GIS at Purdue University Libraries

Strong Purdue Showing at TeraGrid '08

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:42:48 -0400

Purdue enjoyed a strong (award-winning) presence at TeraGrid '08 in Las Vegas this past June. Sanjiv Kumar, Civil Engineering, and Vinaitheerthan Sundaram, Electrical and Computer Engineering, took home honors for work with watershed and NEXRAD data. Carol Song, Rosen Center, led the effort.

Purdue Today's announcement

TeraGrid Conference Site (free content)

The NEXRAD visualization

ArcGIS 9.3 is Here and Available

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:21:58 -0400

ArcGIS 9.3 has been released and has arrived on campus. Those of you in charge of installing your own software are welcome to login to our Disc.Iso site and download copies of the installer media. If you do not have or do not remember your login credentials (they are not the same as your career account), contact me.

If you do not manage your own machines but are interested in upgrading, please have your resident IT person login or contact me.

ESRI's 9.3 announcement page (including a link to a video -- apparently narrated by a robot -- of all the new features and changes) can be found here.

ESRI's System Requirements page for 9.3 can be found here. Other components of the ArcGIS suite (Server, ArcIMS, etc.) are also available and can be found by searching the Disc.Iso site. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact GIS Librarian Chris Miller.

Diffenbaugh (Purdue) et al Publish Snowmelt Study

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:48:05 -0400

Purdue News Service has a story on a paper by EAS' Noah Diffenbaugh et al that found a considerably greater impact of melting snow on regional climate in the western U.S. The good news? Well none, really, except that it looks like more good geospatial work by Mr. Diffenbaugh and his colleages. The article will be published in Geophysical Research Letters [0094-8276], available here via Purdue Libraries.

ArcGIS Giving You License Manager Guff?

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:43:41 -0400

The License Manager guys are in the process of updating the license manager server to serve out 9.3 licenses (a requirement from ESRI, but with the side effect of renewing the 9.2 license manager, meaning you won't get that message anymore). The new license server should be up and running any time now (I'm thinking today or tomorrow, but it's out of my hands). In the meantime, you should be able to disable that message by running "AdvancedArcMapSettings.exe" in the Utilities folder within your ArcGIS installation folder (so prob. "drive:Program FilesArcGISUtilitiesAdvancedArcMapSettings.exe"). It will be in the "Miscellaneous" tab and the setting is "License timeout warning"

ISDP Download Tool Updated

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:41:21 -0400

Attention Indiana Spatial Data Portal users:

The GIS Support team at Indiana University has updated the ISDP Multi-
file Download Tool, an application to provide a means of easily
retrieving multiple files from the Indiana Spatial Data Portal online
data clearinghouse. The following improvements have been made:
Â· Built on Microsoft .Net 2.0 Framework
Â· Ability to download files that are larger than 3GB in size
Â· Online Help documentation
Â· User friendly menus with updates to descriptive text and
task confirmation

If you are interested, please download the ISDP Tool 2.0 at: http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/isdp_tool.html
Install instructions can be found at http://kb.iu.edu/data/atqa.html

If you have comments or suggestions, please direct them to uitsgis@indiana.edu
.

Thanks,

GIS Support Specialists
Indiana University
UITS Research Technologies
http://www.indiana.edu/~gis

2008 Indiana Flood Maps

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:44:22 -0400

In the past week or so the geospatial community of the campus has been
working on producing flood maps for southern Indiana. The maps are
produced by using Landsat satellite images over the flooding period
(June 11/12, 2008). For comparison, water distribution in the same
season of year 2007 is also created. Other geospatial information,
such as terrain, roads, river, county/city boundary, and gauge level,
is portrayed on the map as well for reference. An initial website is
created for this effort and you can take a minute to visit https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/floodmaps
.. The map is prepared at three different resolutions (high, medium,
low), all in pdf format. For your convenience, I have attached the
fast view (low resolution, 100-dpi) with this email. More information
will be uploaded into the web site.

We expect this initiative will eventually lead to further studies,
such as damage estimation, flood modeling, water quality, urban
planning, infrastructure sustainability, and all aspects of disaster
management and relief deployment. We also hope this can bring in
opportunities for discussions and joint effort in research across
disciplines. We will be pleased to receive your comments and
suggestions.

Have a good weekend,

-Jie Shan

Jie Shan, Associate Professor
Geomatics Engineering
School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
550 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
USA
Webpages: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ce/jshan

ArcGIS Server Seminar from IGIC and Polis Center

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:04:48 -0400

The Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC) and The Polis Center at IUPUI have partnered to offer an ongoing series of seminars and webinars on current GIS-related topics. Please visit http://www.in.gov/igic/class to register or for more information. -------- ArcGIS Server: Advanced Topics and Applications Friday, June 13th, 1:00-3:30pm Indiana State Library 140 N. Senate Ave, History Reference Room Indianapolis, IN 46204 IGIC Members: FREE Nonmembers: $20 ArcGIS Server has become increasingly important to agencies who are taking their GIS to the next level. At this seminar, Tom Brenneman of ESRI will discuss the advanced capabilities of ArcGIS Server including: * Editing via web clients * Creating geoprocessing tasks and publishing them to ArcGIS clients * Data sharing via ArcGIS Server geodatabase replication * Working with Cached Map services Chris Walls of 39 Degrees North will then demonstrate several advanced solutions for ArcGIS Server, including but not limited to: * Real-time GIS using ArcGIS Server Mobile SDK and Web ADF * Using ArcGIS Server to Track Vehicles * Custom Buttons for ArcGIS Server (Demonstration of our Symbolize, Markup, and Extract Data Tasks) Level: Advanced

County 2007 Orthos Added to ISDP

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:08:19 -0400

The Indiana Spatial Data Portal now has Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Marion, Morgan and Shelby County 2007 natural color (RGB) orthophotography datasets available for download. Boone, Hancock, Johnson, Morgan and Shelby Counties also have color infrared (CIR) orthophotos. Marion County imagery is currently restricted to download by Indiana University students, researchers, and staff. For more information regarding these datasets, please visit the URLs below. Hamilton County: http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/local/hamilton2007.html Hendricks County http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/local/hendricks2007.html Marion County http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/local/marion2007.html Boone, Hancock, Johnson, Morgan, and Shelby Counties http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/local/indy_MPO2007.html University Information Technology Services staff at Indiana University would like to thank the following contacts for their support in sharing these valuable datasets: The Indianapolis Mapping and Geographic Infrastructure System (IMAGIS) staff Larry Stout, GIS Director, Hamilton County Clint Stoutenhour, GIS Coordinator, Hamilton County Please send any questions regarding this imagery to uitsgis@indiana.edu.

GIS Librarian to Speak at Geoinformatics 2008

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:07:00 -0400

GIS Librarian Chris Miller will be presenting at Geoinformatics 2008 in Potsdam, Germany on 2008 June 11. The presentation will detail the development and delivery of a course on geoinformatics to a mixed-rank, mixed-department class in Spring 2008 by two Purdue librarians (Miller, Michael Fosmire) and a colleage from EAS, Dr. Jim Ogg.

June Webinar on Erdas IMAGINE Objective

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:46:23 -0400

Once again there will be a webex on a new module that will begin shipping in August. If you are interested in hearing what Image Objective is all about, please click on the link below and follow the instructions. If you do not wish to receive such notices in the future, please let me know. Thank you for your time.

http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=preview_message&fn=Link&t=1&ssid=85&id=9ior4p9x3845c3bbt3huytt27l4c3&id2=j5875bosdi90h5sjwqc5qxs3ihrqm

IGIC Ortho Workgroup Starting Again

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:19:28 -0400

The Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC) is restarting the
ortho workgroup. The mission of the workgroup is to establish an
ongoing, statewide Indiana program to acquire aerial photography and
to define the specifications for the photo collection and products.
Jim Stout jrstout@iupui.edu , IMAGIS Program Manager, will chair the
workgroup.

If you are interested in participating or want to receive the ortho
workgroup ListServe email messages, please send an email to Janet
Tomlin jtomlin@igic.org.

The first meeting is scheduled 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Friday, May 16, at
Carmel's Woodland Country Club.

Woodland Country Club
100 Woodland Lane
Carmel, IN 46032
(116th Street between Keystone Avenue and Range Line
Road)

For those who cannot attend in person, IGIC has arranged a Conference
Call option as an alternative. Please contact Janet Tomlin for
Conference Call information. jtomlin@igic.org 317.234.2924

Meeting Agenda:

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Goals for this Workgroup
3. Review of 2005 Lessons
4. NAIP / Imagery for the Nation / 133-City NGA / LiDAR for the
Nation / other
5. Other Statewide Ortho Programs
6. Indiana Ortho Business Case
7. Indiana Program (Timing / Geography)
8. Products (Resolution, CIR, Buy-Ups)
9. Distribution
10. Issues (Funding, Management)
11. Next Steps

Position Announcement: EPA Summer Student Beach Research

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:30:05 -0400

This is a good EPA job opportunity to participate in beach research this summer at USGS office in Porter, Indiana and a second position to support EPA research in Milwaukee, Wisc. If you or anyone you know are interested in applying for this excellent opportunity please apply immediately. The closing date is June1! Feel free to distribute.

To apply go to:

http://www.epa.gov/oamrtpnc/q0800132/index.htm

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR STUDENT SERVICES CONTRACTS
(DIRECT PURCHASE ORDERS TO INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS
OR UNIVERSITIES)
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Research and Development
National Exposure Research Laboratory
Ecosystems Research Division, Athens GA
RFQ-RT-08-00132

The Ecosystems Research Division (ERD), Athens, GA of the National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is seeking students to provide services under a contractual agreement in support of a research project focusing on predictive model validation at beaches on Lake Michigan. The student/recent graduate should possess a Bachelor's degree in microbiology, biology, geosciences, chemistry, limnology, biogeochemistry, hydrometeorology, environmental engineering, environmental sciences or a related discipline by the negotiated starting date of the contract.

The Government will make the contract award based on the student's work experience, knowledge and skills, training and course work (GPA and number of course hours) as it relates to the services described in this Announcement. The ideal student will have experience in environmental research and using automated equipment that measures water quality, hydrometeorological and biogeochemical properties of natural waters at field sites. This project will be a collaborative effort between the ERD and the U.S. Geological Survey and it also is part of the U.S. EPA Critical Path Science Plan for New or Revised Water Quality Criteria.

The student contractor will assist the mentor and others with conducting studies to provide data that will support the development of the Virtual Beach software tool. This tool is used to develop statistically-based predictive models for freshwater beaches. The primary focus will be assisting with the installation and maintenance of automated equipments and assisting with water sample collection and processing at Ogden Dunes Beach on southern Lake Michigan, Burns Ditch and Salt Creek, a nearby tributary of Lake Michigan. Instruments will include a data sonde, an Acoustic Doppler Current Meter (ADCP), underwater UV sensors, and a weather station. These instruments will provide measurements of wave height, period, and direction; current speed and direction; air temperature; water temperature; barometric pressure; rainfall; relative humidity; solar radiation (PAR, near UV); and wind speed, gust, and direction. The student contractor may be expected to attend conferences or seminars in support of the statement of work.

The work will be conducted at the Ogden Dunes Beach, Salt Creek, Indiana and the USGS Great Lakes Science Center, 1100 North Mineral Springs Road, Porter, Indiana 46304. All necessary instructions and training will provided by Dr. Richard Whitman at the USGS Great Lakes Science Center, who will also serve as the student's mentor, and Dr. Richard Zepp and Dr. Marirosa Molina, who are located at the NERL-Ecosystems Research Division, Athens, Georgia.
This contract is to begin about June, 2008. The initial contract will be for one year not to exceed 588 hours with an option for an additional year not to exceed 588 hours. The majority of the work will be done during the first four months of the contract. The duty location is the USGS Great Lakes Science Center, 1100 North Mineral Springs Road, Porter, Indiana 46304.

The hourly rate for this position is $18.58. The student contractor will be paid this basic hourly rate only for the number of hours worked and will not receive overtime premium. The student will not accrue leave or holiday benefits and is not paid for any non-work days, regardless of the reason. Federal, State, Local and Social Security taxes will not be withheld; student contractors are responsible for reporting income to authorities and paying all taxes. The student contractor will be responsible for all costs of transportation to and from the principal duty station location. EPA does not provide housing, meals or other living expenses. The student contractor must be a recent graduate in good standing who was enrolled in an advanced degree program at a recognized educational institution within the past two years. Non-U.S. citizens may be eligible to participate, depending on their immigration status and the applicable regulations of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Service (HIS), formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The Government may elect to award contracts to multiple students under this announcement.
EPA ORD employees, their spouses, and children are NOT eligible to participate in this program and receive these contracts.

To submit a proposal for this contract, you must provide a one or two page resume or statement of qualifications including
1.
Your full legal name
2.
Mailing address

3.
Telephone number
4.
Email address (if any),
5.
Date of birth
6.
Place of birth:
7.

Citizenship or, if not a US citizen, immigration/VISA status
8.
Education, including description of relevant classes
9.
Work or volunteer experience related to the scientific field
10.
Laboratory work experience (if applicable to these services)
11.
2 letters of reference.

Attach a copy of all your college/university transcripts (unofficial copies are acceptable, if it is apparent from the transcript copy that it is a copy of an official document and that the school is identified), listing courses taken, grades, and overall GPA. Send these materials to: William Goins, Contracting Specialist, via email at goins.william@epa.gov or via fax, with cover page, to (919) 541-4273. The applications/resume submission deadline will be listed at the website below.
Prior to submitting a proposal for this contract, you should visit the EPA procurement home page at http://www.epa.gov/oam/rtp_cmd/ to learn the full details of the contract. You should visit the website periodically to check the status of this procurement and to see whether or not any amendments (changes to the requirement of the posted contract) have been issued. If you have any questions on the information contained on the website, contact William Goins, Contracting Specialist, via email at goins.william@epa.gov or via fax, with cover page, to (919) 541-4273.
Please check the evaluation factors document on the website mentioned in the previous paragraph. Students who perform under contract for EPA are required to undergo a background check, check of FBI fingerprint files and a suitability determination by the Environmental Protection Agency. Questions regarding the technical aspects of the contracted duties and responsibilities should be directed to Dr. Richard Zepp, the EPA technical contact for this position, at zepp.richard@epa.gov.
Richard Whitman

Research Ecologist/Station Chief
Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station
219-926-8336 Ext. 424
1100 North Mineral Springs Road
Porter, IN 46304

Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists Deadline is June 2

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:14:35 -0400

The application deadline for this year's Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists 2008 (CSIG 08) is June 2nd, less than two weeks away.

The year's CSIG will be held from August 11-15, 2008, on the University of California, San Diego campus. This week-long program is designed to provide participants an introduction to commonly-used as well as emergent information technology (IT) tools via lectures, hands-on experience, and Q & A sessions. Topics to be covered include: an introduction to geoinformatics; data integration challenges; data sharing portals and networks; remote-sensing data (including LiDAR); Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services; and visualization of 3D and 4D data.

Graduate students and post docs, as well as university faculty and instructors with the goal of promoting the development of curricula and courses in geoinformatics, are highly encouraged to apply. Please forward this information to anyone you know who may be interested in this valuable educational opportunity.

Support from the National Science Foundation enables GEON to offer this course without a registration fee, as well as provides for on-campus housing and meals for all accepted participants, throughout the week. Participants are responsible for the cost of their transportation to the University of California, San Diego campus.

Further information, including the current CSIG Program and online Registration can be found at http://www.geongrid.org/CSIG08/ .

----------------- note follows from GIS Librarian C.C. Miller -------
I attended this program last summer and it was very valuable, at least insomuch as it introduces, discusses, or updates the progress of some pretty inspiring and intriguing developments and technologies GIS librarians should either be aware of or be contributing to. Much of this is big-time cyberinfrastructure that a single GIS Librarian can't expect to engage alone, but over the course of the institute last summer there were a number of good ideas bandied about between librarian and librarian and between librarians and domain scientists. In fact, it helped a couple of us librarians here at Purdue to develop and teach a geoinformatics course this past semester using many of the ideas and technologies we worked with in La Jolla.

I expect there will be more hands-on work this summer than last, but I don't know. If anyone is interesting in hearing more about it, please contact me offlist (if it's relevant I'll ask to repost).

Please note that I have no stake in the success of GEON or this Summer Institute. I'm forwarding this to gis4lib only because geoinformatics has a lot to do with GIS Librarianship and I suspect this CSIG program isn't on everybody's radar.

New Site Goes Live

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:15:49 -0400

The GIS subsection of The Libraries website has been completely overhauled and is now online. Better still, it is almost finished (meaning some parts may be very, very broken for these first couple of weeks, as there is only one of us devoted to the overhaul). Most of the old addresses will be the same. For those that are not (e.g. Disc.Iso software downloader) the old URLs will work for quite some time.

2007 NAIP Imagery from IU

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:30:06 -0400

The Indiana Geological Survey provided $1,200 to pay for the data transfer of the Indiana 2007 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) geotiffs from the Farm Service Agency to Indiana University. University Information Technology Services at Indiana University is providing these images for download from the Indiana Spatial Data Portal. Visit http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/07naip.html for more information regarding this dataset.

Kenya Spatial Data

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:33:49 -0400

Folks: You know as well as I do that it is sometimes difficult to have students use GIS to study some countries around the world in detail due to the difficultly of obtaining spatial data there. Consider having them investigate Kenya! Read on. A few months after the release of the publication Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, the GIS data are now available at http://www.wri.org/publication/content/9291. This 96-map report provides a new approach to examining the links between ecosystem services (the benefits derived from nature) and the poor. Through a series of maps and analyses, the authors focus on the environmental resources most Kenyans rely on such as soil, water, forest, rangeland, livestock, and wildlife. The atlas overlays georeferenced statistical information on population and household expenditures with spatial data on ecosystems and their services (water availability, wood supply, wildlife populations, and the like) to yield a picture of how land, people, and prosperity are related in Kenya. Folks, there must be nearly 100 layers of GIS data here! Joseph Kerski --repost to PurdueGIS-L from "Edgis Listserv"

IMAGINE Objective Out in Beta

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:08 -0400

Announcing the Beta Release of IMAGINE Objective
IMAGINE Objective includes an innovative set of tools for feature extraction, update and change detection, enabling geospatial data layers to be created and maintained using remotely sensed imagery.
IMAGINE Objective:
Combines expert knowledge with inferential learning
Integrates with ERDAS IMAGINE, providing a full suite of vector editing tools for clean-up and editing.
Is an open, modifiable and extensible feature model.
Provides discrete feature extraction, where clean-up operators can be included in the feature model to produce output suitable fo r merging into a GIS with minimal post-processing.
IMAGINE Objective is an ERDAS IMAGINE module and will be released with ERDAS IMAGINE 9.3 later this year.

The Beta program for IMAGINE Objective is open immediately to all existing ERDAS IMAGINE 9.2 customers. Register here.

For more information, please contact us at info@erdas.com or call +1 877 GO.ERDAS --repost from PurdueGIS-L

GA Position in Libraries GIS

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:18:50 -0400

POSITION TITLE

Libraries GIS Graduate Assistant

(Graduate Student - Administrative Professional)

HOURS/TERM OF APPOINTMENT

12-month appointment, 20 hours/week (must be enrolled a minimum of 12 credit hours in a Purdue graduate program for the period of the appointment).

SALARY/PAY (as of April 2008)

$1231/mo

STARTS

May 2008

LOCATION

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Library (EAS) GIS Lab

GENERAL POSITION DESCRIPTION

Under the direction of the GIS Librarian, the Libraries GIS Graduate Assistant will apply knowledge of developing web and internet technologies, application development, and coding languages toward presenting geospatial data, maps, and associated, integrated information to library users in intuitive, modern web applications.

GIS support at Purdue University Libraries is new, but demand is already great for ways in which geospatial data can be processed, organized, integrated with other data stores, and ultimately presented to constituents of both the Libraries and outward-facing campus projects beyond the Libraries. Our ability to make geospatial data more accessible and discoverable depends on our ability to, among other things, leverage burgeoning web technologies toward new solutions to old information problems.

This position will help identify and implement the best technologies for solutions and projects and development that are already being, or will be, investigated by the GIS Librarian and collaborators. This will include custom web coding, contribution to/exploitation of open source geospatial applications, and some database integration functions. Likely technologies include ajax/JavaScript (as in kaMap! or OpenLayers), php, java (as in Geoserver or Geonetwork), PostGIS/PostgreSQL, MySQL, ArcGIS Deskop, ArcGIS Server.

RESPONSIBILITIES

...help select and implement web or web-compliant technologies that can best parley the mission of a project into a usable, public interface to geospatial information

...work independently on coding solutions to problems and questions posed by the GIS Librarian, within the context of larger geospatial projects and their intended users and outcomes

...work with other graduate assistants, whose responsibility will largely be to prepare geospatial data and metadata that will be delivered/made discoverable by these web applications

...perform related duties as required

REQUIRED SKILLS

...experience, success with traditional (dynamic) web technologies such as php, ajax/javascript, sql-based databases

DESIRED SKILLS

...experience with geospatial data stores

...demonstrated success with building web interfaces to dynamic, data-driven back ends

...experience with or contribution to open source application development

Own Your Own Copy of ESRI ArcView 9.x

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:44:49 -0400

Students interested in purchasing a much-reduced copy of ArcView that is theirs to keep and therefore can be installed on their personal computers should visit this page, which details the program.

The short version is that ArcView can be obtained as a one-time purchase and will last forever (but with no updates or support.

No prices are listed but we think it is reasonable.

NCAR Workshop Reminder

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:02:39 -0400

Entered on 2008-04-09 at 07:15:08 by christopher miller: Dear Colleague, apologies for the cross-posting. Please distribute as you feel necessary. Reminder - May 5-7, 2008 at NCAR Center Green Building 1, Boulder, CO - please register as soon as possible - NCAR is hosting this workshop to assist the NSF in considering how it might most effectively craft programs to support the creation and use of new cyberinfrastructure capabilities to support environmental research and education over the next decade. This workshop is intended as an initial step in identifying key issues and means of addressing them. We do not intend to try and build a consensus for a fully defined proposal or plan, but rather to identify opportunities through stimulating a constructive dialogue among scientists and educators from different environmental communities, and between environmental scientists and information scientists and technologists. Outcome: The product of the workshop will be a white paper that examines opportunities for applying cyberinfrastructure in environmental research and education, identifies significant issues, and provides a roadmap for addressing key questions. The white paper will be submitted to NSF, published on the web, and presented at future scientific and technical conferences. Participation in this workshop is open by invitation and submission of a position statement (see Registration) and funding support to participate is available and is contingent on NSF support eligibility requirements http://www.cyberobservatories.net/events/workshops/20080505/ _______________________________________________ esi mailing list esi@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/esi Close Window

[OKGIS] Geospatial Summer Institute

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:14:28 -0400

The Center for Spatial Analysis is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2008 Geospatial Summer Institute Fellowship program. With support from Oklahoma NASA Space Grant the summer institute, a 3 credit hour fellowship program, provides undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities to explore technological, application, and industrial experiences in remote sensing, global positioning systems, and geographic information systems. Fourteen fellowships at $1,805 each will be awarded to support student attendance. Fellowships provide for tuition, fees, materials, meals and lodging (when applicable for those outside the OKC metro area). Each student will receive a $300 stipend, 3 credit hours or certificate of completion through the University of Oklahoma, and ESRI Introduction to ArcGIS I certification upon successful completion. Students from all eight Space Grant affiliate universities are eligible to apply. One fellowship will be competitively awarded to a student from each affiliate institution and 6 additional at-large fellowships will be awarded to students from the total pool of applicants. More information, application materials and submission instructions can be found at: http://csa.ou.edu/si.php For questions or accommodations on the basis of disability please contact Melissa Brown at melwalker@ou.edu

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging is now the new ERDAS

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:32:04 -0400

The new ERDAS Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging is now the new ERDAS. Building off an established brand, ERDASâ product portfolio encompasses the entire geospatial information lifecycle of authoring, managing, connecting and delivering integrated business data. See their home page for details.

UCGIS Summer Assembly Grad Student Paper Call-Out

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:39:06 -0400

*Overview:*

The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) is
a nonprofit organization of over seventy universities and other
research institutions dedicated to expanding and strengthening
geographic information science. The organization will hold its Summer
Assembly from June 23 - 24, 2008 at the Hubert Humphrey Institute in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Graduate students from UCGIS member institutions are invited to submit a
full paper of approximately 6000 words to be considered for
presentation at the 2008 Summer Assembly. Our goal is to attract high
quality presentations from across the U.S. to foster interdisciplinary
discussions among computer science, engineering, geography, natural
resources, physical science, social science and other academic programs
engaged in geographic information science investigations and research.

* *

* *

*Paper Submission:*

*The deadline for submission of full papers to be considered for travel
support is 12:00 midnight EST, April 20, 2008*. No students will be
considered for travel support if submission is received after the
deadline. Please send an email with full paper submission as an
attachment to Prof. Jeremy Mennis (jmennis@temple.edu
<mailto:jmennis@temple.edu>). Each paper MUST be reviewed and approved
by a faculty member at the student's home university before submission.
An email from the faculty member to jmennis@temple.edu
<mailto:jmennis@temple.edu> verifying review of the student's paper is
required. Any number of full papers may be submitted by a UCGIS member
institution and a review email may come from any faculty member at the
institution. Submissions will be placed on a password protected web site
and assessed by a panel of referees drawn from across the UCGIS member
institutions. * Award notifications will be made on or before May 20,
2008*.

Three student papers will be selected for presentation in sessions
specially designated for UCGIS student papers. No more than one student
will be selected from any UCGIS institution to receive a travel stipend
to attend the meeting. Student papers will be posted to the UCGIS
website at http://www.ucgis.org/) for review by all members by June 8,
2008.

*Please see the attachment for full submission information.***

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__________________________________________________
Jeff Essic, Geospatial Data Services Librarian
North Carolina State University
D.H. Hill Library, Research & Information Services
Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis
(919) 515-5698

Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP) Content Updates (2008.04.03)

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:48:48 -0400

University Information Technology Services at Indiana University has loaded 2004 and 2005 NAIP geotiffs and the 2007 NAIP County MrSID mosaics to the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP). These images are now available for download. More information regarding ISDP Indiana aerial photography is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/orthos.html

Coming soon: 2007 NAIP geotiffs and 2007 central Indiana orthophotography (Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Shelby, Marion and Morgan)

If you have any questions regarding these datasets, please send an email to uitsgis@indiana.edu

The ISDP_USERS listserv is hosted by University Information Technology Services (UITS) at Indiana University to provide updates concerning spatial datasets available from the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (http://gis.iu.edu) and GIS related news.

ESRI Releases Service Pack 5

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:32:29 -0400

For the brave among you, ESRI has released Service Pack 5 for ArcGIS, ArcSDE, ArcIMS, and ArcGIS Image Server (see the list). The "What's New" file is available here and additional description of the ArcGIS sp5 can be found here.

Now, go break all of your stuff! (Actually there are no sp5 panic posts in the ESRI forums as of this writing, although sp5 was only released yesterday).

Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP) Content Updates

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:32:56 -0400

University Information Technology Services at Indiana University has
loaded 2004 and 2005 NAIP geotiffs and the 2007 NAIP County MrSID
mosaics to the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP). These images are
now available for download. More information regarding ISDP Indiana
aerial photography is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/orthos.html

Coming soon: 2007 NAIP geotiffs and 2007 central Indiana
orthophotography (Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson,
Shelby, Marion and Morgan)

If you have any questions regarding these datasets, please send an
email to uitsgis@indiana.edu

The ISDP_USERS listserv is hosted by University Information Technology
Services (UITS) at Indiana University to provide updates concerning
spatial datasets available from the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (http://gis.iu.edu
) and GIS related news. To unsubscribe from this LISTSERV list, send
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Geomatics Engineering Seminar: William Emery, University of Colorado

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:34:02 -0400

Reminder from Jie Shan, Geomatics:
See below the announcement for our seminar this coming Wednesday.
Right after the seminar, we will be hosting a discussion session in
CIVL 1217 at 2:30 - 4:30pm. Hope see you all there.

Thanks,

-Jie Shan

Time: 1:30 2:20pm, Wednesdays; Location: CIVL 3153

Prof. William Emery, University of Colorado

Spatial satellite remote sensing; past, present and future

We review satellite remote sensing from the early days of
meteorological sensors up to the present series of land remote sensing
satellite. We end by reviewing some work with very current methods
for analyzing the highest spatial resolution images from QuickBird and
WorldView 1 satellites.

Jie Shan, Associate Professor
Geomatics Engineering
School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
550 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
USA
Webpages:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/Academics/Groups/Geomatics

https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/Academics/Groups/Geomatics/Details/FacultyInfo/JShan

Phone: 765-494-2168
Email: jshan@ecn.purdue.edu
Visiting address:
4110, Civil Engineering Building

Leica Image Web Server Seminar

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:05:11 -0400

Larry Biehl forward to PurdueGIS-L:

I know you are currently using ERDAS Imagine and some are using ER Mapper Professional. Do any of you have a need for the Image Web Server, Red Spider and Titan for you image serving, storing and cataloging needs?

We will soon offer a new site license with all products and wanted to see how many of you might benefit from this type of program.

Image Web Server - Web Seminar - March 13, 2008 at 2pm EST - email if you would like to attend this event.

Feel free to contact me with questions or concerns.

I appreciate your time.

Sincerely,
Karen Pack
US and Canada - Education and Nonprofit Program

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging, LLC ******************************************* Phone 1-951-506-3221 Fax 1-951-676-2108 http://www.gi.leicageosystems.com http://www.ermapper.com Visit us at AAG - April 15-18, 2008

More About IHAPI: April Seminar

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:13:43 -0400

Repost to PurdueGIS-L by L. Theller:

IGIC Seminar Series - Indiana's Historical Aerial Photography
Thursday, April 17th, 2008, 1:30-2:30pm
WEBINAR
Free

The Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) has created an interactive map (http://igs.indiana.edu/IHAPI) to facilitate retrieval of historical aerial photos (HAPs) by both expert GIS users and the general public. The website shows the locations of more than 100,000 individual photographs from the 1930s to the 1980s. Users can locate a time or area they are interested in, and order those photos from various archival collections, including the IGS archive which contains nearly 40,000 images. Denver Harper of IGS will walk attendees through an online tutorial showing how to use this exciting new tool.

Registrants will receive an email with login information and phone number one week prior to the event. Note: This is not a toll-free phone call, long distance charges may apply.

http://www.igic.org/products/?cid=24&cid2=24 to register

A Reminder About the IHAPI Aerial Photo Project

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:25:15 -0500

Posted to PurdueGIS-L by Larry Theller...

The new Indiana Geological Survey archive of aerial photos is a hot?topic in Indiana GIS circles.?Anyone looking for change in Indiana over time should be aware of this.?Page is : http://129.79.145.7/arcims/IHAPI/index.html

quote - emphasis added:
?The Indiana Geological Survey (IGS) has created the "Indiana Historical?Aerial Photo Index" (IHAPI) interactive map to facilitate the?identification and retrieval of historical aerial photographs. More than?950 large-format photomosaic index maps in the IGS archive were scanned?and georeferenced, and then mosaicked to produce 466 county-based images?dating from the 1930s to the 1980s. From these images, a point index was?created showing the upper-right corners of *** 113,035 *** individual?historical aerial photographs. The interactive map allows users to?easily locate a site of interest and determine unique identification?numbers for individual photos. Copies of the photos can then be ordered?from various archival collections, including the IGS archive.

Before attempting to use the IHAPI map, we strongly recommend that users?read the instructions and view the associated IHAPI Video Tutorials.

Archival Organization?Beginning in the 1930s, aerial surveys of Indiana counties were?conducted about every 10 years; between the 1930s and the 1970s, more?than 100,000 aerial photos of the state were taken. Copies of many of?these black-and-white photos exist in archives of the Indiana Geological?Survey, the Indiana State Archives, and various libraries and?governmental agencies. A concise discussion of the uses of aerial photos?can be found here.

Every historical aerial photograph has a unique identification number?(ID) in its upper right corner. The date that the photo was taken?appears in its upper left corner. Anyone interested in retrieving a?particular photo from an archival collection must first determine its ID?number.??For most counties, aerial surveys were conducted along north-south?flight lines, although east-west flight lines were occasionally used.?Along each flight line, photographs typically overlap by as much as 60?percent, so that overlapping pairs of photographs can be viewed?stereoscopically. Adjacent flight lines also overlap.

For each survey, an index map of the county was assembled by stapling?the individual photos together to create a mosaic. The mosaic,?containing hundreds of individual photographs, was then re-photographed?to create a large-format (typically 20 by 24 inch), low-resolution?photomosaic index. In the past, you could obtain identification numbers?of individual photos by physically visiting an archive and locating a?site of interest on a paper copy of the photomosaic index. The?appropriate individual aerial photo could then be retrieved from the?archival collection. NOTE: The individual photos that are available from?archival collections have resolutions that are much superior to that of?corresponding photomosaics.

?Archival Collections?Contact archival collections to determine the availability of your?particular photo of interest, as well as fee schedules for obtaining?copies of the photo.

February, 2008 NHD Newsletter

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:34:29 -0500

Recently, Larry Theller brought the National Hydrography Dataset February 2008 Newsletter to the attention of the PurdueGIS-L. The full text of the newsletter is included below, but will also be available at the NHD Newsletter list.

USGS National Hydrography Dataset Newsletter

Vol. 7, No. 4, February 2008

By Jeff Simley, USGS

A Profile of NHD Users by Janel Day

Since 2004, there have been over 85,000 data downloads from the NHD

Viewer. The dot-com commercial sector represents a quarter of the

total. Downloads to this sector has doubled in the past year and has

quadrupled since 2004. This mainly includes environmental engineering

and consulting firms.

The dot-gov and dot-us government sector represents about half the total

downloads. It is difficult to distinguish between Federal and State

agencies, but it appears the Federal sector accounts for about

two-thirds of this. Educational institutions represent about one-fifth

of the download population. The majority of the remaining NHD downloads

can be attributed to the educational, private and non-profit sectors.

The most significant change in the NHD data download profile can be seen

in the increase in the private sector. The volume of downloads among

government entities, educational institutions and non-profit sector have

remained about the same over the past few years.

The NHD viewer offers a variety of formats available for download in

both the 1:24,000 and 1:100,000-scale resolutions. The overwhelming

majority of the downloads from the viewer are by subbasin leaving about

eight percent by county. Other delineations are not significant. High

resolution downloads outnumber medium resolution by about two to one.

The number of medium resolution downloads have remained unchanged while

there is definite growth in high resolution downloads. High resolution

downloads were about one-third greater in 2007 than 2006. Shapefile

downloads were double that of geodatabase downloads in 2007, while in

2006 and 2005 they were about equal. Interestingly, there is a growing

trend in the popularity of shapefile format. Next month, look for a

review of subregion downloads from the ftp site.

National Hydro Network Update by Bruno Simoneau

2008 promises to be a dynamic year for GeoBase and its development of

Canadian watershed data in the National Hydro Network (NHN). By

December 2008, national coverage of nearly 1,100 NHN watersheds will be

available on the GeoBase Web site. 800 watersheds, up from the current

287 watersheds, to be released on March 20 in celebration of World Water

Day on March 22. This year look for: a new NHN data web viewer service;

a new national index of NHN watershed limits; and three additional data

releases of about 100 watersheds each in June, October and December to

complete the NHN national coverage. More details on the NHN, along with

current NHN data available without cost or restrictions, and under

common licensing terms, can be accessed at the Web site

http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nhn/index.html.

The RivEx River Analysis Tool

An interesting river analysis tool has been developed in England

http://www.rivex.co.uk/. Here are some of the functions: "Process

connected river centre lines, check network for specific errors,

generate new node layers for the nodes of the network, attribute network

including stream order, convert network to a measured network, analyze

network and store the results, generalize the network, quality

controlled snapping of sites to the river network, and export river

network data to KML (Google Earth) format. The developer is currently

working on developing a new component for random and stratified point

sampling of river networks. RivEX was designed to run in ESRI ArcGIS

9.0/9.1 on a Windows Microsoft Operating System (Windows 2000 or XP).

RivEX does not require the network extension to run. It will run under

the standard ArcView license of ArcGIS 9. Users who have upgraded to

version ArcGIS 9.2 have reported that RivEX runs. RivEX has been

developed in VBA and sits within an ArcMap document file. RivEX will

process data which is in the format of Shapefile or a Geodatabase

FeatureClass. Polyline, PolylineM and PolylineZ data are all

supported." Remember that: "Any use of trade, product, or firm names is

for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S.

Government."

January Hydrography Quiz / New February Quiz

Mike Wiedmer, was again the first to correctly guess last month's

hydrography quiz. The quiz ftp://nhdftp.usgs.gov/Quiz/Hydrography31.pdf

was Grays Harbor, Washington. This is where the Chehalis River empties

into the Pacific Ocean. You can find out more about Mike in last

month's newsletter. Others with the correct answer were (in order

received) Jim Sherwood, Joanna Wood, Dave Straub, Mac McKay, Ken Koch,

James Seay, Richard Patton, Anne Johnson, Al Rea, Tom Christy, Ed

Carter, and David Heber.

Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay with a pair of low peninsulas

separating it from the Pacific Ocean, except for an opening about two

miles in width. An estuary is typically the tidal mouth of a river, and

estuaries are often characterized by sedimentation or silt carried in

from terrestrial runoff and, frequently, from offshore. They are made up

of brackish water. Estuaries are more likely to occur on submerged

coasts, where the sea level has risen in relation to the land; this

process floods valleys to form rias and fjords. These can become

estuaries if there is a stream or river flowing into them.

Ed Carter provides some background on the name: "Grays Harbor is named

after Captain Robert Gray who discovered and entered it on May 7, 1792

in the course of his fur-trading voyages along the north Pacific coast

of North America. Gray named the bay Bullfinch Harbor, but it was

afterward named Grays Harbor by Captain George Vancouver, whose

contemporaneous explorations of the region -- the ships of the two

captains had met at sea, only days earlier -- were well publicized at

the time, while Gray's voyages were not. Grays Harbor was the name that

stuck. (A few days later, on May 11 Gray found a navigable channel into

the estuary of the Columbia River, and sailed into it, the first white

man to do so.)"

This month's hydrography quiz can be found at

ftp://nhdftp.usgs.gov/Quiz/Hydrography32.pdf. This is the confluence of

two "Level 2" rivers with a "Level 1" river. What are the three rivers?

Why is there a big "hole" in the NHD in the southeastern area of the

image?

American Water Resources Association

Be sure to mark your calendar for the 2008 AWRA Spring Specialty

Conference - GIS and Water Resources V in San Mateo, California on March

17-19, 2008. See http://www.awra.org/meetings/San_Mateo2008/index.html

Upcoming NHD Geo Edit Tool Training

February, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska (tentative), Contact Paul Kimsey

pjkimsey@usgs.gov or A.C. Brown at acbrown2@usgs.gov.

Upcoming NHD Applications Training

March 5, Richmond, Virginia, contact Diane Eldridge at

deldridge@usgs.gov

March 6, Reston, Virginia, contact Diane Eldridge

March 13 and 14, Reno, Nevada, contact Tom Sturm at tsturm@usgs.gov

March 20, Menlo Park, California, contact Carol Ostergren at

costergren@usgs.gov

April 24, 2008, Kansas City, Missouri, see

http://www.magicgis.org/magic/symposiums/2008/index.cfm

May 7, Dearborn, Michigan, contact Steve Aichele at saichele@usgs.gov

May 8, Lansing, Michigan, contact Steve Aichele

May 19-23, Oregon and Washington, contact Sheri Schneider at

sschneid@usgs.gov or Allyson Jason at ajason@usgs.gov

June 3-5, Ottawa, Ontario, GeoTech Event 2008, see

http://www.geoplace.com/ME2/Default.asp

Hawaii in planning stages, contact Henry Wolter at hwolter@usgs.gov

________________________________________________________________________

_____________

Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes

only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Thanks to Janel Day, Bruno Simoneau, Duncan Hornby, Wikipedia, Mary

Watkins, and Terry Higgins.

The NHD Newsletter is published monthly. Get on the mailing list by

contacting jdsimley@usgs.gov.

You can view past NHD Newsletters at

http://nhd.usgs.gov/newsletter_list.html

Jeff Simley, USGS, assumes full responsibility for the content of this

newsletter.

Take the Water Stakeholder Survey

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:38:23 -0500

IGIC is asking for those involved with Indiana water data to help direct NHD maintenance efforts by taking the "Water Stakeholder Survey," available at the IGIC site.

2008 EAS Grad. Research Expo

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:49:35 -0500

Don't forget to attend the Purdue Earth & Atmospheric Sciences 2008 Graduate Research Expo on February 23, 2008. It's a two-day show-and-tell/meet-and-greet session designed to show off current graduate research activity and introduce prospective EAS students to the worlds of opportunity here at Purdue. More information at the Expo site.

Indiana GIS Conference Needs Student Volunteers

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:42:56 -0500

From Indiana Geographic Information Council's Jill Saligoe-Simmel, 2008-02-14:

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know we are a few spots short on student volunteers despite record attendance at next week's Indiana GIS Conference. Students can volunteer at the conference and receive free registration. If you have someone who might benefit from this opportunity to get up close and personal with GIS in Indiana, please pass this information along. We'll take volunteers up until Friday or until the spots are filled. Also, while it may be too late this year, student poster winners receive cash prizes and can be a nice resume booster. We'd appreciate you keeping it in mind with your students (the future of GIS in Indiana)!!!

http://www.in.gov/igic/conference/student.html http://www.in.gov/igic/conference/poster.html

Thanks and have a great week

West Lafayette Now in Google Maps StreetView

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:38:55 -0500

Google Maps StreetView has added West Lafayette, Lafayette, and in fact a number of cities within an hour or so of Indianapolis to its list of photographed locations. See the clock tower from HSSE here, or just stroll around town: the bulk of West Lafayette and Lafayette are included.

Engineering Aspects of Remote Sensing Course

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:42:36 -0500

Dr. Okan Ersoy is offering ECE 577: Engineering Aspects of Remote Sensing in Spring 2008. Calculus, college physics, statistics are assumed prerequisites. More details at the online course listing.

ESRI's 2008 4-H Grants Program

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:43:12 -0500

FNR's Richard Farnsworth reminds the PurdueGIS Listserv about ESRI's 4-H grant program, which comes in "Introductory" and "Intermediate" (i.e. for those who have already received an introductory and are planning additional programming) flavors. More information is available at ESRI's 4-H page.

Next GIS for Lunch set for January 31, 2008

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:06:50 -0500

Well it's time for 2008's first GIS for Lunch session, to be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 31 in the HSSE Library Conference Room (3rd Floor, HSSE Library, west end of STEW).

This will be the second in a series of open, informal meetings designed to collect into one place people from across Purdue's campus (or campuses, for that matter) who have an interest in GIS, geospatial information and applications, or related topics.

Students, staff, faculty, all are welcome to attend. No advance sign up is necessary.

Anyone is welcome to submit topics of conversation (either in advance, or on site), but I'm including a sketch of an agenda below in case nobody else has anything pressing.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Chris

Default Agenda

Item: campus GIS talent pool: how does one identify an ArcIMS specialist? a MapServer guru? Java developers? an interface builder? When it comes time to hire for a project, where do you look for talent? Always from department pools?

Item (related): Interest in, use for a Geospatial Purdue website? Would feature news, job listings, projects, grant programs, directories, data announcements, publication announcements, syndicated content from other related Purdue sites...all designed to span colleges, departments, and units. Light initial funding, sustainable by collective (content management framework) after.

Item (related): Feasibility, interest in a Purdue Geospatial Center? Would be discipline-agnostic resource for faculty and teams; help provide support and labor to projects; connect people (including students) to projects, vice versa; develop in-house research in the areas that would best serve Purdue's geospatial community; other ideas?

Geomatics Engineering Seminar: Geostatistical Spatial Data Fusion

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:07:57 -0500

See here for the announcement, but essentially Chad Schaeding, Geomatics, is presenting on how new data influxes and outputs are being handled by geostatistical tools.

1:30 - 2:20 pm, CIVL 3153

2008 ArcGIS Server Code Challenge

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:34:42 -0500

ESRI has announced the details of (and a dedicated blog for) their ArcGIS Server Code Chellenge for 2008.

Purdue's Huber Announces GPlates

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:41:26 -0500

GPlates is a plate-tectonics visualisation package that enables interactive reconstruction and manipulation of plate-tectonic structures through geological time, coupled with temporally-aware Geographic Information System (GIS) functionality. Initial public release was in December, 2007, and more information (including a promising development road map) can be found at the GPlates site. Contact: Matt Huber, Purdue EAS

Position Announcement: Entry-Level Positions at ESRI

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:22:56 -0500

Entry-Level Opportunities for New Grads

ESRI is seeking bright, top-level students who have a passion for applying their education in a rewarding career. Students who will be graduating this December are invited to apply for a number of entry-level positions at our Redlands, California, headquarters.

Students with degrees in GIS, geography, computer science, and computer engineering are needed for these and other positions: Software development programmers Software product engineers Internet programmers Support services analysts Technical analysts

Visit www.esri.com/grads to search current openings and to find information on what it's like to work at ESRI, where students might fit, and more.

ENVI 4.4 Installers Up at Disc.Iso Site

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:49:10 -0500

The Windows installer for ENVI 4.4 is also up on the Disc.Iso site along side the 4.3 packages. A list of ENVI titles available there can be accessed (by anybody) here, but to see any individual record or to download the installers you'll need a usr/psswd combination (write Chris Miller, Libraries). For those of you who have accessed the site before, your usr/psswd should still work.

About the site generally: our authentication procedure is a little crude, so only faculty and staff (not grad students, I guess I'm saying) can get in and download stuff, to be placed specifically on Purdue-owned machines (depending on the license agreement for any given title).

P.S. We have the OS X and Unix packages for 4.3, and I'll presume we can get them for 4.4 if anyone is interested

GIS Day 2007

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:56:30 -0500

Today is GIS Day, an annual commemoration of the power of GIS and the increasing importance and preponderance of geospatial data and technologies. Anyone interested in seeing or hearing about applications of GIS across and throughout campus is invited to attend a celebration in Purdue Memorial Union's East Faculty Lounge.

We are holding a poster session from 11:00 am until 12:00 pm (see poster roster at http://www4.lib.purdue.edu/gis/gisday/index.phpwww4.lib.purdue.edu/gis/gisday/index.php). Following the poster session will begin a series of presentations about different applications of GIS at Purdue, the challenges of doing GIS in various environments, and developing technologies in the world of GIS and geospatial information (presentation schedule also available at that site).

Refreshments will be served, courtesy of Purdue Libraries Advancement, so if you're curious about how GIS is at work at Purdue and in the community please feel free to drop in some time today.

Free and open to the public.

GIS Day 2007 Pt.2: Tippecanoe County

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:28:03 -0500

Mark Ehle, Tippecanoe County GIS Administrator, invites anyone who brought a poster to the GIS Day event held in PMU earlier today to also bring that/those poster(s) to the county's celebration, to be held as specified below. Mark suggests taking the Wabash Trolley Line. See the city bus site if you want to plan your own route.

If anybody needs map/poster tubes let me know.

Also, if anyone wants their poster represented but cannot make it themselves, please get your poster to me and I can take it over the river on your behalf.

Tippecanoe County GIS Day
Thursday November 15th, 12:00 to 2:00pm
Tippecanoe Room
Tippecanoe County Office Building
20 North 3rd St.
There is pay parking in the garage west of the building, but the easiest way to get here from campus is the Wabash Trolley Line. We will have posters showing how GIS in the County has changed since it started 10 years ago.

Purdue's Engineering Island in Google Earth

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:18:22 -0500

Geomatics Associate Professor Jie Shan announced to the PurdueGIS ListServ that a new .kmz file for Purdue's Engineering Island has been released and is available here. It isn't clear right away if this is sourced from the same models produced (successfully) for Google's 3D Campus contest, but they look as good.

Seminar by ESRI's Matthew Bechdol on Campus Monday

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:28:03 -0500

There will be a seminar on Monday, November 26th, at 2:30 in Haas 101 by Matthew Bechdol of ESRI software.

Mr. Bechdol is a Federal Account Manager at ESRI (http://www.esri.com/) specifically focusing on USDA and AgroSecurity. The seminar is entitled: Geography. A Dead Language or Just Points on a Map? His talk will focus on the following issues: What is the role of geospatial technology today? How does it help us communicate, explore, and understand our world? The presentation will explore the use of geospatial science in agriculture, mainstream consumerism, the evolution of technology, and its role across campus.

A particular focus of Mr. Bechdol's talk will be on the role of GIS in responding to emerging and epidemic threats.

ADCi Invites You to Join a FREE Webinar

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:16:35 -0500

ADCi Invites You to Join a FREE Webinar

License NAVTEQ Map Data for Your Market with ADCi Wednesday, November 28, 11:00 Central Time

Whether your application requires a large or small geographic area of NAVTEQ data, American Digital Cartography, Inc. (ADCi) can help! ADCi can provide you with NAVTEQ data for single or multiple cities, counties, states, or even a portion of a state. Whatever your target area is, ADCi can customize NAVTEQ data for your application. ADCi delivers NAVTEQ data in all ESRI, MapInfo, and Oracle Spatial formats, in the projection and coordinate system you choose.

Participate in this webinar with ADCi President, Jim Reid, and learn how to:

-License only the NAVTEQ data you need and avoid unnecessary overhead -Minimize Costs -Increase Flexibility The webinar will include several success cases from key customers.

Click here to join the webinar on the day of the event or use the information ! found below.

Date: 11:00 AM Central; Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Presenter: Jim Reid, ADCi President Subject: License NAVTEQ Map Data for Your Market with ADCi Meeting URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/navteq/join Meeting ID: C28KX3 Meeting Key: ADCi Webinar Role: Attendee

This meeting will broadcast internet audio directly to your computer. Please ensure that you have Windows Media Player 9 or higher installed.

FIRST TIME USERS: To save time before the meeting, check your system to make sure it is compatible with Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

Position Announcement: Rural Conservation Coordinator

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:59:29 -0500

JOB POSTING http://www.tippecanoe.in.gov/egov/docs/1196107470483.htm

POSITION: Rural Conservation Coordinator

DEPARTMENT: Soil and Water Conservation District

SALARY: $1,172.33, semi-monthly

STARTING: To be arranged

ESSENTIAL DUTIES Provides technical and educational assistance to land owners/users regarding implementing resource conservation measures, including conservation tillage, conservation buffers, and public/private wildlife lands. Advises landowners and decision makers about seedbed preparation, species selection, seeding rates, herbicide application, and maintenance for conservation buffer and wildlife habitats plantings. Prepares United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other cost-share and program information. Utilizes Geographic Information System (GIS) to collect data and analyze resource conservation needs in County in assisting SWCD Board of Supervisors and the public in making science-based decisions about resource conservation issues. Coordinates warm season grass planting on private/public lands with district equipment, including scheduling equipment usage, calibrating drill, and instructing landowners on proper use. Maintains warm season grass supply inventory including ordering seeds from vendors. MORE- see ad.

JOB REQUIREMENTS: Baccalaureate degree in agronomy, forestry, natural resources, or combination of equivalent education and work experience. Working knowledge of USDA, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Indiana Department of Agriculture, and SWCD policies, procedures and legal requirements, with ability to provide technical assistance to the public. Working knowledge of agricultural, farming, and conservation related management practices. Working knowledge of standard English grammar, spelling and punctuation and ability to properly operate a variety of standard and/or Department office equipment and/or software programs, including computer, printer, fax machine, telephone, keyboard, copier, calculator, desktop publishing software, land surveying equipment, and photographic equipment. Working knowledge of GIS and ability to utilize related software and hardware to apply such knowledge to in creating and interpreting publishable quality maps. Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with co-workers, federal, state and local agencies/departments, land owners/users, developers and contractors, and the public, including being sensitive to professional ethics, gender, cultural diversities and disabilities. MORE - see ad.

Library Scholars Grant Program 2007-2008

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:44:08 -0400

To: Library Faculty at West Lafayette, Calumet, and North Central Campuses From: James L. Mullins, Dean of Libraries, West Lafayette Date: October 1, 2007 Subject: 2007-2008 Library Scholars Grant Program I'm pleased to call your attention to the enclosed information regarding the 2007-2008 Library Scholars Grant Program. Eligibility for the program includes not only untenured tenure-track Purdue faculty, but also Purdue associate professors tenured effective July 1, 2005 and later. This is applicable to Purdue library faculty as well as to those in other disciplines. In order to capitalize on and strengthen relationships between the libraries and faculty in other disciplines, the application process requires a letter of support from a Purdue librarian whom the applicant has consulted regarding the information needs and information-related activities reflected in the proposal. In the letter, the librarian should briefly state the reasons the applicant cannot meet the information needs by using Purdue collections and electronic information resources and, therefore, needs to travel to unique collections beyond Purdue. Applicants who are themselves library faculty members need not submit a letter of support from another Purdue librarian. Please familiarize yourself with the contents of the attached document so that you can advise potential applicants. Additionally, if you fall within the pool of eligible faculty, I encourage you to consider potential relevance of the program to your own scholarly information needs. "ENCLOSED" INFORMATION

Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET)

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:55:37 -0400

Repost from PurdueGIS Listserv

*quote from esri: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=15255

Summary*
Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET), also known as the GeoEco Python
package, is an open source programming library designed for coastal and
marine researchers and GIS analysts who work with spatially-explicit
ecological and oceanographic data in scientific or managerial workflows.
The initial MGET releases will focus on tools useful in habitat studies,
including tools for processing and sampling remotely-sensed
oceanographic data and mapping and filtering ARGOS satellite telemetry.
Subsequent releases will include more advanced tools presently under
development at Duke's Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory and elsewhere.

Although "Marine" is the first word in the title, many tools are not
specific to marine problems. You may find these tools useful in a
variety of situations.

KEY FEATURES

* Free, open-source software written mainly in Python, R and MATLAB

* Distributed as a self-installing setup program, for easy installation

* Each "tool" is a software subroutine designed to be invoked
programmatically

* For easy execution from many environments, each tool is exposed as a
geoprocessing tool, a method of a Python class, and a method of a
dual-interface COM class.

* Many tools have both single-input and multi-input (batch processing)
implementations

* All tools include full documentation, one version tailored to Python
programmers and another to ArcGIS users

* A verbose logging system eases troubleshooting of difficult failures

* All tools are written to maximize reliability, interoperability and
performance

* Many tools do not require Windows or ArcGIS; we hope to issue
non-Windows releases in the future

EXAMPLE GEOPROCESSING TOOLS

HDF SDS to ArcGIS Raster
Find and Copy ArcGIS Rasters
Swap Bytes of Binary Raster
Execute Database Command on ADO Connection
Extract Headers of HDFs Listed in Table
Execute Program
Find CoastWatch Images and Convert To ArcGIS Rasters
Create CoastWatch Mask as ArcGIS Raster
Find Cayula-Cornillon SST Fronts in CoastWatch Image
Sample ArcGIS Rasters Listed in Fields
Find Rasters and Execute Single Output Map Algebra
Evaluate R Statements

DOWNLOAD AND MORE INFORMATION

MGET is distributed as a self-installing executable, but it is too large
to upload here. Please visit the home page
http://code.env.duke.edu/projects/mget

RECENT VERSION HISTORY

20-Sep-07 - MGET 0.3. This is the first release to include tools for a
specific oceanographic data product, NOAA CoastWatch AVHRR SST. Tools
developed include those for converting CoastWatch data to ArcGIS, binary
and HDF formats, for masking clouds, and for identifying SST fronts
using the Cayula-Cornillon (1992) edge detection algorithm. The
Cayula-Cornillon algorithm can also operate on arbitrary SST data stored
in binary rasters or numpy arrays. In future releases, I will implement
customized versions for other common SST products....

GIS for Lunch (Today!)

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:45:25 -0400

A reminder that an informal brown bag lunch will be held today in BRNG 1248, from 11:00 am to 12:00 for anyone interested in the use of GIS or, more generally, geospatial information at Purdue. Some issues I'll be bringing follow, but everyone is welcome to bring unannounced (or announced) agenda items. GIS Day 2007 a potential map scanning/rectifying-on-demand project GeoInformatics course being co-developed by the Libraries and EAS slated for Spring 2007 If you can't make it today, stay tuned to this listserv or our RSS feed at http://www4.lib.purdue.edu/gis/rss.php for details about the next lunch.

Position Announcement: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:12:59 -0400

The Isotope Ratio Ecology and Hydrology (IREH, www.purdue.edu/eas/ireh) group in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department is soliciting applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to conduct research on the spatial and temporal distribution of stable isotope ratios in continental fresh water resources. The project will involve targeted sampling campaigns, database development, and statistical/geostatistical analysis and modeling of isotopic data. All members of the IREH group have access to state-of-the-art IRMS instrumentation through the Purdue Stable Isotope lab (www.purdue.edu/eas/psi) and opportunities to interact and collaborate with a wide range of scholars through the Atmosphere-Surface Interactions EAS focus group (www.purdue.edu/eas/asi/) and the campus-wide Purdue Climate Change Research Center (www.purdue.edu/climate/). A background in (bio)geochemistry, ecology, or hydrology, familiarity with stable isotopes, GIS and geostatistics, and a Ph.D. at the time of appointment are required. US citizenship is required. The position will be available on or about October 15, 2007 and will offer a generous salary and benefits. Applications will be reviewed beginning immediately and until the position is filled. To apply, please send a current CV and brief description of your research interests to Gabe Bowen. Purdue University is an Equal Access/Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Teaching with GIS Authors' Workshop

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:56:29 -0400

The GEODE Initiative at Northwestern University invites proposals from educators interested in contributing to a book of GIS activities for middle and high school. The book may include activities from across the curriculum, but we anticipate a primary focus on earth and environmental science, and geography. Prof. Bob Kolvoord, James Madison University, and Prof. Daniel Edelson, Northwestern University, will be serving as the editors for a book of exemplary, classroom-ready GIS activities for My World GIS, a powerful, full- featured GIS tool, that has been developed specifically for use in educational settings. My World combines the power of a professional GIS tool with the ease-of-use and ease-of-administration required for classroom use. Interested participants should complete the application available at http://www.geode.northwestern.edu/staff/Edelson/MyWorld_Applic2.doc or attached here. Each participant will be the author of one chapter consisting of teacher and student materials for a series of GIS- integrated classroom activities lasting from 3-10 class periods. All activities must be correlated to standards and use GIS to support meaningful inquiry. Authors are responsible for obtaining all required data, including the rights to distribute the data commercially as part of the book. The book will include a set of introductory activities to introduce students and teachers to the core functionality of GIS, so individual chapters will be able to assume a basic level of GIS literacy. The specifics of the introductory activities will be determined by the needs of the accepted chapters. The editors will be hosting an authors' workshop at Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL from Thurs. 29 Nov to Sun. 2 Dec. All travel expenses and accommodations will be paid. The agenda for this workshop will be designed to enable authors to complete the first draft of their chapter, so that the editorial process can begin immediately after. Therefore, all authors will be required to submit a complete outline for the activity and all the data that the activity will require prior to the workshop. Previous experience with My World GIS is not required. Technical assistance for My World will be provided by the GEODE Initiative prior to and during the workshop. We anticipate accepting approximately 15 chapter proposals. Chapters may be jointly authored, but there will be limited funding to support the expense of more than one author per chapter to attend the workshop. Upon acceptance of their proposal, authors will receive a free license to My World GIS for their personal use and for one classroom to serve as a field test site for their chapter. The workshop expenses are being supported by the National Science Foundation's program in Instructional Materials Development through the grant entitled "My World GIS: A Geographic Information System for Inquiry-Based Learning" to Northwestern University, Daniel Edelson, PI. Please contact Bob Kolvoord (kolvoora@jmu.edu) with any questions. Bob Kolvoord, Ph.D. Professor, Integrated Science and Technology and Educational Technologies James Madison University MSC 4102 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 +1 540/568-2752 (o) kolvoora@jmu.edu

GIS for Lunch

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:30:07 -0400

a series of informal brown bag lunches devoted to spreading and collecting news, information, tips, and issues surrounding GIS and spatial analysis on campus. These will be easy-going, come-and-leave-as-you-please lunch hour sessions, probably one per month, organized around a light agenda. Ideally, there will be a presentation each time by somebody who wants to draw attention to some developing project, technology, data source, story, or issue, but this probably won't be necessary every time. The first of these will be held in BRNG 1248 on Friday, October 12, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. Everyone is welcome, no matter what level of GIS user, spatial analyst, mashup-maker, or curious non-user you might be. The issues I'll be bringing to discuss include:

GIS Day 2007 (I won't ask you to help, just remind everyone they're welcome to submit content and mention some additional details about the event)

a potential map-scanning/rectifying-on-demand project

and a GeoInformatics course being co-developed by the Libraries and EAS slated for Spring 2007 Any other issues are welcome, of course, and you can either let me know about them or just show up with questions and issues. And your lunch.

Free NACIS Membership to Undergraduate Students

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:18:13 -0400

Posted to Maps-L Listserv: */Free NACIS Membership to Undergraduate Students/* NACIS will provide 10 free student memberships each year to undergraduate students. Any undergraduate student enrolled full-time in a 4-year, degree granting institution pursuing a degree in geography or related discipline qualifies. Applicants should submit a one-page letter of request, explaining how membership in NACIS will benefit educationally. Applications should include name, surface AND email address, the school attended, name of academic advisor and grade level (e.g., freshman, sophomore, etc.). A student may apply and receive this membership award no more than two times (e.g., in junior and senior year), but must apply for each year to be considered. Enclose with application a brief statement from one's advisor verifying qualification for this membership award. Signed applications are due October 1. Please submit your applications via surface mail to: Dick Gilbreath Director, Gyula Pauer Center for Cartography and GIS Department of Geography 1457 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027 Phone-office: (859) 257-4745 Fax: (859) 323-1969 e-mail: geg182@uky.edu

Prize-winning GIS at Purdue

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:04:20 -0400

Posted to the PurdueGIS-L Listserv: Congrats to FNR professor Richard Farnsworth and his graduate student C. Derya Ozgoc-Caglar for their prize-winning ($ 1000.00) GIS project. entry in ESRI's Best Practices in Science Modeling Challenge Details: < http://www.esri.com/industries/university/model_builder/index.html > Science Modeling Challenge 2007 2007 Challenge Winners *Second Place $1,000* *A ModelBuilder Application Selection Tool for Enrollment in Federal Conservation Programs <2007/application_selection_perdue.pdf>* --C. Derya Ozgoc-Caglar, Graduate Student, and Richard L. Farnsworth, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University

Indiana Water Flow Data

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:07:17 -0400

Posted to PurdueGIS-L Listerv: There is some very good news if you are interested in hydrologic modeling in Indiana. The daily mean discharges have been available over the web for several years, and so have the annual peak discharges. The big news today is that you can now obtain the instantaneous flow data, too. These data are in the form of instantaneous hourly discharges, or 15-minute discharges, or whatever time unit the data were recorded originally at each respective streamflow-gaging station. Folks can download the instantaneous flow data using the following USGS web site: http://ida.water.usgs.gov/ida/ The web site is fairly easy to use. When you go to that web page listed above, find the words "Geographic Area:" and select "Indiana" from the drop down list. That will give you a new drop down list of Indiana streamflow-gaging stations. Select the station you want, then click on "Go." That will send you to a page where you see the range of dates for which the instantaneous flow data are available. Enter the begin and end dates you are interested in, and select your output option, then click on "Retrieve Data." As for the output option, if you want to load the data into Excel later, I'd suggest you select "Save to file," which will provide you with the ever-popular tab-delimited text file. I'd encourage everyone who uses the newly available data to read the warnings provided with the output. It was a massive job to make the instantaneous flow data available, and hopefully folks will find the data very useful. But there are bound to be some imperfections here and there. The available data for most of the long-term Indiana stations begin about Oct. 1, 1987, and end on Sept. 30, 2006. There are no plans at this time to load up any data prior to Oct. 1, 1987 (that's the date the computers became conscious and took over the world). But we will load up the newer data as each water year becomes finalized. Even though the instantaneous flow data are now available over the web, the instantaneous gage-height data are not available over the web at this time. I'm not sure what the long-term plans are in that regard. Lots of data -- enjoy! Don Arvin Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey

GIS Day 2007 Call-Out

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:35:16 -0400

GIS Day 2007 is November 14 and The Libraries are planning a program to highlight applications of GIS at Purdue. The going idea is to hold a modest 1-2 hour poster session, then let that lead in to 1-2 hours of talks by Purdue researchers, students, and teachers. These talks can be project updates, state-of-GIS summaries, or next-big-thing/proof of concept demonstrations. We will entertain all ideas and at this point we're willing to expand or contract the event to accommodate. The fundamental idea for this year, though, is for the Purdue GIS community to inform itself about itself; to help foster a more transparent and obvious user community (successive years may have a more outward-facing agenda). I would like to hear from anybody who might be interested in contributing content for this event, likely to be held in Purdue Memorial Union on November 14. We welcome and encourage talks and posters from the realm of traditional GIS as well as innovative, even peculiar applications of spatial data display, visualization, or analysis. If anybody is interested in participating in a Purdue-centric celebration of GIS Day 2007, either by helping to orchestrate the event or, better still, contributing content in the form of topic ideas, posters, presentations and talks, or other, please contact me at ccmiller@purdue.edu or 765.496.9474 or ccmiller@meebo.org.

Land Change Modeler from Clark Labs

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:10:59 -0400

Courtesy of Gilbert Rochon, RCAC: Clark Labs at MIT announces the release of their "Land Change Modeler for ArcGIS," an extension that "offers an extensive suite of tools to assess and predict landcover change and determine the implications of change for ecological sustainability." More information available at http://www.clarklabs.org/buy/index.cfm

BusinessMAP 4.5 Arrives

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:31:54 -0400

The Libraries just received shipment of ESRI's BusinessMAP 4.5, a mapping/territory design/demographic analysis tool designed for businesses and business academics. BusinessMAP is part of our education site license, so if anybody is interested in installing the software on a Purdue machine, log into the Disc.Iso Server at http://www4.lib.purdue.edu/gis/isoServ/scResultSet.php?qBString=businessmap&Submit=Go and download an installer package. If you don't yet have a login to this area, feel free to email me at ccmiller@purdue.edu. More information about BusinessMAP is available at http://www.esri.com/software/busmap/ and ESRI's full brochure is available at http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/busmap4.pdf.

RSS Restored Question Mark

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:29:32 -0400

Apparently there have been some serious RSS problems here lately, having something to do with a script that runs to sync two different directories (test and live), but which was thereby overwriting all of the stuff that was contributed from elsewhere (that's everything this side of last April or so). This has been fixed and RSS and other site functionality should all be okay.

ArcGIS Not Working?

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:02:08 -0400

Today, 2007-07-06, the campus license server has been down most of the morning. Your computer is not broken. Upgrades are being performed in this license server machine and Bernie Engel and his crew are fully aware that the ESRI service will need to be restored by the time they finish. The best solution right now is to just wait for your ESRI products to start working again. Or maybe take this opportunity to become better-acquainted with some open source systems?

ArcGIS License Server Back Up

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:13:52 -0400

If you haven't re-tried to launch an ESRI app that speaks to the campus license server, go ahead. The upgrades are finished and license serving has been restored.

Replacement DEM Images from EarthData

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:48:28 -0400

Posted to PurdueGIS Listserv: Regarding the DEM files created from the 2005 orthophotography project. Some of the 60,000 original tiles had errors. EarthData just transferred 220 replacement DEM image tiles to IU. You can download the 52 MB DEM_delivery.zip archive from the following URL. https://www.slashtmp.iu.edu/public/download.php?FILE=aradue/1502yEnLGn The DEMs are all stateplane west. The replacement tiles affect selct tiles in counties : Newton Benton Warren Vermillion Fountain Montgomery Tippecanoe White Available here ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/abegis/indiana/dem/IGIC_DEM_DSM_05/replacements.zip is a zip archive of an index shapefile and jpg displaying the area. We still need to update the files on our massive data storage system and the ArcSDE services.

IGIC GIS and Engineering Workshop

ccmiller@purdue.edu — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:53:17 -0400

Posted to PurdueGIS Listserv: University Information Technology Services at Indiana University is forwarding this workshop information at the request of the Indiana Geographic Information Council. The Indiana Geographic Information Council is hosting a seminar titled 'GIS and Engineering' on Friday, October 19, 2007 from 1 to 3:30 pm. The seminar will help you learn how to negotiate between GIS and CAD tools and will provide integration tips, pitfalls to avoid, and real-world examples of projects using these techniques. Bill Kimbrell of Woolpert, and Scott Barbour and Larry Robbins of the City of Terre Haute Engineering Department will share these and other insights into how you can make the most of GIS for engineering related projects. This event will be held at the Indiana State Library, History Reference Room in Indianapolis, Indiana. This event is FREE for IGIC members and $20 for nonmembers. You can register online at http://www.igic.org/products/?view=sub_product&sid=99&cid=24&cid2=24. Many additional workshops and seminars hosted by the Indiana Geographic Information Council can be viewed at http://www.in.gov/igic/class/index.html.