News, Events, and Announcements for the UD GIS community, Winter 2014

News, Events, and Announcements for the UD GIS community, Winter 2014

News

• The State of Delaware has launched its FirstMap enterprise GIS.  This should ultimately function as a replacement for the much-loved-but-retired Delaware DataMIL.  At the moment FirstMap is mostly useful for feature and image services, with downloadable vector layers still only available through the Delaware Geospatial Data Exchange.  Imagery Years available are:  1937, 1954, 1961, 1968, 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012.
• A Delaware geocoding service has been published on Maryland’s “iMap” geospatial data site.  This is the best geocoding service to use until we have a State of Delaware offering.
• The State of Delaware is seeking input on aerial imagery needs/feedback on collection specifications

 Collaborations, Publications, and Honors

• Delaware Geological Survey is taking advantage of the ArcGIS Online subscription to serve a tile service for mobile device data collection, in the field
• We’ve set up an ArcGIS Server 10.2 instance, running on a Centos VM, for use by Facilities and hosting legacy projects.  There may be opportunities for collaboration.  Facilities is using data created by the Delaware T2 Center/Civil Engineering students, using ArcPad.
• We’re working with Byungyun Yang (Geography) on setting up an ArcGIS Server instance for Geography.  There may be opportunities for collaboration.
• Cathy Geiger (Geography) and I developed an installation procedure for a software stack including Python, ArcPy, and various OSGeo4W components, including GDAL.  For more information, contact cgeiger@udel.edu
• Ongoing work on USDA “Lima Bean” grant.  Current stack includes: leaflet, msyql, and cake php
• The State of Delaware is looking for organizations interested in partnering on a LIDAR feature dataset (i.e., building footprints).

Software Updates

• We have released a new UDeploy which includes all UD-licensed software, including geospatial software, in one location
• ArcGIS (arcpy), and ENVI/IDL are now available on Farber, UD’s newest community compute cluster.
• ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 and ArcPro 1.0 are available for limited pre-release evaluation

Data Updates

• Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data is now on PolicyMap.  UD is a subscriber.

Events

• 1/14/15 10a-12p: Conference Call/Webinar, Pictometry will present specifications for aerial photography flights to be undertaken for purchase by State of Delaware
• 1/14/15, 2-3pm: Webinar, De-Mystifying the World of Certifications and Credentials for Geospatial Sciences, free with UD’s UCGIS Membership
• 1/15/14: Airbus, an Esri partner for Satellite imagery, will give a demonstration for timely imagery acquisition, DelDOT, 800 Bay Rd, Dover DE
• 1/21/14 10a-11:30a, UD (room TBA): Delaware Web Developers presentation on versioning workflows with git
• 1/23/15, 10am-1pm: Webinar HPC Python Training, Registration closes 4pm 1/19/15
• 1/29/15, UD IT UnConference
• 6/8-6/12/15: Summer Institute of Geospatial Technology, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
• 7/20-7/24/15: Esri International Users Conference, San Diego, CA

Past Events and Webinars

• ICPSR’s 2014 Data Fair took place in October.  Some of the more relevant presentations were
  • “Meeting Federal Data Sharing Requirements Now and into the Future“
  • “Disclosure Risk Training – For Public-Use or Not For Public Use, That Is the Question“
  • “Sharing Restricted-Use Data with the Public – Options for Deposit and Access from ICPSR“
• The recordings of presentations for OSGIS 2014 “Building up Open Access, Open Education and Open Data for Open Science”  are now available at https://lecturecapture.nottingham.ac.uk:8443/ess/portal/section/02fba582-968a-4437-b279-f9e76072e544

Other Opportunities

• The GITA Mid-Atlantic chapter is again awarding scholarships to deserving GIS and Geography students
• Call for Sessions/Abstracts by 1/16/15: 21st International Symposium on Society and Resource Management | 13-18 June 2015
  College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
• Call for Proposals: Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), Modification 7
• Call for Proposals: Department of Commerce, JCSDA – 2015 Research in Satellite Data Assimilation for Numerical Environmental Prediction Grant
• Do you need ArcGIS downloads or DVD’s for your students for Winter 2014 or Spring 2015?  Please let me know.
• Call for Papers: Spatial Cognition and Computation: Special Issue on Visually-Supported Spatial Reasoning with Uncertainty

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

• Lecturer, University of Maryland Department of Geographical Sciences, Center for Geospatial Information Science
• Water Resources/Planning Intern and Water/Wastewater Intern, MWH Americas, Sacremento, CA
• Project Coordinator (part-time)  Chester Ridley Crum Watersheds Association (CRC), Newtown Square, PA
• Research Associate Biology (limited contract) Dupont, Newark, DE
• Healthy Waters Program GLOBE Intern (Summer 2015 Intern, Deadline Jan 23 2015), The Nature Conservancy, Delaware
• Preceptor in Geospatial Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Deadline 2/28/15)

Recent UD GIS Blog posts and Tweets

• UD GIS ‏@UDelGIS  Excellent video that @ITatUD put out this fall … very helpful for running ArcGIS on Mac http://udcapture.udel.edu/misc/it-css/?t=0e42a91d94d236de0b9fe084dd8643e1

• Applying Patches on ArcGIS Server for Linux (as root)

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss