1. Regional Geomatics Group BC Ministry of Forest and Range Southern Interior Region Geomatics Strategy Will Burt, Sharon Cadieux, Cody Crocker March 14, 2007 Regional Stewardship Meeting

2. Overview A team of four - Coordinator, two analysts, and a technician Our goal – To provide leadership and operational functions in geomatics for the districts of the Southern Interior Region Our clients – District and Regional staff One team, one goal

3. Getting Started 1.Draft Implementation Plan: Phase I: Initialization (what we do and how we do it) Phase II: Transition (start doing it) Phase III: Operational trial (do more of it, evaluate effectiveness) 2.Keep ‘Hands-on’: Working on projects Provide advice and assistance Build our knowledge and expertise Geomatics Strategy

4. Phase I: Responsibilities Implementation Plan Operation Function Summary: Get involved with district workloads, backfill Help districts with analysis projects Provide technical and policy advice and support Leadership Function Summary: Identify synergies between districts and capitalize on opportunities Coordinate region wide datasets Maintain a clear direction of the future trends in GIS Represent the region on provincial committees and initiatives

5. Phase I: Communications Group: Regularly scheduled conference calls, face-to-face meetings Sharepoint Project standards and documentation Client: Sharepoint Newsletter twice a year Monthly region wide geomatics conference call Project oriented district visits Region geomatics workshop once a year Implementation Plan

6. Phase II and III Phase II: Transition Continue to review our progress Refine direction and performance Build our workload (operational and leadership/coordination) Involve district staff in determining how the Regional Geomatics Group can provide training and knowledge exchange (i.e. imap, ilrr, arcview, spatial data sets, etc) Phase III: Operational pilot/trial Review and re-evaluate our performance Refine direction and performance Accepting and completing workload (projects, training / knowledge exchange) Re-evaluate our performance Implementation Plan

7. Group Initiatives Operations: 2005 Enhanced ortho image product packaging Mapbook Requirements Gathering VRI Extraction Tool OGMA area by BEC Variant ESSFwc TELSA data loading and pre-processing Leadership: FTA4 Training Coordination ILRR Training Session at DKL Current and Past Projects

8. Regional Geomatics Group Thank You Ministry of Forests Southern Interior Region We’re on the Web! Visit us at: https://sharepoint.forests.gov.bc.ca/RGG/default.aspx

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