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Dr. Brian LeeDepartment of Landscape Architecture
College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky
[email protected](859) 257-7205
Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change
Conference Report
Dr. Carol HanleyTracy Farmer Center for the Environment
College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, [email protected]
(859) 257-3780
Dr. Demetrio Zourarakis Division of Geographic Information
Commonwealth Office of TechnologyCommonwealth of Kentucky
Frankfort, [email protected]
(502) 564-2480
Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change:
Bridging the Geospatial Divide for Decision Making
May 20-21, 2008
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
BackgroundPlanning ProcessPeople Involved Advisory GroupConference Goal
ConferencePeople and RepresentationConference Progression
Listening SessionsFormat and Process
OutcomesListening SessionsKentucky Geospatial Strategic Plan
The Agenda
Planning ProcessTwo Years of PlanningDiscussionRevision**Solution Through Process**
People InvolvedCarol – TFCE Staff and StudentsDemetrio – Professional ContactsBrian – Undergraduate Students and Contacts
Advisory GroupSounding BoardWithin and Outside of StateCritical Early Direction
Conference PurposeA facilitated workshop on eliciting and providing elements useful in strengthening Kentucky’s geospatial vision with specific focus on remote sensing in the context of GIS and other geospatial technologies and sciences.
The Background
The Conference
People and Representation• 80 Participants from Nine States
• Research Scientists, Program Managers, End-Users
• Federal, State, Local Government Personnel
• Private and Nonprofit Sectors
• Academics and Students
Conference Progression• Demographics and Cultural Landscape Changes
• Technical Sessions – Variety of Topics
• Federal Initiatives for the States
• Neighboring State Reports
• Local Strategies for Investing in RS Technology
• Listening Sessions
Focus Group Topics1. Data Infrastructure and Distribution 2. Local Government3. Education4. Natural Resources Inventory and Assessment5. Other
Focus Group Structure 8-10 people per groupFacilitatorsFlip Charts~1.5 Hours of Discussion
Five QuestionsNext Slide
OutcomesBrainstormed Ideas through Group Discussion
The Listening Sessions
• In Kentucky or elsewhere, what has been done well regarding geospatial data, activities, and capabilities?
The Questions
• What data/sources do you use and why?
• Describe what the geospatial environment looks like in 5-10 years in terms of data, activities, and capabilities.
• What are the geospatial opportunities and constraints that should be addressed with the state’s geospatial strategic plan?
• What should we (collective we) be doing in terms of geospatial data, activities, and capabilities?
The Listening Session Highlights
•Systematically enhance existing geospatial data, capabilities, activities with explicit environmental and socioeconomic linkages.
•Expand environmental data collection activity that is compatible with global data.
•Construct a geospatially focused environmental monitoring network that is hierarchal and integrated with existing efforts and involves a diversity of partners for data integration, education, and end-user support.
•Metadata and quality standards/rating systems are critical as part of geospatial data collection and distribution activities, manual and automated ground-truthing, particularly in light of more publically volunteered geographic information.
•Enterprise geospatial data interfaces need to be expanded, recognizing a variety of data/modeling needs as well as end-user requirements/capabilities, and several sources of existing or announced satellite and airborne-based sensor data becoming freely available.
•Retrieval of historical geospatial data is essential in order to document landscape change is equally important.
The Listening Session Highlights
•Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for the Commonwealth is an important dataset to be developed while systematically updating the land cover, impervious cover, wetlands inventory, and land stewardship data as well.
•Promotion of geospatial data benefits of what has already been and what needs to be accomplished across the Commonwealth to elected government officials and the citizenry is critical. These geospatial data, capabilities, and activities should be explored and promoted for use in global climate change, landscape health surveillance, land-use planning/scenario modeling, education, economic/tourism development, and emergency response during disasters to name a few.
•The Commonwealth has many opportunities because of past and ongoing efforts in distributed organizations.
•Constraints identified included financial, political, organizational, technical, and leadership resources for the development of a geospatial strategic plan for Kentucky and subsequent implementation.
Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change
Acknowledgements
University of KentuckyOffice of the Vice President for Research
Conference and Workshop Award
Photographs by Demetrio
Dr. Brian LeeDepartment of Landscape Architecture
College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky
[email protected](859) 257-7205
Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change Report
Dr. Carol HanleyTracy Farmer Center for the Environment
College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, [email protected]
(859) 257-3780
Dr. Demetrio Zourarakis Division of Geographic Information
Commonwealth Office of TechnologyCommonwealth of Kentucky
Frankfort, [email protected]
(502) 564-2480