Jamie Carter
NOAA Pacific Services Center, Honolulu, HI
Christine Feinholz
I.M. Systems Group, Honolulu, HI
Kalisi Fa`anunu Mausio
NOAA Pacific Islands Regional Office, Honolulu, HI
Participatory and Place-Based GIS
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Coral reefs in Hawaii are facing increasing pressures from a growing variety of ocean uses, as well as increased coastal development and watershed impacts. The Maui Coastal Use Mapping Project is a first step to improving regional coastal and watershed management activities. This project leveraged participatory mapping methods developed at NOAA’s Marine Protected Areas Center to interactively and digitally map coastal uses with the participation of the public. The Maui Coastal Use Mapping Project documents human coastal and marine uses in the area extending from the Honolua watershed to the Wahikuli watershed and from the coast to the state jurisdictional boundary of three nautical miles out to sea. In September 2011, three full-day workshops were held at the Lahaina Senior Center in Maui with 47 local stakeholders to map coastal uses in this region. Seventeen extractive and non-extractive activities were mapped throughout the region, and the results are presented online for use by federal, local and state governments, NGO’s and the general public. The Maui Coastal Use Mapping Project is a partnership of the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR), NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO), and NOAA’s National Ocean Service, Pacific Services Center (PSC). This is a project of the Hawaii Coral Program’s Local Action Strategies (LAS), with funding from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP).
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Kipuka: Expanding Place-Based Knowledge Through GIS
Kamoa Quitevis
Zachary Smith
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Honolulu, HI
Participatory and Place-Based GIS
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has built a geographic database to help answer questions about land use in Hawaii. Understanding why cultural sites exist where they do is as important as the history of the land itself. This information goes a long way in furthering the mission of OHA to malama the resources of Hawaii and perpetuate Native Hawaiian culture. The understanding and relating of information about location is a long-standing practice among Native Hawaiians. GIS can mimic the oral tradition of Hawaiians by acting as a repository of a great history of geographical knowledge. Kipuka, the GIS of OHA, was created to strengthen contemporary Native Hawaiian identity and provide this knowledge to all the people of Hawaii.
This presentation will discuss the process of creating and providing a GIS to the public that blends culture with land and history in Hawaii. We will look at some of the issues involved in GIS implementation in a state agency as well as overcoming problems that occur when hosting these resources on the internet. The presentation will also examine what data is available within Kipuka and how the data is used to meet the research needs of OHA. Also on the agenda is a glimpse into the goals of Kipuka and how OHA will provide GIS services to the public in the future.
Zachary Smith
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Honolulu, HI
Participatory and Place-Based GIS
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has built a geographic database to help answer questions about land use in Hawaii. Understanding why cultural sites exist where they do is as important as the history of the land itself. This information goes a long way in furthering the mission of OHA to malama the resources of Hawaii and perpetuate Native Hawaiian culture. The understanding and relating of information about location is a long-standing practice among Native Hawaiians. GIS can mimic the oral tradition of Hawaiians by acting as a repository of a great history of geographical knowledge. Kipuka, the GIS of OHA, was created to strengthen contemporary Native Hawaiian identity and provide this knowledge to all the people of Hawaii.
This presentation will discuss the process of creating and providing a GIS to the public that blends culture with land and history in Hawaii. We will look at some of the issues involved in GIS implementation in a state agency as well as overcoming problems that occur when hosting these resources on the internet. The presentation will also examine what data is available within Kipuka and how the data is used to meet the research needs of OHA. Also on the agenda is a glimpse into the goals of Kipuka and how OHA will provide GIS services to the public in the future.
Social Media Mapping: Unstructured Data Indexing & Geospatial Search
Harley Parks
Jerry Giles
Todd Hall
Will Yipp
Tim Gramp
PACOM PWC APAN, Pearl Harbor, HI
Real-Time Data Acquisition
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
All Partners Access Network (APAN) is a social media website (https://community.apan.org) for information sharing and collaboration between U.S. Military, U.S. Interagency, foreign military, international organizations (IOs), nongovernment organizations (NGOs), medical community, and civilian authorities. APAN augments the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) responsibility for the Department of Defense (DOD) Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) in support of all Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and mission partners in the respective Area of Responsibility (AOR).
During the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts and International response to 2011 Japan Disaster, APAN demonstrates an open and secure network capability supporting critical humanitarian missions, exercises, and operations in need of collecting, storing, creating and distributing geospatial incident awareness and assessment information. APAN clients establish profiles, join online communities, write blogs, participate in forums, post/view media, schedule events, glean knowledge in wikis, and find information through multi-faceted search capability.
The APAN GIS provides the geographic context for users, groups, blogs, forums, media, calendars, wikis, and search engines. APAN's GIS strategy embraces security policies, harvest unstructured geographic data sources, utilize crowd sourcing, establish partnerships, and propose strategic directions while supporting daily operations. The geospatial applications range from venue planning, routing, capability profiles, resource distributions, event and staging locations, human impacts and response assessment, to real-time location updates. APAN's social media and GIS services use the internet and mobile technologies to leverage a unique opportunity to meet both Open Government and information security concerns.
Jerry Giles
Todd Hall
Will Yipp
Tim Gramp
PACOM PWC APAN, Pearl Harbor, HI
Real-Time Data Acquisition
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
All Partners Access Network (APAN) is a social media website (https://community.apan.org) for information sharing and collaboration between U.S. Military, U.S. Interagency, foreign military, international organizations (IOs), nongovernment organizations (NGOs), medical community, and civilian authorities. APAN augments the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) responsibility for the Department of Defense (DOD) Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) in support of all Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and mission partners in the respective Area of Responsibility (AOR).
During the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts and International response to 2011 Japan Disaster, APAN demonstrates an open and secure network capability supporting critical humanitarian missions, exercises, and operations in need of collecting, storing, creating and distributing geospatial incident awareness and assessment information. APAN clients establish profiles, join online communities, write blogs, participate in forums, post/view media, schedule events, glean knowledge in wikis, and find information through multi-faceted search capability.
The APAN GIS provides the geographic context for users, groups, blogs, forums, media, calendars, wikis, and search engines. APAN's GIS strategy embraces security policies, harvest unstructured geographic data sources, utilize crowd sourcing, establish partnerships, and propose strategic directions while supporting daily operations. The geospatial applications range from venue planning, routing, capability profiles, resource distributions, event and staging locations, human impacts and response assessment, to real-time location updates. APAN's social media and GIS services use the internet and mobile technologies to leverage a unique opportunity to meet both Open Government and information security concerns.
Using a Map Application Template in a GIS Enterprise Environment
John Higuchi
BEI Consultants, Honolulu, HI
Jon Hodge
City & County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Application Development
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
Problem: How do you deliver streamlined and efficient map services on a limited GIS development budget?
Approach: Reuse a single map application template that has common elements but delivers focused information and functionality tailored to each stakeholder. The approach involved keeping the user interface simple-to-use to increase adoption rates - think cellphone interface not a 747 instrumentation panel. This significantly reduces the development time and cost. A reusable map template can be configured & implemented under a month.
Solution: Four (4) separate mapping applications: Parcel, Parks, Refuse Collection Sites, and Public Safety were developed using ESRI ArcGIS Server and the Silverlight platform. They all use a common template, share the same basemaps and deliver focused information in a homogenous user-friendly format.
Conclusion: In an enterprise environment, a map application template can be used successfully to solve all 4 stakeholders within budget while maintaining feature rich functionality and meeting various users' objectives. Development time was significantly reduced from 6 - 8 months to 1 - 2 months which allowed the City to offer services economically and sooner rather than later. Since 2009, the 4 maps in the ‘Fastmaps' series are all publicly available to Internet users along with the original ‘Advanced' map.
BEI Consultants, Honolulu, HI
Jon Hodge
City & County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Application Development
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
Problem: How do you deliver streamlined and efficient map services on a limited GIS development budget?
Approach: Reuse a single map application template that has common elements but delivers focused information and functionality tailored to each stakeholder. The approach involved keeping the user interface simple-to-use to increase adoption rates - think cellphone interface not a 747 instrumentation panel. This significantly reduces the development time and cost. A reusable map template can be configured & implemented under a month.
Solution: Four (4) separate mapping applications: Parcel, Parks, Refuse Collection Sites, and Public Safety were developed using ESRI ArcGIS Server and the Silverlight platform. They all use a common template, share the same basemaps and deliver focused information in a homogenous user-friendly format.
Conclusion: In an enterprise environment, a map application template can be used successfully to solve all 4 stakeholders within budget while maintaining feature rich functionality and meeting various users' objectives. Development time was significantly reduced from 6 - 8 months to 1 - 2 months which allowed the City to offer services economically and sooner rather than later. Since 2009, the 4 maps in the ‘Fastmaps' series are all publicly available to Internet users along with the original ‘Advanced' map.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Citizen Participation in Redistricting Using Online GIS
Royce Jones
Esri, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
Citizen participation in redistricting has traditionally been limited to submitting testimony at commission meetings and public hearings. In 2011, the Hawaii Reapportionment Commission made an online GIS application (the same one they used) available to the public to create their own redistricting plans to submit to the commission. In this presentation you'll learn about the online GIS application, how it was used by the public, and how it impacted decisions made by the commission.
Esri, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
Citizen participation in redistricting has traditionally been limited to submitting testimony at commission meetings and public hearings. In 2011, the Hawaii Reapportionment Commission made an online GIS application (the same one they used) available to the public to create their own redistricting plans to submit to the commission. In this presentation you'll learn about the online GIS application, how it was used by the public, and how it impacted decisions made by the commission.
Hawaii Coqui Crawl Project - Counting Frogs With Cell Phones
Sam Droege
USGS PWRC, Beltsville, MD
Derek Masaki
USGS NGP/CSAS, Kahului, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The Coqui Crawl project will work to model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frog in Hawaii...using a network of volunteers armed with mobile handsets.
The model for this effort is the 2009 New York City Cricket Crawl where 300 volunteers, assisted by USGS biologists, used their cellphones to survey for native crickets and katydids in the heart of America’s most populous city. The teams found all 7 targeted species and provided new occurrence points for an insect group last surveyed in New York over 100 years ago.
The lead scientist involved in the project, Sam Droege, will lead a discussion on the methods used in the NYC survey, review outcomes, and provide guidance on conducting a frog survey in Hawaii.
USGS PWRC, Beltsville, MD
Derek Masaki
USGS NGP/CSAS, Kahului, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The Coqui Crawl project will work to model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frog in Hawaii...using a network of volunteers armed with mobile handsets.
The model for this effort is the 2009 New York City Cricket Crawl where 300 volunteers, assisted by USGS biologists, used their cellphones to survey for native crickets and katydids in the heart of America’s most populous city. The teams found all 7 targeted species and provided new occurrence points for an insect group last surveyed in New York over 100 years ago.
The lead scientist involved in the project, Sam Droege, will lead a discussion on the methods used in the NYC survey, review outcomes, and provide guidance on conducting a frog survey in Hawaii.
Crowdsourcing VGI: An Elegant Solution to a Thorny Problem
Ronald Cannarella
DLNR/Division of Forestry & Wildlife, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
GIS is but one of the major innovations in the last 20 years. The internet is another. The World Wide Web has evolved to "Web 2.0", shorthand for social media apps such as facebook and twitter. Smart phones eliminated "long distance" charges, and video enabled cell phones have toppled mighty armies.
Meanwhile, we expect our government to do more with less. Hawaii, once the most isolated place on Earth is now a desired dream destinations for millions. Visitors are struck with the beauty of our islands, but have no knowledge of the hazards in paradise. People get injured, and the State gets sued for not putting a warning sign. Consumers import pets and plants that escape into the wild and wreck havoc with our environment. How can we hope to maintain our watersheds, our economy, and our lifestyle?
By "crowdsourcing" Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI). Crowdsourcing is "broadcasting the need for assistance to an unknown group of participants". VGI is information about a place at a specific time. By combining these technologies everyone can become part of the solution to protect the `aina. NOAA has already created the "Marine Debris Tracker" app for iPhone/Android. Good timing; a huge patch of debris from Japan is headed our way.
GIS geeks, think of the possibilities! We need data, the community wants services. We all love Hawaii. We'll continue this topic at the unconference on Wednesday in cooperation with the real Web 2.0 experts; The Social Media Club of Hawaii. Chocolate, meet peanut butter.
DLNR/Division of Forestry & Wildlife, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
GIS is but one of the major innovations in the last 20 years. The internet is another. The World Wide Web has evolved to "Web 2.0", shorthand for social media apps such as facebook and twitter. Smart phones eliminated "long distance" charges, and video enabled cell phones have toppled mighty armies.
Meanwhile, we expect our government to do more with less. Hawaii, once the most isolated place on Earth is now a desired dream destinations for millions. Visitors are struck with the beauty of our islands, but have no knowledge of the hazards in paradise. People get injured, and the State gets sued for not putting a warning sign. Consumers import pets and plants that escape into the wild and wreck havoc with our environment. How can we hope to maintain our watersheds, our economy, and our lifestyle?
By "crowdsourcing" Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI). Crowdsourcing is "broadcasting the need for assistance to an unknown group of participants". VGI is information about a place at a specific time. By combining these technologies everyone can become part of the solution to protect the `aina. NOAA has already created the "Marine Debris Tracker" app for iPhone/Android. Good timing; a huge patch of debris from Japan is headed our way.
GIS geeks, think of the possibilities! We need data, the community wants services. We all love Hawaii. We'll continue this topic at the unconference on Wednesday in cooperation with the real Web 2.0 experts; The Social Media Club of Hawaii. Chocolate, meet peanut butter.
Crickets, Gecko’s, and Coqui’s – Oh my!
Sam Droege
Derek Masaki
US Geological Survey
Isla Young
MEDB/WIT
GIS in Education: K-12 and University
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 1:30 to 4:30 pm
Creating a dynamic, fun, and relevant learning environment is the key to engaging Hawaii students in the STEM fields of GIS, biology, ecology, and computer science. Join USGS, HIGICC and MEDB’s Women In Technology (WIT) project for a fun educational workshop focused on the Hawaii Coqui Crawl project working to identify locations, model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frogs, house geckos and native crickets in Hawaii.
Students and the general public participating in the event will learn about invasive species, unique Hawaiian native species, and gain a better understanding of the unique biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands (develop a sense of place). Teachers and students will be introduced to a species count, use of technology to track the creatures, sound analysis, and create an awareness of Hawaii’s amazing native and invasive species – located right here in our own backyards!
Hawaii’s amazing Natural Resources & Invasive Species Committee, the Bishop Museum, Geospatial experts, and the Educational community will be partnering to provide an excellent opportunity for real world issues to be studied in the school classroom, and outside in our Hawaii outdoors classroom.
Derek Masaki
US Geological Survey
Isla Young
MEDB/WIT
GIS in Education: K-12 and University
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 1:30 to 4:30 pm
Creating a dynamic, fun, and relevant learning environment is the key to engaging Hawaii students in the STEM fields of GIS, biology, ecology, and computer science. Join USGS, HIGICC and MEDB’s Women In Technology (WIT) project for a fun educational workshop focused on the Hawaii Coqui Crawl project working to identify locations, model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frogs, house geckos and native crickets in Hawaii.
Students and the general public participating in the event will learn about invasive species, unique Hawaiian native species, and gain a better understanding of the unique biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands (develop a sense of place). Teachers and students will be introduced to a species count, use of technology to track the creatures, sound analysis, and create an awareness of Hawaii’s amazing native and invasive species – located right here in our own backyards!
Hawaii’s amazing Natural Resources & Invasive Species Committee, the Bishop Museum, Geospatial experts, and the Educational community will be partnering to provide an excellent opportunity for real world issues to be studied in the school classroom, and outside in our Hawaii outdoors classroom.
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