Fall NEARC 2018

AUTHORS: James Bogart, U.S. Census Bureau

ABSTRACT: As part of the 2020 Decennial Census operation, the Census Bureau provides many opportunities to collaborate with state and local governments through several different geographic partnership programs. The SAID (Spatial, Address and Imagery Data) program acquires partner data for continual updating of the Master Address File (MAF) and the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Reference system (TIGER). The Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) allows local governments to review and update selected statistical area boundaries (tracts, block groups, census designated places (CDPs), and census county divisions (CCDs) to allow geographic data tabulations for the 2020 Census data and ACS data for the next 10 years. The New Construction program will give governments an opportunity to submit addresses for units constructed after the 2020 Local Update of Census Address (LUCA) operation. For governments who participated in the 2020 LUCA program, the Census Bureau will be providing submission feedback and entering the appeals phase in 2019, which will provide transparency to governments regarding the result of their address list update submission, and the ability to dispute any disagreements with the Census Bureau’s decisions. The annual Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) will continue to collect the legal boundaries as of January 1 of each year. Local geographic knowledge obtained through these programs is essential for the Census Bureau to provide the quality data local governments rely on when making decisions that affects the lives of their population over the next ten years.

AUTHORS: James Coyle, Geographic Specialist, U.S. Census Bureau

ABSTRACT: Synchronizing and standardizing address points with street centerlines can be highly advantageous in maintaining large address databases. This presentation will advance a spatial methodology for synchronizing the 6.1 million New York State E-911 address points with the US Census Bureau TIGER line files. The methodology has a significant number of useful outputs which include a drop point on the street centerline for use in network analysis, an offset point that may be used for cartographic labeling, coding for each address point that indicates the specific standardization method used. Finally, since each address point is allocated to a specific TIGER segment, this method establishes a framework for small area analysis or spatial analysis at the block face level that can be used to advance community health analysis. Finally, this presentation will present how owner occupancy has evolved in Erie County, New York in the time period 2005-2015 utilizing the methodology advanced in this presentation.

AUTHORS: Katie Grillo, City of Cambridge, MA

ABSTRACT: The City of Cambridge has nearly 30,000 street trees that are maintained by the City's Department of Public Works (DPW). DPW was interested in reviewing their watering plans and also investigating tree mortality in relation to a tree's location. ArcGIS Pro tools and models were used with both LiDAR and 3D multipatch buildings to determine how much sunlight each street tree receives throughout the summer. As a way to make the results of this study more accessible to city staff, the solar rating is incorporated into the street tree data and displayed in a 3D web scene on ArcGIS Online.

AUTHORS: Kristen Grady*, NYC DoITT; Jarlath ONeil-Dunne, UVM Spatial Analysis La; Drew Meren, Quantum Spatial; Michele Giorgianni, AppGeo

ABSTRACT: The City of New York has realized the importance of developing accurate and current elevation and land cover data in support of resiliency and green infrastructure initiatives. In 2010, the City acquired high accuracy, bare-earth processed Topographic LiDAR data for the full extent of New York City. This data was used to support a variety of projects such as coastal storm and sea level rise inundation, flood risk assessment, and mitigation, green infrastructure and tree canopy planning.

In 2017, the City began to collect new Bathymetric and updated Topographic LiDAR data. This new data will support City operations with data analysis, policymaking, resiliency and environmental planning. In addition, the use of the 2010 and 2017 data will be used to analyze how Hurricane Sandy and human interventions have recently altered the City’s landscape. Since 2010 the evolution of Aerial Bathymetric LiDAR (TopoBathy) has allowed for elevation data below certain depth of water in and around the City. In the Spring and Summer two aerial missions were set out onto the City to collect both the Topographic and TopoBathy LiDAR data. Collection was captured from 2 different planes. Coordination with the City, FAA, media, the weather and contractors required well organized procedures and systems between all involved. This abstract will look into these tasks during the scope development, coordination and acquisition stages.

Direct and derived products - land cover, tree canopy change, and Digital Elevation Models - will provide an unprecedented opportunity to analyze change and to support future resiliency planning.

AUTHORS: Mike Brouillette, Lidar Program Manager, Vermont Center for Geographic Information

ABSTRACT: Vermont has achieved statewide Quality Level 2 (QL2) lidar coverage in 2018, positioning the state to pursue robust Vermont Spatial Data Infrastructure (VSDI) goals previously out of reach. Primary among these goals is a statewide, 17-class land cover layer at 0.5m resolution with an overall accuracy of 90% or better. The geometric information in lidar along with the spectral information in various statewide imagery supports Automated Feature Extraction using an Object Based Image Analysis framework to produce this data. Increased data accuracy, reduced acquisition costs, and advancing technologies are increasingly enabling those responsible for finding innovative solutions to an array of Vermont’s challenges. A pre-release of the land cover data will be shown along with other current efforts (Statewide Property Parcel Mapping Program), as well as a brief overview of the lidar program and lidar-based services.

AUTHORS: David Breeding, Applied Geographics

ABSTRACT: Ensuring the greatest return on your geospatial data investments may well require your database infrastructure to communicate with a variety of modern mapping and cloud-based platforms. Are you prepared? This session will focus on methods that allow your existing ArcGIS for Server infrastructure or database content to communicate with the broader ecosystem of spatial resources that exist in the market today. You will learn about the communication protocols for transferring spatial data to Google, Carto, and Open platforms. The methods will be presented through a series of use cases that show you how to leverage your Esri managed content on these platforms.

AUTHORS: Melissa Albino Hegeman*, Matt Richards – NYSDEC Division of Marine Resources

ABSTRACT: Using ArcGIS Online allows the Shellfish Bureau at NYSDEC to easily keep an eye on all aspects of their operation. Marine Resources has been using ArcGIS to keep track of station locations, shellfish harvest zones and shellfishing closure locations for years. We are now using the analysis tools available through ArcGIS Online to add value: the data is easier to find, easier to understand, and more up to date. The operations dashboard allows staff to look at water quality trends both over time and across space. The ArcGIS Online tools allow all staff to work with the data from any computer without installing any extra software. The new “Shellfish Dashboard” integrates with existing water quality analysis, temperature and salinity readings to show everything in one view. It also allows staff to keep track of the number of sampling runs occurring and where, so they can quickly determine any deficiencies. This visual representation also allows decision makers to better understand shellfish closures in the context of other activities and proposed activities in the nearby area.

AUTHORS: Fontenault Jeremy, RPS; Daniel Martin, NOAA Office for Coastal Management; Jenna Ducharme*, RPS

ABSTRACT: Maritime commerce in our oceans is a critical resource for supporting domestic and international transportation, trade, and recreation. Understanding marine transportation patterns is an important step to ensure safety and commercial viability while avoiding any potential use conflicts with other activities. To this end the U.S. Coast Guard implemented the Nationwide Automatic Identification System program, which leverages the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a global standard for ship communications that mandates certain vessels carry AIS transponders. These transponders broadcast vessel identity, position and other information to track and monitor ship transits. This presentation will discuss the creation of vessel transit counts of commercial cargo, tanker, tug-tow, passenger, fishing, recreation, other, or all vessels from the raw AIS data. These data products were recently updated for years 2013 – 2017 and are being presented on the Northeast Ocean Data Portal, among other data portals. This presentation will highlight tools that have been developed to better understand, and use these complex data. Finally, it will show how this data is being displayed and methods that can be used to understand patterns of marine vessel traffic for ocean use planning initiatives.

AUTHORS: Ted Covill, WSP USA

ABSTRACT: Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) aka. Drones have been in use for several years and users have found many uses for data that can be produced using these systems. These applications range from basic imagery for marketing or personal use to more advanced applications such as orthophoto rectification or topographic modeling. This presentation will focus on the photogrammetric application know as Structure for Motion (SfM) and how sUAS imagery can be used to create ground surface model and 3D models of other objects such as tanks, towers and piers.

AUTHORS: Michael Blair, Innovate! Inc.

ABSTRACT: Innovate! Inc. developed a web-based Floor Plan application tool for US EPA Region 9 that provides access to information about Region 9 people, places, and resources. It displays the current list of all Region 9 employees, including contractors, grantees, volunteers (if any), and other EPA and federal agency staff stationed in R9. It also provides detailed floor plans for each space at EPA R9 Headquarters, other regional offices and place-based individuals. There are many layers that can be turned on that offer details of resources and emergency information for the building. The application was built using Esri JavaScript API and ArcServer and integrates AutoCAD floor plan data. Innovate was honored with a Federal Small Business Specialty (FSBS) Award during the Esri FedGIS Conference. Innovate! was named Esri’s 2018 Innovation Partner for our innovative usage of Esri technology in support of our client’s operations (https://www.innovateteam.com/innovate-inc-honored-at-esri-fedgis-conference-as-2018-innovation-partner/).