8:00 - 8:30

Registration

8:30 - 8:35

Welcome
Ken Murchison, Northern Maine Development Corporation

8:35 - 9:00

Keynote Address - Renewable Energy: The Views from 40,000 feet and 200 feet
Dr. Don Zilman, President, University of Maine at Presque Isle

Abstract

9:00 - 9:30

Parcel Mapping And Fatal Flaw Analyses For Potential Wind Sites
Patrick Graham, James W.Sewall Co.

Abstract

9:30 - 10:00

The Precision of Consumer Grade GPS Units for Mapping Purposes and the Advantages and Pitfalls of Trimble Geo-x GPS Units
Dave Hobbins, UMFK Forest Technology and Environmental Studies

Review of research on a selected number of consumer (navigation) grade GPS and a discussion of our experience with Trimble Geo-x products. Open discussion is welcomed and the discussion will be framed around collecting data for municipal mapping purposes.

10:00 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 11:00

New E911 Tools for Addressing Officers, Counties and Municipal Officials
Bob White, Maine Office of GIS

NG9-1-1 will rely heavily on geospatial information. New stakeholders will emerge, new data layers will be required. As a result Maine s GIS group will play a larger role in ensuring the E9-1-1 databases are accurate. Municiple, County and State officials will have to work together to ensure the data is accurate and is updated in a timely fashion. The Office of GIS has recently made wholesale changes to it s GIS platform and maintenance tools in order to accommodate the new work. Local and county officials will now have new tools available to them for addressing purposes. This presentation will provide an overview of the new processes and tools that are being put in place to assist the local Addressing Officers. A workshop will follow in the afternoon for those wishing for detailed information on their community and what they need to do.

11:00 - 11:30

New Watershed Boundary Database
Ray Voyer, USDA

Abstract

11:30 - Noon

Building a Community-oriented GIS Program in Northern Maine
Dr. Chunzeng Wang, University of Maine at Presque Isle

Abstract

Noon - 1:30

Lunch

Included in registration fee.

1:30 - 4:30

Concurrent Roundtable - New Tools for Addressing Officers, Counties and Municipal Officials
Bob White, Maine Office of GIS

NG9-1-1 will rely heavily on geospatial information. New stakeholders will emerge, new data layers will be required. As a result Maine's GIS group will play a larger role in ensuring the E9-1-1 databases are accurate. Municiple, County and State officials will have to work together to ensure the data is accurate and is updated in a timely fashion. The Office of GIS has recently made wholesale changes to its GIS platform and maintenance tools in order to accommodate the new work. Local and county officials will now have new tools available to them for addressing purposes. This presentation will provide an overview of the new processes and tools that are being put in place to assist the local Addressing Officers. A workshop will follow in the afternoon for those wishing for detailed information on their community and what they need to do.

1:30 - 2:00

Managing Resources for Emergency Services with GIS
Vicki Schmidt, Maine DEP, Maine Fire Protection Services Commission, and Maine Federation of Firefighters

Abstract

2:00 - 2:30

Ice Flow and Flood Modeling
Jason Desjardin and Spencer Caron, University of Maine at Fort Kent

Abstract

2:30 - 3:00

National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD)
Mark Turner, Service Hydrologist for the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) in Caribou.

The National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) is the foundation of the NWS Digital Services Program. NDFD consists of a seamless mosaic of digital gridded forecasts of weather elements. NDFD data is free to the public and can be used to create text, graphic, gridded and image products.

This presentation will provide an overview of NDFD, a look at the GRIB to .shp utility and some examples of products created for the Emergency Management community with NDFD data and GIS tools.

3:00 - 3:30

Field User Driven, Real-time Data Solutions For Emergency Responders
Dan Bowe, Global Relief Technologies

Technologies are evolving to assist emergency responders, the humanitarian and reconstruction communities, and global organizations operating in austere and extreme environments. These solutions facilitate the collection of critical data via a secure, integrated systems that provide for a more effective evaluation of, and response to, crisis situations. This presentation will highlight the use of these GIS-based systems in Maine and around the world.

3:30 - 4:00

Break

4:00 - 5:00

The Maine Integrated Land Records Information System is part of the overall 2008 GeoLibrary Strategic Plan and is focused on providing a conceptual framework and functional specification for rationalizing land records throughout the State. This involves property parcel data, managed at the municipal level, and deeds data, managed by the counties, as well as state data managed the Maine Revenue Services. The objective is to optimize access to and utility of these valuable data by stakeholders at all levels who currently struggle to make productive use of them. This project is slated to continue throughout 2008 and into early 2009.