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VGIN Advisory Board Meeting

Dan WidnerVGIN Coordinator

VGIN Advisory BoardJuly 7, 2010

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VGIN Advisory Board• Call to Order • Review and approval of previous meeting

minutes

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Application Demonstration Dominion Virginia Power

• Streetlight Outage Reporting Application• Jurisdictional Outage Viewer

– Joe Curtin and Charles Harris, Dominion

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GIS Strategic Planning Update• GIS Education Workgroup

– Dr. James Wilson, James Madison University

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GIS Strategic Planning Update• Elevation Framework Initiative Action

Team– Dan Widner

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Elevation FIATFour subgroups being formed• Inventory

– Conduct an inventory of existing elevation and LiDAR in Virginia

• Standards– Recommend  standards for LiDAR for various purposes

• Best practices– Recommend best practices for procurement, post-processing,

development of secondary products, and the use of elevation data.

• Education/Communication– Develop a communication plan or other methods to convey the

meaning to a larger lay audience (in conjunction with Education FIAT)

Will begin working in July

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660 mi2

$152K

1,617 mi2

$450K

956 mi2

$550K

3,233 mi2

$1,102K

AccomackNorthamptonGloucesterLancasterMathewsMiddlesexNorthumberlandIsle of WightJames CityKing & QueenSuffolk SurryWilliamsburg

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Status of Current Lidar Projects• VGIN-UVA-TNC Eastern Shore: flight complete,

preliminary data delivered last week (USGS standard)

• VGIN-USGS-ARRA: flight complete, pilot area deliverable is of high quality (USGS standard)

• Blacksburg (Sanborn contract): FEMA-compliant 1.4m, delivered, QA underway

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ARRA Project

Pilot deliverableWilliamsburg area

elevation

classification

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Blacksburg(Sanborn Contract)

Elevation blended with return intensity

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Blacksburg(Sanborn Contract)

3D View of elevation blended with return intensity

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GIS Strategic Planning Update• GIS Clearinghouse

– Dan Widner

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Coordinator’s Report• Summary

– Dan Widner

• Questions or comments on July Coordinator’s Report – VGIN Advisory Board

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Planning for 2011 FlightInformation Sessions – Abingdon, Roanoke, Staunton, Winchester, RichmondJuly 27-29, August 4

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VGIN Advisory Board• New Business

– VGIN Advisory Board

• Open Discussion – Audience

• Conclusion

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