Alaska Ortho-Imagery Workshop 2009

The Alaska Statewide Orthoimagery Workshop was held March 2 – 3, 2009 at the Hilton Anchorage Hotel in Alaska. The goals of the workshop included:

• Learn about potential solutions from data providers
• Review requirements for an improved, statewide Alaska orthoimage
• Summarize options and assess potential solutions
• Make recommendations for next steps.

Respected orthoimagery expert Russ Cowart of I-cubed lead the workshop and attendees will be able to review a draft of the whitepaper summarizing outcomes of the SDMI analysis of orthoimagery alternatives. Representatives from the major imaging vendors presented their solutions. Multiple case examples of orthoimagery used in Alaska were presented. Finally, an open discussion forum will review the pros and cons of the options.

The workshop agenda is available here.

Some vendors and users have asked what the areas of interest are in the state, for reference we put up a page just for the SDMI AOI map.

Imagery Workshop Presentations

a single zip file for all presentations will be offered after workshop is complete

• Day 1 Presentations
  • Workshop Intro – Tom Heinrichs
  • SDMI Work Accomplished – Russ Cowart
  • SDMI Image Examples – Russ Cowart
  • ALOS for SDMI – Scott Arko
  • GeoEye – Tara Byrnes
  • Digital Globe – Chuck Ramsey
  • SPOT – Drew Hopwood
  • Rapid Eye – John Ahlrichs
  • User Business Case – ADNR Forestry – Marc Lee

• Day 2 Presentations
  • Day 1 Review – Russ Cowart
  • IFTN for AK – Vicki Lukas
  • NRCS Business Case – Ted Cox
  • Building Statewide Imagery Solutions – David Lewis, Sanborn
  • DEM Component of Orthoimagery – Dave Maune, Dewberry
  • Alaska Considerations involved in Imagery Acquistion – Tony Follett, Aero-Metric
  • GRS Business Case – John Koltun
  • Workshop Summary – Russ Cowart