Meeting Minutes
Tuesday April 27, 2021, 9:30 am – 12 pm
GoToMeeting Virtual Meeting
9:36 am: Call to order: Meeting called to order by Bryan Kriete, chair of CCJDC
9:37 am: Review/Approval of Minutes
9:41 am: Any New Announcements or Additions to Agenda
John Schweisinger, Turf Imagery, announced that he has been working with Big Sur Fire to create a crisis hub and map portal. The mapping has included generators, solar panels, pools and ponds that could be used in the event of a fire. Maps are being printed now and include trails. https://www.bigsurfiremaps.org
Fire fuels mapping is taking place as well, funded by the County of Monterey and the Resource Conservation District of Monterey County (RCDMC). Put all this data into a GIS hub that can be shared with CalFire and allows for continuous mapping. ArcGIS Collector was used for this. https://rcdmc-ffmp-tigeo.hub.arcgis.com/
John also introduced MPRPD Explore, which is a GIS Library that allows you to gain access to Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District GIS Data https://mprpd-tigeo.hub.arcgis.com/
9:48 am: Participant Introduction & Agency Updates
Bryan Kriete, GIS Analyst for County of Santa Cruz DPW and CCJDC chair, is working on numerous projects including Culvert Assessment Mapping Project, Stormwater Network Ownership & Condition Project, Sanitation CCTV Inspections Import Project. All of these projects have various Maps, Apps, and Dashboards associated with them for deeper and more rigorous analytic opportunities for upper management.
Gina Schmidt, GIS Coordinator for AMBAG, is currently working on AMBAG’s long-range plan. This includes modeling transportation and the Sustainable Communities Strategy out to the year 2045 for Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties.
Will Condon, Planner for AMBAG, is also working on AMBAG’s long-range plan. He has been reviewing input datasets for the model and preparing for coding projects into the model’s network.
Chris Bley, Insight Up Solutions and DART, has been working on several projects. Recently inspected 1500 acres of Esselen tribal land in Big Sur using drones. Also working with the Naval Postgraduate School as well as Monterey Fire Search and Rescue.
Chad Miller, County of Monterey, has been putting together the parcel fabric for Monterey County. Recently running a pilot project with city of Salinas, which includes portal to portal collaboration for shared editing of parcel fabric. This could have ripple effects for other orgs and agencies that work with the county for data sharing capabilities
Dario Moreno, Caltrans District 5 GIS Coordinator, has been working on Caltrans’ Active Transportation Plan. He has been using asset management software for sign inventory and irrigation. He is also involved in several committees for creating standards for data management. He noted that GIS is becoming popular in Caltrans, and is realizing they need to have everybody on the same page.
Carol Ostergren, USGS: Central Coast LiDAR now showing up in the National Map Portal. Point cloud and 1-meter DEMS are now available. Another collection of LiDAR for Santa Cruz County, quality level 1, will cover all of Santa Cruz County, including a piece of the northwest coastal area not collected before. She noted this data is collected and validated and will be available soon. Also have Santa Clara County collection available for those interested as well, which will be coming in the next 3 to 4 months
Mark Gomes, Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office, has been working on a ranch map atlas, pesticide use investigation mapping, and species work.
10:01 am: Discuss Mobile Data Collection Projects – Using Survey 123, Collector, or other Applications
Chad Miller brought up licensing ESRI mobile apps, noting that one way around the licensing issue is by using Survey123. It is public and anonymous and can draw any geometry now instead of only allowing for point data. Bryan Kriete has used it for fire recovery and debris flow surveying for Santa Cruz County.
Chad noted another workaround for the named user issue, which is entering an Enterprise agreement for ESRI. This costs more but gives them basically unlimited named user licenses. He noted it is a three year trial then ESRI will look at how many accounts they have created.
Dario Moreno used Survey 123 for the public to comment on ATP plan, Story Maps, Explorer maps, etc. He noted Caltrans uses it for logging future location based needs to identify problem areas.
Bryan Kriete noted that Enterprise licensing agreement is based on population so does not make sense for Santa Cruz County.
Storage is also becoming an issue, as a lot of users collecting a lot of data is storage exhausting.
Bryan Kriete noted how much nicer mobile data collection is now with smartphone collections as opposed to the old Trimble GPS units.
Chad Miller noted that Monterey County has used mobile collection for fire and associated damage assessments. One thing he has noticed is staffing and how to get field folks to collect what they are supposed to collect. He thinks more facilitating and training will be necessary, as well as data validation so that data from field is higher quality. He noted that water resources agencies surveying are surveying levees in the county as well.
10:30 am: Demos
County of Monterey – GIS Resources & Services
o Chad Miller demoed the Monterey County parcel fabric
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County Santa Cruz DPW – Lucity Services & 2021 New GIS Features
o Bryan Kriete demoed the Lucity software
11:56 pm: Wrap Up & Meeting Adjourned: Meeting adjourned by Bryan Kriete
Next CCJDC meeting will be July 20, 2021