Broward County GIS Users Group
| From 2002 To 1997 |
| 2:30 p.m. |
| Government Center |
| 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Room 301 |
| Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| For more information on this forum contact: |
| Vicki Morrow (vmorrow@broward.org), Senior Planner - GIS Broward County GIS Users Group Coordinator |
FUTURE MEETINGS
2002 Meetings
| 1/29/2002 | Tom Murphy, Woolpert LLP, "Migration Issues in ArcGIS" |
| 2/27/2002 | Bonnie Brant, Florida International University, "Training: Geographic Information Systems Workshop Series" |
| 3/27/2002 | Goodliffe Nmekini, Miami-Dade County DERM, "Environmental GIS - DERM" |
| 4/24/2002 | Alexander Rodriguez, Florida Dept. of Transportation, "GIS Operations at the Florida DOT" |
| 5/29/2002 | Trimble GPS Demo, "GPS - Cutting Edge Technology" |
| 6/26/2002 | Thomas Moore, Broward County School Board, "Using GIS at the School Board" |
| 7/31/2002 | Blake Burns, EarthData, "Intelligent Base Maps" |
| 8/28/2002 | Robert Humple, Broward County GIS, "Broward GIS, State of the System" |
| 9/25/2002 | Raina Giddings, Oracle Corporation, "Oracle and GIS - Future Directions" |
| 10/30/2001 | James Cameron, South Florida Water Management District,"GIS at SFWMD" |
| 11/27/2001 | Josephine Rudd, Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, "Debris Management Planning Tools" |
| 12/25/2001 | No Meeting Scheduled. Happy Holidays! |
PAST MEETINGS
2001 Meetings
| 11/27/2001 | Gabriel F. Carballo, EarthData, GIS Project Manager, presented "How ArcIMS and ArcSDE Fit Into Today's Vision of an Enterprise IT/GIS Strategy," identifying the patterns of GIS technology converging into the IT mainstream and discussed how requirements imposed on current geographic servers will impact and support full enterprise-wide GIS implementations, including a look at the roles of ArcSDE and ArcIMS for the future. |
| 10/30/2001 | Ileana Cea, Senior GIS Analyst, Miami-Dade County Information Technology Dept., gave a fascinating overview of "GIS in Miami-Dade County," from the history and inception of GIS in Miami-Dade to future plans to complete the move to ArcGIS and internet access to GIS applications. Of particular interest was the way many of Miami-Dade's departments successfully integrate GIS in everyday government operations. |
| 9/25/2001 | Diana Umpierre, PBS&J, described the Turnpike Asset Management System (TAMS) project's challenges and successes. When completed, this project will provide a comprehensive inventory of the Turnpike's fixed assets, their condition, predicted time to renewal and replacement, and support budget development. |
| 8/28/2001 | Bob Hamilton,Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Dept., spoke about Mapping Exotic Vegetation in the Palm Beach County Park System. During the summer of 1999, the Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department undertook a project in coordination with Florida Atlantic University's Dept. of Geography to map and analyze all exotic vegetation within the County park system. Over the course of three months the project cataloged over 600 acres of invasive exotic species with the assistance of various remote sensing and GIS software packages. |
| 7/31/2001 | Vicki Morrow, Planning Services Division & Jill Young, Development Management Division, presented Broward County's Urban Tree Canopy Mapping Project. The presentation outlined the process used to map trees from aerial photography and discussed the challenges and the successes involved in this project. |
| 6/26/2001 | No meeting scheduled. ESRI International GIS Conference, San Diego,California. July 13-17 |
| 5/29/2001 | Steve Uhrick, Office of Environmental Services, demonstated OES's Water Sewer Facilities GIS Viewer, developed in-house to meet water and sewer management needs. |
| 05/9/2001 | SPECIAL MEETING: ArcPad Demo and RiverWalk Walking Field Trip |
| Rob Hoffman, ESRI,, demonstrated how ArcPad can be combined with GPS to simplify field data collection. Afterward, the entire group trouped to RiverWalk, taking turns using the ArcPad and gathering GPS points directly into ArcPad. | |
| 04/24/2001 | Imagery Worth a Thousand Words |
| Peter Gottfried, GIS Analyst,, demonstrated Space Imaging's one-meter resolution satellite imagery. Space Imaging launched the world's first one-meter resolution comercial imaging satellite, IKONOS, on September 24, 1999. According to Space Imaging, this type of data will lead the growth of a new global Earth information industry, which will use map-accurate and information-rich imagery to revolutionize the way people conduct business. | |
| 03/24/2001 | GIS: Gendered Information Systems |
| Regina Hagger, City of Boynton Beach GIS Coordinator,, led a discussion on the genderfication of GIS and its implications for the future. "Geographic Information Systems, Information Technology, the Internet, and e-commerce. These are the high-tech, cutting edge technologies of the new millenium. Consider that the spaces we live and work in are gendered - the gym, the country club, and the day care center. Professions are also gendered - nursing, social work, geography, engineering, teaching, professional sports, auto mechanics and information technology. We will explore the gender ratios of GIS jobs nation-wide, as well as in our own geographical area." (Regina Hagger) | |
| 02/27/2001 | Enterprise-Wide GIS 2001 and Beyond |
| David Holstock and Robin J. Hoban, Geographic Technologies Group, Inc., presented the seven critical steps that must be addressed in order to move GIS to the entire organization. GTG has studied more than 400 GIS implementations worldwide and shared examples of GIS Enterprise-wide examples from around the United States. | |
| 01/30/2001 | Loxhatchee Bioregional and Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie Greenways Strategies |
| Frank J. Conkling, President, Panda Consulting, presented GIS applications allowing for the interactive design and evaluation of conservation greenways through a 500,000 acre study area in Northern Palm Beach/Southern Martin County and within the former Joliet Arsenal Site, now called the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, utilizing vector and raster data models and sophisticated spatial modeling techniques. | |
| 12/26/2000 | No meeting. Happy Holidays! | |
| 11/28/2000 | Kissimmee River Restoration Project | |
| Chris Carlson, Senior Geographer, South Florida Water Management District, provided an overview of the data management strategy for the Kissimmee River restoration evaluation program and a status on application development to support access and use of restoration program data. | ||
| 10/31/2000 | No meeting scheduled. Users are encouraged to attend the South Florida GIS Expo held this year at the Deerfield Beach Hilton on October 5th & 6th. | |
| 9/26/2000 | GIS Information Policies | |
| Penny Anderson, of the Countywide GIS Coordination for Palm Beach County, presented Palm Beach County's GIS Information Policy, which is an innoviative plan to recoup some of the county's expenditures in the creation and maintenance of GIS data. | ||
| 8/29/2000 | Boca Raton's Enterprise-wide ArcView/MapObjects Casual User Interface | |
| Sean McGinn, GIS Coordinator for the City of Boca Raton, presented a demonstration of the Boca Raton's first enterprise-wide ArcView Casual User Interface and Intranet application, including the methodology behind serving applications through the internal network utilizing MapObjects IMS for general access and a custom ArcView project for the more demanding users. Applications include the integration of a cogo-entered parcel map, digital ortho photos, planametric data and databases including property assessed values, water consumption by parcel and crime statistics. Automated navigation tools, buffering of parcels for zoning variances, thematic mapping of assessment value change across years and water consumption will all be included in the demonstration. System architecture includes the integration of Oracle 8I, ESRI's SDE, ArcView, Map Objects IMS and statistical information from an IBM AS400 running HTE's land parcel management. | ||
| 7/25/2000 | Training, training, and more training... | |
| This month's meeting concentrated on available training opportunties in the
South Florida area. They range from online opportunties to full college
curriculums. Come and find your opportunity. Two of our guest speakers will
be: Scott Burton, Florida Atlantic University, presented the Distance On-Line Learning Initiative (DOLI) educational GIS/planning training program at FAU. Dr. John Harlan, FAU Boca campus, discussed the new certificate program at FAU's Dept. of Geography and Geology, an alternative to the department's semester-long GIS courses. | ||
| 6/27/2000 | No meeting scheduled. ESRI International GIS Conference, San Diego, California. | |
| 5/30/2000 | Project Impact Community Challenge Grant Program | |
| Glenn Margolis, Grants Coordinator discussed how Broward County was selected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the first Project Impact Community in September 1997. This designation recognized Broward's commitment to developing and implementing a local mitigation strategy, which identifies the community's vulnerability to various hazards prior to an impact and prescribes actions to minimize potential damages. In support of FEMA's program, ESRI developed the Project Impact Community Challenge Grant to foster and support the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology by communities as a tool for implementing disaster resistance. Broward County was one of four communities nationwide to be awarded this grant. | ||
| 4/25/2000 | CATS: Consequence Assessment Tool Set | |
| Paul Claussen, of SAIC demonstrated CATS, the Consequence Assessment
Tool Set. CATS is a GIS-based application for emergency planning and
response, based on ESRI's ArcView and Spatial Analyst products.
CATS provides a comprehensive package of natural and technological hazard prediction models, and casualty and damage assessment tools. It also accepts real-time weather data from local meteorological stations. CATS is supplied with over 150 databases and map layers. These include the location of resources to support response to specific hazards, infrastructure and facilities, a variety of population breakouts and much more. It also offers users the opportunity to add their own data bases for custom analysis. The CATS demonstration covered basic CATS functionality, use of CATS during a typical emergency event, addition of user-supplied data, and dealing with UTM and state plane projections. | ||
| 3/28/2000 | Urban Landuse Allocation Model and GIS | |
| Mike Brown, President of Transportation Planning Services, demonstrated the land use visualization component of ULAM. This ArcView project is designed to assist in developing and editing input data sets required by the model. A number of templates are available to compare and evaluate the results of the allocation process. Future templates are being developed for specific land use planning applications, like evaluating concurrency restrictions. | ||
| 2/29/2000 | Map Server Internet Applications | |
| Bob Humple, Broward County, Department of Planning and Environmental Protection, Environmental Monitoring Division, will demonstrate the capabilities of Map Objects and Internet Mapping, presenting applications highlighting flood zones, well-field protection zones, and contaminated site locations via the Web. | ||
| 1/25/2000 | County-Wide Surface Water Management GIS | |
| Francis Henderson, Water Resources Manager, Broward County OES Water Management Division, will be demonstrating the County's Water Surface Management GIS application to manage the surface water of more than 25 water control districts and municipalities. This application was developed to maximize and protect the beneficial uses of the water resources of Broward County through a countywide integrated water resources plan. This application came about as a cooperative effort between the Broward County Department of Planning and Environmental Protection (DPEP) and the Office of Environmental Services Water Management Division, and South Florida Water Management District. | ||
| 12/28/1999 | No meeting. Happy Holidays! |
| 11/30/1999 | Jeremy Conner, 3001, presented a LIDAR demonstration. |
| 10/26/1999 | No meeting scheduled. South Florida GIS Expo at Sugar Sand Park, Boca Raton, Florida. |
| 9/28/1999 | John McHenry, presented information on Census 2000. |
| 8/31/1999 | Bill Payne, Broward County Engineering Division, presented base map construction with surveying data and GPS. |
| 7/27/1999 | No meeting scheduled. ESRI International GIS Conference, San Diego, California. |
| 6/29/1999 | Trevor Feagin, GIS Specialist for the city of Tamarac, presented the GIS development for the utility structure for Tamarac, FL. Additional speaker was John Marchetti, Acting GIS Director for ADR, Inc, who developed Tamarac's database design for the utility thematic layers. |
| 5/25/1999 | Scott Burton, Florida Atlantic University, discussed GIS training at FAU. |
| 4/27/1999 | Judy Sarver, Director of Public Information/Graphics Public Communications Office, Lina Kulilowski, Transportation Division presented how to put your maps on the internet. |
| 3/30/1999 | Scott Burton,Florida Atlantic University, presented an update on the City of Fort Lauderdale's GIS Plan. |
| 2/23/1999 | GIS EXPO 1998 Committee members presented plans for this year's EXPO and invited all interested parties to participate. The committee provided free pizza to all guests. |
| 1/26/1999 | Organizational meeting to plan strategy for 1999 meetings. Guest speaker, Scott Burton, Florida Atlantic University, handed out a GIS survey and talked about plans for a new South Florida Regional GIS Users Group. |
| 12/29/1998 | No meeting. Happy Holidays! |
| 11/24/1998 | Soon to be updated. |
| 10/27/1998 | A Multitude of Topics: Municipal GIS Users Group (Trevor Feagin, City of Tamarac GIS Specialist), GIS EXPO participation (David Becker, Planning Information Technology Division), GIS Certification at Broward Community College (Fran Henderson, Office of Environmental Services GIS Manager). |
| 9/29/1998 | Work and Gain Economic Self-Sufficiency (WAGES) GIS Applications. Vicki Morrow and Jill Young. |
| 8/25/1998 | Digital Ortho Quad Photography. Dr. Charles Roberts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus. |
| 7/28/1998 | Soon to be updated. |
| 6/30/1998 | No meeting due to ESRI Conference. |
| 5/26/1998 | GIS Applications in Emergency Management. Ed Biggs, Senior Geographer, Emergency Management Division of South Florida Water Management District, presented the Emergency Management Atlas for Broward County. |
| 4/28/1998 | Hurricane Evacuation and Assessment GIS (HEAGIS). Jill Young, Comprehensive and Neighborhood Planning Division. |
| 3/31/1998 | Soon to be updated. |
| 2/24/1998 | Setting up a GIS EXPO. Penny L. Anderson, Countywide GIS Coordination for Palm Beach County, Christine Benkly, GIS Project Management Team Leader (Palm Beach County), and Ann Skakandy, Chair, Countywide GIS Forum (Palm Beach County). |
| 1/27/1998 | Soon to be updated. |
| 12/30/1997 | No meeting. Happy Holidays! |
| 11/25/1997 | Programming ArcView for Use by Managers. (John Horne, Office of Environmental Services, gave an overview of simplifying ArcView for use by management for simple mapping. |
| 10/28/1997 | Scott Burton, Florida Atlantic University, discussed the obstacles overcome in the Fort Lauderdale base map creation. |
| 9/30/1997 | Field Trip to the Broward County 911-Emergency System. Capt. Paul Luria and Commander John Seamans explained an overview of the 911 system. Richard Fletcher, Planning Information Technology Division, presented the creation and use of the 911-Emergency Database. Lynn Molitor gave a tour of the 911 Emergency Facilities. |
| 8/26/1997 | Using TINs. Fran Henderson, Office of Environmental Services, demonstrated using TINs to map beach erosion, elevation and ground water mapping. |
| 8/15/1997 | Field Trip to the Broward County Emergency Operations Center. |
| 7/29/1997 | Michael Rose, South Florida Water Management District, demonstrated and discussed the planning of the new SFWMD Existing Land Use Database. |
| 6/30/1997 | V-Sat Van. Jesse Day, PBS&J, showed how his company uses GPS mounted in a van to take coordinates of facilities, such as signs, signals, etc. |
| 6/3/1997 | GIS Career Track in Broward County. Phil Rosenberg, Director of Human Resources, will give a status report on the GIS career track. |
| 4/29/1997 | Accessing GIS coverages via the Internet. Hot GIS Websites. Fran Henderson, Office of Environmental Services. |
| 3/25/1997 | GIS Syndromes: a quasi-humorous look at the pitfalls of GIS. Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw, Florida Atlantic University. |
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