ASGIS User Group Meeting
10:00 am January 18th 2005
ASTCA Conference Room
Quickbird and IKONOS imagery tiles completed
The DOC GIS Division completed image subsets for the repositioned
Quickbird and IKONOS imagery for the Island of Tutuila. Imagery
can be downloaded from the DOC external drive or copied onto
a DVD for dissemination. The final version of the Quickbird
will be available once the metadata is received from Digital
Globe.
ASPA GRID update
ASPA is splitting the grids into East, West, and Central
portions. By the next meeting it is expected that the grids
will be finished.
DOC Buildings update
DOC GIS digitized all the buildings on Island using the 2001
IKONOS imagery. The buildings were validated based on ground
field data collected during the May 2004 Agricultural Census.
Attribute information recorded within the buildings layer
include map spot ID, Building Category (Church, Commercial,
Residential), Status (New, Destroyed), Comments, and Owner’s
Name (approximately 1 out of every 20 buildings).
SDI and Executive Order Working Group Meeting
The next SDI working group meeting will be this Friday (January
21st) at 10am. The venue is being confirmed.
ASGIS User Group Website updates
Since the last meeting a new link was created with pictures
from the 2004 GIS Day held in American Samoa on the 17th of
November.
Upcoming conferences
There are several conferences in the near future. Next week
member from DPW (Pete) and ASTCA (David) will attend the Pacific
GIS conference in Sacramento, California next week.
The Ocean Symposium will be held on Island May 24-26th and
Ocean Fest will be held May 27th. The Ocean Symposium will
be held at the Tradewinds. There will be several sessions
including topics on the Challenges & Issues of Watersheds,
Perspectives on Near Shore, Harbors & Impacts on Ocean
Areas, and Emerging Issues in Territorial, Regional &
High Seas Areas.
NOAA CSC is holding GeoTools 2005 March 7-10th at Myrtle
Beach in South Carolina. This will be an opportunity for viewing
GIS in many environmental applications. The website is: www.csc.noaa.gov/GeoTools/
Agency Updates
ASPA
Fa’afetai and the wastewater division are currently
working surveying man-holes and creating horizontal control
points for several of the HARN points.
ASCC
This past semester there were 2 students identified that
excelled in the GIS classes taught at ASCC that Land Grant
can tap for technical resources. The students include Neal
and Mokeni. David suggested that the student projects submitted
to the GIS class could be potential Land Grant Symposium topics.
DPW
The new Director has not been appointed yet and the programs
are in standby until the position is confirmed. There will
be a internal department training on the Palau training received.
DPW is going to launch a Land Planning Commission program
next month for the registration on private and government
land. Please see Pete for details.
ASTCA
ASTCA is continuing on the joint venture with DPW specifically
Phase III and Phase IV in which DPW collected data points
on ASTCA infrastructure. David has been working with the warehouse
and is currently documenting the outside network for utilities
in an effort to provide an agenda and outlines. Additionally,
David is currently working on a benchmarking program that
includes 4 ASTCA employees documenting ASTCA infrastructure
with photography and bringing the information into a database
that has multiple links within a JPEG image.
DOC
DOC GIS is still in the process of bringing the ArcIMS server
on Island. Eric Gilman will be on Island on the 2nd or 3rd
week of March to continue his research on Mangroves and Climate
Change. The STATS group within DOC will begin a housing survey
in the next few months for American Samoa. The DOC GIS division
is currently preparing maps for the survey. A new dataset
will be available soon on the Archaeological sites on Island.
The ASHPO database of approximately 700 data entries was converted
into a GIS data point layer. The new dataset will reside in
the Cultural directory of the Databank.
Land Grant
ASCC Land Grant will be working on an invasive plant species
map that will require hiking into the forest for validation.
Another project that LG is working on is a database for forest
stewardship clients. The database would include contact information,
size of field area and would be used for follow up for the
extension visits.
Next ASGIS User Group Meeting
mid February
Attended by:
ASPA - Fa’aetai Wells, Petelo Ioane
ASCC – David Kulburg
DPW – Pete Tuaolo
ASTCA – David Alaga
DOC – Troy Curry, Tali Tuinei
ASCC Land Grant – Eric Hansen
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