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Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis. Production: Information Management. Acting Group Leader: Mary Miller. Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis. Data & Processing:. We will be maintaining a 7 year cycle for most states
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Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Production: Information Management Acting Group Leader: Mary Miller
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Data & Processing: • We will be maintaining a 7 year cycle for most states • We are consistently ahead of schedule • 5 year reports are rolling out the door! • FIVE completed in FY18 • TEN expected in FY19 • 8 states have completed 2018 field work • 2 of those states have been processed and sent on to the analysts for review and reporting • IM has been working with the Data Collection Group to get us closer to a fully digital method of collecting data on the plot for increased efficiency and accuracy.
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Virtual Data Center • All of our databases, tools & products now housed at USDA’s Virtual Data Center (VDC). • Security protocols at VDC are much more stringent and fluid. • Continue to have to rewrite/rework a number of tools & products. • We’ve finally made some headway with figuring out to deploy web apps in this environment, so hopefully we will start having more success with web-apps serving both internal and external clients going forward. • One USDA • Oracle 12c migration
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Nationalization • Resource levels and customer needs are really pushing us in the direction of greater nationalization with how we do our work and how we present the results of that work. • National Operations (NatOps) Team has been created to direct many of our new projects. • A few of our significant NatOps projects: • National Ownership Management System (NOMS) • Universal National Information Management System (U-NIMS) • UNIMS Geospatial Reference Library • Web Modernization
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Database - UNIMS • Replacement for the current NIMS, which cannot support our expanding designs and protocols • Provide for better and more streamlined storage of existing data (currently stored in NIMS), as well as future data for new protocol designs and studies • Enable enhanced metadata support. • A more structured approach utilizing modern design principles will allow for a more flexible, scalable, and long-lived system
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis UNIMS Geospatial Reference Library • Working with EDW to define a new Reference Library • Will store Authoritative geospatial layers used by FIA • Work with Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to acquire and manage the best available data for each layer • Regular snapshots from EDW captured on established schedules for each layer • Capture metadata for each layer • Stored in an Oracle schema in Oracle SDO Geometry format • Enable geospatial work within the Oracle Database while still able to be visualized in products like ArcMap
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Tools & Reporting • RPA • The RPA Forest Resource Assessment data comes from the FIA program, so the RPA and FIA datasets are effectively the same. • EVALIDatornow has a radio button that allows the user to implement the RPA definition of forest land. • The data was and is still summarized to the condition level and stored in the RPA Plot Summary Database. • An Excel Visual Basic Application is used to generate the reports needed for the assessment. • The entire National FIADB can be downloaded from the FIA DataMart. • NRS has been the RPA database steward for the past two reports. Pat will be here to see us through the draft of the next RPA report.
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Tools & Reporting • DATIM • For tabling, spatial intersections, developing monitoring plans. • 9.1 is in Production10.0 will be available at the end of year/begin of January. • With 10.0, all log-ins will be done using eAUTH. • Much overlap has existed in FIDO/EVALIDATOR/DATIM. We continue to move forward with incorporating functions of FIDO and EVALIDATOR into DATIM … would be nice in future to only have one app to focus on.
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Tools & Reporting • EVALIDator • EVALIDator will be around for several years; will eventually go away. • Working to incorporate EVALIDator capabilities into DATIM. DATIM is already using the EVALIDator API’s. • Exists as both a desktop and web application. • NUTS - National Urban Tree Statistics • Web application for generating population estimates from the Urban FIADB. • Will deploy once the Urban FIADB is pushed to the production server. • FIDO • No longer available.
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Spatial Data Services • FIA continues to receive an increasing number of MOU requests. Customers want the actual FIA coordinates. • Cloud Technology • Google Earth • ESRI Massive Raster Processing project • The Spatial Data Services group is lead by PNW (Tom Thompson).
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Web Presence • NRS is responsible for both the regional and national sites. • Coordinated with analysts for better and more timely posting of annual reports & associated tables. • Will be working to add more interactive content, such as story maps • Will be working with the Community Engagement Team to improve some of our pages … visually, functionally, and with more relevant content.
Northern Research Station – Forest Inventory & Analysis Staffing • MIDAS is critical to our collection of data. The main developer will likely retire in 4 -5 years, so we will be looking at options for coverage. • Using our staff with added resources for additional support for NIMS and UNIMS work. • Web-based app skills would be helpful. • Thanks to Dennis’ creativity, able to retain most of staff (IM and in other groups) with move of Newtown Square office to Wisconsin. • Main concern with IM is the amount of work keeps increasing and staff remains the same.