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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">----- Message from s1nelson@blm.gov on Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:48:21 -0800</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> To: "NILE Emmor H" <emmor.h.nile@state.or.us> </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> orthoimagery-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us, "SOUNHEIN Randy" </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Subj Re: [orthoimagery] Dec 2010 Status Report </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Emmor,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I didn't realize that you were to the point of scanning your state-owned aerial film. What's the state of funding for that?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Last I spoke with a group of you (recent OFIT meeting), the only inventory list of state-held, historic aerial film was with your agency - ODF (do I remember right?) If your pilot has or would become an actual contract, you'd need, at the very minumum, an inventory of all the holdings and an estimate of the number of rolls or frames you have to scan.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The second thing that you will need, to make the scans at all useful, is an index of all your (state-held) aerial photo projects. Is there any effort being made to do that?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Susan L. Nelson</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office Mapping Sciences / Aerial Photography voice 503.808.6139 /fax 503.808.6190</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> "NILE Emmor H"</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Re: [orthoimagery] Dec 2010 Status</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Report</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Randy,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">There are a couple of omissions from your report. The first is that of the Aerial Imagery Index Data Standard development process sponsored by the Orthoimagery FIT. Many members have given significant input to this standard. Implementation of this standard will ensure that appropriate imagery metadata is collected and maintained.</FONT></P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.odf.state.or.us/gis/fit/Photo_Index_Standard_Version_108.pdf"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.odf.state.or.us/gis/fit/Photo_Index_Standard_Version_108.pdf</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Also the FIT funded Historical Imagery Scanning pilot is proceeding well. We are working with four scanning vendors to scan rolls of film from ODOT, OPRD and ODF. The scanning is done at the 14-16 micron resolution which gives a +/-.6’ ground resolution for 1:12,000 imagery.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Here is a comparison that Brady Callahan created showing a portion of the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1939 imagery, lidar, and the 2005 imagery.</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.odf.state.or.us/gis/images/historical_orchard.jpg"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.odf.state.or.us/gis/images/historical_orchard.jpg</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Emmor Nile, GISP</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">GIS Coordinator</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Oregon Department of Forestry</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">2600 State Street</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Salem, OR 97310</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">503-945-7418</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">From: orthoimagery-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[</FONT><A HREF="mailto:orthoimagery-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mailto:orthoimagery-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">] On Behalf Of SOUNHEIN Randy</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:10 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To: orthoimagery@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Subject: [orthoimagery] Dec 2010 Status Report</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Orthoimagery Status Report Dec 2010 Good morning folks - Thought it was time to send out a status report on Orthoimagery before the end of the year. I want to briefly let everyone know of the passing of Michael Golden last Oct 2010 while on a sea kayaking trip down in Mexico. I would like to thank the US Forest Service and Michael for their contributions to the Orthoimagery FIT group over the years.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">A number of folks have asked about acquiring the 2009 imagery in the ˝ meter format. As many of you are aware that the 1 meter data arrived in late 2009 and the ˝ meter imagery arrived to the Dept. of Administration’s</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">(DAS) GEO office in summer 2010. DAS GEO discovered some issues with the datasets and worked with the vendor to resolve the issues and eventually got replacement datasets and so they are now releasing limited copies of</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the 2009 ˝ meter datasets. To obtain copies please contact David Mather (</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">david.mather@state.or.us) over at DAS GEO. The BLM Portland office too has a copy of the data and if needed please contact Cory Plank (</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">corey_plank@blm.gov) for any data requests. DAS Geo also has made</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">arrangements with Ascent GIS in Spokane who for a fee will, make copies,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">reprojected datasets, create mosaics, etc. Contact Mike McGuire (</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mikem@ascentgis.com) </FONT><A HREF="http://www.ascentgis.com"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.ascentgis.com</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Eventually in 2011 the datasets will be made available as a Web Service.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">However before this can all happen DAS GEO informed me there are a few steps that need to take place: 1.) Servers configured with ERDAS Apollo software ( expect this to be done within 3 weeks), 2. ) Conversion of TIFs to ECW format (1 week processing time), and 3. ) Serve the data up (maybe w/in a month?). For specifics please contact Dave Mather at DAS GEO.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">For the coming year here is what is happing: In Summer 2011, the USDA FSA will again be acquiring updated aerials via the NAIP program, however this go around they are running a pilot program of capturing true ˝ meter IR based (4 band imagery) digital data which requires an increase in flights</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">as imagery will be captured via a lower elevation. However, even though</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the flights are being captured via 4 band imagery, final processing and output will still be of the 3 band RGB 1 meter spec’d format.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The logic behind this decision is that this will eliminates the extra steps required to produce any buy up products such as CIR or ˝ meter products that may be requested to the project. So any contracting/buy up to NAIP</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">needs to go through FSA directly. Below are some figures that FSA</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">provided to me for buy up products:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> 1.) To acquire statewide ˝ meter imagery the buy up cost is: $1,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> 030,000.00.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> 2.) For the infrared products the cost would be approximately</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> $172,000.00.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Finally we still need to tend to the unfinished business of creating an Orthoimagery Stewardship Plan. I know this is something that Milt Hill and I have discussed that really needs to take place. I have been a bit delayed with getting this task together as I have spent the last few months programming in the FLEX environment creating a Web based GIS application for the State Lands Inventory project. Since this work is nearing completion I will be able to spend more time on the Orthoimagery Stewardship Plan. Should anyone like to get involved please send a response via the Orthoimagery Listserver.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Happy Holidays to all …</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Randy Sounhein</FONT>
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