The National Coal Mining Geospatial Committee (=NCMGC)

Who Does NCMGC represent?Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (=OSM)

Headquarters,Regional offices (3), &Field offices in coal producing regions of the US.

Coal producing states (23)Native American tribes (5)Coal producersThe public

Purpose of NCMGCPromote development of geospatial technology to support Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (=SMCRA) Help migration OSM’s Technical Innovation & Professional Services (=TIPS) users to enterprise GISImprove business processes

Benefits of NCMGCProvide sound scientific information

Enhance analysisImprove understandingBetter decision-makingReduce risk

Meet requirements with available resourcesReduced budgetLimited personnel

Find qualified geospatial expertiseShare technological successesShare government information resourcesCompliance with federal data requirements

NCMGC MembersInterstate Mining Compact Commission (=IMCC) Larry Evans, WVNational Association of Abandoned Mine Lands Program (=NAAMLP) Doug Mullins, VAWestern Interstate Energy Board (=WIEB) Rick Koehler, NMOSM/Appalachian Bill Card, TN (Chairman)OSM/Mid-Continent Len Meier, ILOSM/Western Alan Wilhelm, COOSM HQ Vacant

HistoryMay 4, 2005 – Office of Surface Mining (=OSM) Director TIPS Steering Committee approved creation of the NCMGC.August 15, 2005 – 1st NCMGC teleconferenceSeptember 13, 2005 – 1st NCMGC meeting in DenverJanuary 11 & 18, 2006 – OSM regional managers briefedFebruary 28, 2006 – meeting in Santa Fe, NMMarch 24, 2006 – Geospatial Questionnaire released

Technical Support Group

Subject matter expertsExtension of committeeAdvise committee on technical mattersShort term taskingCooperation among TSG members promotes sharing of technology

Communicating about NCMGC

Internal website for committee members

Operational

External website for public accessWeb pages in draft, under reviewContained on TIPS website (http://www.tips.osmre.gov)

FY 2006 Significant ActivitiesSupport OSM MCR geospatial infrastructureSMCRA Geospatial Technology Development Questionnaire (issued March 24, 2005)National Meeting of SMCRA Geospatial Data Stewards week of June 27-28, 2006Microsoft SQL Server TrainingPossible ESRI ArcSDE training at Mid-Continent RegionPrototype SMCRA geospatial infrastructure

Highlights of Questionnaire Results

42 responses from SMCRA organizations38 geospatial data stewards identified38 SMCRA organizations use GIS13 do not use MS SQL Server or Oracle28 do not use ArcSDE29 do not share spatial data by Internet33 do not have a written plan

Geospatial Data Stewards

CategoryGeospatial Data Steward

Alternate Geospatial Data Steward

No Geospatial Data Steward

Federal 8 1 1

State 27 3 3

Tribal 3 1 0

Coal Mining Data is a National AssetExecutive Order 12906

Public access to geospatial data Sec. 3(c)OMB Circular No. A-16

Themes of national significance Sec 2.b.(1) and Appendix EApplies to all agencies using geospatial data Sec 5.Applies to all spatial activities funded with federal funds Sec 6.Agency responsibilities and reporting Sec 8.a.Spatial data are subject to Exhibit 300 Sec 8.b.

Coal Mining Data ExamplesMining boundaries

Permit, critical earth fills, sediment basins, haul roads, etc.

Geologic drill holesSurface water monitoring locationsGround water monitoring locationsUnderground mining extentsUnderground mine entry locations

Initial Coal Mining Datasets

Datasets common to SMCRA workers

Surface mining boundariesUnderground mining boundaries

Quick index to location of other coal mining dataGeographic locator of potential impacts

Surface Mining BoundariesSurface mining boundaries are polygons representing

the boundary of the permitted area of a surface coal mining operation as described on the most recent mining operations map contained in a coal mining

permit approved by the regulatory authority.

Each approved permit has a single record in a spatial database of surface mining boundaries. Each record in the spatial database identifies the permit number

of the surface coal mining operation and contains one or more polygons identifying the areas for

conducting surface coal mining operations approved by the regulatory authority.

Surface Mining Boundary

Underground Mining BoundaryUnderground mining boundaries are polygons representing the boundary of the underground mine workings of an underground coal mining

operation as described on the best available mine workings maps.

Each mine has a single record in a spatial database of underground mining extents. Each record in the spatial database identifies the underground coal

mining operation and contains one or more polygons identifying the areas of underground

mine workings.

Underground Mining Boundary

How can TIPS users organizations implementing GIS partner together more effectively?

The Problem …

Time for a “geospatial collective” mindset

Citrix (terminal services)Citrix is hugely successful in WVDEP.Citrix can play an important role in a TIPS GIS collective … here’s how

Some participating states or tribes will be resource limited Insufficient monies, not enough staff.

How does Citrix work?

Applications install and run 100% on server (A)Only screens, mouse clicks and keystrokes travel the network (B)Applications accessed from desktop PC or thin clients (C)

C

A

B

Scaling Up to Include the Unchallenged States

OSM’s Citrix servers would run ArcGIS and host challenged States’ data.

Now let’s look at how TIPS users deploying SDE/RDMS might work collectively

The TIPS GIS B-ORG(= Broadband-Orchestrated Regional Group)

one possible way to implement a geospatial collective to

deploy and share national mining datasets

InternetBackbone

DEP SDE

NM SDE

DEP LAN

The hive provides the ability to share geospatial data using broadband access via SDE serversNew SDE servers can be added to the collective.

NM LAN

How Does B-ORG Work?

How well does B-ORG work?

WV B-ORG connection testing:DEPuser (M. Shank) to RTI SDE server – Jan 17, 2006

Test Time in secondsLoad/display County layer 20

Load/display Roads (TIGER)

96

Pan & redraw (~ 10 mile extent)

3 - 5

Select Roads in Kanawha County

24

Export selected Roads to local shapefile

27

Possible mining emergencies extending across state boundaries

Will share a common national data structure and map accuracy standard• Saves time trying to combine dissimilar

dataset from adjoining states

All mining emergencies eliminates future poor spatial accuracy!

Major benefits of operating as a geospatial collective

Would allow new users of this new national information resource

Federal BLM, MSHA, etc.State Emergency response, WVMHSLocal County, municipal.Public Speed up the permit review process, check for mining below properties changing hands, etc.Others interested in sharing geospatial data assets.

Major benefits of operating as a geospatial collective (2)

The TIPS Broadband-Orchestrated Regional Group (B-ORG) ...

a collective of technologies

empowering ALL users with the ability to access national coal

mining geospatial data far more efficiently.