Summary of UCCGIA Research Projects
USGS NSDI Competitive Cooperative Agreement
In conjunction with MAGIC, the UCCGIA has established a national spatial data clearinghouse node for Connecticut
as part of its funded project from the USGS NSDI Competitive Cooperative Agreements Program. The purpose of the
program is to create a national spatial data infrastructure.
DOD Small Business Grant
The UCCGIA, under a subcontract with the Technology Services Corporation for a Department of Defense Small Business
Grant, has examined the use of GIS for supporting data fusion/spatial reasoning techniques for enhancing the
deployment of small unit military tactics.
Federal Geographic Data Committee
The Federal Government Data Committee (FGDC) awarded the UCCGIA a grant to establish a distributed spatial metadata
collection in Connecticut. A two-tiered strategy for training in the need for and use of spatial metadata and its
collection was pursued. The first tier served major state agencies and other producers of spatial data for
the State of Connecticut. To assist agencies without access to metadata software, commercial metadata software was purchased
and installed. The grant purchased 5 copies of Enabling Technology’s SMMS software for distribution to
the agencies. For agencies that already had access to the metadata preparation tools in ARCINFO 8.0’s ArcCatalog,
training sessions in the use of this software were delivered. The second tier served producers and users of local data.
Training workshops were held for staff of non-profit, non-government agencies and local town planners. In addition,
a session on metadata and data dissemination issues was presented at the Second Annual Connecticut State Data Conference
in Hartford, Connecticut. The project team developed an internet website for local groups to create and transfer their metadata
directly to the University of Connecticut for inclusion on the NSDI node for Connecticut.
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
The State of Connecticut’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) awarded the the UCCGIA a grant to develop a methodology
for georeferencing the 1880s T-sheets of the Connecticut coastline into the NAD83, CT State Plane Coordinate System, to digitize
the scanned T-sheets and georeference them as ESRI shapefiles, and to prepare FGDC-compliant metadata for each shapefile.
The UCCGIA has also georeferenced for the Connecticut DEP a set of digital false color infrared photography (FCIR) from the
year 2000 flight of the Connecticut coastline. Using delivered software and established protocols from the Connecticut
Department of Environmental Protection, the project georeferenced individual TIF files to a DOQQ basemap.
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