Brookhaven National Lab in Berkner Hall (Bldg 488)

Special Note: Please bring ID as you must sign in at the front gate and get a visitors pass.

Agenda

9:00 – 9:45

Registration and Networking – Please sign in.

9:45 – 10:00

Introduction And Opening Remarks – Michael Naughton, LIGIS Chairperson 

10:00 – 10:30

“The State of NYSGIS and FEMA Data Sharing Possibilities”

Presented by: Alan Leidner, NYSGIS 

 10:30 – 11:30

“Here We Go Again”

This presentation describes yet another disaster cleanup where GIS took center stage.

This presentation will discuss how using GIS/GPS Technology allowed the Town of Huntington to manage the clean-up and data management for Superstorm Sandy. The Town expects to have successful submissions to FEMA that will recover reimbursable expenses exceeding $30 million. In the process of data collection over 250GB of data was collected. This includes digital photographs and scanned paperwork etc. Innovative ideas were used and will be explained.

Post event I was talking to George Davis and he introduced me to the folks at Latitude Geographics. They figured out how to create a configurable software platform, Geocortex, that manages ArcGIS workflow and creates multiplatform applications.

Presented by: Michael Naughton, Supervisor – Town of Huntington Highway Department

11:30 – 12:30

Geocortex Essentials Supporting Disaster Response and Recovery

The Highway Department at Town of Huntington, like many other east coast agencies, faced considerable challenges in responding to and recovering from Hurricane Sandy.

Based on Michael’s experience, this informative session will highlight the important role of GIS in supporting disaster response and recovery for all involved, whether they are directing the disaster response or documenting the recovery effort to support FEMA reimbursement.

This informative presentation will describe a more efficient way of quickly deploying cross-platform web mapping applications, and will provide a look at a GIS web-mapping implementation highlighting data and learning’s from Michael’s Sandy response and recovery efforts.  This application provides desktop and mobile web mapping and workflows across technology platforms, including desktop computer, tablet and mobile phones, regardless of their operating systems.

A QR code is available here for you to preview the Sandy Geocortex response application and prepare your questions for an interactive session.

Handheld QR Code

Tablet QR Code

Presented by: George Davis, Public Safety Analyst – Latitude Geographics and  Duncan Selwood, Account Manager – Latitude Geographics

 12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

 1:30 – 2:15

ESRI talks about ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Desktop

Abstract to follow shortly

Wrap-Up

Here is the information for vendors wishing to display:

Brookhaven National Laboratory Product Demonstration Guidelines 

The following procedures and information is for Vendors Inquiring about demonstration space at Brookhaven National Laboratory:

• Reservations for Vendor space in Berkner Hall-Building 488 is done through the conference office by:

Ruth Comas

P.O. Box 5000, Building 488

Upton, NY 11973

Phone 344-3545 fax 344-2069 cell phone 828-9502

Email comas@bnl.gov

• Two eight foot tables with cloths will be provided
• The demonstration Fee is $172.10; additional tables are $24.50 each. Payments should be made out to BSA and must be received prior to vendor demonstrations or on the day of the event. If pre-mailing a payment send payment to the attention of Ruth Comas at the above address. Limited Packages may be shipped ahead of time with prior approval. Storage of large boxes is not available.
• The vendor must provide all supplies required for the demonstrations i.e. power cords and other necessary supplies. All brochures and debris are to be removed at the conclusion of the demonstration.
• Vendors may set up from 9am till 11 am. Traffic is heaviest from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm.
• All demonstrators need Photo ID to gain access on site. Please email Ruth Comas with the demonstrators’ names and security will be notified. Visitors who are not US Citizens may not be able to enter the site.
• A Small banner may be hung up in the lobby area during the product demonstration.

Hello and Happy New Year. Some of you may not know that I was recently elected President of the NYS GIS Association. This email is to simply say hi and to encourage you to consider becoming more active in your State’s organization. I would also very much like it if you could encourage your GIS colleagues in your county, city and regional organizations to also become State Association members. You can read about my approach on the NYS GIS Website at:

http://www.nysgis.net/about/pres_message/

I’d also like to mention some new and ongoing activities that might be of interest to you:

1) Dale Morris of Erie and Niagara County is Chair of the Regional Committee. With the support of Julie Tolar, Association President elect, Dale is pushing to better identify GIS organizations of all kinds across the state with the intention of more closely working with and supporting them.

2) Professional Development: Rich Quodomine, PD Chair, is organizing technical training sessions and a series of information exchanges, all free to members. Rich is looking to partner with local GIS groups. For example, working with Steve Pollackov, we will be making the January 18 th NYC ArcUsers meeting and Census presentation by Steve Romalewski, available to State Association members via webinar.

3) Conferences: The Association recently held a spectacular GeoSpatial Summit in Skaneateles, N.Y. which featured Dr. Roger Tomlinson, the “Father of GIS” helping us celebrate the 50 th anniversary of our profession. http://www.nysgis.net/activities/geospatial-summit/ Past President Bruce Oswald, Verne LeClair, and Conference Committee, are now working on our next conference scheduled for Fall, 2013, to be held in the Albany area. It promises to be the best one yet. We will be looking to make it as easy as possible for Downstate GIS’ers to attend.

4) Website: Our web presence continues to grow and Communications Chair Carol Zollweg and her team are doing a great job making the site more feature rich and interactive. You should visit regularly. http://www.nysgis.net/ In time I’m hoping you will become regular website contributors.

5) Our Education Chairs Ann Deakin and Amy Work are developing an inventory of all GIS academics in the State. They are also developing a program to make ESRI software available at no cost to K-12 teachers.

I am defining the Downstate Area as comprised of Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties and New York City. I have pledged to work towards making sure this, the most populous part of NYS, is fully engaged in the Association. I encourage you to distribute this email through your networks and to urge the people you know to become Association members. All it takes is a quick visit to the website and a brief transaction with PayPal to pay the $10 dues. A ROI analysis, developed by Mike Zoltek, Marketing Chair, shows that members are likely to realize benefits more than 40x the cost of their dues. -http://www.nysgis.net/member-area/value-of-membership/

Please let me know if I have missed any key Downstate GIS leaders or organizations. Also tell me whether someone else in your County is more appropriate to contact than yourself. (I am a little unsure of the GIS leadership structure in Suffolk County.) And please send me any thoughts you have about how the NYS GIS Association can be a better friend, ally, and collaborator. As Superstorm Sandy taught us: GIS works best when we are networked together and supporting each other. I’m hoping you agree that being part of the State GIS Association can help make that possible.

My best regards, Alan

President, NYS GIS Association

We needed an easy way to get information to our residents and we needed this information to be publicly available. We had an url registered from years ago so we put it to use.

We set up http://tohhighway.com with storm debris information and most importantly a map showing where we have cleaned up already.

We advertised the site by email and local press.

The feature class is edited every other day in ArcGIS 10.1 and then directly uploaded to ArcGIS Online. We print paper maps for each foreman and have them highlight what they have done the previous two days (paper maps don’t need to be recharged and they do not break when dropped and no training is required to use them). We get these paper maps back from the field and update the map.

ESRI has donated the services as they do whenever there is a disaster. ESRI also provided technical support that was needed to get everything up and running smoothly.

Submitted by:

Michael Naughton

Town of Huntington Highway Department

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This is to invite you to a LIGIS sponsored Webinar set for Thursday, July 26^th between 10:00am and 11:15am. The main speaker at the Webinar will be Alan Leidner who currently works for the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Infrastructure Protection. Alan works out of New York City and prior to his Federal service had been the GIS Director of New York City.

Alan would like to use the Webinar to introduce the LIGIS community to Federal tools, data and applications including:

• The Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) portal that enables map and document sharing, and networking across Federal, State, Local and Private organizations during steady state conditions and emergency events.
• The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) site: Provides information about Federal GIS resources and events.
• Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection (HSIP) Freedom and Gold: Compilations of hundreds of infrastructure related national data sets that includes information about Nassau and Suffolk counties.
• The DHS Geospatial Information Infrastructure OneView Application: A viewer providing on line access to infrastructure data, live weather feeds and other geo-enabled information. (Live demo if possible)

Access to the Webinar:

• By 10:00am on July 26th, link to http://connect.hsin.gov/ligis/ . No password or credentials are necessary. To enter as a guest, just type in your name when prompted.
• To ensure your computer setup is compatible with Webinar requirements please visit the follow site at least one day before the webinar: https://connect.hsin.gov/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Access to the Conference Call:

• Between 9:55am and 10:00am dial 1-800-320-4330, Conference Pin: 215132#

Contact:

If you are interested please let LIGIS Chairperson Michael Naughton know at mnrover@gmail.com. Please include your name, employer and title. If you know of anyone else who may be interested please let them know. You can use the social media buttons below to accomplish this if you want.

Here is the link with more information about the webinar and to register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/382097478

The extension has been made highly compatible and should work with any ArcMap 9.x and 10.x.

This is what they have so far:
- maps and layers can be created and afterwards updated
- you can choose which layers to export
- your upload is secure through an SSL connection
- all your vector data can be uploaded, regardless of the datasource
- unique value categories and graduated color symbology supported
- labels – these end up with a generic look only in GIS Cloud for now
- point layer symbology support almost at 100%
- simple line symbols – only solid lines
- simple fill symbols – only single color fills

Check here for the blog post about this release: http://www.giscloud.com/blog/release-of-gis-cloud-publisher-extension-for-arcmap/

The extension is free or charge and can be downloaded from here:
http://www.giscloud.com/download/giscloud-publisher-for-arcmap-setup.exe

Mark Yedlin, Director of Simulation Modeling Services for Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. gave a presentation on Traffic Modeling in lower Manhattan. This presentation was very interesting because of the vast amounts of data that was captured and how it was then massaged into a usable format. The main focus was on getting New York City busses through the financial district in a more expedient manner. The model included bike traffic, pedestrian traffic, car and truck traffic, traffic signalling etc.

Bill Timmins from GIS Services spoke about the digital pen and other devices. The Capturex Digital Pen looked interesting. It uses a dot matrix that is printed on the paper to figure out where it is. This tool has many useful applications that he showed us in his presentation. Bill explained how he has extensive experience dealing with clients in municipal environments.

Michael Naughton from the Town of Huntington Highway Department spoke about how his department used GIS/GPS technology to manage resources during Tropical Storm Irene.

The event kicked of at 9:45am and ended at around 3pm. There were over 50 people in attendance and they warmly welcomed each speaker. There were vendors from various companies in the hall showing GIS/GPS tools and software.