On Friday February 28^th the next CT GIS Users Network meeting will be held at the Manchester Emergency Operations Center from 9:00 to Noon and we hope you can join us to see this new facility and hear some interesting talks from your peers as well as get an update on Network activities.

 

The EOC is located at:

321 Olcott St

2^nd Floor

Manchester CT

 

Presenting at the meeting will be:

 

Ben Houston - GroundPoint Technologies

High Resolution Impervious Surface Data: Stories from the Field

In this talk Ben Houston will discuss the accuracy assessment of a large impervious area mapping effort that used LiDAR and CIR Imagery, and also compare high resolution impervious outputs to public domain data available through NLCD.

 

Denise Savageau Town of Greenwich

GIS: A new tool for local EOCs.

The use of GIS in local emergency operations center is increasing and it does not have to be complicated.  Denise will share some simple applications used for flood mitigation planning that she adapted for use in the Greenwich EOC during storm events and how they are working to improve upon this using the new LiDAR.

 

 

Mark Goetz – Greater Bridgeport Regional Council (GBRC)

GBRC Parcel Fabric Project

The Greater Bridgeport Regional Council is implementing Esri’s Parcel Fabric as it creates a regional parcel map viewer for their six member towns.

 

Jason Courter – New England GeoSystems

Transferring AutoCAD into your GIS

AutoCAD and ESRI: Jason will describe the process of Integrating an AutoCAD files into base GIS data

 

 

Town of Manchester

TBA

 

We look forward to seeing you then!

 

 

Meg McGaffin

Vice President

CT GIS User to User Network