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Dr. Brian Lee Department of Landscape Architecture College of Agriculture University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky [email protected] (859) 257-7205 Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change Conference Report Dr. Carol Hanley Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment College of Agriculture University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky [email protected] (859) 257-3780 Dr. Demetrio Zourarakis Division of Geographic Information Commonwealth Office of Technology Commonwealth of Kentucky Frankfort, Kentucky [email protected] (502) 564-2480

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Dr. Brian LeeDepartment of Landscape Architecture

College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky

[email protected](859) 257-7205

Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change

Conference Report

Dr. Carol HanleyTracy Farmer Center for the Environment

College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, [email protected]

(859) 257-3780

Dr. Demetrio Zourarakis Division of Geographic Information

Commonwealth Office of TechnologyCommonwealth of Kentucky

Frankfort, [email protected]

(502) 564-2480

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Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change:

Bridging the Geospatial Divide for Decision Making

May 20-21, 2008

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

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BackgroundPlanning ProcessPeople Involved Advisory GroupConference Goal

ConferencePeople and RepresentationConference Progression

Listening SessionsFormat and Process

OutcomesListening SessionsKentucky Geospatial Strategic Plan

The Agenda

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Planning ProcessTwo Years of PlanningDiscussionRevision**Solution Through Process**

People InvolvedCarol – TFCE Staff and StudentsDemetrio – Professional ContactsBrian – Undergraduate Students and Contacts

Advisory GroupSounding BoardWithin and Outside of StateCritical Early Direction

Conference PurposeA facilitated workshop on eliciting and providing elements useful in strengthening Kentucky’s geospatial vision with specific focus on remote sensing in the context of GIS and other geospatial technologies and sciences.

The Background

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The Conference

People and Representation• 80 Participants from Nine States

• Research Scientists, Program Managers, End-Users

• Federal, State, Local Government Personnel

• Private and Nonprofit Sectors

• Academics and Students

Conference Progression• Demographics and Cultural Landscape Changes

• Technical Sessions – Variety of Topics

• Federal Initiatives for the States

• Neighboring State Reports

• Local Strategies for Investing in RS Technology

• Listening Sessions

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Focus Group Topics1. Data Infrastructure and Distribution 2. Local Government3. Education4. Natural Resources Inventory and Assessment5. Other

Focus Group Structure 8-10 people per groupFacilitatorsFlip Charts~1.5 Hours of Discussion

Five QuestionsNext Slide

OutcomesBrainstormed Ideas through Group Discussion

The Listening Sessions

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• In Kentucky or elsewhere, what has been done well regarding geospatial data, activities, and capabilities?

The Questions

• What data/sources do you use and why?

• Describe what the geospatial environment looks like in 5-10 years in terms of data, activities, and capabilities.

• What are the geospatial opportunities and constraints that should be addressed with the state’s geospatial strategic plan?

• What should we (collective we) be doing in terms of geospatial data, activities, and capabilities?

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The Listening Session Highlights

•Systematically enhance existing geospatial data, capabilities, activities with explicit environmental and socioeconomic linkages.

•Expand environmental data collection activity that is compatible with global data.

•Construct a geospatially focused environmental monitoring network that is hierarchal and integrated with existing efforts and involves a diversity of partners for data integration, education, and end-user support.

•Metadata and quality standards/rating systems are critical as part of geospatial data collection and distribution activities, manual and automated ground-truthing, particularly in light of more publically volunteered geographic information.

•Enterprise geospatial data interfaces need to be expanded, recognizing a variety of data/modeling needs as well as end-user requirements/capabilities, and several sources of existing or announced satellite and airborne-based sensor data becoming freely available.

•Retrieval of historical geospatial data is essential in order to document landscape change is equally important.

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The Listening Session Highlights

•Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for the Commonwealth is an important dataset to be developed while systematically updating the land cover, impervious cover, wetlands inventory, and land stewardship data as well.

•Promotion of geospatial data benefits of what has already been and what needs to be accomplished across the Commonwealth to elected government officials and the citizenry is critical. These geospatial data, capabilities, and activities should be explored and promoted for use in global climate change, landscape health surveillance, land-use planning/scenario modeling, education, economic/tourism development, and emergency response during disasters to name a few.

•The Commonwealth has many opportunities because of past and ongoing efforts in distributed organizations.

•Constraints identified included financial, political, organizational, technical, and leadership resources for the development of a geospatial strategic plan for Kentucky and subsequent implementation.

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Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change

Acknowledgements

University of KentuckyOffice of the Vice President for Research

Conference and Workshop Award

Photographs by Demetrio

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Dr. Brian LeeDepartment of Landscape Architecture

College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, Kentucky

[email protected](859) 257-7205

Mapping and Monitoring Land Resource Change Report

Dr. Carol HanleyTracy Farmer Center for the Environment

College of AgricultureUniversity of KentuckyLexington, [email protected]

(859) 257-3780

Dr. Demetrio Zourarakis Division of Geographic Information

Commonwealth Office of TechnologyCommonwealth of Kentucky

Frankfort, [email protected]

(502) 564-2480