Colorado Geospatial Survey

The Colorado Geospatial Information Advisory Council (COGIAC) represents local, regional, state, and federal, higher education and private sector interests in the geospatial industry to the State's CIO. We are requesting information for efforts the Council has initiated to facilitate information sharing across the state and develop stewardship approaches for geospatial data. The Council has undertaken three projects to start. The first involves assisting the Secretary of State's office in facilitating GIS input into local updates of the Secretary of State's statewide voter registration database. The second is a stewardship process for a complete, accurate data set of public safety, medical, education and other facilities across the state. The third project is a communication program to ensure information about the Council and GIS activities across the state is available.

This is an excellent opportunity for ASPRS members residing and working in Colorado to contribute information and input for various important geospatial initiatives for the State of Colorado.

Two online surveys are available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7BVY8HX
Each survey takes between 10 and 15 minutes to complete. Your input is much appreciated and will be seriously considered as geospatial initiatives are developed.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Jeff Liedtke at worldvu@comcast.net, or Jon Gottsegen at jon.gottsegen@state.co.us. Information about the Council may be found at http://bit.ly/9t3yjx.

DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge -- Call for Entries

For the first-time ever, remote sensing and GIS researchers have access to high-resolution imagery with 8 spectral bands, including coastal blue, yellow, red-edge and NIR2. Do you have a valuable application to use this new data?

Enter the 8-Band Challenge to get free imagery for your research and a chance to win $5,000 and present your findings at Geospatial World Forum in January!

DigitalGlobe will make 8-band imagery available to qualifying researchers to study the impact of using this data for:
Land Use/Land Cover Analysis
Environmental Mapping and Monitoring
Coastal Habitat Mapping
Feature Extraction
and more...

5 Winners and 10 Runners up will be selected

Submit your proposal by August 31 and learn more at: www.digitalglobe.com/8bandchallenge

Download our free whitepaper to learn more about 8-band capabilities at: www.digitalglobe.com/8bandchallenge

Media Sponsor
Organizers of the Geospatial World Forum, January 18 - 21, 2011 in Hyderabad, India.

Geospatial World Forum shall offer a platform for the various stakeholders of geospatial technologies from across the globe to come together to deliberate upon the "Dimensions and Directions of Geospatial Industry."

The ASPRS Webinar Workshop Series

Have you wanted to attend an ASPRS conference workshop but didn’t have the time to spend away from the office?
Are your travel funds limited? No problem. Here’s why: ASPRS Workshops are now at your fingertips!

Upcoming Workshops in the ASPRS Webinar Series:

Assessing the Accuracy of GIS Information Created from Remotely Sensed Data:
Principles and Practices

Instructors:
Dr. Russell Congalton, University of New Hampshire
Kass Green, Kass Green and Associates

Webinar offered in two 2-hour segments on Wednesday, August 25th
11:00 am - 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time
(You must attend both segments to qualify for CEUs)

The deadline for Registration is August 17, so please register now.

For complete information on this Webinar Workshop, go to http://www.asprs.org/webinarseries/index.html.

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Additional upcoming ASPRS webinars include:

Lidar Fundamentals and Applications – September 16, 2010

An Overview of Mobile Mapping – September 21, 2010

Preparing for ASPRS Certification – October 28 & 29, 2010

Orthophotography – December 2, 2010

NOTE: ASPRS Webinars are intended for the sole use and benefit of those registered to take the Workshop. That means that Each Person who attends a Webinar is required to register. ASPRS Sustaining Member companies who have multiple employees who want to take the webinar at the same time should contact Kim Tilley at kimt@asprs.org for information on quantity discounts. Attending a webinar without registering is an ethical violation.

Ignite Spatial NoCo 2.0 coming Sept. 14 to Windsor, CO

There is a limited amount of tickets and we won’t be able to add more due to the venue limitations, so get yours early! That being said, it is a great venue and will provide for an incredible evening geospatial enlightenment and social networking.

http://ignitespatialnoco2.eventbrite.com

Also, we are still taking submissions for sponsorships at all levels. If you have an interest in supporting this social gathering of geo spatial consciousness, please review our blog for details and the submission form. You can also be a Neighborhood or Barstool sponsor for the event, if you want to help out the cause and support the event but don’t want to commit to the higher levels of sponsorships. These can be found on the ticket site at 9am as well. And again, all sponsorship levels include tickets to the event this time around. Link to the Ignite Spatial NoCo blog:

http://www.bit.ly/isnocoblog

And, of course we are taking submissions for presentations. 14 slots to show off your blinding brilliance in the geospatial arena. We also enjoy a good talk on how your GPS unit got you lost in the jungles of New York. Presentation submission forms can be downloaded from our blog site mentioned above. We will have another posting on our blog later today with some pointers on putting together a great Ignite talk.

Thanks again for the overwhelming support for this event and we’ll see you all there on September 14th!

Cheers,
The Ignite Spatial NoCo planning team
Brian P Sullivan, GIS Manager
Brian.Sullivan@greeleygov.com

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You can also find this on Meetup under the OpenStreetMap group.
For more details, see the full listing:
http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/calendar/14537024/

When: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:00 PM

Where: Austin’s Homestead at Pelican Lakes
1600 Pelican Lakes Point,
Windsor, CO 80550
970-674-1100

GIS in the Rockies Conference Sept. 14-17, 2010 in Loveland, CO

Have you registered yet for GIS in the Rockies???

Workshops: Monday, Sept. 14 -- http://www.gisintherockies.org/GISITR2010/Schedule/Preconf.aspx

Main conference sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 15 & 16 --
http://www.gisintherockies.org/GISITR2010/Schedule/Schedule.aspx

Job Fair: Thursday, Sept. 16 from 2 - 4 pm -- http://www.gisintherockies.org/GISITR2010/JobFair/JobFair.aspx

Tours: Friday, Sept. 17 -- http://www.gisintherockies.org/GISITR2010/Schedule/Tours.aspx

Interactive Workshop on Spatial Technologies for Career & Technical Education: Friday, Sept. 17 --
Register at http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?436405

Don't miss it!

New Book Available: Journey Without Destination

Dear fellow Photogrammetry and Geomatics Professionals,
Getting a book published is hard work. Writing it, then getting it accepted for publication, and finally seeing it in print is only the beginning, unless you are John Grisham or someone in that league. If the book doesn’t sell all your effort was for naught save your own satisfaction of actually holding your own book in your hot little hands. Many of the stories in my book revolve around photogrammetry and other mapping and geomatics activities, fields of endeavor that I accidentally stumbled into early in my life. Now, in the autumn of my life I wrote a book about it: Journey Without Destination (ISBN: 978-1-60813-206-5), which has recently become available and can be ordered at the publisher’s online bookstore, at Amazon.com, the Barnes & Noble online bookstore and at many local bookstores. For the book to actually physically show up on bookstore shelves, the bookseller has to be convinced that the book will sell.

Our highly specialized profession has mostly flown under the radar. My Microsoft version of MS Word does not even acknowledge the words photogrammetry and geomatics as legitimate words of the English language. You can help bring it more prominently into the awareness of the general public. The world needs to know about us. My book tells stories that can lead to that public awareness.

So, if you buy my book from whichever source, talk to your local bookstore(s) and encourage them to stock it on their shelves. Also, on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble online stores you can post a reader’s review, which can help spread the word.
Here is the link to my book’s website again:

www.publishedauthors.net/karlkleinn

With kind regards from Texas,
Karl E. Kleinn
Mapping & Charting Consultant
Houston, Texas USA
(1) 281-635-9268
karlkleinn@hotmail.com

Rocky Mtn. Region Awarded Newsletter of the Year by National!

We have just learned that the Rocky Mountain Region has once again been recognized by ASPRS National in the
Region of the Year awards! We will receive First Honorable Mention for the 2010 Region of the Year, and
FIRST PLACE for the 2010 Newsletter of the Year award!!!
Congratulations to all who served on the 2009 ASPRS-RMR Board of Directors for these accomplishments,
and many thanks for all your good work!

The hand-embossed award certificates will be presented at an awards luncheon at the upcoming ASPRS conference in San Diego.
Jeff Liedtke, Past President, Rocky Mtn. Region

Rocky Mtn. Region Scholarship Winners Announced!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 ASPRS-RMR Scholarship Competition!

First Place Winners (each to receive $1,000):
Mr. Joseph Hoover, University of Denver
Ms. Kristen Hestir, New Mexico State University
Mr. Marques Munis, Colorado State University

Second Place Winners (each is eligible to receive imagery/DEM data):
Mr. Gabriel Bellante, Montana State University
Mr. Jeremy Dunjn, University of Denver
Ms. Elizabeth Paulson, University of Colorado at Boulder

2010 Rocky Mtn. Region Board of Directors

Congratulations to all new and continuing members of the ASPRS-RMR Board of Directors for 2010:
President - Trent Casi
Vice President - Ramesh Sivanpillai
Treasurer - Ralph Vomaske*
Secretary - Eric Vossenkemper
National Director - Jeff Young
Regional Director (Newsletter/Communications) - Kristi Edwards
Regional Director (At-Large) - Clyde Hubbard
Regional Director (General, MT) - Alex Philp
Regional Director (GIS in the Rockies) - Matt Cross
Regional Director (GISITR) - Niki Noon
Past President - Jeff Liedtke

* Note that as of March 17, Ralph Vomaske has been appointed as Treasurer to fill the vacancy left by Linda Meyer, who has resigned due to time constraints.

See the Officers page for contact information.

Two useful resources:

Matt Artz at ESRI operates a new site containing news, resources, commentary, and interviews on the use of GIS for science, on: http://gisandscience.com

A new resource called GIS Pathway is on: http://gispathway.com
Its goal is to “help guide you to success in the world of GIS.”
The whole site is operated by a community college student!

Attention Students!!

Signatures, the new edition of the ASPRS Student blog is now available online at http://asprssignature.blogspot.com. The blog allows you to take advantage of electronic media which includes RSS subscriptions and links to other sites that hold additional information.

Check it out for yourself and do not hesitate to leave comments and ideas for us to use in the future. Also, you may subscribe to Signatures to stay up to date with the latest articles and information made to the site.

Also, check out the ASPRS Student Network in Yahoo Groups! This forum is designed to give student members an opportunity to network with each other on a wide range of topics such as job opportunities, personal achievements, and general industry news. ASPRS student members are welcome to join this new network by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asprs_students/.

If you have any comments or suggestions regarding articles or materials for future newsletters, please contact me at jellerbe@asprs.org.
Jerrard Ellerbe
Membership Services/ASPRS Newsletter Staff

NEW JOB OPENINGS:

Navigate to JOBS to see the latest job openings.
Visit this site often if you are looking for new employment opportunities; the page is updated on a regular basis.

Check out latest news and imagery at NASA's Earth Observatory Web Site!

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

We Invite You to Get Involved

To suggest new activities, offer compliments or feedback, or help with the various activities
underway in the Region, get in touch with a member of the Board.
Contact information is on the Officers page.

ASPRS offers certification in GIS, Remote Sensing, and Photogrammetry,
in six categories.

We were the first professional organization to offer certification in these disciplines.

For more info., see http://www.asprs.org/membership/certification/

Membership Recruitment Presentation in PowerPoint

This information is now available at http://intranet.asprs.org under “Region Support”
Membership Recruitment PowerPoint Presentation (36 Mb Zip file - Right click and "Save" to download)

Rocky Mountain Region Board Meeting Schedule for 2010

The proposed dates are usually the third Wednesday of the month, but they are subject to change. Check back here for updates.
If you would like to attend, contact a board member for directions or teleconference instructions.

Feb. 10
March 17
April 28
May 19
June 23
July 21
Aug. 25
Sept. 22
Oct. 20
Nov. 17
Dec. 15

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Newsletter Submission Deadlines for 2010:

- Spring Newsletter (published in March): Deadline is Friday 3/12/10

- Summer Newsletter (published in June): Deadline is Friday 6/11/10

- Fall Newsletter (published in September): Deadline is Friday 9/10/10

- Winter Newsletter (published in December): Deadline is Friday 12/10/10

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GIS PRODUCTS ONLINE STORE

For a fun and time-saving way to share our love of mapping with others,
visit the GeoStore of one of our Rocky Mtn. Rogues, Tina Cary, at: http://www.caryandassociates.com/geostore.html.
Did you know you can get a GPS unit specifically for a motorcycle?
And that jewelry can fit a geo-theme?