2.  Very specific, narrow focus  Google Maps API 1. Moved to LNO 2. Your view into SiteDB 1.Contact info, detailed site description, data links, site boundaries, Clim/HydroDB gage locations, weather, background imagery from Google. Downloads KML and shapefiles 3. Demo 1.www.lternet.edu/sites1

3.  Detail site GIS information using a common interface:  Access thru click on Phase 1 balloon (initially)  Sites can link directly from their website  Provide a common interface for all sites  Quality cartography, consistent across sites  Quality output imagery  Access to best available aerial imagery  Easy to use, won’t need to be a GIS expert

4.  Detail site GIS information using a common interface: (from GIS Committee Basic Requirements) Consistent across all site: ◦ DEM/bathymetry (terrain) ◦ Roads ◦ Hydrography ◦ Structures ◦ Remotely sensed imagery  Site specific/more detailed/better accuracy data ◦ Core research plot locations (siteDB?) , site, Study id, type, core area, EML links?, lat/long,  ? On formating for ArcServer and connections to sitedb?  ?do we need a SDE database? Flat files? How do we manage this  SDE…@lno or at a site? Andrews, Bonanza, Georgia Coastal, Baltimore  Getting a data download from the metacat (EML) to test for study locations  Coordinate Clim/HydroDB and SiteDB for location data  Ability to add climate data not in Clim/HydroDB  Process of getting local data in both initially and for updates..  LTER Domains? Need to check with PI’s and look at Neon examples  Frequency of updates for different data sets  Looking for the GIS group to come up with recommendations for GIS points (decimal degrees to six places)

5. Functionality Priorities: Standard GIS/visualization functionality: zoom/pan moving around the map Upload/add your own data?Want it easy to do links to websites/data/webcams/etc identify (attributes) queries (categories, future topic) Printing: presentation quality analysis? talk to PI’s about, Graphing capability (Clim/HydroDB) searching Clip/zip/ship (not a priority)

6.  Map web services: use existing sources  Centralized @LNO with remote manager access  ArcMap templates for symbology/cartography  Common look/theme for all sites  Sites can add additional data  Should be easy for LTER IM’s/GIS folks to contribute data.  Run on multiple browsers  Interface that sites can use ◦..update in one place ◦ Ability to imbed applications/service into their website  Incorporate additional modules/info into SiteDB and make the data available thru this application. ◦ Clim/HydroDB, NISAC modules. Etc…  Pre-caching for optimization, data updates, etc…

7.  Next steps: Site IM’s will need to:  Update SiteDB  Verify site location/boundary, logo and links  Update 2007 GIS survey  Expect a Data request in the near future  Harvest gage locations directly from Clim/HydroDB when migrated to LNO and provide a link to attributes of this data.  Planning to link to EcoTrends data at some point

8.  Send out e-mails to IMs (theresa)  Phase 1: ◦ link on main site page (Marshall) ◦ Application on individual site pages (basic level)(Marshall) ◦ LTER newsletter article: Jonathan/Adam ◦ Databits: more technical Jonathan/Adam ◦ Science council meeting in May demo…(Jonathan) ◦ Update boundaries (theresa) ◦ Update Clim/HydroDB gages (theresa) ◦ Domains for LTER sites: discussion for PI’s (everyone to talk to site PI’s about) ◦ Links to remotely sensed imagery library (John VC)

9.  Load ArcServer @ LNO (Jamie)  Evaluate existing web services for overall base layers (jamie national map, on-line services, free stuff) document and provide links from portal  Base layers plus climate (adam)  EML points: Inigo to provide Theresa with a file…  Decide on how to store data and how to organize web services (central vs site specifics) ◦ Need to identify pro’s cons of options

10.  Data format ◦ Shape files ◦ Geodatabases (file) ◦ SDE  LNO  At another site (AND or BNZ)  Rasters and images (sde or raster catalog)  Data organization ◦ Centralized layers (network wide) vs 26 individual site layers  Map/Image Services ◦ Network level and site level

11.  ArcMap templates  Look at P2erls.net/crowue_site.php for search ideas ◦ What do we want to search on?  Look at SiteDB and make recommendations. (jonathon)  Look at code for search (Jamie)  Upload/add site data

12.  Write a report on our meeting  Products: ◦ Video ◦ LTERmaps application ◦ ArcGIS Server running @ LNO ◦ Network news/data bits articles ◦ Phase 2: Arcnews ◦ Posters?  ESRI Conference (Theresa)  Science Council Meeting (demo/poster) (May)  IM Meeting

13.  Export to pdf sample: Adam  Proposal: Adam  Bob is sending Theresa sample maps ◦ Theresa to put on ftp