What Services does the GIS/RS Team Provide? |
The GIS/RS Team provides services in the fields of geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), the processing of aerial photography and satellite imagery, relational database management systems (RSBMS), and metadata.
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The GIS/RS Team’s Digital Data Entry Facility: |
The GIS/RS Team designs and develops GIS databases using manual drafting, table and on-screen digitizing, scanning, data conversion from other GIS and non-GIS sources, GPS, and satellite and aerial imagery.
The GIS/RS Team scans geo-documents using the
GraphTec CS2000 600 dpi true optical scanner. Documents
up to one meter wide and 16 meters long can be
scanned in bi-level, 256 shades grayscale, 8-bit
color, and 24-bit color. The GIS/RS Team can also
arrange for scanning larger documents.
The staff of the Digital Data Entry Facility possess
extensive skills in scanning, ArcScan software,
table and on-screen digitizing,
ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, and OrthoMapper. Staff
have field experience and educational degrees in
Anthropology,
Archaeology, Environmental Science, Geology,
Geospatial Science, Operations Research, and Rangeland
Ecology.
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Specific experience with projects in geology and natural resources:
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- Database development, digitizing and QC:
Bougier gravity anomaly maps.
- Digitizing and QC: Quaternary Geologic Atlas
project.
- Digitizing and QC: National Cooperative
Mapping project.
- Digitizing and QC: USFS Western states pest
maps.
- Digitizing and QC: Canyon de Chelly National
Park (ongoing).
- Digitizing and QC: Mount Rushmore geologic
map.
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Complementary experience:
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- Digitizing and QC: Vector Smart Map Level 1 (VMAP) for the
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA),
now the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency (NGA).
- Digitizing and QC: Country maps for the National Imagery and
Mapping Agency (NIMA), now the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
- Database development: Holmes County, Ohio cadastral maps.
- Database development, digitizing and QC:
Wayne County, Ohio cadastral
maps.
- Database development, digitizing and QC:
Boulder, Colorado easement maps.
- Digitizing and QC: Larimer County, Colorado
cadastral maps.
- Digitizing and QC: Jefferson County, Colorado
cadastral maps.
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The GIS/RS Team designs and produces quality
control check maps, field maps, presentation
maps, publication quality maps, and poster products
on
a variety of papers and mylar. The HP 5000
Post Script Plotter utilizes various type of paper
up
to 60” wide with unlimited length (software
dependent), and can produce photographic quality
products.
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How are Work Requests Processed? |
The Team will prepare an estimate after receiving
a briefing on the project. Contact Bob Waltermire,
Leader, GIS and Remote Sensing Team:
Bob Waltermire, Leader – GIS and Remote
Sensing Team
Fort Collins Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
2150 Centre Avenue, Building C
Fort Collins, Colorado 80526-8118
Telephone: 970-226-9344
Email: bob_waltermire@usgs.gov
FAX: 970-226-9230
Internet: http://www.fort.usgs.gov
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Who is on the GIS/RS Team? |
Bob Waltermire, GIS/RS Team Leader - Federal
GIS projects/modeling, technical support, training.
Contact for non-standard data.
GPS purchases, data acquisition, training, equipment
loans, processing.
Image purchasing and processing (ERDAS Imagine) for
satellite and aerial sources.
Lucy Burris – Johnson
Controls Inc.
Scanning, table and on-screen digitizing, and orthophoto
production.
Tammy Fancher - Federal
GIS projects, technical support, training.
Digital Data Entry Facility manager.
Publication quality maps using Adobe Illustrator
and ArcMap.
Terry Giles – Johnson
Controls Inc.
Digital Data Entry Facility supervisor.
Metadata development and NBII metadata quality
control, training.
GIS projects, technical support, training.
Microsoft Access database design, development, user
support, programming.
Kathryn
Holland – Johnson Controls Inc.
Metadata development and NBII metadata quality
control.
Surveying with Total Station and Trimble 5800 survey
grade GPS.
Hannah Moyer – Johnson
Controls Inc.
Scanning, table and on-screen digitizing, and orthophoto
production.
Lindsay
Ogden – Johnson Controls Inc.
Photo-interpreter.
Botanist.
GIS projects.
Diane Schneider - Federal
GIS projects, technical support, training.
FORT Metadata Coordinator and NBII liaison.
SQL and Microsoft Access database design, development,
user support, programming.
Publication quality maps using Adobe Illustrator
and ArcMap.
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Primary Software Used by the
GIS/RS Team: |
Database:
Microsoft Access.
SQL.
GIS:
ArcGIS 9.0, ArcView 3.2, ArcView 3.3,
and extensions.
Imagery:
ERDAS Imagine 8.7.
OrthoMapper Version 3.18, August 28, 2004
Metadata:
Spatial Metadata Management Software
(SMMS) 3.2.
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Primary Hardware Used by the
GIS/RS Team: |
Cartographic Equipment:
Bausch & Lomb binocular
stereo scopes (2).
Scanner:
GraphTec CS2000 600 dpi true optical scanner
for documents up to one-meter wide and 16-meters
long. Bi-level, 256 shades grayscale, 8-bit color,
and 24-bit color.
Digitizing Tablets:
Altek ACT 34-3 backlighted
tablets (2) with ±0.003” accuracy.
Altek ACT 34-2 backlighted tablet (2) with ±0.005” accuracy.
Plotter:
HP 5000 Post Script, up to 60” wide
paper/mylar, unlimited length (software dependent).
Photographic paper available for photographic quality plots.
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