Monitoring Network, Visualizations based
  on requirements derived in Phase 1.
• IAGT Technical Design (_at_ March September, 2006)

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Phase 1 Work Sessions

• Series of Teleconferences (Feb June, 2006)
• Facilitated Session Conference (April 4 - 6,
  2006)
• Remote Sensing Across the Great Lakes
  Observations, Monitoring and Action (Great Lakes
  Regional Data Exchange, ASPRS)
• Full Day Workshop April 4

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Workshop

• 24 Participants from 7 States
• PA, VT, MI, WI, IA, NY, MN
• Federal - County
• Four Facilitated Exercises Flooding and Water
  Quality
• Water Resource Issues
• Relevancy of Geospatial Technologies
• Functional Needs and Products
• Technical Capabilities
• Lots of Information
• Thank You to All Participants !