Recently at the HIGICC meeting, USDA (GEO Branch) made a presentation on a new upcoming Hawaiian Islands ImageServer Service.  I just want to announce that USDA (GEO) has went live with a new Hawaiian Island’s ImageServer Service on 5/11/2021.  Yesterday, I asked USGS, Census, State of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii-Hilo to test the new USDA (GEO) service.  All tested the service successfully. 

The following are links to the new service:

Hawaii Public Image Service:https://nrcsgeoservices.sc.egov.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services/ortho_imagery/hawaii_vivid/ImageServer

Hawaii Public Metadata Service: https://nrcsgeoservices.sc.egov.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services/ortho_imagery/hawaii_vivid_metadata/MapServer

 

The imagery listed above is available to the general public.   This service cannot be resold as a service by a third party.  The data is licensed from Maxar-DigitalGlobe. It is 50 cm, four bands of orthoimagery mostly from 2019 and 2020.   Maxar allows USDA to serve this data to the general public as long as the publicly available ImageServer service does not allow a data download function. 

The HIGICC is happy to announce the annual Scholarship. Please forward this information to any student in Higher Education in Hawaii.

HIGICC_Scholarship_Instructions_2021.pdf

GPS on Bench Marks

Help improve the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) and prepare for the NSRS modernization in 2022 by participating in the GPS on Bench Marks (GPS on BM) for the Transformation Tool campaign. Your efforts will support the following objectives:

• Improve the 2022 Transformation Tool, which will enable conversions from current vertical datums to the North American-Pacific Geopotential Datum of 2022 (NAPGD2022) and will be integrated into the NGS Coordinate Conversion and Transformation Tool (NCAT).

• Update Passive Control Status: mark recoveries and shared solutions provide NGS and other users of the NSRS with insight into the health of the passive control network and updated information for project planning.

• Automatic Reprocessing in 2022: Shared data will be automatically reprocessed and given new coordinates after the NSRS modernization occurs in 2022.

 

Recover, Observe, Report

Regardless of your objective, GPS on BM will always include three important steps: recover, observe, and report.

Recover: Using web maps or other desktop tools to look up the description of an existing bench mark and visit the bench mark of your choice and submit a mark recovery.

Observe: Record field notes, take digital photos, and collect GPS observations for the bench mark you visit.

Report: Use online tools to send the information to NGS.

HIGICC 2019 2020 Annual Report.pdf

On the evening of March 6th, we gathered to celebrate the 20th year of HIGICC!  The event was well attended and enjoyed by all.  Mahalo to everyone who is a part of HIGICC.

A group of HIGICC members and friends attended this weeks UAS workshop out at the RC airfield in Kailua. It was a great get together and there was a lot of sharing of knowledge and experience. So many people are using UAS for work, it was great to share. Below are some pictures. Thanks to NOAA and Dudek for bringing some drones and sensors.

Workshop recording and presentation are online – here are the links….

Presentation Recording:  http://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/misc/HIGICC-NGS-Workshop-Upcoming-Changes-20191113.mp4

PowerPoint:  http://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/misc/HIGICC-NGS-Workshop-EdCarlson-2022Datum-2019-final.pptx

Mahalo!

Call for Proposals - University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Symposium

For the first time ever, the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS.org), the national hub for the GIScience academic community will be holding our annual Symposium in Honolulu at the end of May 2020.

While the program will be academic in nature, our plan for the program is to provide an interesting collection of thematically coherent sessions on a broad range of topics that each combine presentations on basic research in GIScience plus related education and application issues.

Since Hawaii is my home and I’m President, I have decreed that we will make the Saturday afternoon available as a half day registration specifically for the Hawaii professional GIS community. We’ll offer 2 or 3 of these sessions followed by a Pau Hana when you can mingle with GIS professors, grad students and researchers from across the US. I realize many of our local professionals did not get the chance to study GIS in college, so this will give you some idea of what’s going on in the Ivory Tower these days.

We are still putting together the program, and have an open call out (deadline this Friday 11/15!) to the academic community. In an effort to get as much local content as possible, and since I know that many of you support the work of scientists from various universities across the US, I thought I’d see if any of you might have some academic colleagues you might engage in preparing a proposal.

Please get in touch with me if you want to bounce ideas for proposals. Deadline is Friday! Sorry for the short notice.

Mahalo,

Karen K. Kemp, Ph.D. GISP

Professor Emerita of the Practice of Spatial Sciences

Spatial Sciences Institute

USC Dana and David Dornsife

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

University of Southern California

President, UCGIS 2019-2020

Hawai’i Tel: +1 (808) 987-8788

kakemp@usc.edu   spatial.usc.edu

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

2:00 pm EST

This presentation will highlight some of the current feature extraction challenges that include the explosion of big data, the availability of cheaply sourced aerial imagery, the ubiquity of lidar and the easy-to-use “black box” AI solutions that intensive computing have made easily available. As mapping and remote sensing scientist, we are held to high professional standards when devising solutions to various mapping challenges. This presentation will delve into the exciting opportunities offered up as we try to navigate this brave new world of big data, data science, data mining and machine learning while maintaining the high levels of accuracy and completeness that we have all grown accustomed to.

  

Presented by:

REGISTER HERE