September 25, 2008
Topic: SPATIAL ANALYSIS
Venue:Metropolitan Transportation Commission MTC
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM – Registration, Refreshments and Informal Networking
9:00 AM to 12:00 noon – Educational Session

REGISTRATION:
Registration is free for any BAAMA member!
($10 fee for non-members.)

The presentations and speakers for this educational session are:

Integrating infrastructure Network Features with Polygon Features to Optimize Maintenance Operations
Colin Hobson - Munsys Inc.
This presentation outlines the spatial data analysis used to determine an estimate of pipe conditions to aid in prioritizing maintenance efforts. The analysis incorporates existing infrastructure conditions (point observations on linear features), environmental factors (proximity to wetlands) and community factors (proximity to schools, hospitals etc).

Spatial Analysis to Expedite data conflation and Feature Extraction
Bernard Catalinotto -   Data Enhancement Services, LLC Gaithersburg, MD
This is a survey of ways to combine classic GIS spatial analysis techniques with classic conflation operations to optimize the spatial adjustment of line, point and polygon location according to complex protocols. Also to be explored is how GIS techniques are used to leverage feature extraction from digital imagery and/or Lidar databases.

Survey of Advanced Spatial Analysis Techniques
Dr. Richard Taketa - San Jose State University Geography Department San Jose, CA
This action packed presentation addresses advanced spatial analysis methods including surface trend analysis, overlay/logistical regression (maybe said in more common terms), gravity modeling to infer unavailable   layers from existing layers and closing with roadway network analysis issues.

Using the Web to Improve Access to GIS Data

DATE & TIME:
Thursday, May 22nd
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM – Registration, Refreshments and Informal Networking
9:00 AM to 12:00 noon – Educational Session

LOCATION:
Joseph P. Bort Metro Center Auditorium
101 Eighth Street, 1st Floor, Oakland
Corner of Eighth and Oak, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station

REGISTRATION:
Registration is free for any BAAMA member!
($10 fee for non-members.)

Internet technologies offer a means to publish geospatial information and analyses to diverse user communities.  Done, well, web mapping can also improve the effectiveness of governments, utilities, and businesses. This educational session will feature three excellent speakers who will discuss new ideas and approaches for building effective web mapping applications.  Join us for this exciting educational session - don't miss it!

The presentations and speakers for this educational session are:

RoboCop: How the Web is changing Public Service
Paul Ramsey, Independent Geospatial Consultant
Mr. Ramsey has been working with geospatial software and systems for over 15 years, building enterprise systems for government in Canada and industry around the world. Mr. Ramsey founded Refractions Research in 1997, led numerous development projects, established of the open source PostGIS and uDig project, and grew the organization from a 1-man consultancy to a 30-person company before returning to independent consulting in 2008.

Modern System Architectures for Developing Web-based Mapping Applications with GIS Data
Chris Holmes The Open Planning Project (TOPP) 
Chris Holmes is Managing Director, Strategic Development of The Open Planning Project (TOPP). Chris has served as lead developer of GeoServer, and currently chairs the Project Steering Committee, and he is also on the Project Management Committee of GeoTools, a Java GIS toolkit.

Using Web Based GIS for Marine Protected Area Planning in California - A Case Study
Matt Merrifield, Geographic Information Systems Manager for the Nature Conservancy (TNC) of California
Matt coordinates numerous GIS projects that range from conservation planning to production cartography to web map services for a diverse set of users that include field ecologists, project managers and planners.  He has degrees in geography from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.  Mr. Merrifield and his TNC colleagues provide science and technical support for the California Marine Life Protection Act through a partnership with the Ca. Dept. of Fish and Game and UCSB.  This project is the evolution of that work.

14th Annual CalGIS Conference
April 23rd - 25th, 2008
www.CalGIS.org
Modesto, CA

Integrating Remote Sensing and GIS

DATE & TIME:
This Thursday, March 27th
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM – Registration, Refreshments and Informal Networking
9:00 AM to 12:00 noon – Educational Session

LOCATION:
Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter Auditorium
101 Eighth Street, 1st Floor, Oakland
Corner of Eighth and Oak, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station
Complete Directions

Remote sensing is increasingly being used in combination with GIS for mapping of urban areas and environmental resources. This educational session will feature three excellent speakers who will discuss some new and emerging technologies and applications within remote sensing and GIS. Join us for this exciting educational session - don't miss it!

The speakers for this educational session are:

• "Remote Sensing 101: Introduction to the Session Topics and Speakers"
  Maggi Kelly, PhD, Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
  Join us on time at 9:00 AM for a brief introduction to remote sensing and how it can be integrated with GIS. Maggi Kelly is an Associate Professor, Cooperative Extension Specialist, and Faculty Director of the Geospatial Imaging & Informatics Facility at UC Berkeley. She specializes in geospatial technologies and their application to terrestrial and wetland resources.

• Toby Minear, PhD Candidate, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley Download presentation
  "Ground-based LiDAR for topographic mapping in urban and environmental management"
  The collection of topographic data is becoming increasingly popular for many environmental science studies, as well as a necessity for high-resolution 3-dimensional modeling projects. However, complex-topography and vegetation found with most terrain makes the collection of topographic data lengthy and labor-intensive using traditional surveying methods. A potential remedy to the lengthy collection of topographic data is Terrestrial LiDAR, sometimes known as ground-based LiDAR or laser scanning. Terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) techniques have been used for a variety of engineering and limited scientific applications but as yet have not been evaluated for use in applied science studies. Toby will highlight some of the potential uses of this technology using case studies of river restoration sites, urban areas, levees, and ecological evaluations. At many sites, Terrestrial LiDAR greatly improves data collection at a faster and cheaper rate than conventional survey techniques, and additionally collects data on riparian and upland plant communities. He will discuss some uses of this technology for both urban and environmental services, including stormwater management, urban stream restoration, and open-space mapping. The image above is from an oblique aerial perspective (though the data was collected on the ground), showing the outside bend of a stream with several evergreen trees that have fallen into the channel. The large blue circles are the locations of the LiDAR unit when we scanned the site. Toby Minear is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning. He studies the long-term effects of large dams on river channels. and for the past few years, has been working on developing terrestrial LiDAR for surveying terrain features. He earned his Masters degree from UC Berkeley in 2003.

• Jeff Milliken, GIS / Remote Sensing Scientist, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Download presentation
  "Current Projects Using Object-based Image Analysis at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation"
  The U.S.B.R. is using Object Based Image Analysis for a number of current and planned projects. OBIA is used for a variety of purposes including the delineation and mapping of riparian and marsh vegetation attributes, change detection analysis, and delineation of vegetated surfaces in urban areas. Current and planned projects include the Central Valley Habitat Monitoring Project, Klamath Marsh vegetation mapping with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and urban vegetation mapping with the California Department of Water Resources. Jeff Milliken has an M.A. in Geography from San Francisco State University, and B.S. in Geology from Colorado State University. He has worked in the private and public sectors as a geologist and remote sensing/GIS specialist for 30 years. He is currently a Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist with the Bureau of Reclamation doing work for both the Lower Colorado and Mid Pacific Regional Offices. His current work primarily focuses on using and developing Remote Sensing and GIS applications for mapping and monitoring land cover types in support of water resource related projects.
   

• Don Sullivan, NASA Ames Research Center Download presentation
  "Using Remotely-sensed Imagery for Mapping and Monitoring the 2007 San Diego Fires"
  During last year's fire siege in Southern California, years of cooperative planning and research paid back large dividends. The NASA sponsored Wildfire Research and Applications Partnership program operated a Uninhabited Aerial System over the wildfires in Southern California and delivered visualization and data products to situational commanders and emergency operation centers in near real time. I will discuss the partners, products and data streams involved, what worked and what could have been done better and where we are going from here. Don Sullivan is an engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center. He specializes in networking, communication and data design.

CGIA & BAAMA Joint Education Session

Best Practices for Financing GIS Program Sustainability

Thursday, January 24, 2008
9:00 am to 12:00 Noon
Location: Hayward City Hall
777 B Street Hayward, CA

Achieving financial sustainability for GIS programs has been a major challenge for most public agencies that use geospatial technologies.  In response, BAAMA and CGIA are co-hosting an educational policy forum to encourage dialogue among GIS professionals, managers, and executives on best practices that have been implemented to achieve financial sustainability for GIS programs. 

This education session will have three speakers representing state government, county and regional best practice models. An interactive dialogue between the panel and participants will be held after the presentations. Some of the themes to be covered include: the importance of political climate, governance models, financial models, staffing, technology use and beneficiaries, stakeholder participation, program outcomes, and lessons learned. 

Join us as we deal with the nexus of GIS technology and organizational structure to see how policy and organizational issues impact the financial sustainability of GIS programs. Our presenters will show you examples of GIS applications that have won them ongoing financial support for their GIS programs: cool, simple and innovative stuff that you will not want to miss.

Moderator:
George White, CGIA Executive Director

Speakers:  
Oscar Jarquin, PLS
Chief, Office of GIS
State of California, Department of Transportation (CALTRANS)

Fred Vogler
MarinMap Business Operations Manager
Marin County Community Development Agency

John Huie
Deputy CIO
Contra Costa County Information Technology Department

GIS Day 2007
Wednesday, November 14
Mulford Hall, UC Berkeley

GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society (www.gisday.com). This GIS Day event is co-hosted by the Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA) and the Geospatial Imaging & Informatics Facility (GIIF).

GIS Day 2007 focused on hands-on practice and practical demonstrations of some exciting new tools in GIS.

GIS Day Location: Mulford Hall, UC Berkeley.
See location maps here:
http://www.baama.org/meetings/Parking07web.jpg
http://giif.cnr.berkeley.edu/gisday.html
http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC23.html

Northern California Water/Wasterwater ArcGIS User Group Meeting
October 4, 2007
Venue: Santa Clara Valley Water District Boardroom 5700 Almaden Expressway
San Jose, CA 95118
8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Agenda:
- GIS at EBMUD by East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) www.ebmud.com
- Working with CAD data in ArcGIS by Amadea Azerki, ESRI
- Mobile GIS and GPS Applications by Spacient Technologies www.spacient.com

September 27, 2007
Topic: GIS and CAD Integration
Venue: Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

101 Eighth Street, First Floor, Oakland
Corner of Eighth and Oak, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station
Complete directions: www.mtc.ca.gov/about_mtc/directions.htm

Presentations:

1. City of Roseville Case Study ( download presentation 1.4 MB)
   Roy Van Ness, City of Roseville Environmental Utilities Department and Jason Hill, Ideate, Inc
2. Moving Data from and to a GIS Database ( download presentation 926 KB)
   Renee Gerasimtchouk and Lysee Moyaert, Mineta San Jose International Airport
3. Migrating Integrated CAD/GIS Users from File-Based Storage to Oracle Locator ( download presentation 5.8 MB)
   Greg Braswell, City and County of San Francisco, Department of Public Works

August 15, 2007
SF Bay Area ArcGIS Users Group Meeting
Topic: ESRI ArcGIS Showcase
Marriott City Center, Oakland

Thursday, July 26th, 9am-12pm
Topic: GIS in Transportation
Venue: Metropolitan Transportation Commission MTC

Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter Auditorium
101 Eighth Street, First Floor, Oakland
Corner of Eighth and Oak, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station
Complete directions: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/about_mtc/directions.htm

Thursday, July 26
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM – Registration, Refreshments and Informal Networking
9:00 AM to Noon – Educational Session

Transportation is a primary economic driver in our society and enables the movement of people and provides access to goods and services. As dynamic systems, transportation networks constantly evolve to serve California's growing population and its ever-changing spatial distribution. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related technologies play an important role in efforts to map, monitor, and model our existing transportation networks, as well as plan for the future.

The three speakers for this educational meeting are:

• Chuck Purvis, Principal Transportation Planner, and Kearey Smith, GIS Coordinator, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, will discuss how MTC uses GIS and network analysis to support deep data analysis and develop the next generation of Bay Area travel behavior models.
  Download the presentation: Circles, Diamonds, and StARS (6.05 MB)
  
  
• Tom Carden, Interaction Designer & Engineer, Stamen Design, will discuss the history, organization, and technical framework of Open Street Map, a community-based, public-domain, street centerline database development project.
  
  
• Oscar Jarquin, GIS Manager, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), will discuss the development of GIS Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture to support a Linear Referencing System.
  Download the presentation:GIS Service Oriented Architecture

The 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth will be held on UC Berkeley Campus, June 4th through 9th, bringing together geospatial visualization practitioners, governments and NGOs from four continents - for the first time in North America. Stakeholders are now poised to use this technology in ways we have yet to imagine.

*Just added!*

A GIS Day "Birds of a Feather" lunch, Wednesday, June 6th!

http://www.isde5.org

Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Metropolitan Transportation Commission Bldg
101 8th St.
Oakland

BAAMA - APA BIANNUAL GIS IN PLANNING FORUM (GIF, 472kB). Presenting GIS-applications-to-Planning, state of the art examples of contemporary methods being use to support the Comprehensive Planning Process. See how spatial analysis directly supports policy determination.

Co-sponsored by Bay Area Automated Mapping Association and American Planning Association, Northern California Chapter.

Attendance is free to APA members, as well as BAAMA members. 8:30 - 9AM, enjoy a continental breakfast with BAAMA's brightest.

Presenters:

Steve Bein, RBF Consulting - City of Lancaster Housing Assessment. The City of Lancaster utilized traditional planning methods and advanced GIS technology to complete a Housing Needs Assessment for key redevelopment areas in the City. Census data as well as mapped crime rates and code violations were used to analyze neighborhoods to determine blight and housing problems. GIS generated “visual reports” provided consistency and creditability in the decision making process.

Perihan Ozdemir, City of San Jose - Coyote Valley Specific Plan Development Process. The Coyote Valley Specific Plan is one of the most ambitious and exciting planning opportunities ever undertaken in San Jose. This Specific Plan process includes detailed land use planning, determining infrastructure and scoping community services. This study outlines how GIS is used to facilitate the decision-making process in Land Use Planning effort in Coyote Valley.

EXTRA!

Marin Affordable Housing Video. Moderator Dennis Klein presents a portion of the video prepared by the Mill Valley Affordable Housing Committee, currently being used to communicate the benefits of inclusivity, of a big-tent-little-tent pluralistic society, and why under-market housing is desirable. See how GIS aids in communicating the advantages of this policy.

April 4th-7th CalGIS 2007 Conference

The conference was a great success! (or so I've been told), more than 700 attendees, more than 50 vendors, excellent keynotes and attendee presentations. We have been able to get copies of the presentations from David Sonnen, our opening keynote speaker, and from Aric Weiker of Microsoft, one of our closing speakers.

See you next year in Modesto!

Bill Clement
CalGIS 07 Conference Chair

Presentations to Download:

Dave Sonnen, President of Integrated Spatial Solutions, Inc.
Download Presentation (PowerPoint, 5 MB).

Aric Weiker, Microsoft Corporation
Download Presentation (PowerPoint, 5 MB - PowerPoint 7.0 viewer may be required for this presentation).

March 22, 2007

Topic: GIS Coordination Benefits

Venue: Hayward City Hall, Council Chambers on 2nd floor. 777 B Street, across street from Hayward Bart Station. See map (GIF, 516 KB).

8:30 AM to 9:00 AM Registration, Refreshments and Informal Networking
9:00 AM to Noon Presentations

Presenters:

• Greg Braswell and colleagues, City and County of San Francisco Department of Public Works (CCSF) will discuss Utility construction Coordination in San Francisco. San Francisco coordinates the utilities that do construction and repairs under their streets with their paving program. Utilities are required to participate in order to assure major construction does not occur for up to 5 years after streets have been repaved. San Francisco DPW-Bureau of Street Use and Mapping has developed web based tool including mapping tools to help this coordination.
  


• Edelyn Baula, GIS Coordinator for City of Brentwood, Contra Costa County, will present: Experiences using GIS/Web sites for public and internal staff business.



• Fred Vogler, GIS Manager of Marin County and Business Manager of MarinMap, will discuss the Art of Collaboration among public agencies (and departments within agencies). Learn about the benefits of collaboration and how to foster it in your organization.

January 25, 2007

Topic:

Geospatial Public Policy Issues: Using GIS to Affect Public Policy and Public Policy Access to GIS Data

Meeting Time:

8:30 (registration and refreshments)
9:00 - Noon (educational presentations and networking)
Location: Hayward City Hall, Council Chambers (2nd floor) See map (GIF, 516 KB)

Presentations:

Salt Pond Restoration: Habitat Transformation from an Aerial Perspective
Herb Lingl
Aerial Archives
The transformation of Bay Area salt ponds to tidal marsh is one of the largest scale and longest timeframe public policy initiatives in the Bay Area. Explore some of the opportunities and challenges facing government agencies, foundations, corporations and other stakeholders involved in this multi-decade project.

GIS and Public Policy
Arnold Chandler
Policy Link
Examine the salient issues that arise in the use of GIS in advocacy and policy decision-making. In particular, the discussion will draw on experiences of PolicyLink and others to illustrate how GIS can influence policy decisions related to housing affordability, development priorities and neighborhood change.

Public Access to Public Agency Geodata
Bruce Joffe
GIS Consultants
Open Data Consortium
Provides an update on the California First Amendment Coalition's lawsuit against Santa Clara County, in wake of the California Attorney General's opinion that the distribution of public-agency parcel data falls under the purview of the California Public Records Act. This session reviews the legal, political, and economic issues (public access vs. the cost of data maintenance), and it offers five strategies toward resolution that may be acceptable to many points of view.

Thursday, December 7, 2006

BAAMA Holiday Party!

6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Beckett’s Irish Pub & Restaurant
2271 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Guests are welcome!
Each BAAMA member will receive two free drink tickets.
A light buffet will be provided.

Holiday Food & Toy Drive
We ask that you bring at least 2 non-perishable food items or an unwrapped child’s toy. BAAMA will donate all items to a local charity.

Beckett's is located in downtown Berkeley.

Shattuck between Bancroft and Kittredge,
one block from Downtown Berkeley BART
Parking lots available near-by.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Wurster Hall (main lobby), UC Berkeley

• 3:00-5:00pm University/Higher-Education Session (Speakers)

3:00-3:30 Plenary Sesssion
3:30-4:00 Speaker Session 1
4:00-4:30 Speaker Session 2
4:30-5:00 Speaker Session 3

• 5:30-8:30pm Professional Session (Speakers)

5:15-5:45 Registration (no cost for entry), coffee/tea
5:45-6:15 Plenary Session
6:15-7:00 Poster session, break, refreshments, coffee/tea, Fenton's Ice Cream parlor
7:00-7:30 Speaker Session 4
7:30-8:00 Speaker Session 5
8:00-8:30 Speaker Session 6

* 6:30-7:30pm in 104 Wurster Hall: Technical Meeting of the ASPRS Northern California Region Officers. For more information, contact Maggi Kelly mkelly@nature.berkeley.edu.

University/Higher-Education speakers currently include:

Casey Cleve & Eric Waller, Staff Research Associates, Center for Fire Research and Outreach, UC Berkeley

Fire Hazard Mapping: Development of a Statewide Urban "Burnability" Index for California

In California alone, over five million homes are located in wildland-urbaninterface (WUI) areas and that number is likely to increase. This placesmany people and homes in areas of high risk of wildfire. The UC BerkeleyFire Center and CDF are working in collaboration to map California WUIareas and rank their fire hazard. The initial phase of this effort was todevelop a statewide urban footprint to delineate these interfaces. Criteria were developed to define areas as urban, and then applied to datafrom census, parcel, and land-cover maps. “Burnability” was then ratedand mapped for different areas within the statewide urban footprint usingsupervised classification of Landsat imagery in see5 classification treesoftware. The next phase will be to rank hazards of given WUI areas on thebases of both their burnability index, and their distance to wildlandfuels. The final phase will be to incorporate these hazard rankings into anew Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map, which will be used to define areas inCalifornia where new building codes will apply beginning January 1, 2008. In addition, the resulting map will be available to the public through anonline mapping server searchable by address.

Adina Merenlender, Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Ecosystem Sciences, UC Berkeley

Forecasting the relative impacts of existing and future land use on fine sediment in anadromous fish habitat

Spatially explicit parcel-level data is used to examine the influence of land-use types including rural residential, urban, and vineyard development on salmon spawning substrate quality in tributaries of the Russian River Basin, California and develop a land-use change model to forecast the expected changes in land-use and the probable loss of salmon habitat quality.


Alan Forghani, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist, GISC, University of California Berkeley

Spatial information technologies in modeling catastrophic natural disasters

Many countries around the globe are susceptible to natural disasters (wild fire, flood, severe wind, coastal erosion and tsunamis). Government agencies at local, state, federal and international levels are generally aware of the impacts of the disasters. Strategies to better minimize damage from these hazards are critical to prosperity and safety of the nations. National and international risk assessment methodologies play an essential role in mitigation of the disasters impacts. In this talk, an example of utility of spatial information technologies for mapping and modeling of a tsunami scenario in the disaster suite affecting an Australian coastline, and capability of satellite remote sensing to detect bushfires will be demonstrated. His current research at the UC Berkeley's Geographic Information Science Center (GISC) aims to develop a comprehensive methodology through an evaluation of FARSITE and FlamMap developed by the Fire Sciences Laboratory (FireLab) at Missoula, as well as an assessment of WindWizard tool produced by Fluent® that is applied to generate gridded wind data for input to the fire simulation research. It provides procedures for spread simulation and analysis in an effort to predict the behavior of wildfire and compare the results over a number of study sites in California.

Allison Lenkeit Meezan, Geography & Geographic Information Systems, Foothill College
Higher education and GIS: Technician training or an Academic Discipline?
GIS is an evolving discipline, and there is still disagreement about what level of higher education GIS course work should fit into. GIS has its roots in upper division and graduate level academia, but there is a growing need for technician level GIS skills, so a growing number of community colleges have started GIS programs. This panel discussion will focus on GIS professional certification, academic research and articulation between 2 year and 4 year programs.

Duncan V. Crowl, Digital Mapping Inc.(DMI)
High resolution remote sensing data – capture to product generation for customers
Abstract coming soon!

John Landis, Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
Urban planning and GIS
Abstract coming soon!

Gordon Ye
This presentation will focus on four main themes including: (1) GIS applications for utility asset mapping: an integrated asset information system linking SAP and operations management systems with GIS, (2) Industry-specific GIS data model development: how ESRI standard data models can be customized to fit specific needs of the company; how operations management system software vendors are able to use standard GIS data models to streamline development of custom tools, (3) Risk management applications of GIS: earthquake risk evaluation, pipeline integrity management, and (4) Open GIS standards for interoperability.

Professional speakers currently include:

EMERGENCY RESPONSE GIS TRACT

Rachel Sleeter, USGS
Mapping Techniques for Estimating Exposed Populations
A critical first step in planning for natural disasters is to determine where people are located during different hours of the day, to gauge who is at risk. Communities require information on a scale and accuracy beyond what currently exists in order to prepare meaningful risk-response strategies. Our research outlines a methodology for estimating daytime and nighttime population density at a 10-meter pixel resolution through dasymetric mapping and areal interpolation.

Brian Quinn, City of Berkeley
BARGC Homeland Security GeoServer Operations Description
Bay Area Regional GIS Council secure servers are hosted at City & County of San Francisco and County of Napa, and public servers at City of Berkeley and Association of Bay Area Governments. This talk will review the original and current goals of these repositories of regional imagery and vector data and the role played by map services in disaster simulation and response.

Kris Kolodziej, MapXperts
Reliable Emergency Response Systems
This presentation talks about local and wide area positioning systems that achieve room-level accuracy (10m) and alternative and complimentary location technology to GPS – including TV-GPS, Wi-Fi, UWB – for indoor positioning and tracking for first responders.

ANALYSIS AND PLANNING GIS TRACT

Greg Bazhaw, Santa Clara County
Environmental Assessment Reporter (EAR)
Demonstration of Automated GIS program used by Santa Clara County planners to evaluate CEQA compliance for various projects requiring County land use approvals and permits.

Bradley S. Montgomery, Solano County GIS
Grass Roots Data to Enterprise Rapid Development Implementation Process
Historically, county and city government GIS units started out as ‘grass roots’ movements by one department to solve a small set of business needs. Success often resulted in expanding GIS tasks and resource utilization for data acquisition, creating and distributing multiple map products, and handling data creation and sharing requests. This talk will discuss removing blocking issues and describe a path to ‘Rapid Enterprise GIS Development.’

Bradley S. Montgomery is employed by ACS, Inc. as a GIS Project Manager for the County of Solano. He has spent the last twenty years working in the GIS Field working for ESRI, Microsoft, Department of Defense, and King County, Washington.

Nicholas D. Hansen, Solano County
Employing ArcReader and Published Map Files to Meet Unique Needs of Client Missions
ArcReader, the free mapping application from ESRI, effectively leverages existing resources to meet the demands of developing timely, cost-effective, and user-friendly solutions to client mapping requests. This presentation will discuss how Solano County GIS Services is using ArcReader as one means of meeting general ‘Rapid Enterprise GIS Development’ goals while supporting the unique needs of client missions.

Nicholas D. Hansen is employed by ACS, Inc. as a GIS Analyst for the County of Solano. He has interned with The California Department of Fish and Game and The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). He holds a degree in Geography from California State University, Sacramento and a GIS Certificate from American River College.

 

Sponsored by:

• Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA)
• Geographic Information Sciences Center (GISC), UC Berkeley
• Geospatial Imaging & Informatic Facility (GIIF), UC Berkeley

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September 29 in Berkeley:

Towards Uncharted Ground
Accessing and Preserving
Geospatial Data into the Future

Geographic information systems have become pervasive across academia,
government, and industry. Much GIS data have long-term or permanent
value, but little has been done to assure their longevity. Compared to
traditional cartography, geographic data can encode more complex spatial
information and are much more accessible. But data are also far more
mutable and subject to loss. This meeting brings together a panel of
experts for an informal discussion of the problem of managing the
persistence of geographic information.

8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
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Registration, Refreshments and Informal Networking
9:00 AM to Noon
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Educational Session

Come hear about asset management software integrations with different GIS applications.

Our speakers will include:

• Adam Lodge, San Mateo County - "Synchronizity: Spatial Information Management for Hansen Asset Management" - How can a Public Works Agency efficiently synchronize spatial information stored in its Asset Management System with GIS data stored in a enterprise geodatabase? San Mateo County uses geodatabase triggers to deliver spatially derived attributes to the Asset Management System in real time. The process is completely transparent to the end user - all you have to do is update the map, and the solution was cheap and easy to implement. Learn the details of the County's solution.
  
  
• Dave Matson, Matt Raschke, Silvia Santos - City of Palo Alto - "Asset Management in an Enterprise GIS" - This presentation will demonstrate the benefits of managing municipal and utility infrastructure assets within a GIS that serves the entire city enterprise. After a system overview, engineering managers from Palo Alto’s Wastewater and Stormwater utilities will describe tools and methods used to manage their systems and present specific examples of the benefits that accrue from being part of an integrated, citywide GIS.
  
  
• Greg Braswell, City and County of San Francisco, Department of Public Works, Margot Yapp, Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd., Shreepad Ranadive, ValueCAD - "GIS for Paving and Utility Construction Coordination" Pavement management systems help agencies predict pavement condition and plan on re-paving GIS has helped visualize these predictions. This presentation will cover the use of GIS and Network topology to automate utility construction coordination and paving in San Francisco.

Attendance Policy: No fee for BAAMA members; non-members pay $10 to attend meeting or pay $25 annual fee to become a member.

Milpitas Community Center
457 E. Calaveras Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035 Thursday, September 28
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
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Registration, Refreshments and Informal Networking
9:00 AM to Noon
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Educational Session

Come hear about asset management software integrations with different GIS applications.

Our speakers will include:

• Adam Lodge, San Mateo County - "Synchronizity: Spatial Information Management for Hansen Asset Management" - How can a Public Works Agency efficiently synchronize spatial information stored in its Asset Management System with GIS data stored in a enterprise geodatabase? San Mateo County uses geodatabase triggers to deliver spatially derived attributes to the Asset Management System in real time. The process is completely transparent to the end user - all you have to do is update the map, and the solution was cheap and easy to implement. Learn the details of the County's solution.
  
  
• Dave Matson, Matt Raschke, Silvia Santos - City of Palo Alto - "Asset Management in an Enterprise GIS" - This presentation will demonstrate the benefits of managing municipal and utility infrastructure assets within a GIS that serves the entire city enterprise. After a system overview, engineering managers from Palo Alto’s Wastewater and Stormwater utilities will describe tools and methods used to manage their systems and present specific examples of the benefits that accrue from being part of an integrated, citywide GIS.
  
  
• Greg Braswell, City and County of San Francisco, Department of Public Works, Margot Yapp, Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd., Shreepad Ranadive, ValueCAD - "GIS for Paving and Utility Construction Coordination" Pavement management systems help agencies predict pavement condition and plan on re-paving GIS has helped visualize these predictions. This presentation will cover the use of GIS and Network topology to automate utility construction coordination and paving in San Francisco.

Attendance Policy: No fee for BAAMA members; non-members pay $10 to attend meeting or pay $25 annual fee to become a member.

“ LiDAR is the Future:” an Introduction to the Science and Application of LiDAR Data
Tim DeChant, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

GIS for the Lower Division Geography Classroom at Ohlone Community College
William Harmon and Narinder Bansal, Instructors of Geography, Ohlone College

Canoe Atlas of Canada
Weimin Li, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley

Mapping Memorie: The Southeast Asia Digital Cultural Atlas and Voices for the Past
Xing Liu, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley

Break, Poster Session**, and Higher Education Open House***
Participating Schools: City College of SF, San Francisco State Univ., Foothill-DeAnza Community College, Diablo Valley College, Ohlone College, and UC Berkeley.

Dean Angelides, ESRI

Lindanne Campbell, IT Dept, City of Stockton

Ray DeLeon, GISCorps

Karin Tuxen, Map the Vote

GIS - A Language for Collaboration
Dean Angelides, ESRI

GISCorps: Volunteer disaster relief efforts for the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina
Ray DeLeon, GIScorps Volunteer, San Jose Redevelopment Agency

Bay Area Regional GIS Council (BAR-GC)
Pat DeTemple, Bay Area Regional GIS Council

Using Remote Sensing to Improve Your GIS
Jim Ellis, Ellis Geospatial

S.F. CrimeMAPS - Crime Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety
Jeff Johnson, Dept. of Telecom. & Info System, City and County of San Francisco

GIS for the Rest of Us
Justin Lokitz, Oracle

WebGIS for Parcel-based Fire Hazard Assessment in California
Max Moritz, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island, discuss: route generation in an old landscape
John Radke, Geographic Information Science Center, UC Berkeley

The GEODESY Program: Bringing GIS into the educational arena
Susan Radke, Berkeley Geo Research Group