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Lafayette, LA – Planning is underway for the 2008 Louisiana Hurricane Season Data Mining workshop to be held June 3-4, 2008 at the NASA/UL Regional Application Center in Lafayette, LA.

This 2-day workshop presents various available geospatial/imagery data sets including 2008 proposed and planned geospatial/imagery data sets. These data sets have been collected and archived primarily by various federal, state and local agencies in Louisiana and throughout the nation. Representatives from various federal, state and local agencies will give presentations on geospatial or imagery data that have been collected and made available on their websites. Each government or local organization
employs different access procedures, search strategies, terminology, and acronyms to the various data sets. Workshop exercises will allow participants to identify, locate, survey, examine and view the various available geospatial/imagery data sets.

Topics of interest include demonstrations of online data portals or overview of websites, discussion of available data and planned acquisitions, and activities/data relevant to hurricane season preparation and response. As feedback is received the workshop agenda will be planned and registration info will be provided.

For more information, please contact Lindsey Broussard (broussardla@usgs.gov).

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Memphis, TN – Lower Mississippi Valley Geospatial Information Conference: June 17 and 18, 2008. The U.S. Geological Survey, the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture, and Duck?s Unlimited announce the Lower Mississippi Valley Geospatial
Information Conference to be held on June 17 and 18, 2008 at the Ducks Unlimited Headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee.

It has been 11 years since the last LMV Geospatial conference and 6 years since the last LMVJV Geomatics Network meeting. During that time the numerous federal and state agencies, NGO?s, academic institutions, and other entities have continued to develop geospatial data and information to meet changing requirements and needs.

We believe that the context and focus of the conference should be:

• Discovery of information
• Producers of data
• Identification of data and information gaps

This will be a working conference. We will have presentations, but we will also have some working/break-out sessions to solicit ideas from the participants about cooperation, data integration, data availability, and data gaps.


This is a Call for Presentations for the Conference. We would like presentations that will contribute to a resurvey of the LMV geospatial community about activities and answer such questions as:

• What are internal agency needs
• How are the internal agency needs being met
• Are the needs similar across the LMV
• How consistent are data content, formats, systems and platforms being used among producers and users
• Harvesting and providing access to existing geospatial resources from Federal, state, and local agencies
• What are the areas of coverage and how up-to-date is the inventory of data among the partners?
• What framework datasets exist, currency, scales, formats?
• What is currently being developed from the federal, state, academic, and
  private sides?
• What special projects are being developed?
• What Science Needs are being answered with the geospatial data resources in the LMV?
• LMV geospatial data roles
• Distributed geodatabases, NBII nodes, gateways, metadata catalogues – how can the agencies provide better or more coordinated access to
  geospatial data.

Please send presentation title, a short abstract, author(s) and
affiliations to larry_handley@usgs.gov in a Word .doc format by May 15,
2008.

The organizing team of Larry Handley of USGS, Chris Cretini of USGS, Bill Uihlein of the LMVJV, and Dawn Browne of Duck?s Unlimited believe that this will be a tremendously valuable meeting for all geospatial activities
within the LMV, and will be a great opportunity for us to get together again after 11 years.


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Houston, TX – TeachMeGIS.com is offering the ESRI 2-day “Introduction to ArcGIS Server” course on June 4-5, 2008 in their Houston, TX facilities. Details about their couse is available online: 29.73114 -95.5727

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Baton Rouge, LA – Southern University and A & M College, the Center for Coastal Zone Assessment and Remote Sensing (CCZARS) Remote Sensing and GIS LAB presents a 5 day GIS Training workshop, using ArcGIS 9.2. This training will be held on March 17-18, 2008 in the CCZARS Remote Sensing and GIS LAB on the campus of Southern University, Baton Rouge. This training is designed specifically for GIS users to hone in and refine their Mapping & GIS skills.


The CCZARS GIS training center is an Authorized Partner Education Center (APEC) with the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) to all ArcGIS training in the State of Louisiana and the only APEC in the Historical Black colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the nation.

Location:
(CCZARS) GIS LAB Rm. 390
P.B.S Pinchback Hall, New Eng. Bldg.
Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, LA 70183

Date:
2 Days (Beginners) Introduction to ArcGIS I
March 17-18, 2008
8:00am– 4:30pm

3 Days (Advanced) Introduction to ArcGIS II
March 19-21, 2008
8:00am– 4:30pm

1 Day (Advanced) ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
March 19, 2008
8:00am-4:30pm

Registration fees:
2 Days Introduction to ArcGIS I $650 per person

3 Days Introduction to ArcGIS II – $1050 per person
1 Day ArcGIS Spatial Analyst – $400 per person

For more information contact: Alaa Shams at (225) 771-3704, or by e-mail: alaashams@engr.subr.edu


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