The Exponential Impact of Collaboration
Collaboration is more than mere addition …
• Collaboration requires interests, culture, tools, and processes that encourage
people to work together.
• An impacting collaborative experience will:
• Focus on a challenge-in-common,
• Reinforce intent with frequent interaction among team members, and
• Encourage intensive collective effort.
• In a 2006 Frost and Sullivan baseline study (2000 varying sized companies):
• 36% of a company's performance was attributed to its collaboration.
• Only 16% was attributed to strategic orientation.
• Only 7% was attributed to technology influences.
A Nationwide Consortium of Consortia
• AmericaView (AV) is a nationally organized consortium of state-based
members.
• Each member has its own state consortium.
• Focus is on promoting and supporting the many uses of remote
sensing.
• AV was organized in 2003 as a non-profit education and research
organization.
• As of 2014, AV is comprised of 40 “StateViews”
2014 Membership
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AlabamaView
AlaskaView
ArkansasView
CalView
ColoradoView
GeorgiaView
HawaiiView
IdahoView
IndianaView
IowaView
KansasView
KentuckyView
LouisianaView
MarylandView
MichiganView
MinnesotaView
MississippiView
MontanaView
NebraskaView
Auburn University
University of Fairbanks – Alaska
University of Arkansas—Fayetteville
University of California – Davis
Colorado State University
University of West Georgia
University of Hawaii
University of Idaho
Purdue University
Iowa State University
University of Kansas
Murray State University
University of Louisiana—Lafayette
Towson University
Michigan Tech Research Institute
University of Minnesota
University of Mississippi
Montana State University
University Of Nebraska—Lincoln
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New HampshireView
New YorkView
New MexicoView
North Carolina View
North Dakota View
OhioView
PennsylvaniaView
South Dakota View
TexasView
UtahView
VermontView
VirginiaView
West VirginiaView
WisconsinView
WyomingView
University of New Hampshire
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ConnecticutView
OregonView
OklahomaView
Rhode IslandView
University of Connecticut
Oregon State University
University of Oklahoma
University of Rhode Island
State University of New York
New Mexico State University
East Carolina University
University of North Dakota
University of Miami
California University of Pennsylvania
South Dakota State University
Stephen F. Austin State University
Utah State University
University of Vermont
Virginia Polytechnic
West Virginia University
University of Wisconsin—Madison
University of Wyoming
Full Members
Affiliate Members
with Grant
Affiliate Member
with no grant
Non Members
AmericaView Membership Map
“…university-led, state-based consortia (called StateViews) working together to maintain and
expand a network of state and local remote sensing scientists and specialists. More than 350
universities, non-profits, corporate and governmental entities affiliate with AmericaView…”
Promoting and Supporting Remote Sensing
Applications, Research, Education, and Out Reach
Primary Program of AmericaView
“National Land Remote Sensing Education Outreach and Research Activity” (NLRSEORA)
from the Land Remote Sensing (LRS) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Climate
and Land Use Change (CLU) mission area.
NLRSEORA Objectives
• Objective 1 – Nationwide Remote Sensing Data and Information Requirements
AV’s national and state consortia will collect information on use of existing remote sensing data products,
then consolidate and share this information at the national level.
• Objective 2 – Remote Sensing Applications
AV will expand remote sensing applications nationwide through its distributed national network in which
work is directed by AV’s state-based university consortia. Collaboration with AV’s many partners will
extend use and value.
• Objective 3 – Undergraduate and Graduate Research
AV, whose StateView consortia include over 180 colleges and universities, will stimulate remote sensing
research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Student research activities
exponentially impact the quality and quantity of the nation’s future workforce .
• Objective 4 – Education and Training, and Technology Transfer, and Outreach
Examples of Objective 1: Collaborations with other Groups
• StateView Principal Investigators participate with the Landsat Science Team
• AV helps collect existing and future needs for Civil Land Observation through its
extensive network at the local, state, and regional levels
• Ramesh Sivapilani’s (WyomingView) survey of AV members for input to USGS
• USGS input to the OSTP National Plan (aligning 13 domains of interest)
• A DOI North Central Climate Science Center award funds a phenology/remote
sensing project involving five AV StateViews
Monitoring Phenology in the North Central Region of the U.S.
• A monitoring network of field-placed cameras
• to collect and maintain an ongoing stream of plant phenology data
• To support research, education, management and policy,
• Improved understanding of how short- and long-term climate will
influence ecosystem processes and services.
• Provision of spatially compatible field data to validate remote sensing
data and geospatial analyses.
• Download accompanying MODIS and Landsat 8 remote sensing data for each
site for one year
Examples of Objective 2: Remote Sensing Applications
From among 37 Activities
• Remote Sensing Research Applications
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Tree Canopies/Forests/Crop Biomass/Land Cover
Soil Moisture/Evapotranspiration
Water Quality/Watersheds/Run-off
Natural Disasters
Invasive Species
Urban Heat Islands
• Development of Tools and Resources
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Software-tooled Tutorials for K-16 educators and students
Accessible digital imagery mosaics
Landcover Datasets as service to local, regional, and state entities
Earth Observation Depot Network (EODN)
The Earth Observation Depot Network (EODN)
• A community owned, distributed cloud content distribution system for
remote sensing data
• AmericaView is partnering with
• USGS EROS Center
• NSF-funded Data Logistics Toolkit project team
• Eight StateViews have committed interest
• A global resource for the timely distribution of remote sensing data.
• Began as a high-performance, parallel downloads of data stored on the NSF-funded
Research and Education Data Depot Network (REDDnet)
• Additional development through the NSF-funded Data Logistics Toolkit and other
projects, has provisioned a production-level content distribution network for remote
sensing data
Examples of Objective 3: Undergraduate and Graduate Research
• Invasive Species. ColoradoView will encourage remote research and remote sensing experience at the
university level by providing funding and guidance for student projects and internships
• Lava flow mapping. Hawai’iView will train an undergraduate student as part of a project to evaluate change
in lava flows using moderate resolution imaging data sets for mapping the location of new lava flows and
estimating their advance rates.
• UAV Lesson Plan. IdahoView will work with a University of Idaho McCall Outdoor Science School graduate
student to develop and test a lesson plan that makes use of a low cost UAV and time-lapse cameras
• Soil moisture estimation. South DakotaView will conduct an undergraduate and a graduate student research
activity in collaboration with the South Dakota State Climatologist’s office to estimate spatial soil moisture
content. .
• Record of Change. A mini-grant for a student research intern at the University of North Georgia will be made
for continuing work on the orthorectification of the Chattahoochee National Forest 1938 historic imagery.
These historic photomaps provide baseline to the Landsat record of change.
• Hire undergraduate. IowaView will hire a GIS/RS undergraduate to provide staff support for the Iowa
Geographic Map Server, collecting and researching historical orrthophotography and flood imagery from its
state homeland security agency.
Examples of Objective 4: Education and Training, and
Technology Transfer, and Outreach
• AV will open Remote Sensing Curriculum Portal (AVRSCP)
• Over 90 educational resources with the ability to search for educational resources
• With search fields such as grade level, type of resource (e.g. lecture, lab, video), software
requirements, and type of imagery (e.g., Landsat, MODIS).
• AV will undertake a collaborative initiative, supported by several StateViews, to
recruit and train veterans for tomorrow’s geospatial workforce.
• Remote sensing certificate programs (CaliforniaView),
• Educating veterans at the undergraduate and graduate level (MontanaView), and
• Advising veterans who are just commencing their undergraduate programs
(VermontView).
• IndianaView will promote its geospatial lesson plans
• Incorporate state education initiatives and Landsat (including Landsat 8) data
• A joint project with the Geography Educators’ Network of Indiana. (Grades 6-8)
Examples of Objective 4: Education and Training, and
Technology Transfer, and Outreach
• South DakotaView consortium members will collaboratively sponsor
• A South Dakota Geospatial Data Users Conference in October of 2014 and
• A display for 4th graders and their teachers at the Big Sioux Water Festival.
• LouisianaView will host, with the USGS National Wetlands Research Center
• The “2015 Louisiana Hurricane Season National and Local Geospatial/Imagery Data
Availability: Data Mining Workshop” in June, 2015
• Materials for hurricane preparedness and responsiveness
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PennsylvaniaView will lead a collaborative effort
• West VirginiaView, VirginiaView, MarylandView, and PennsylvaniaView
• Revision of the ChesapeakeView website
• Future Workforce (pre-college) Earth Observation Day (EOD)
• Conducted on the same day, across several StateViews. April 8, 2015
• Scope and effectiveness of the event to benefit multiple communities across the nation
• Corporate sponsors encouraged
Earth Observation Day 2014
• LouisianaView 50 High School Earth as Art Exhibit
• OhioView K-6, 7-9, 10-12 Awards at SATELLITES Conference
• TexasView Jr Level Course at Midwestern State University with EODay Tutorials
• IdahoView 6th graders at McCall outdoor Science School
• KentuckyView 18 Undergraduate and Graduate Murray State posters, 6 graduate and 20
undergraduate term projects
• GeorgiaView 190 K-12 students and 7 teachers
• South DakotaView Big Sioux Water Festival 1136 4th grade students
• VirginiaView Exhibit at Kid’s Tech University; Virginia Tech symposium 33 undergraduate and graduate
• CaliforniaView Interactive:Landsat State Puzzle – Matching Games
• WyomingView Spectral Reflectance with 8th grade students and monitoring environmental change
• North DakotaView Display in Student Union
• PennsylvaniaView Citizen Scientists discussions
Effective Collaboration Yields Collective Impact
• Align with programs, projects, goals
• Work together for outcomes
• Prove value of an idea or concept
• Improve value of work and effort
• Adds work to routine assignment
• Becomes the essence of the work
• Advocates the strategy
• Effects the objectives
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Roberta (Bobbi) Lenczowski
AmericaView Executive Director
roberta.lenczowski@sbcglobal.net
314 973 8328