Digital Government Project Meeting Summary

January 16, 2004

2:30 pm in 230 Bolz Hall

RAs Only
Future Meetings

Attendees:

OSU Mapping & GIS Lab: Xutong Niu
Center for Mapping: Alok Srivastava
OSU Geodesy Lab: Chung-yen Kuo
Great Lakes Forecasting System Laboratory: Vasilia Velissariou
SUNY at Buffalo: Xian Xu (reported by E-mail)

Summary:

In this meeting, preparations for submission of papers to the dg.o. 2004 conference was discussed.

Alok reported on his work on Tampa Bay water surface modeling. He is now working on the sample testing on POM (Princeton Ocean Model).

Based on the paper guideline for data comparison prepared by Xutong, Vasilia and Chung-yen discussed contents and document preparation. Chung-yen provided his datum conversion document. Both of them agreed to provide digital data for the diagram and graph used in the document so that all the figures to be used in the paper will be in the same style. They will work on their paper parts and will meet again discuss the paper contents. Xutong also got the gauge station data in Tampa Bay and satellite altimetric data from Chung-yen.

Xian Xu reported by Email that he has finished converting DXF files (that will be submitted by users) to a shapefile. A new ArcIMS service was created to convert a DXF file to a shapefile dynamically. We are now able to display the shapefile on the web. Xutong also gave his Java3D visualization code to Xian; they will work together on web-based 3D display.

Action List:

• OSU Mapping & GIS Lab
• Xutong Niu will prepare his paper draft for discussion, work on the gauge data comparison and the web-based 3D display, and process the QuickBird imagery.


• OSU Geodesy Lab
• Chung-yen will prepare the digital data of the graph he used in his document of vertical datum conversion.


• Great Lakes Forecasting System Laboratory
• Vasilia Velissariou will prepare a paper on the results from comparison between water surface and satellite altimetric data, and provide the results to Xutong.


• SUNY at Buffalo
• Xian Xu will refine his ODNR 2D map display and begin working on the web-based 3D display.
  


• Future Meetings
• The next RA only meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2004.

For more information, E-mail: li.282@osu.edu