Previous Meetings

Previous meetings:

Annual Meeting 2008

Our Annual meeting was held at the Hollinshead Barn in Bend, OR, Friday, June 20, 2008 from 8:30 AM until 4:00 PM. (Meeting time corrected on 6-13-2008)

We served a great BBQ lunch for all attendees.

Hollinshead Barn
1237 NE Jones Road
Bend, OR 97701
(541) 317-3574 (Hollinshead Barn local phone)

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Agenda:

8:30: Welcome & Introductions

Treasure’s Report – John Minor

Brief Vendors Update

9:00: The 2004-2008 Eruption at Mt. St. Helens with a little Three Sisters thrown in:

Mike Lisowski, Gene Iwatsubo, USGS – Cascade Volcanoes Observatory:

:45: Break

10:00: GPS Tracking of Animals on Landscapes & Monitoring Vegetation Using GPS Positioned Photography:

Dr. Douglas Johnson, OSU Dept of Rangeland Ecology & Management

11:00: GPS Fire Information and Its use within GIS in Tactical Incident Fire Support, and Regional Strategic Decision Making:

Fire GPS Field Observer (FOBs) – Randy Herron)
Responsibilities of Field Observers on an active incident.

Mobile GPS Lead FS/BLM - Aaron Dick
Combined Position (Northrup Grumman Contract) for Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management at the State Office Portland, OR.
Techniques, software, hardware, standards, and methods to transfer data quickly with GIS software.

GIS Specialist for Incident Support (GISS) - Allison Mead, GIS Specialist on the Prineville District BLM
Use of GPS data for inclusion into Standard Maps in Support of an Active Incident, and secondary uses for Regional Decision Making.

12:00: Lunch:

Provided at no charge; however, you must RSVP to Lisa Lee, map@coid.org, by Monday, June 16, if you plan to eat lunch with us. We need to know how much food to purchase.

1:00: Monitoring the Burning Man Event in Black Rock Desert:

Laura Levy, GPS/GIS Consultant, formerly with Winnemucca BLM Office

Demonstration of the combined power of GPS/GIS geospatial technologies to monitor the Burning Man event: the largest permitted event on public lands in the United States.

1:45: Break

2:00: Status of the National Differential GPS (NDGPS):

Rudy Persaud, Federal Highway Administration

LCDR Jacob Ramos, NDGPS Hardware Installation Manager, USCG

Update on the operational and expansion status of the NDGPS

3:00: The Oregon State Plane Coordinate System: End of an Era?

Ron Singh, ODOT Geometronics Manager/Chief of Surveys

A look at the problems with our legacy State Plane Coordinate System and options for new Low Distortion Projections in Oregon

3:45: Wrap-up, Q & A

4:00: Adjourn

A previous meeting was held on Friday, February 22, 2008 at the Linn County Fairgrounds in Albany. The meeting began at 9:00 AM and went until 12:30 PM.

Agenda:

9:00 AM - Welcome and Introductions

· Officers for 2008

· Tom Hamilton – Geo-caching

· Chuck Gibbs – Re-monumentation of old GLO sites

· Mark Armstrong – Satellite Constellations

· Ken Bays – Update on ODOT projects

12:00 Noon - Adjourn

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Our Annual Meeting 2007

Our Annual June meeting was held on Friday, June 15, 2007 from 8:15 AM until 4:00 PM at the Hollinshead Barn in Bend, OR. The Oregon GPS Users Group hosted a regional meeting of the State and Localities Subcommittee of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee and offered subject matter relevant to Northwestern states.

Click here for a map to the Hollinshead Barn.

Here's a link to the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee.

	Rudy Persaud, Chair, States and Localities Subcommittee, US CGSIC: "What is CGSIC States and Localities and what are we doing here?"
	Introductions
	NDGPS funding status: FY07, FY078, US DOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) Funding Study Federal Register Notice on NDGPS funding study.

Rick Foote, NGS, CORS: "NGS CORS Update"

	National CORS
	NDGPS as an important component of national CORS
	COOP CORS
	NGS plans to assist regional Real Time Networks (follow-up from NGS proposal at CGSIC, Sept. 20906, Ft. Worth)

US Coast Guard National Differential GPS System (NDGPS)

	Operational Status of NDGPS
	The NDGPS Program Manager's Office is responsible for the operation and building of new stations for NDGPS.

Break

Gary Gervelis: City of Seattle: "Update on Washington State Reference Network and On-GRID Program for Real-time Networks"

Jim Arnold, Electrical Engineer, Turner Fairbanks Research Center, US Federal Highway Administration: "High Accuracy NDGPS Status"

Ken Bays, Oregon DOT: "Update on Oregon Real-Time Network"

Darrel Bain, Mark Turner, CALTRANS "Update on CALTRANS Real-Time Network"

12:00 Noon - Lunch

Jim Arnold - Electrical Engineer, Tuner Fairbanks Research Center, US Federal Highway Administration, and member of the Policy Implementation Team for NDGPS

High Accuracy NDGPS Status

High Accuracy NDGPS is 0.1 meter real-time, 0.001 meter post processed accuracy

Scott McElrath - Deschutes County Oregon, "Use of GPS and GIS for Weed Management in Deschutes County"

Randy Stuart - Pacific Survey Supply, "GPS Machine Control"

3D machine control systems available, how they are configured on different equipment, how they work with GPS and Optical guidance sensors, and how companies can interface with contractors who use these guidance systems.

Rudy Persuad

	Wrap Up - User Feedback
	How to contact Rudy
	What Rudy will do with information from this regional CGSIC meeting

4:00 PM - Adjourn

Meeting on Friday, February 9, 2007, at the BLM building in Eugene, OR.

The agenda was as follows:

	A tour of the 3Di facility including lunch, compliments of 3Di*
	Matteo Luccio, editor of the GIS Monitor. He will be speaking on several topics including the birth of Galileo and the re-birth of GLONASS, satellite imagery availability, integrating CAD data into GIS, and the switch to 3D
	Megan Lawrence, a grad student at U of O, will be giving a talk on her Master’s thesis, “Mapping the Brain”
	We will also be welcoming our new officers, President Eathan Nicely and President-Elect Gina Buckel

For a map of this meeting location, please click here.

Meeting on Friday, October 27, 2006 at Marion County Public Works building from 9:00 AM until Noon.

Our agenda was as follows:

	Cy Smith spoke about NavigatOR
	Don Lewis from DOGAMI (Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries) spoke about the Western Oregon Lidar proposal
	Ron Singh and Ken Bays of ODOT provided a live demonstration of the Oregon Real-time GPS Network.
	Product updates from vendors

Directions:

	From the South take exit 252. Go east on Kuebler Blvd which will turn into Cordon Rd. Continue to Silverton Road , take a right and enter complex at Gate 1.
	From the North use exit 260B. Turn left on Chemawa Rd , which will become Hazelgreen. Continue on Hazelgreen to four-way stop at Cordon Rd. Turn right to traffic light at Silverton Rd. Turn left and enter complex at Gate 1.
	Office in located in the main building, first floor.

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Held at the Hollinshead Barn in Bend, OR, on the first day of summer, Wednesday, June 21, 2006.

Hollinshead Barn
1237 NE Jones Road
Bend, OR 97701
(541) 317-3574 (Hollinshead Barn local phone)

Click here for map.

The meeting began at 9:00 AM and ended at 3:30 PM. BBQ lunch was served on the patio to all attendees.

Our featured speaker was Jack W. Peters of Lane County Sheriff Search and Rescue. He has been working on a number of projects in the GPS field that will be of interest to our group. There will also be presentations from several members who are using innovative approaches to meet the challenges we all face in the field.

Meeting Agenda

MORNING:

9:00 Welcome & Introductions

	Treasurer’s Report – John Minor
	Workshop Options

9:30 Acknowledgement of NGS Advisors – Dixon Hoyle

9:45 ODOT Update – Ron Singh, Ken Bays

10:15 Break

10:30 Adventures in GPS - Jack Peters

NOON – LUNCH: B-B-Q Lunch & GPS Treasure Hunt

AFTERNOON:

1:00 Mapping roads with a Combined GPS & Inertial Guidance System - Tom Workman - Eathan Nicley

1:30 POSLV Mapping Vehicle

1:45 Break

2:00 3D Laser, GPS Network, & Lidar – New Tools for Geologic Analysis and Cultural Data Collection - Dave Wellman

2:45 Vendor Showcase

3:30 Adjourn

February 24, 2006
9:00 AM - Noon

BLM Office
289 Chad Drive
Eugene, OR 97408-7336
(541) 683-6600

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Meeting Agenda

9:00 Welcome and Introductions

	ODOT Update on reference station network – Ken Bays & Ron Singh
	City of Eugene Broadcast RTK Network – Tim Fassbender
	Garmin Avionics – John Estabrook
	Lane Co. Sheriff Search and Rescue – Jack W. Peters
	Website upgrade and OGUG domain – Jim Lahm

12:00 Adjourn

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