Bob ReederGIS Program Manager

NGB-ARE703-607-7996

Bob.reeder1@us.army.mil

andDave Hulka

David.Hulka1@us.army.mil

GIS Program Overview

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AgendaNGB POCs & Organization Structure

EAC GIS Committee

Aerial Imagery Program

Vegetation Mapping

Soils Data

GIS Training

ESRI Software Maintenance

Common Installation Picture (CIP)

Other Initiatives

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NGB GIS Personnel

ARE – Environmental ProgramsBob Reederbob.reeder1@us.army.mil703-607-7996

Dave Hulkadavid.hulka1@us.army.mil703-607-7974

ARI - InstallationsMalcolm Pontemalcom.ponte3@us.army.mil703-607-7957

Chris Argentieric.argentieri@us.army.mil703-607-7192

ART - TrainingMatthew Blanchardmatthew.o.blanchard@us.army.mil703-607-4358

AVS – Aviation and SafetyDave Sidersdavid.siders@us.army.mil703-607-9729

AIS – Information SystemsMark Simpsonmark.andrew.simpson@us.army.mil703-607-8505

J2/J3 – Joint OperationsRobert Barber-Delachrobert.barber-delach@us.army.mil703-607-3268

GKO Portal: https://gkoportal.ngb.army.mil/sites/GIS/default.aspx

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SEC DefenseSEC Defense

PresidentPresident

GovernorsGovernors

States Adjutants States Adjutants GeneralGeneral

Chief of StaffChief of Staff

SEC Air ForceSEC Air Force

Chief of StaffChief of Staff

Chief, NGBChief, NGB

SEC ArmySEC Army

StateStateARNGARNGUnitsUnits

StateStateANG ANG UnitsUnits

CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATIONS

Director, Joint StaffDirector, Joint StaffNGBNGB

Director, ARNGDirector, ARNG Director, ANGDirector, ANG

National Guard Structure

G4G4

Chief ENV DivisionChief ENV Division Environmental Advisory CouncilGIS Committee

ENVGIS

ENV GIS

Sustainability Branch ChiefSustainability Branch Chief

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ARNG GIS Governance

EAC GIS FEAC GIS

ARE ARIAROAIS AVSARTARNG Divisions:

State/Territory Advisory Committees:

Also…

Joint Information Management Committee (JIMC);

Dept of Army Domain Governance Structure;

OSD - Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI)

ARNG CIO

ARNG GIS Advisory Committee (GISAC)

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GIS Requirements in the ARNG

• Emphasis on end-user value to support State & Federal mission• Resources are available from Training, Installations and

Environmental Directorates to provide GIS support for each State/Territory to meet the Federal Mission

– Imagery– Spatial data development– Hardware/Software – Training– Personnel

State/Territory Level

Headquarter Level• National Geo-Spatial Data Repository to meet

Federal Data Requirements– ArcSDE geodatabase– ArcGIS Server web viewer (GuardMAP)

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EAC GIS Committee

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EAC GIS CommitteeEAC GIS Committee Charter March, 2003

Purpose: As provided for in the EAC Charter, the purpose of the GIS Committee shall be to:

a. Advise the EAC of State/Territorial GIS issues.b. Identify, review, and recommend guidance and policy to the

EAC for execution by the Army National Guard Conservation Program.

c. Assist the EAC in developing GIS education.d. “Face Time”

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EAC GIS CommitteeRecent accomplishments• GIS Program Guidance

• Overview• Policy• Funding• Technical• Other Programs • References

– Living document, change as needed– Hopefully will serve as a model or baseline for other Advisory

Committees to consolidate GIS guidance– Available on GKO

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State Org Structure-Results

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IMAGERY

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Aerial Imagery Acquisition

NGB Divisions (ARE, ARI & ART) collaborate to provide high resolution true-color aerial imagery for ~140 ARNG Sites– Approximately 15 – 30 sites acquired each year– Re-flown on a 5-year recurring basis– Selection criteria are:

• Sites with INRMPs• Federally supported (SRP) Training Centers• Need for updated Real Property data (NEW from ARI)

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Aerial Imagery Acquisition

• Standard Product– True color digital ortho-imagery– “Leaf-off” conditions (some sates

obtain NAIP for leaf on CIR)– 1 km installation buffer– Resolution

• Sites > 60,000 acres– 1:4800 map scale– 0.5 m pixel resolution

• Sites < 60,000 acres– 1:2400 map scale– 0.3m pixel resolution

» ARI is starting to fund more high resolution imagery; most sites the last two years were 1:1200

– Digital Terrain Data *• Digital Terrain Model• Spot Elevations• 2 meter contours• TIN

* NOTE: PROVIDED WITH INITIAL ACQUISITION, NOT TYPICALLY PROVIDED WITH 2ND ROUND

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Aerial Imagery Acquisition

Augmentation:• States may augment standard product with State funds (STEP Projects)• May provide increased resolution, expanded area, additional spectral bands• Coordinate this with NGB GIS PM during planning, typically in the prior FY

or in beginning of the current FY• Please let NGB know if you are or have acquired imagery from some other

source within the past 2-3 years– Please work with local entities on cost sharing/data sharing opportunities

• NGB can assist• Tentative schedule on GKO: https://gkoportal.ngb.army.mil/sites/gis/data/default.aspx

UPDATE• The last two years ARI has provided more funds to obtain 1:1200 scale

imagery as potentially the new standard for all sites• Provides higher resolution (6” pixel resolution) imagery suitable for detailed

real property and infrastructure feature extraction.

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Aerial Imagery Acquisition

• Aerial Imagery Requirements– NGB working on building new/expanded

imagery requirements• New Satellite inventories • Expanded sites• Resolution• Local cost sharing/data sharing

– Willing to work with other services where sites are within close proximity

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Imagery/Vegetation Mapping Project

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Environmental Centralized Data Collection

• Installation Vegetation Mapping Pilot– NGB is sponsoring vegetation mapping and data

collection projects for multiple installations to provide alliance level mapping

– Alliance level vegetation communities maps are a required Planning Level Survey for sites with Integrated Natural Resource Management Plans (INRMP) (AR 200-1)

– Meets FGDC National Vegetation Classification System standards

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Vegetation Mapping Details • Installation Vegetation Mapping Pilot

– Collection of existing data (veg. maps, RTLA data, veg. surveys etc)

– Photo-interpretation to determine vegetation mapping units– Field survey for species identifications, mapping validation and

accuracy assessments– Products

• Vegetation mapping units (GIS)• Sample locations (GIS)• Field data• Photo hyperlinks (GIS)• Vegetation report • SOP for utilizing existing assets to meet

vegetation mapping requirements

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Collect Existing Data and Info

Photo Interpretation

Field Work

Complete Mapping and

Data Compilation

Vegetation Mapping Process

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ProductsGeodatabase

Final Report

Georeferenced Photos

Cartography

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Soils Data

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GIS Training

• Instructor led training is provided at the ARNG Professional Education Center (PEC) at Camp Robinson, Little Rock AR

• Both are FREE to ALL ARNG employees and on-site contractors, not just GIS personnel

• Courses cover beginner to advanced topics• Courses are typically 3-5 days• Schedule and registration can be found @:

https://events.pec.ngb.army.mil

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GIS Training

• Instructor led training is provided at the ARNG Professional Education Center (PEC) at Camp Robinson, Little Rock AR*

• Courses and billeting are FREE• States only need pay travel and related

expenses• Schedule and registration can be found @:

https://events.pec.ngb.army.mil* ArcSDE ADMINSTRATION FOR SQL SERVER IS OFFERED AT AN ESRI LOCATION

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ESRI SOFTWARE

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ESRI Software Maintenance

• How does it work?– Software licenses are purchase by State– Roll-over deadline is 1 Jan each FY

• Will be changing to as early as 1 OCT – Maintenance quotes are provide by 31 Jan

• Will change with roll-over deadline– Maintenance is paid 31 March each FY (Hopefully!)– ESRI provides entitlement summary per State– State should review to ensure it is accurate– Software updates are sent to State DOIM/DCSIM

• Address on entitlement summary

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ESRI Software Maintenance

• How do States participate?– Licenses are eligible given current maintenance status– If maintenance has lapsed State must bring current– Contact NGB PM’s and ESRI indicating the number

and types of licenses, and the appropriate supporting Division (ARE, ARI or ART)

– Appropriate NGB PM will verify and confirm roll-over with ESRI

– That’s it!!!!

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Common Installation Picture (CIP)

• Common Installation Picture– Inventory of NGB data in FY05 indicated only 15% of

data collected to that point met standards and functional requirements

– Why? • Poorly defined requirements from DA/NGB

– What’s the solution?• Define requirements

– How?• The Common Installation Picture

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CIP Data Layers

FY 06/07 Program Area

Accident Potential Zones Aviation & Safety

ESQD Arcs Aviation & Safety

Noise Zones Environmental

Soils Environmental

Threatened and Endangered Species Environmental

Wetlands Environmental

Buildings Installations

Landfills Installations

Parcels and Boundaries Installations

Road Centerline Installations

TIER III

SDSFIE Feature Class Namecanopy_pavilion_areaelectrical_generator_pointelectrical_cable_lineelectrical_substation_siteelectrical_switch_pointelect_transformr_bank_point

utility_electric_utility_point

comm_antenna_pointair_emissions_source_point

environmental_restoratn_site

groundwater_quality_sta_point

hazardous_waste_disposal_area

land_restriction_areasolid_waste_landfill_areaspill_containment_tank_point

water_well_point

FY 08 Program AreaAbove & Under Ground Storage Tanks Environmental

AG-Leasing Environmental

Archeological Site Environmental

Army Compatible Use Buffer Area Environmental

Cemeteries Environmental

Conservation Easements Parcels (ACUB) Environmental

Historic Districts Environmental

Sacred or Traditional Cultural Sites Environmental

Skid Roads Environmental

Survey Area Environmental

Timber Harvest Area Environmental

Vegetation Communities Environmental

Yarding Area Environmental

Airfield Surfaces (ex: runways) Installations/Aviation & Safety

Bridge/Overpass/Tunnel Installations

Fence Installations

Gate Installations

Parking Installations

Railroad Installations

Railroad Bridge Installations

Real Property Site Installations

Road Area Installations

Sidewalk Installations

Tower Installations

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CIP Portfolio Development

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Other Initiatives to Meeting Federal Data Requirements

• Web Services• Web editing capabilities

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GuardMAP Application

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GuardMAP Objective

Support NGB-ARE’s GIS Program and its shareholders in support of its overall CIP initiative

Provide a web-based solution to augment NGB-ARE’s online mapping, data management, and geospatial capabilities

Provide custom functions to enable web-based data maintenance, online editing, and data reporting capability

Read/Write data from their geospatial data repository

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GuardMAP Architecture

Built on the ESRI ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework using VB.NET

Retrieves its geospatial data and non-spatial data from a centralized ArcSDE geodatabase running SQL Server

Configured to work with the APOS Integration Kit for ArcGIS Server (http://www.apos.com)

Leverages SAPs Business Objects Business Intelligence (BI) software (http://www.sap.com)

Consumes and displays custom and intelligent reports created with the Crystal Reports Developer

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GuardMAP Non-SpatialA series of queries and functions designed to retrieve spatial information and display it non-spatially (ie. without a map)

Queries ARE, ARI, ART, and AVS data layers for all major training sites and returns the data in a tabular format

The data in the table can be exported to Excel or to 8.5x11

Reads dynamically, reflecting any changes made to the geodatabase

Queries SDE layers

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GuardMAP SpatialContains (9) tasks ranging from search functions, routing with turn-by-turn directions, and find nearest facility function

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GuardMAP Spatial cont.

Contains “Bookmarks” and “Themes” which are predefined map extents and layers set by the NGB-ARE Administrator

The Administration Page is an interface which is password protected and enables ARE to make global site changes

Specifies which fields to return during an “Identify”

Can set fields aliases for any layer in the map frame

Settings are saved in the RDBMS

Retrieved throughout the application -(global) in scope

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GuardMAP EditorAn application utilizing ESRI’s web-based editing functions

Users can create, move, copy, split, merge, and delete features and vertices. Make attribute changes

Can edit a versioned on non-versioned geodatabase

Contains custom code to enforce user access and roles

(2) roles: Both and Attribute Only

Based on their login, users can either edit both spatial and attribute information, or attribute edits only

The edit panel is generated on-the-fly and access to tools are controlled by the user’s role and permissions

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GuardMAP Editor cont.

Custom code auto-calculates newly digitized features

When a new feature is added, the INSNO, Installation name, and State name are queried and populated automatically based on spatial queries

Auto-calculates the fields “AREA_SIZE” and “PERIM” of newly created or edited polygon features

Prohibits edits from occurring more than 1 km beyond any major training site – prevents user error

All edits are tracked: user, layer, date, INSO, type of edit ...

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GuardMAP ReportingContains (15) reports: installation and AOI reports

Soils, Wetlands, Streams, T&E Species, Noise

Reports generated in Crystal Reports (*.rpt) are saved to the Business Objects database and accessed via APOS

“Bridges” the gap between ArcGIS and BusinessObjects

Triggered by a button on toolbar and user selected report

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GuardMAP Reporting cont.

User selects an installation to run an “Installation Report”

Available installation reports are listed. Click to run/open.

Data can be grouped, summed, sorted, ….

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GuardMAP Reporting cont.

User selects an “AOI”/layer of interest from the drop-down

Draws AOI using available tools (poly, circle, oval, square)

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GuardMAP Reporting cont.

Results from the user selected report and AOI is displayed

Reporting framework is in place: software, database, sample reports. Easy to edit *.rpt files and serve via GMap

Questions?

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