GEOTECH Project
Mike Rudibaugh, Co-PI NSF Geo-TECH Center
Lake Land College (Geography/GIS Instructor)
mrudibau@lakeland.cc.il.us
Phone: 217-234-5244
Trisha Mason, Ex. Director ECIDC
info@ecidc.com
217-540-3517
GIS for Community Leaders
Newton, IL
March 27, 2009
Grant funding from the National Science Foundation
(DUE 0801896)
Purpose of NSF ATE
• The ATE program promotes improvement
in the education of science and
engineering technicians at the
undergraduate and secondary school level
and the educators who prepare them,
focusing on technicians for hightechnology fields that drive the nation’s
economy.
• Background
• Four Year Project (2008-2012)
• $5M total
• 7 Community Colleges and 4
Universities
• National in scope
• Only Center devoted to
geospatial two-year education
• Should impact 10,000 learners
by 2012
Grant funding from the National Science Foundation
(DUE 0801896)
NCGT Goals
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1. Create a web-based curriculum
clearinghouse serving as an educational
resource with data, curriculum, and training
supporting geospatial technology integration
into elementary, secondary and community
college learning environments.
2. Promote workforce and economic
development opportunities for the region
through internship opportunities for regional
employers.
3. Increase the diversity and quality of
geospatial technicians through targeting
historically underserved demographic groups,
such as women and minorities.
4. Provide a unifying voice for community
colleges with educational organizations and
professional societies shaping the growth of
this new occupational sector.
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Increase the number of community and
technical college geospatial faculty and
secondary school teachers participating in
geospatial technology professional
development
Grant funding from the National Science Foundation
(DUE 0801896)
What is “Geospatial”?
• Anything that can be reference in space and
time.
• Global Position Systems (GPS)
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Remote Sensing
• Google Earth
• MapQuest
• Location Based Services, like 911
Parts of a GIS: Spatial Thinking
• Geospatial thinking is no longer confined
to geography and environmental studies
courses. The ability to connect data to a
spatial location in order to analyze
patterns and make decisions is an
important workforce skill (USDL 2007).
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What is “GIS”?
• What is GIS
What is GIS Technology?
• This technology
combines relational
database
structures with
computer
generated maps
GIS: In the Community College
• GST Program at LLC
– 1. LLC GIS Certificate Program
• Intro to GIS (ESC106) – 4 Hours
• Raster GIS (ESC108) – 2 Hours
– Used by students entering Ag, Civil Tech, Environmental
Science, Conservation, and Earth Science
– Retraining of dislocated workers or professional
development.
Grant funding from the National Science Foundation
(DUE 0801896)
• DACUM Event
– November 19-20 (2008)
• Employers Represented
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IDOT
ADM
USDA
Illinois Water Survey
Coles County Regional Planning
Champaign County
Effingham Tax Assessors Office
Clinton County GIS Office
ManPlan.Net (AG. Consulting)
EJ Water Cooperative
Meisenhimer and Gende
Engineers
Grant funding from the National Science Foundation
(DUE 0801896)
AG
GST Job Market
Water
Management
Natural
Disaster
• Job Market ?
– DOL Handouts
– Career Awareness
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Home-land
Security
Public Health
• http://www.careervoyages.gov/ge
ospatialtechnology-videos.cfm
Across the country, tens of thousands of
trained workers are needed to fill positions
that are going begging. Emily Stover
DeRocco, Assistant Secretary, U.S.
Department of Labor Employment and
Training Administration, Directions
Magazine, April 10, 2003
GIS
Ecology
Utilities
Air Quality
Management
Costal
Manage-ment
Urban
Planning
Energy Forecasting
Business
Grant funding from the National Science Foundation
(DUE 0801896)
Parts of a GIS: Hardware
Computer Hardware
• Personal computers
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Parts of a GIS: Software
Computer Programs and Procedures
– Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
– Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
(GRASS)
– Map Server
– IDRISI
GRASS
IDRISI
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Parts of a GIS: Spatial Data
Spatially data - information connected to a place.
Countries: population, major religions, number of military bases.
Population by Country
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Parts of a GIS: Spatial Data
State: population, election results, income averages
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http://www.nytimes.com/images/2000/11/07/politics/elections/president/map_us_PRESW_001107.gif_
Parts of a GIS: Spatial Data
County: population, election results, economic information.
Oregon Population Change: 1900 - 2000
Number of People
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1 - 115466 gain
115467 - 318733 gain
318734 - 557319 gain
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Parts of a GIS: Spatial Data
Latitude and longitude: city location, point source pollution
Street address: number of occupants, price of home
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• What does GIS mean for community leaders in the
public/private sectors in the local economy?
– Digitizing of government, services, residents, customers,
and business locations through maps and databases.
• Cost – Benefit Analysis
1. Economic Development
2. Utilities
3. Public Safety
4. City Infrastructure – Local Government
Administration
5. Emergency Response System
Grant funding from the National Science Foundation
(DUE 0801896)
GIS Uses: Government
National, State, and Local Governments use GIS to:
•Redistrict precincts
•Provide voter information
•Develop economic resources
•Track land records
•Assess Taxes
Environmental Engineers use
GIS to minimize impacts of
urbanization to sensitive
environmental areas.
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http://www.esri.com/library/fliers/pdfs/cs-ecology-and-environment.pdf
City Infrastructure – Local Government
Administration
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A parcel map is perhaps the
most convenient resource
available to the public to
determine the location and
parcel identification number of
a property.
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Property evaluation
Compliance to local ordinances
Expansion of municipal utilities
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An adequate parcel map should
reflect size and shape of each
individual parcel owned in a town.
Many town officials (assessors,
planners, engineers, and others)
use parcel maps on a daily basis,
that is why it is very important that
parcel maps should show the most
current and updated information.
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http://www.umass.edu/tei/ogia/
parcelguide/
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City Infrastructure – Local Government
Administration
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Development of computer
technologies along with
geographic information
systems (GIS) created
opportunities to conduct this
work more efficiently. It is
much easier to store, maintain
and update a digital map than
an analog paper map. Digital
parcel mapping also simplifies
the process of locating the
information about any of the
parcels and markedly reduces
time necessary for making
changes and printing new
copies of the maps on paper.
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City Infrastructure – Local Government
Administration
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Digital parcel maps can be
integrated into a more general
geographic information system
that will allow users to maintain
and retrieve the record of
zoning, land use, conservation
easements, etc. Due to
increased efficiency of tax map
management and the potential
for valuable GIS applications,
many towns are transitioning
from paper to a digital form of
parcel mapping.
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GIS Uses: Infrastructure
Transportation, Power, Water and Sewer use GIS to:
•Identify service areas
•Rapidly locate and identify breaks in service
•Efficiently dispatch for service
•Streamline workloads
•Marketing strategies
•Case studies on GIS and Utilities
Portland, Oregon (PGE) uses
GIS to identify unauthorized power
pole use dramatically reducing
financial losses.
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http://www.esri.com/library/reprints/pdfs/enercur-portland.pdf
GIS Uses: Infrastructure
Transportation, Power, Water and Sewer use GIS to:
•Identify service areas
•Rapidly locate and identify breaks in service
•Efficiently dispatch for service
•Streamline workloads
•Marketing strategies
Portland, Oregon (PGE) uses
GIS to identify unauthorized power
pole use dramatically reducing
financial losses.
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http://www.esri.com/library/reprints/pdfs/enercur-portland.pdf
GIS Uses: Economic
Development and Business
Real Estate, Insurance, Retail, and Banking use GIS to:
•Determine property values
•Analyze markets
•Target market areas
•Determine regional needs
Sears uses GIS to increase
fleet efficiently for appliance
repair calls.
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http://www.esri.com/library/fliers/pdfs/cs-sears.pdf
Identifying Your Market
Business Attraction
Case Studies: Location and Relative
Location
• Using GIS to
reference a
proposed site
relative to both its
exact spot
geographically, but
as well what’s next
to it relative to
workforce and
economic impact.
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Lawrence County Hotel
Analysis
1. Results
1. 654 Hotels
2. Average Sales
$706,000
3. 6.8
Employees/Hotel
4. Most Frequent
Hotels in Region
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Best Western
Budget Inn
Days Inn
Super 8
Lake Land College
Student Residential Patterns – Fall 2008
• Using GIS to
reference a
proposed site
relative to both its
exact spot
geographically, but
as well what’s next
to it relative to
workforce and
economic impact.
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Lake Land College
Student (In-District Residential Patterns –
Fall 2008
• This maps measure the
distance between each
student (in-district) and
LLC’s main campus in
Mattoon
• Results
– N = 4,592
– Average = 19.48
miles
– Total = 89,462 miles
– Cost?
• Measure the impact of
online and extension
centers
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GIS Uses: Human Services
Police, Health, Disaster Management use GIS to:
•Track street incidents and violations
•Tracking wild land fires
•Emergency vehicle response
•Track and predict Avian flue outbreaks
•Site location for health services
•Evacuation planning
•Monitor probationers
Law Enforcement uses GIS to
develop surveillance, respond to
incidents, evaluate crime patterns.
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http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0206/watershed1of2.html
GIS Uses: Resources
Agriculture , Forestry, Coast, Water use GIS to:
•Analyze crop yield
•Site reforestation location
•Ocean current mapping
•Coastal erosion management
•Water quality management
•Point source pollution location
Water Resource Managers use
GIS to tract aquatic species, water
quality, and stream flow characteristics.
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http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0206/watershed1of2.html
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Seven Keys to GIS Success
Geographic Technologies Group
• 1. GIS Master Plan
• Defines a guide staff, data, training, hardware, and software
purchases.
• 2. Coordination
• Who manages and maintains GIS
• 3. Quick Success
• Demonstrate ROI fast (high impact projects)
• 4. Education
• Do your users and staff understand GIS and what it can do?
• 5. Ease of Use
• Develop easy solutions (web-based GIS)
• 6. Enterprise-Wide Implementation
• GIS should be used as widely as the word processor
• 7. Quantify Benefits vs. Cost
Cost – Benefit Analysis
Cost
• Building a GIS
– Jasper County would be an
estimated $300,000 for a
county wide parcel map
– Staffing?
– Training?
• Both LLC and EIU have
GIS training and
coursework that could be
accessed to address this
issue.
– Change!
Benefits
• Improve Efficiency
• Save Time
• Save Lives
• Comply with State and
Federal Mandates
• Protect Your Community
• Respond More Quickly to
Citizen/Customer
Request
• Improve Citizen Access
to Government
Summary
• Summary
– 1. GeoTech Center
– http://www.geotechcenter.org/
– June 16-17 GIS Professional
Development Workshop for
regional high school teachers
– Register