Attendees:

OSU Mapping & GIS Lab: Dr. Ron Li (PI), Dr. Ahmed Elaksher, Ruijin Ma, Xutong Niu
OSU Geodesy Lab: Kai-chien (Kevin) Cheng (reported by E-mail), Hari N. Sugavanam, Chung-Yen Kuo
Great Lakes Forecasting System Laboratory: Takis Velissariou
SUNY at Buffalo: Xian Xu (reported by E-mail)

Absentees:

OSU Center for Mapping: Tarig Ali

Hari Sugavanam reported that he has been trying with Ahmed to register the ASTER images. He is using PCI software and has had some difficulties in the registration. Dr. Li asked him to use the GPS ground control points and do more investigation on the camera model and the software. Hari also reported that the SRTM for Lake Erie is provided only through spatial request. Dr. Li asked him to go ahead and order the data.

Chung-Yen Kuo reported that he has computed the MHW and MLLW for four gauge stations in Tampa Bay. The computed water levels are in the NAVD88 coordinate system (see Appendix A). The water level in Port Manatee had a large difference. Dr. Li asked him to ask the local agencies if the gauge device had been changed. There were also gaps in the data in some stations that need to be investigated. Dr. Li asked him to contact Melvin McCray about the gauge station data. Chung-Yen reported that he has had some problems in converting the mean water surface from T/P to NAVD88. The geoid undulation is temporary unavailable. Dr. Li asked Chung-yen to look for ERS tracks closer to the bay. Dr. Li asked Chung-Yen to look for another station located in the north part of the Bay to examine the difference from other stations. Chung-Yen mentioned that there is no buoy data for the Tampa Bay site. Dr. Li asked him to do more investigation on the water surface results and compare the differences between different gauge stations and the altimetry data. He also asked him to look at how the water surface behaves inside and outside the bay and how this is related to the earth crust rebound.

Dr. Li mentioned that we have a 10-year hindcast water surface grid of (2km x 2km) that was generated by Sean O’Neal in Lake Erie. He mentioned that we need a smaller grid in Painesville. He also mentioned that we need a five-year forecasting water surface in the same area after the 19-year hindcast water surface is done.

Ruijin Ma reported that he is working on getting the IKONOS images for the Tampa Bay site. He found images for the study area in the Space Imaging, Inc. archive. He also calculated the shoreline length. He will contact local agencies on the site visit to see which area is the best for the erosion study. Ruijin is done with the 3D shading view of the structures in the ODNR system. He also checked the DLG for shoreline extraction in Tampa Bay: the shoreline in the bay area is fragmented. He also downloaded the T-sheets for the shoreline (see Appendix B). The data is in raster format. Dr. Li asked if Ruijin could get the vector shoreline from CSC.

Kevin Cheng reported by E-mail that he has sent the GPS point descriptions to Hari.

Xutong Niu reported that he downloaded the DOQQ, SRTM, and DLG data for Tampa Bay. He also worked on the data inventory system and it is now working.

Xian Xu reported by E-mail that he has acquired MapObject and ArcGIS 8. He has designed the graphical interface for our research program (see Appendix C).

Ahmed Elaksher reported that he has contacted local people in Painesville to get 2000 aerial photos and LIDAR data. He also contacted Kim Yates to arrange for the Tampa Bay site visit. Ahmed gave a presentation in the end of the meeting about the project objectives and the role of each group in the project (see Appendix D). Dr. Li mentioned that we need to do more work on the coastal geospatial information infrastructure. He also mentioned that more work is needed on publishing a journal paper.
 

Action List:

• OSU Mapping & GIS Lab

• Dr. Elaksher will
Work on the tide-coordinated shoreline.
Arrange meetings with local agents maintaining the gauge stations in Tampa Bay.
Prepare the Tampa Bay site visit.
Work on making a journal paper for the project.
Send Ruijin the LIDAR data for Tampa Bay.
Work with Hari on the ASTER data.

• Ruijin Ma will
Check the vector shoreline from CSC for Florida and get it if available.
Check the metadata for the raster T-sheets for Tampa Bay.
Check the water surface data provided by Sean and send the file format to Takis.
Compare LIDAR data with the CTM.
Complete the ODNR functions.
Prepare a presentation for next DG meeting.

• Xutong Niu will
Work on integrating the different data sets and see how they match.
Work on the flythrough and try to make it work (the .avi file is to big).

• Center for Mapping

• Tarig Ali will work on the Kalman filter modeling for shoreline change detection.

• OSU Geodesy Lab

• Kevin Cheng will work on the GPS ground control points.
• Chung-Yen Kuo will
Find more altimetry tracks near the bay in Tampa Bay.
Look for more gauge stations in the area.
Work on the Tampa Bay water surface analysis.
• Hari Sugavanam will
Work on generating the ASTER DEM.
Request the SRTM data for Lake Erie.

• Great Lakes Forecasting System Laboratory

• Takis Velissariou will familiarize himself with the Great Lakes Forecasting System Laboratory role in the project.

• SUNY at Buffalo

• Xian Xu will continue working on generating the remote access to the infrastructure coastal database.

• Future Meetings:

• The next co-PI and RA meeting will be held Thursday, October 24
• The next RA only meeting will be Thursday, November 14

• Appendix A: MHW and MLLW in Port Manatee, St. Petersburg, Old Port Tampa, and McKay Bay Entrance in NAVD88 (meters)
• Appendix B: T-sheets for Tampa Bay
• Appendix C: Graphical Interface for the Digital Government Project
• Appendix D: Digital Government Project Current Stage and Future Research (see separate file)

NORTH AMERICAN VERTICAL DATUM-1988 (NAVD) = 0.504 m

NORTH AMERICAN VERTICAL DATUM-1988 (NAVD) = 0.526 m
(The value is average of the other three stations)

NORTH AMERICAN VERTICAL DATUM-1988 (NAVD) = 0.543 m