The fieldwork season has wrapped up and the Wiscland 2 team is now making maps! Between the beginning of June and end of August, DNR field crews gathered over 16,000 additional sample points representing the current land cover of our state.
New online/e-mail group seeks to improve communications between municipal GIS stakeholders in Wisconsin.
The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Western Great Lakes Region is sponsoring a gathering of geospatial professionals on the afternoon of September 22nd.
The annual EWUG conference is scheduled for December 3rd and 4th at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center.
The University of Wisconsin has 29 historic relief models at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and in Madison at Science Hall and the UW Geology Museum.
The U.S. Geological Survey recently issued the FY15/FY16 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for their 3D Elevation Program (3DEP). The BAA provides detailed information on how to partner with the USGS and other Federal agencies to acquire high-quality 3D Elevation data.
Jim previously worked at the Iowa Geological and Water Survey, and most recently at Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Check out the new “Find Data” tab if you are looking for commonly-requested Wisconsin geospatial datasets.
Sometimes the stuff you can find out there never ceases to amaze!
The fieldwork season has begun to complete the samples database for the Wiscland-2 land cover mapping project! To round out the training/validation dataset of over 500,000 samples, ten Field Technicians have been brought on for the summer and are traveling the state to identify and collect GPS locations and ecological information with the aid of a DNR field mentor stationed in their collection region.
