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Welcome!Next MeetingThe next Network meeting will be held April 4, 2008 at the MDC Training Center in Hartford. If you haven't already done so, please take the online survey about what you'd like to see the Network doing. Current News* Connecticut State Library Puts Digital Copies of the 1934 Aerials Online 11/16/06 * Connecticut Geospatial Information Systems Council 3/1/06 * New soils data now on the DEP website 2/28/06 * 2004 digital orthos and high-resolution coastal imagery now online 2/23/06 * Governor's Interim Geospatial Council * 2004
digital orthophotos update Members in the NewsConnecticut State Library Puts Digital Copies of the 1934 Aerials Online Ken Wiggins, Connecticut State Librarian, announced at the November 15th (GIS Day) Geospatial Council meeting that library staff will soon complete an ambitious project to put over 8,700 1934 digital aerial photographs online. Photographs from this dataset, which is the first complete statewide aerial survey in the country, are some of the most frequently used aerial photographs at the library. The library, which has the only known complete set of these photographs, had them scanned in order to insure their preservation. The digital images can be accessed at http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm4/aerials.php. Please be sure to read the instructions on how to find and view the individual scanned photos. Connecticut
Geospatial Information Systems Council The CT Geospatial Information
Systems Council held a meeting on Feb. 22, 2006 at the Department of Information
Technology. Much of the meeting was taken up with a discussion of a structural
vision for how the Council would operate and then to discussion of staffing
and funding. Relative to funding, the Council has applied in two categories
for Cooperative Assistance Grants from the U.S.G.S. and hopes to receive
at least one of them. With respect to staffing, the Council approved a
motion for Chairperson Diane Wallace to draft a job description and funding
information for a project manager that the Council agreed should be a
State employee rather than a consultant. We also briefly discussed the
ESRI/Applied Geographics report based on the requirements analysis work
done in the Fall of 2005. A small group of the Council has seen the report.
The entire Council will have a chance to review and discuss that report
at the next meeting. The Council now has a Web
site where the agenda and minutes of meetings will be published. A
list of Council members is also available there. New soils data now on the DEP web site The DEP has posted links to new SSURGO certified digital soils data for Connecticut's eight counties. These data, which can be downloaded from the DEP web site, are the official soil maps of the NRCS and replace the published county soil surveys. Also on the site are two single factor statewide soil datasets - wetland soils and farmland soils. 2/28/06 2004 digital orthos and high-resolution coastal imagery now online The Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) has created a statewide image mosaic of the 2004 orthos. The image is in an ERMapper ECW compressed format and can be viewed in Netscape or Internet Explorer and also can be added as a layer to many desktop GISs, CAD programs and other software applications. Go to http://clear.uconn.edu/data.html to access these data. Also available on the CLEAR site are high resolution mosaics of 2004 true-color RGB and false-color infrared imagery for Connecticut municipalities in the coastal zone. 2/23/06 Governor's
Interim Geospatial Council Based on legislation
passed July 5, 2005, the Connecticut Geospatial Information Systems Council
(GISC) has replaced the Governor's Interim Geospatial Information Systems
Council. The GISC will meet next on Feb. 22 at 2 pm. at the Department
of Information Technology, 101 East River Drive, East Hartford, 06108.
Meetings are open to the public but this meeting will concentrate principally
on mission, future objectives and the by-laws so there may be less of
general interest than usual. Right now meetings are planned for the fourth
Wednesday of each month but that may change at the Feb. 22 meeting. 2004
digital ortho update The state
is almost at the point of formally accepting delivery of the 2004 orthos.
They have been sent to all of the Planning Regions. RPO staff have been
asked to review the data that covers their regions and to supply the orthos
to each of their member towns. If the town level planners / engineers
etc. have not received their town's ortho data, they should contact the
Executive Director of the Planning Region they are affiliated with. Feedback
from RPOs and others so far has been good.
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