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New sources for NW Arkansas Imagery
New high-resolution Northwest Arkansas aerial imagery is now available in Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth.
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Rural Community Projects
NWA Imagery Viewer
The Northwest Regional Planning Commission organized a collaborative effort by many groups in the region that have acquired high resolution aerial imagery (12 in. resolution, true-color) from a Spring 2004 acquisition by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department. This data has been loaded into Arkansas' GeoSpatial Data Distribution System, GeoStor (www.gis.state.ar.us), as of January 31, 2005. Recent publicity by local newspapers and television media has spurred interest in this data by many non-GIS users.
The RGIS-Mid-South office and other members of the NWA Imagery Task Force have been flooded with requests for these new imagery products. In order to provide improved access to this data, the RGIS-Mid-South office has developed an online imagery data viewer that provides access to the 2004 Aerial Photography via most any Internet browser. Data downloads or specialized software are not required! If you do require the actual data it is accessible via GeoStor.
Access to the NWA Imagery Viewer requires a ONE-TIME completion of a brief registration form. User information will not be redistributed (i.e., no SPAM) and RGIS-Mid-South staff will only notify users for website administration purposes.
AR GAP - Mapping Arkansas vegetation and animals
AR GAP brings together the problem-solving capabilities of federal, state, and private scientists to tackle the difficult issues of landcover mapping, vertebrate habitat characterization, assessment, and biodiversity conservation at the state, regional, and national levels. The program seeks to facilitate cooperative development and use of information.
Arkansas Land Use / Land Cover - 1999 (AR-LULC-1999)
Satellite Imagery - Based Land Use / Land Cover Determination of the State of Arkansas. Multi-seasonal (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) digital land use / land cover map products for each of the 75 counties of Arkansas and State as a whole.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/arlulc99/
Community Asset and Development Information System (CADIS)
CADIS is a program that brings together the private and public sector to create a high quality GIS for Northwest Arkansas. Computerized map data on transportation, demographics, infrastructure, soils, and many other types of data, along with software to analyze the data, is part of the project. The data will be provided over the web at no cost and the software developer, Intergraph, donated the software. Support from the Bank of Fayetteville allows four high school interns from the EAST programs at Fayetteville and Rogers High Schools to work on this project, in conjunction with CAST personnel. This partnership benefits not only the high school students involved, but also benefits the citizens of Northwest Arkansas by providing this on-line area information to anyone with access to the web.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/cadis/main_page/
Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST)
EAST is dedicated to providing students with the opportunity to develop competencies consistent with the realities of the Twenty-First Century. This is accomplished through a dynamic operational model of symbiotic alliances among education, business, and government that create student-centered K-16 learning environments, resulting in students equipped to be productive, contributing citizens.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/east/
GeoStor
GeoStor is an on-line data delivery system that allows the user seamless access to digital map data (GeoData) of any area in Arkansas with no subscription fee while providing the state with a mechanism to manage its growing investment in and reliance on digital geographic resources.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/cast/geostor/
Mapping Arkansas’ Information Networks (MAIN)
MAIN is a project that will optimize networking of the public sector in Arkansas. The difficult task has been accurately identifying the location of all potential public network consumers (PNCs), including such offices as local police and fire departments, libraries, county, state, and local government offices, etc. Along with CAST, which provides the technological support, the EAST program provides both the technical expertise to manipulate a geographic database and the local access to verify the locations of these PNCs.
http://www.gis.state.ar.us/AGIO/main.htm
Mapping Agricultural Landuse in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley of Arkansas (MAVA-LULC)
Nearly all of Arkansas' agricultural crop production occurs in the eastern contiguous counties of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) commonly known as the "Delta." This area also displays many of the problems associated with large-scale agricultural production. In 1996 the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission (ASWCC) provided funding to the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas to develop digital land-use/land-cover maps focusing on agricultural land-use for the 27 Arkansas counties within MAV. Combined with existing spatial data, the information produced from this project will serve as a basis for the formulation of water, soil, and farm management policies and practices.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/lulc/
Secretary of State Maps
The Secretary of State maps were developed as a plan for applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies to legislative district mapping procedures. These digital map products will serve as the base maps for statewide redistricting of the House and Senate boundaries in year 2001. They will also provide the groundwork for the long range goals of implementation of Geographic Information Systems technologies within the Secretary of State's office.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/projects/data_dev/secretary_state/
Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP)
SWAP is a source water assessment project intended to provide a basis for developing, implementing, and improving source water protection programs in Arkansas. The project began in 1998 by the AR Department of Health to delineate assessment areas for public water intakes, to inventory significant contaminants within those assessment areas, and determine the susceptibility of each water supply. These assessments will focus public health programs, and assist Arkansas citizens in protecting their drinking water.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/swap/
Web-GIS to Evaluate Environmental Impact of Population Expansion
Web - GIS is a research project focusing on the integration of a suite of EPA environmental data sets and other data sources dealing with demographic growth. The goal of the project is to develop easily accessible systems, using the World Wide Web, that will allow citizens to consider the interaction of projected population growth in an area and its possible impact or interaction on environmental processes.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/cadis/main_page/terms_growth_model.htm
Creating Realistic Animation Through EAST (C.R.A.T.E.)
The C.R.A.T.E. Project is a way to use Environmental and Spatial Technologies (EAST) students to work in a team environment to create 3D animations for educational purposes. The students have participated in EAST animation workshops and have trained with Softimage 3D/XSI and Adobe Photoshop software. The program gives opportunities for students to further their abilities and allows state organizations a way to create Hollywood type animations without the high price.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/cast/crate/
ArkansasView
ArkansasView is striving to develop a strong consortium dedicated to advancing the availability, timely distribution, and widespread use of remote sensing data and technology. We propose an aggressive agenda for realizing AmericaView and ArkansasView goals through education, research, outreach, and sustainable technology transfer to the public and private sectors.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/cast/arkansas_view/
RGIS Related Publications & Downloads
Read the lastest Land Information Bulletins from RGIS Mid-South, Univeristy of Arkansas in PDF.
November 2000 | June 2001 | November 2001
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The material on this website is based upon work supported in part by the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service , U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Agreement No. 2002-38813 01909. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Contact Information:
Fred Limp, Director
University of Arkansas
CAST
email: fred@cast.uark.edu
Brian Culpepper, Technical Outreach Specialist
University of Arkansas
RGIS/CAST
email: brian@cast.uark.edu
web: www.cast.uark.edu