Enabling the California geospatial community
The California Department of Water Resources is sponsoring two sessions of training on the National Hydrography Dataset editing tools, which will be taught by USGS. This training is essential for anyone who wishes to participate in NHD stewardship or become…
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Hello Everyone: The FY16/FY17 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) has been released. The BAA provides detailed information on how to partner with the USGS and other Federal agencies to acquire high-quality 3D Elevation data. A public webinar…
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Dear Colleagues, The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) continues to utilize the NOAA sponsored Seasketch: U.S. Federal Mapping Coordination – A Demonstration Site for Federal Mapping Data Acquisition Coordination) site for planning, coordinating partnerships, and tracking elevation data acquisition projects. The system supports…
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Passing along the locations of the Parcel service and information about the 5 meter elevation data that the State GIO’s office has put together. Parcels Here is that endpoint to the UCD-gathered parcel service: http://services.gis.ca.gov/arcgis/rest/services/Boundaries/UCD_Parcels/MapServer Download is here: http://maps.gis.ca.gov/downloads/data/OGIO_CAParcels.zip Elevation Here is…
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High-quality hydrographic data are critical to a broad range of government and private applications. Resource management, infrastructure planning, environmental monitoring, fisheries management, and disaster mitigation all depend on up-to-date, accurate, and high-quality hydrographic data. The U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program has begun a…
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The California Department of Water Resources and U.C. Davis will be hosting a conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems for Water Resources Management on September 22, 2015 at the U.C. Davis Conference Center. The summit focuses on applications of UAS technology…
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Passing this information along from Drew Decker of the USGS: USGS has now posted 2014 imagery for a portion of the southern California urban region. New imagery was collected in mid 2014 by USGS contractors for the built up areas around…
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Hello, Attached is the July 2015 U.S. Geological Survey National Hydrography Dataset Newsletter. You will find important information about the National Hydrography Requirements and Benefits study, the future of the NHD in South Carolina, NHD update quality control documentation upgrade, NHD conflation…
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At our recent California GIS Council meeting, Steve Goldman requested an endorsement by the Council of a statewide vegetation mapping program. I have attached the document that was presented (A Shared Vision for the Survey of California Vegetation) for council review….
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Attached is the April 2015 U.S. Geological Survey National Hydrography Dataset Newsletter (click here to view). You will find important information about planning hydrography for the year ahead, the Hydrography Seminar Series, conflation research, proposal to improve NHD stream classification, mapping Indiana’s…
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