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AGENDA OF PRESENTATIONS

WEDNESDAY

Start Time Room B Room C Room D

1:30 PM Mobile Mapping Go with the Flow – Utility Workflows Aided by GIS

GIS in Conservation Planning – Examples from Florida

2:00 PM Overcoming Challenges in Managing Esri server based Mobile & WebGIS Applications

Accelerating Public Safety GIS Deployment in Weakley County

GIS for Community Memory: A Case Study at an African American Graveyard in Murfreesboro, TN

2:30 PM

Utilizing mobile data collection in tracking and assessing key environmental site issues: Supporting the Windsor-Essex Parkway Project

Putting GIS on End Users’ Desktops at TVA

Extending the Reach of GIS with ArcGIS Online

3:30 PM Data collection using GPS-

enabled mobile devices in Bangladesh

Managing and Working with Imagery

Quantifying Forest Growth in the Calfkiller Valley

4:00 PM Adding Customized Maps to Mobile Applications, The Bush-League Approach

National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Local Resolution for TN Update: Problems and Issues

Identifying Highest Priority Areas for State Forestry Services in TN using GIS

THURSDAY

Start Time Room B Room C Room D

8:00 AM TNGIC has a Horse in this Race: Why We Should Care What Happens in Education

LIDAR - The 3rd Dimension

Considerations of Data Privacy and Public Access for Tennessee

8:30 AM Use of ArcServer 10.1 for Web editing

LiDAR Imagery of Pinson Mounds

A circa 1985 CIR aerial photography layer for TN

9:00 AM Digging Deeper into the Toolbox Description of Paper or Abstract

Disaster Response from the Sky: Post Hurricane Sandy LiDAR Collection

Use of Damage Assessment Models and ‘Real World’ Data to Predict the ‘True Cost’ of the May 2010 Flood in Nashville

2:00 PM Integrating GIS into TDEC

Data Using GIS for LiDAR Classification Pricing

Determining Flood-prone Areas within Virgin Falls Natural State Area using SCS Runoff Method

2:30 PM Regional Partnerships: Using the Web to Discover and Distribute Data

Utilizing LiDAR: A federal agency's investment and outlook

Utilizing the Campus Editing Template in ArcGIS for Local Government

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Conference Agenda at a Glance

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

9:00 am - 5:00 pm Experience GIS in Tennessee: TNGIC 9:00 am - 5:00 pm QC and Derived Surface Models of LiDAR Data: Nancy Graham, GeoCue 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Golf Tournament at Montgomery Bell State Park 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm GeoCache Event at Montgomery Bell State Park: hosted by GeoJobe 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Balloon Aerial Photography Demonstration 5:00 pm TNGIC Board Meeting at Montgomery Bell State Park Conference Center

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

7:00am - 9:00am Breakfast buffet in Restaurant 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open 9:00 am - 9:30 am Opening Session & Board Nominees – Justin Graham, TNGIC President 9:30 am - 10:30 am Keynote Speaker - Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief and Vice Publisher of

Directions Magazine: Disruption in Geospatial – From GPS to Google 10:30 am - 11:00 am Break 11:00 am - 11:30 am Dennis Pedersen, Tennessee OIR GIS Services Director: Implementation of the

Statewide Enhanced Elevation Business Plan 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch, Platinum Sponsor Presentation: Esri 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Break 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Presentations/Workshops 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Dr. Shop / Vendor Tool Time in Board Room 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break 3:30 pm Deadline: Board Ballots / Map Gallery Viewer’s Choice at the TNGIC Booth 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Presentations/Workshops 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Social Event (Swimming Recreation Shelter)

Thursday, March 28, 2013

6:00 am - 8:00 am Breakfast buffet in Restaurant 7:00 am - 3:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open 8:00 am - 10:00 am Registration 8:00 am - 9:30 am Presentations/Workshops 8:00 am – 9:30 am Dr. Shop / Vendor Tool Time in Board Room 9:30 am - 10:00 am TNGIC Business Meeting – Justin Graham, TNGIC President 10:00 am - 10:30 am Break / Map Gallery Q & A in Map Gallery 10:30 am - 11:00 am Regional Meetings: East-Room B, Middle-Room C, West-Board Room 11:00 am - 11:30 am Committee Meetings: Conference – Board Room, Education – Room B,

Communication – Room C, Web & Data – Room D 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch, GIS Champion Award, Map Gallery Awards, Golf & Geocache Winners 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Esri Presentation / Workshop 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm Dr. Shop / Vendor Tool Time 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Break 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Presentations/Workshops 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Closing Session, Giveaways

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Montgomery Bell State Park Conference Center

Exhibitors

Esri AMEC Environment &

Infrastructure The Atlantic Group, LLC Latitude Geographics

GEO-Jobe GIS Consulting GRW, Inc. QCoherent

Woolpert Canon Solutions America Dewberry G-Squared

GISbiz Infogroup KCI Geospatial Solutions

Kucera International LiDAR USA Magnolia River Photo Science Geospatial

Solutions Sanborn Stantec

TerraGo Technologies True North Geographic Technologies

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2013 Tennessee Geographic Information Council (TNGIC)

Annual GIS Conference March 27-28, 2013

Montgomery Bell State Park

Table of Contents

Agenda of Presentations............................................................................................. 2

Agenda at a Glance .................................................................................................... 3

Conference Center Layout & Exhibitors Agenda at a Glance ................................... 4

TNGIC Platinum and Gold Sponsors ........................................................................ 6

Joe Francica Keynote Speaker Biography & Abstract .............................................. 7

Map Gallery ............................................................................................................... 9

Dr. Shop ...................................................................................................................10

TNGIC Committees .................................................................................................11

TNGIC Door Prizes .................................................................................................12

TNGIC Board of Directors Nominees .................................................................... 13

TNGIC Booth ...........................................................................................................17

Wednesday Presentation Abstracts ..........................................................................19

Thursday Presentation Abstracts ..............................................................................23

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2013 TNGIC Platinum & Gold Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsors

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2013 TNGIC Keynote Speaker

Joe Francica Disruption in Geospatial – From GPS to Google

Joe Francica is the Editor in Chief and Vice Publisher of Directions Magazine, the leading online publishing group for location technology and Geographic Information Systems, reaching nearly 200,000 visitors each month. Now comprising four publications and two major conferences, Directions Magazine is the largest publication dedicated to the location technology sector.

Along with his weekly Internet podcasts and daily commentary at Directions Magazine, he has contributed to three books, Profiting from a GIS, Geographic Information Systems in Business, and the Encyclopedia of GIS. In conjunction with colleagues at Penn State University, Francica has

developed a course entitled “Location Intelligence for Business,” for the university’s online GIS program. Francica helped to develop the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) in 2010 for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration that seeks to support the creation of model curricular for two- and four-year colleges. In his early career, Francica was engaged in developing applications of hyperspectral remotely sensed data for mineral exploration and was one of the first geologists to map the Indus suture zone between India and Pakistan with Landsat imagery. While working for Sun Exploration and Production Company, Francica was active in utilizing Landsat Thematic Mapper data for oil and gas exploration. After receiving his MBA, Francica worked for GIS software companies, Tydac and Intergraph, in management roles. In 1991, Francica originated the column "GIS for Business" published by GIS World Magazine and later because editor of Business Geographics Magazine in 2000. Mr. Francica received his BA in Geology from Rutgers University in 1978, followed by a MA in Earth Science from Dartmouth College in 1980, and a MBA from the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in 1989. In the late 90’s he obtained a national ranking as a Masters runner and still holds state records at certain distances in Alabama. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and has four sons. In this presentation, Directions Magazines’ Editor in Chief, Joe Francica will discuss the disruptive technologies that have changed the geospatial technology sector forever. He will also present information about the “internet of things,” the top technologies that all geospatial technologists should know about NOW and answer that age-old question of “How big is the GIS market.”

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Map Gallery The Map Gallery features three award categories judged by a panel of peers. On Thursday morning from 10:00am – 10:30am, all map authors will be on-hand to answer questions about their work in the Map Gallery. This is your chance to ask about the analysis performed, the projects showcased, and general cartographic design. Map Gallery winners will be announced during lunch on Thursday March 28, 2013. Best Cartographic Design is awarded to the map that artistically employs the elements of cartography without compromising use and functionality. Maps will be judged on fundamental cartographic principles including figure ground representations, visual hierarchy, color selection, typography, symbology, overall aesthetic appearance, etc. Best Analysis is awarded to the map that is best designed to display the results of spatial data analysis and presents the information in an unbiased way, allowing the viewer to extract their own conclusions, utilizing the map as a tool. Best Student Project is awarded to the best overall student project. Submitted maps may be cartographic or analytically focused. The Viewer’s Choice Map Gallery Award is chosen by conference attendees. Be sure to peruse all of the maps in the gallery and fill out the Viewer’s Choice ballot to cast your vote. All Viewer’s Choice ballots should be turned in to the TNGIC booth by 3:30 pm on Wednesday!

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Dr. Shop / Vendor Tool Time

On Wednesday and Thursday TNGIC will host a Dr. Shop / Vendor Tool time in the Board Room allowing opportunities for conference exhibitors and sponsors to showcase their products and services on a more personal basis. Find answers to your GIS questions through hands-on assistance at the Dr. Shop. Stop by the vendor booths to schedule a time to learn more about their services and products. Check the schedule for list of vendor showcase times. There are three time periods where it will be open to all Conference Attendees:

Wednesday, March 27th 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm Thursday, March 28th 8:00 am – 9:30am Thursday, March 28th 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

TNGIC Committees

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TNGIC Committees Thursday 11:00-11:30am

TNGIC Committees will meet for 30 minutes to discuss plans for the upcoming year and to organize members who would like to help on a committee. These committees are the back-bone of TNGIC and are responsible for all TNGIC activities including training classes and workshops, the annual conference, maintaining the TNGIC website, and producing the quarterly newsletter. The Conference Planning Committee organizes, plans, and facilitates the TNGIC Annual GIS Conference. This committee handles all of the details and decisions that are required to make this a successful event for TNGIC members. Board Room The goal of the Education & Outreach Committee is to foster educational opportunities and promote awareness of TNGIC throughout the geospatial community. These opportunities include creating training classes and workshops, supporting TNGIC regional meetings, student outreach, and GIS day activities. Room B The Communication Committee produces the quarterly newsletter “TNGIC Today” and strives to improve the communication throughout TNGIC. Room C The goal of the Web & Data Committee is to encourage and facilitate data sharing and distribution throughout the geospatial community; and to increase the connectivity of TNGIC members through a web presence and social media. This committee is responsible for creating and distributing information that includes, but not limited to lists of GIS related groups and sites, GIS job postings, and the web site content, promotion and maintenance. Room D If you have ideas for how to make any of these better for the TNGIC members, then join the committee and let your voice and ideas be heard. If you would like more from your TNGIC membership, consider joining one of them to make this a better organization for all of its members. The more we contribute, the better our organization will be for all of its members.

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TNGIC Door Prizes Apple iPod Nano Attend the TNGIC Business Meeting on Thursday, 9:30am - 10:00am in Rooms B & C for a chance to win an Apple iPod Nano. Apple iPad Mini Within your Conference bag, you will find a 4x6 postcard with several vendor logos shown. Take this card to each of the participating vendors to have it punched with a paper punch. Once you have every logo punched, fill out the contact information on the card and turn it in at the TNGIC booth by 3:00 pm on Thursday. Winners will be drawn from the completed cards during the closing session of the Conference. What’s the catch?? The vendors want to talk to YOU! It is the discretion of the vendor to punch your postcard. They might even ask you to stand on your head in order to get a punch. While this scenario is unlikely, remember, they are attending the Conference to network and make new connections with GIS users, managers, students, etc... Rules: 1) You must be present to win. 2) Only the winner can claim the prize. No exceptions! 3) All logos must be punched on the official postcard with the correct paper punch.

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2013 TNGIC Board of Director Nominees The TNGIC Board of Directors is the governing body of TNGIC and is elected by the general membership at the annual conference. Newly elected Board of Directors will serve a term of 3 years. Please vote for four of the following nominees and turn in your ballots by 3:30 pm on Wednesday.

Kurt Butefish is Coordinator of the Tennessee Geographic Alliance (TGA) http://web.utk.edu/~tga/ and a member of the TNGIC Education and Outreach committee. As such, he is the go-to person in the state when it comes to dealing with geography-related issues in our public and private schools, including the current effort by the State Department of Education to eliminate stand-alone geography courses in 7th grade and high schools. Because the future crop of potential employees for many TNGIC members is being educated in Tennessee’s K-12 schools, it is his desire to work closely with TNGIC to see that students are receiving the kind of education that can benefit the organization. Kurt is well connected with teachers (over 5000 receive the Alliance’s Newsletter), state education officials, and legislators in Tennessee. These connections could help TNGIC reach a broader audience across the state, and provide TNGIC with enhanced visibility within the halls of power. The Alliance creates programs throughout our state that foster geographic understanding, including GIS. In fact informing Tennesseans of the importance Management of Geographic Information is one of the key areas listed in the Alliance’s Goals statement. Kurt has a BA and MS in Geography from the University of Tennessee. He worked for Intergraph Corporation for 14 years prior to being hired in 2000 to run the TGA. He is officially an employee of the University of Tennessee but answers to an independent Board of Directors because the TGA is an independent 501(c)3. Greg Butler graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), in May of 1999. Greg has a degree in Environmental Science with a minor in Geography. The geography courses that he took at UTC exposed him to GIS. Greg started his professional career, in November 1999, as a GIS Technician for the Hamilton County GIS (HCGIS) Department. In October 2001, he was promoted to manager of the department. The HCGIS Department serves as the GIS contact and data repository for all agencies, public and private, in Hamilton County. Greg oversees the daily operations of the department and is involved in all aspects of the GIS. This includes data acquisition projects, system design, database maintenance, and analysis. Greg was appointed, last year, by the Hamilton County Mayor to serve on the Hixson Utility District Board of Commissioners. This year he was elected to serve as President of the Hamilton County Association of Utility Districts. He served on the Board of Directors for TNGIC from 2005-2007. He was also the TNGIC Conference Committee Chairman in 2007 and served on the Conference Planning Committee in 2011. If elected, Greg would help promote the benefits of GIS and TNGIC. He would also like to help TNGIC focus on more continuing education opportunities for GIS professionals in TN.

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2013 TNGIC Board of Director Nominees Kimberly L. Denney graduated in May of 2011 with a specialization in International Business Management and a minor in Spanish from the University of Alabama. Shortly after graduation, I accepted my current position as an Account Manager for Atlantic Group (a remote sensing and land information solution company) in Huntsville, Alabama. Since then, my passion and interest for the GIS industry continues to grow every day; thus, giving me the energy and willingness to become more involved within the GIS community. This past year, I served as Secretary of the TNGIC Board. I thoroughly enjoyed my time serving on the Board and certainly hope to re-new my term so that I may continue to give back to a community and industry that has done so much for me. My goal is to help further educate members within the GIS industry. At the same time I want to reach out to citizens who are simply unaware of the capabilities and importance of what the GIS community provides for the world. I would be honored to be re-elected as a member of the TNGIC Board of Directors and can guarantee that I will continue to maintain loyalty to the organization in order to achieve the committee’s mission and goals. Gayle Moore, GISP began her career in GIS in 1994 while working with USGS, Water Resources, on her Thesis, “The Effects of Boatwakes on Streambank Erosion along the Kenai River, Kenai, AK” which was published by USGS in 1998. She was the first student to graduate from a new Master’s program at Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage Alaska and was awarded her Master in Environment Science in 1997. Gayle began her GIS career in 1994 working for the Bureau of Land Management, Alaska Fire Service, in Fairbanks, Alaska as a GIS Specialist. Her husband was a U.S. Army Sgt. and they were transferred to Germany and she began working for the Department of Defense (U.S. Army), 60th Engineer Topo Unit in Heidelberg, Germany before being deployed back to Tennessee. In 2002, she joined the State of Tennessee, Office of Information Resources, GIS Services, in Nashville to work with the Tennessee Base Mapping Program. Presently she works for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation as a GIS Analyst. Gayle began her involvement with TNGIC in 2003 and has been an active member of the TNGIC Annual Conference Planning Committee for the past eight years and is responsible for registration. The 2013 Annual Conference marks her first year as the TNGIC Conference Chair. In addition to her contributions to the TNGIC Annual Conference each year, she has participated in planning all the Middle TNGIC Regional meetings for the past six years, yes, doing registration too. Gayle is a Harley Davidson biker chick and shows her pride in the Tennessee Titans with her future Titan Blue Bike. She rides a Sportster 1200 and besides riding in Alaska, she rode over 30,000 miles all over Europe. In 2002, she became Oma (German for Grandmother) and being originally from Cheatham County she now calls Pleasant View home. She has two African Serval Savannahs, Madiba and Shaka, and two Dalmatians, Harley and T Rac. Gayle continues to be actively involved in all aspects of TNGIC and looks forward to continuing her efforts to promote GIS throughout all three regions of TN. Gayle says, “It doesn’t matter if I am an “official” TNGIC board member or an “unofficial” TNGIC board member. As a TNGIC member I will continue to support TNGIC and TN GISers.”

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2013 TNGIC Board of Director Nominees

Marc Pearson is a native of Indiana, but now calls Dickson County, TN home. He received a BA in Geography from Colgate University and a MS in Geography from the University of Memphis. After working for a brief time at FedEx in Memphis, Marc accepted a job with Stantec and has been there for the past 10 years. Marc is a TNGIC member, a registered GISP and CFM (certified floodplain manger). He was been actively involved on the conference planning committee and is looking to become more involved in promoting TNGIC throughout the state. He understands the responsibilities involved with this 3 year term, having previously served as a board member of the KY Association of Mapping Professionals (KAMP). Marc has been married for 8 years and has 2 children, Stella (6y) and Thad (2y). He is a huge Indianapolis Colts fan, and once upon a time he played a lot of tennis! Timothy G. Prather has been an Extension Specialist in the UT Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science Department since 1983. My education programs include solar and sustainable energy, assistive technologies for farmers with disabilities, disaster education and GIS. As adjunct faculty at UT Martin, I have taught online classes in agricultural safety and ergonomics, and GIS. I have been a TNGIC member for several years and served as Education Committee chair, on conference committees and instructor for the Experiencing GIS course. My GIS work began in the 1990s, helping UT Extension agents understand GPS, yield monitoring and other precision agriculture technologies. Research and Extension at UT applying GIS in agriculture and natural resources has grown tremendously, and I support faculty and students with GIS analysis, assistance and training. I do whatever I can to promote GIS use through TNGIC and UT Extension, whether the audiences are youth, University faculty or professionals. “Learn by Doing” - the 4-H slogan - is the only way to learn GIS. Tennessee 4-H enrolls more than 300,000 youth in all 95 counties, and we can make huge impacts by teaching GIS to a small percentage of them. Tennessee 4-H partners youth with local GIS mentors, and the Esri 4-H GIS Grants Program provides ArcGIS software and ArcGIS Online accounts so participants can learn GIS. 4-H members learn GIS through community service learning projects, presenting their work locally and showcasing their accomplishments at the 4-H GIS Contest at the TNGIC Annual Conference. Winners of the contest have represented Tennessee on the National 4-H GIS Leadership Team at the Esri Users Conference and are great ambassadors for TNGIC and 4-H. I hope we can use this as a model to expand GIS education into other youth organizations as well, such as Future Farmers of America, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, etc.

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2013 TNGIC Board of Director Nominees Scott Sumners is GIS Coordinator, City of Brentwood TN. He started his GIS journey as an intern for the City of Franklin in 1998. He graduated from Middle Tennessee University in 1999 with a BS in Geoscience with an emphasis in Resource Management. After graduating, Scott became a full time GIS Specialist for the City of Franklin. He worked for Franklin for seven years before moving on to the City of Brentwood. Scott started working for Brentwood in 2006 and became the City’s first GIS Coordinator. Scott also earned his GISP in 2007. Scott lives in Spring Hill TN is married to Amy and has two daughters, Julia and Ava.

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TNGIC Booth

Here’s a list of the items you need to drop off at the TNGIC booth!

• TNGIC Board of Directors Ballot – deadline is 3:30 pm on Wednesday!

• Viewer’s Choice Map Gallery Ballot – deadline is 3:30 pm on Wednesday!

• Exhibitor Punch Card for iPad Mini Giveaway – deadline is 3:00 pm on Thursday!

• Conference Evaluation – deadline is 3:00 pm on Thursday!

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2013 TNGIC Conference Planning Committee The Conference Planning Committee is made up of individuals from Federal, State, and local governments and private industries across Tennessee who volunteer their time and effort to make this a successful event. Without the hard work of all of these individuals this conference would not have been possible. Please join me and extend a very warm “thank you” to each of them! Sincerely, Gayle Moore 2013 Annual Conference Chair Peggy Anderson Shawn Anderson Bill Avant Katharine Bennett Bryan Blackburn Kim Denney Jason Duke Susan Finger Justin Graham Jeanette Jones David Ladd April Letellier David Light Silas Mathes Kim McDonough Sam Moffat David McMillen Marc Pearson Joyce Pierson Tim Prather Teresa Prince Greg Rhinehart Kurt Snider Suzanne White

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Presentation Abstracts Wednesday March 27, 2018

11:00am - 11:30am Tennessee Base Mapping Program Update: Implementation of the Statewide Enhanced Elevation Business Plan

Dennis Pedersen, State of Tennessee OIR Services --OIR GIS Services is continuing its mission to develop framework GIS data layers for Tennessee. Following on the direction laid out in the Enhanced Elevation business plan, the focus now is developing sample LiDAR data products through a pilot project in VanBuren and Sequatchie counties. The pilot project is being funded through the Department of Interior, Office of Surface Mining in support of land reclamation activities occurring along the Cumberland Plateau. This effort is an attempt to gain support for a statewide LiDAR data collection effort and hopefully align itself with the USGS' 3DEP program.

1:30pm – 2:00pm Room B Mobile Mapping Bryan Blackburn, LiDAR USA--Using a high precision, small format, low cost mobile mapping system, several projects will be reviewed showing data captured in each setting.

Room C Go with the Flow – Utility Workflows Aided by GIS James L. (Ronny) Taylor and Bryan Daniels, Magnolia River Services, Inc.--Now more than ever Utility Organizations must provide their services more quickly, economically and with fewer staff than ever before. Defined workflows are one of the ways that GIS helps organizations accomplish this goal. A workflow is a defined process that will assists people in using information and computers to produce the desired results to operate efficiently, effectively and consistent. We will present simple workflows with GIS along with custom tools that streamline processes to show how GIS users can accomplish a lot in a just a few steps. Room D GIS in Conservation Planning – Examples from Florida Jon Oetting, Florida Natural Areas Inventory--Summary of the use of GIS in statewide conservation planning efforts in Florida, including the Florida Forever Conservation Needs Assessment for Florida’s environmental land acquisition program, the Critical Lands and Waters Identification Project (CLIP), climate change modeling, and online tools for viewing and reporting on natural resources and invasive species. I’ll cover some lessons learned, including the importance of expert review and collaborative partnerships, and hope to receive feedback on how these projects compare to work in Tennessee.

2:00 – 2:30pm Room B Overcoming Challenges in Managing Esri Server Based Mobile & WebGIS Applications Craig Robinson, Latitude Geographics Group, LTD--Today's world of WebGIS is considerably more complex than a decade ago, with GIS Managers trying to manage applications that match user needs, but also consider the increasingly complex technologies available. This presentation will review Esri Server technologies %u2013 including ArcGIS for Server and ArcGIS Online as well as the increasing popularity of

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HTML5 and mobile devices. It will introduce the concept of a Spatial Application Infrastructure (SAI), a more efficient way to build, deploy and maintain cross-platform webGIS and mobile mapping applications that can span several server environments. This session will also explore the benefits of using an SAI, and a live demonstration of building simple, portable, functional and elegant applications that leverage ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online.

Room C Accelerating Public Safety GIS Deployment in Weakley County James Wood and Jamison Peevyhouse, Weakley County 911/EMA--This presentation will provide an overview of how Weakley County is leveraging ArcGIS for Local Government, ArcGIS Online, and Pictometry Server to provide tools for county and regional public safety agencies. Strategies for providing information to the public and GIS integration with social media feeds will also be discussed.

Room D GIS for Community Memory: A Case Study at an African American Graveyard in Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Bethany Hall, Rutherford County, TN--In the early twentieth century, African American families living in a rural community outside Murfreesboro jointly purchased two acres of land with karst topography for the purpose of burying their dead. The cemetery - known as “Evergreen Graveyard” – now lies within a commercial district of Murfreesboro and is still used by the African American community. This paper describes how geospatial tools and techniques contributed to a historical research project to document the changes in the landscape in and Evergreen Graveyard. The geospatial data layers enable both researchers and the community to contextualize the use and development of this mortuary landscape while functioning as an extension of community memory. The approach, tools, and methods used in this research project can be applied in other communities to bring deeper meaning to cultural landscapes. 2:30 – 3:00pm Room B Utilizing Mobile Data Collection in Tracking and Assessing Key Environmental Site

Issues: Supporting the Windsor-Essex Parkway Project Josh Streufert, AMEC--Two key questions a client asks during an environmental construction monitoring project and needs immediate answers for are: “What are the key environmental site issues?” and “What is the current status of corrective actions related to these issues”? To create efficiency and transparency in answering these questions AMEC was enlisted to develop a data collection system to support the Windsor-Essex Parkway Project, Canada. A Mobile Application was developed to collect construction field inspection data which are immediately compiled into a database. The application removes the data transcription step thereby reducing substantial manual effort and consequent errors related to data entry. Inspection identifiers are automatically assigned so they can be related to future corrective actions. Outstanding corrective actions are queued in the mobile application to decrease the turnaround time for resolving issues and providing facilitated recognition of environmental site issues to aid effective environmental management. This elegant and simple solution is supported by an online administrative component to permit QC of the field data and automatically generate daily input to a construction inspection action tracking log directly from the database. Room C Putting GIS on End Users Desktops at TVA Monica G. Anderson, GISP, TVA--Showcasing TVA developed web-maps that help TVA users do their jobs more efficiently.

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Room D Extending the Reach of GIS with ArcGIS Online Jeremy Weber and Bo Logan, Geo Jobe--For a long time, GIS professionals have struggled to put the value of GIS technology in the hands of casual users in a non-disruptive way. While options have existed (Web & Mobile APIs, Web Application Templates, etc.), they have proven to be somewhat difficult to implement and have created a bottleneck to widespread access to GIS. This presentation will highlight how the City of Mt. Juliet is leveraging ArcGIS Online as a platform for opening up their GIS and positioning it for widespread access across all departments. Enabling your average GIS professional to quickly and easily build maps (web maps) and share them with users via web apps, mobile apps and embedded maps in websites. All without writing a single line of code! 3:30pm – 4:00pm Room B Data Collection Using GPS-enabled mobile devices in Bangladesh Janey Camp, Vanderbilt University--As part of a highly integrated, interdisciplinary project focused on identifying factors that that may lead to migration away from low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh, our Vanderbilt research team is utilizing various geospatial technologies to collect, manage, and analyze spatial data. As part of the project, GPS-enabled hand-held mobile tablets are being utilized to collect information in a small region on agricultural resources, household structures, and key components of the local infrastructure. Information collected will be used to help inform sampling of households for in-depth surveys, identification of areas that are “vulnerable”, and as inputs into models to predict the impacts of future flooding and cyclone effects on the area. This presentation will provide a description of the overall project, methodology employed to create the forms using Open Data Kit Collect (ODK) for Android devices and field use of the devices, lessons learned, and a glimpse into the resulting data. Room C Managing and Working with Imagery Bob Rike and Mike Sweney, ESRI--This presentation provides attendees with an overview of Esri’s technology for managing and working with imagery and LiDAR. Esri has tools that allow users to get more “bang for the buck” with current and historical imagery. Demonstrations will include techniques for change detection and feature extraction. Come learn how to use your imagery for more than a basemap. Room D Quantifying Forest Growth in the Calfkiller Valley Ben Drury--What will the future hold for the Calfkiller River Valley near Sparta, Tennessee? About halfway between Knoxville and Nashville on Highway 70, Sparta went from an area of development to stagnation in a brief span of time—about 50 years—after the construction of Interstate 40. Could the region now embrace a future of ecotourism or other sustainable industry and thus provide a secure habitat for the endangered bluemask darter to be reintroduced in the Calfkiller River? Successful new industries such as Jackson Kayak and the Calfkiller Brewery and natural areas like Virgin Falls, Bridgestone Firestone Centennial Wilderness and Blue Spring Cave are indications that a more sustainable source of income for the region may be in store. Through aerial imagery we will explore this rapid transformation over every decade since the 1950s and quantify which areas have been overtaken by forests and which have been replaced by development. The presentation will also cover the conveniences of the new Image Analysis Window in ArcMap 10.1 and the improvements made to the Georeferencing tool.

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4:00 – 4:30pm Room B Adding Customized Maps to Mobile Applications, the Bush-League Approach Silas Mathes, BDY Environmental, LLC Natural Resources Consultants--The Google and Apple maps used in most mobile applications are slick, but local features like park boundaries, streams, and cultural/historical sites aren’t always up to date or labeled accurately. Further, these basemaps require an internet connection that may not be available in remote locations. As an alternative, we used several open source tools to customize an offline, tiled basemap for the Warner Parks (Nashville) Natural Areas mobile application. This presentation will detail the use of open source tools including OpenStreetMap, QGIS, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, TileMill and the Leaflet Javascript API in creating a customized, tiled basemap. We will also briefly identify the online use of tiled data in simple javascript-only web maps. Room C National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Local Resolution for TN Update: Problems and Issues Richard Cochran, TDEC-Water Resources--The State of Tennessee is working to develop local resolution (1:1,200 scale) NHD. Tennessee's Office of Information Resources GIS Services section began collecting local resolution hydrography line work during the Tennessee Base Mapping initiative. Contactors worked to put this hydrography into the USGS NHD Schema. In 2008, TDEC signed a MOU with the USGS to become the NHD data steward for the state of Tennessee. TDEC is working to clean up this initial hydrography to meet the USGS NHD data standards. Due to staffing limitations and the technical nature of the project, progress has been slow. The initial data has many issues that must be corrected before conflation can occur and data can be uploaded to the USGS NHD system. This update will cover NHD background, data issues, staffing, and future stewardship plans. Room D Identifying Highest Priority Areas for State Forestry Services in Tennessee using GIS Kerry Livengood, TN Division of Forestry--The 2008 Farm Bill requires State-wide forest assessments to identify “areas or regions…that are a priority.” The Tennessee Assessment completed in 2010 listed 50 strategies to address problems identified by the committee. Since the Division of Forestry has limited resources available to implement the strategies, one suggestion for handling so many issues made by the US Forest Service was to use areas “where many issue-level priority areas overlap. In order to investigate this approach, spatial data layers for each issue have been developed, these include forest productivity, threat of development, locations of threatened and endangered species, streamside vegetation zone health, public water supply intakes, and forest health and insect threat. Instead of using regions or watersheds, forest land owners in Tennessee were identified having the largest overlap of all these issues.

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Presentation Abstracts Thursday, March 28, 2013

8:00am – 8:30am Room B TNGIC has a Horse in this Race: Why We Should Care What Happens in Education Kurt Butefish, Tennessee Geographic Alliance--Ever wonder what's up with those periodic requests from Kurt Butefish asking you to contact someone about educational issues in Tennessee. As geospatial professionals and employers, you have a horse in this race. Kurt is Coordinator of the Tennessee Geographic Alliance (TGA) and a member of the TNGIC Education Committee. As such, he is the go-to person in the state when it comes to dealing with geography-related issues in our public and private schools. Kurt was recently contacted by TNGIC President, Justin Graham, about improving communication between TNGIC and the TGA. Kurt would like to use this opportunity

to introduce you to educational issues about which you should be aware and some strategies for dealing with them when they do pop up, including the current effort by the State Department of Education to eliminate stand-alone geography courses in 7th grade and high schools!

Room C LIDAR - The 3rd Dimension Nancy Graham, QCoherent – A GeoCue Company--In this presentation we will discuss the 3-Dimentional aspects of LIDAR data relative to how this is beneficial to GIS analysis. As part of the presentation we will show how to use LIDAR to enhance images and vector files within the ArcGIS environment. We will demonstrate basic viewing capabilities of the LIDAR Point cloud as well as show how to extract valuable statistical information and derivative products. We will conclude with a brief demo of how to automatically classify and extract buildings polygons directly from the LIDAR point cloud. Room D Considerations of Data Privacy and Public Access for Tennessee Kim McDonough, GISP, TDOT--With a growing number of repositories of public geospatial data across Tennessee, it is important to make sure that individual data distribution policies are in compliance with the state open records laws as well as local and federal policies. This presentation, based on the URISA International workshop, will provide a broad overview of what GIS Managers need to keep in mind as they develop and enforce their own data distribution policies. 8:30am – 9:00am Room B Use of ArcServer 10.1 for Web Editing Patrick Melancon and Matt Lane, OIR-GIS--Next Generation 9-1-1 relies heavily on GIS for both address validation and call routing. In order to accurately route calls using GIS a seamless polygon layer needed to be put together and maintained. OIR-GIS developed a web site for non-GIS users that gives the districts the ability to submit change requests to their call routing boundaries with a notification/acceptance protocol. This enables OIR-GIS to maintain a seamless call routing layer with direct input from each district.Collaboration between the districts is facilitated through ArcGIS for Server 10.1, ESRI’s javascript api, and modern browser techniques. District users are able to create and submit proposed boundary changes, notifying neighboring districts to login and approve or deny this change. OIR-GIS is notified of approved changes to be added to the authoritative boundary layer. This workflow is possible through the ArcGIS for Server security model, feature level ownership, and custom python geoprocessing services.

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Room C LiDAR Imagery of Pinson Mounds Mark Norton, TDEC-Division of Archaeology--Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is an optical remote sensing technology that utilizes measuring techniques similar to radar. LiDAR instruments are mounted on an aircraft and flown over a designated area to generate a very accurate topographic map of the surface below. Recently obtained LiDAR imagery of Pinson Mounds reveals mounds, walls, and geometric earthworks previously unknown to archaeologists. Room D A Circa 1985 CIR Aerial Photography Layer for Tennessee David McMillen, USDA-NRCS--The 1985 Farm Bill (as amended) dictates the use of aerial photography to determine land use and cropping history on December 23, 1985. This paper explores the sources and progress towards that goal. 9:00am – 9:30am Room B Digging Deeper into the Toolbox Greg Rhinehart, BWSC Inc--A brief look at some of the common, uncommon and need to know tools in ArcToolbox, Xtools and ET Geowizards. Room C Disaster Response from the Sky – Post Hurricane Sandy LiDAR Collection Kelli Cole, Magnolia River Services, Inc.--Magnolia River was tasked to deploy LiDAR assets in response to post hurricane Sandy flooding conditions along the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coastlines within the USACE North Atlantic Division boundaries. This rapid response project required the collection, processing and delivery of approximately 61 square miles of coastal LiDAR data. This presentation is a combination of photos and stories of Magnolia River’s experience following Hurricane Sandy. The importance of preparation for natural disaster response and deployment of crewmembers in a timely fashion will be discussed. We will examine the survey and flight plans for this event and share the results of change after this massive storm. Room D Use of Damage Assessment Models and “Real World” Data to Predict the “True Cost” of the May 2010 Flood in Nashville Janey Camp and Jason Abkowitz, Vanderbilt University--In a project underway at Vanderbilt University, we are testing the viability of using current damage assessment (DA) models such as FEMA’s Hazus to represent future flooding conditions for adaptation planning. Nashville, TN, is currently serving as our test case due to the extreme flooding in 2010 and access to localized data. In an effort to test the accuracy of the DA model’s output for such an extreme event, we are attempting to validate both direct and indirect costs of the event for a specified area utilizing both governmental data sources and household surveys. Once the level of agreement (or disagreement) between model approximations and the “true costs” is known and the model is calibrated to the “real world” event, the portfolio of future storm events can be modeled to identify areas of greatest impact, and thus, an examination of adaptation strategies such as installation of levees using cost/benefit analysis.

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2:00pm – 2:30pm Room B Integrating GIS into TDEC Data Tim Buchanan, TDEC--Over the past several years, the Tennessee Dept. of Environment & Conservation (TDEC) has been building an internal, Agency-wide GIS infrastructure to support its GIS user group. During the same time period, there has been a similar effort in TDEC’s the Information Systems Division to integrate non-GIS business data into a centralized Oracle data warehouse. This presentation will show/discuss some of the processes and technologies, (ArcGIS, Javascript, Flex,Oracle APEX, etc…) that are used to integrate both of these IT efforts into a system that is available to all TDEC staff, both GIS and non-GIS, and the general public. Room C Using GIS for LiDAR Classification Pricing Michael Klatt and Alex Rexroad, Power Consulting, LLC--One challenge we face is how to fairly price classification projects, maintaining both competitive rates for our customers and sustainable profit margins to grow our business.We overlay new project shapefiles over city boundaries. Wherever transmission centerlines cross into city limits, we observe a significant increase in classification complexity. We compare the centerline mileage inside city limits (urban) to mileage outside city limits (rural).With these factors in mind, we created a MS Excel calculator that determines the required pricing estimates for any new project. From the production team size, productivity rates, and total size of the project, the calculator can estimate the duration of the project and total costs associated. Rural projects with lower populations and fewer manmade objects reduce price to a minimum because productivity is very high. In urban areas where the opposite conditions are found, pricing will increase several times the amount of the rural pricing. Room D Determining Flood-prone Areas within Virgin Falls Natural State Area Using SCS Runoff Method Andrew DiOrio and Dr. Peter Li, Tennessee Tech University--Virgin Falls Natural State Area can be found in the greater Scott’s Gulf region of White County, Tennessee. According to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation the streams within the park are prone to flash flooding, which poses a potential threat to anyone who might be visiting the trails and/or campsites which lie within a close proximity to these streams. This study uses the SCS runoff method, incorporating data layers such as land use, soil types, elevation/slope, precipitation records and other data to estimate the peak runoff volume during precipitation events of varying intensity. The curve numbers for this equation are developed based on soil types and land use patterns of the area. The average curve number derived from the GIS calculation is used to find the optimal estimate runoff volume for the study area. The results will be provided to those who manage the area for future policy development.

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2:30pm – 3:00pm Room B Regional Partnerships: Using the Web to Discover and Distribute Data Nathan Ron-Ferguson, Brian Waldron and Jason Knisley, University of Memphis --The University of Memphis' Center for Partnerships in GIS (CPGIS) has partnered with Shelby County’s Office of Sustainability to provide web mapping and data management assistance on the Midsouth Regional Greenprint project; a regional sustainability planning effort made possible through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Central to the planning effort is the ability for participants and stakeholders to utilize data to make and guide decisions on how to advance the Midsouth toward a more sustainable and equitable future. To best enable decision support among the seven working groups and nearly 70 partnering consortium agencies and organizations, CPGIS is developing two portals to facilitate centralized data gathering and sharing. The first is an interactive mapping website that allows non-technical users to ask questions about their data as well as data derived from other working groups. The second is a data repository built on ESRI’s open source geoportal platform. Room C Utilizing LiDAR: A Federal Agency's Investment and Outlook Shea Wales, USDA-NRCS --The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the nation’s premier conservation agency on private lands. In recent years, the agencies Tennessee division has made considerable investments in Lidar; acquiring data that covers nearly 11 counties in the western part of the state. This paper will discuss proposed ways in which engineers, soil scientists and biologists will use this highly detailed information to plan and design conservation projects.

Room D Utilizing the Campus Editing Template in ArcGIS for Local Government James Allen, University of TN--In order to provide students and visitors with general locations of landmarks on campus, universities sometimes utilize a basic building map that is easily printed on paper. However, these maps lack the specific details needed to be truly utilitarian for students. ESRI's Local Government Templates for Campus Editing provide the necessary work flows to import CAD drawings of building floors and convert them to a searchable polygon layer that can be displayed on a website. This project goes through some of the steps in this conversion process and shows some of the capabilities of editing in the Local Government environment.

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TNGIC Contact Information TNGIC P.O. Box 330906 Nashville, TN 37203 officemanager@tngic.org TNGIC Home Page: http://www.tngic.org Tennessee Spatial Data Server: http://www.tngis.org 2012 Board of Directors President Justin Graham, GISP, AMEC Past President Jason Duke, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Vice President Suzanne White, State of Tennessee Secretary Kimberley Denney, The Atlantic Group Treasurer Sam Moffat, Woolpert

Justin Abart, Smith, Seckman, Reid, Inc Shawn Anderson, GISP, Tipton County GIS Bill Avant, State of Tennessee Katharine Bennett, GISP, Erwin Utilities David Ladd, USGS David McMillen, NRCS

***Special thanks to the Board Members who terms are expiring this year and have given to TNGIC their time and talent. THANK YOU!!! Katharine Bennett Kimberley Denney Shawn Anderson