The Hawaii Defense Alliance will be hosting a virtual webinar on Friday, Dec. 10 from 2-3 p.m. HST focusing on geospatial analytics careers. The objective of this is to increase awareness – for the tech community, educators, students, and government audience - of the career and certification pathways and hundreds of jobs being created in Hawaii over the next three years. These jobs are being driven by the Federal government and contractors.

Panel members include:

• ·       Chris Johnson, Maxar Technologies
• ·       Mark Speck, Huntington Ingalls
• ·       Camelia Kantor, U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
• ·       Brandt Dillion, U.S. Army Pacific Geospatial Intelligence Advisor
• ·       Chaminade University (pending)

This webinar is part of a broader series of events hosted by the Hawaii Defense Alliance, "Building Hawaii Intel Career Pathways Together" to open up more Federal opportunities for residents and local businesses and promote economic resilience in Hawaii.

To register in advance for this webinar, click the button below or visit:

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

This just in from the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Department of Geography & Environment:  HawaiiView is pleased to release the 30-m spatial resolution forest height map for the island of Oahu (https://hawaiiview.org/data/l2fhm/), predicted using Landsat-8 cloud-free mosaic and calibrated using airborne lidar data. 

The forest height map is unique in that 1) it is continuous, instead of categorical (e.g., the existing USGS products), and 2) it was calibrated using massive airborne lidar data. 

Feedback on the dataset is sought, please contact Professor Qi Chen at qichen@hawaii.edu

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!