Minutes from ASGIS User Group Meeting
December 16, 2003
NOAA PSC GIS Assistantship update and introduction
to PITA candidate Laurie Williams
Laurie is visiting for an onsite interview/briefing this
week. She will meet with several agencies including ASCC,
ASPA, FBNMS, NPS, and DOI. The timeframe for new Assistantship
includes a training in Hawaii January 12th – 16th at
PSC and start date on Island of January 19th.
Update for DMWR GIS Specialist Francesca Riolo
The expectant start date for the DMWR hire is mid-February.
Survey in American Samoa
Nancy announced that there will be a NOAA fisheries research
team visiting on Island in the next few months. The focus
will be to use a multi-beam instrument to map along the coastal
areas of Tutuila and Manu'a. She requested a priority list
of areas to be surveyed in the water.
Gary Chock visit summary and outcome
Gary Chock is a structural engineer that visited October
13-17th. He is part of a team trying to create SDART (Storm
Damage Assessment and Reporting Tool) for American Samoa.
SDART will specifically look at wind damage and potential
of structures vulnerability to damage. Several meetings and
site visits occurred during the week, and many agencies made
resources available to Gary. The site visits and meetings
aided Gary in the development of a predicted damage curve
for residential structures on Tutuila. A formal write-up is
to be submitted by Gary before the end of the year to NOAA
PSC. Other products are a buildings layer that was created
for Gary’s visit. The buildings layer is based on 2001
IKONOS imagery and was heads-up digitized. An In-brief and
out-brief are available through contacting Troy.
Palau Community College briefing and screening summary
(Kelly Raleigh and Gary Yee of SSFM)
The briefing was held last Monday at the DOC conference room.
15 people from various agencies were in attendance. Power
points are available obtained from on GIS, Benchmarking, and
the training program. 32 people screened for the training
program during the week at the ASCC Information Technology
computer lab. The next step will be to select 20 in the screening
group for Word, Access, Excel, and relational DB course to
be taught in March/April. Of the 20 people, 5 will be selected
for a trip to Palau in August/September to attend GIS training.
Quickbird satellite imagery acquisition status
Received word from Lisa Fischer (Levien). The request for
the acquisition of data was received. Data collection runs
into next year (2004) for optimum mosaic. The company will
contact when cloud free imagery has been successfully collected.
FEMA FIRM Revision maps
There was a meeting on November 1-3 on the topic of FIRM
Revisions for American Samoa. There were representatives from
FEMA and US Army Corps of Engineers and several departments
within ASG. The representative from USACE gave a summary on
“Huricane-Induced Stage-Frequency Relationships for
the Territory of American Samoa. The FIRMS will be available
for puplic review in ~5 months. Map review: Vicki and Troy
found 1255 structures will be moved to zone VE; 1535 structures
moved to AE. Change could significantly affect community in
process of flood insurance/loan/lean.
New GIS data available through DOC FTP (ftp://doc.asg.as)
New data for Tutuila: Critical Facilities, Critical Facilities
and Churches; gas location; landslide points; landslide risk;
LBJ Hospital; and Pump stations. The data should go in the
Infrastructure directory within the Databank.
Future ASGIS user group meeting
Ron Salz a GIS/GPS specialist of US Fish and Wildlife Service
in Honolulu contacted DOC about work they will be doing in
early March (3/3/03-3/9/03) and wanted to have a ASGIS user
group meeting during the time of their visit.
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