Spatial%20Applications%20and%20Research%20Laboratory%20(SpARC)

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Spatial Applications and Research Laboratory
(SpARC)

• Dr. Christopher Brown
• Ms. Elizabeth Ayarbe
• New Mexico State University
• Department of Geography

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Development of the SpARC Lab

• Built by Robert Czerniak over a 20 year period
  with little central admin. support
• Earlier version was the Geographical Analysis and
  Research lab (GARL)
• Developed through series of funded projects at
  local, state and regional level
• More recent projects include larger regional
  scale and federally funded work

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Capabilities

• 11 high performance PC workstations
• Ability to have 15 workers
• Server Capacity - 675 Gb can be upgraded to 2
  Terabytes
• 2 large format digitizing tablets
• 32 Plasma monitor for image processing work
• Software
• Entire suit of ESRI GIS software
• Erdas Imagine 8.7
• eCognition
• TransCAD
• GPS
• 6 Geoexplorers
• Supporting software
• HP 1055 large format plotter
• Secondary teaching facility with 20 PC
  workstations

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Current Projects

• Binational Transportation GIS Study - Federal
  Highway Administration/NMDOT Mexicos SCT
• Transportation planning and modeling - El Paso
  Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Water resource vulnerability - Southwest
  Consortium for Environmental Research Policy
• Colonias project US HUD
• Coordinated Water Resources Database Project -
  Paso del Norte Watershed Council
• County level cadastral mapping Numerous New
  Mexico Counties

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BiNational Transportation GIS Study, Federal
Highway Administration/NMDOT

• Collaborative project with Secretaria de
  Communicacion y Transporte (SCT)
• Goal is to merge US and Mexican GIS
  transportation data into seamless DB
• Progress to date includes land use mapping,
  linear referencing of roads, and serving GIS data
  on the web
• Future work will examine future infrastructure
  plans and security, safety, and environmental data

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BiNational Transportation GIS Study, Federal
Highway Administration/NMDOT
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Land Use Classification Within One Mile of POE
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Transportation Planning and UrbanSim, El Paso MPO
Simulation model for integrated planning and
analysis of urban development, incorporating the
interactions between land use, transportation,
and public policy.
Interfaces existing travel models with new land
use forecasting and analysis capabilities.
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SCERP Project

• Water resource vulnerability study in the Paso
  del Norte region, 2003 present
• Goal is to generate seamless water resource DB
  for the Paso del Norte region
• Then advance GIS based vulnerability analysis of
  regional water resources
• Collaborative effort with SDSU/COLEF in
  California/Baja UACJ in Paso del Norte
• Outcome will also include serving binational data
  archive on the Web linking to future SCERP work

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Land use/land cover classifications
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Colonias in Texas, New Mexico, and
ArizonaEconomic and Business Development

• US HUD funded NMSU to conduct survey of Colonias
  with active GIS component
• Project also funded Dave Hohstadts thesis work
  on economic development
• Initial step was development of a typology of
  colonias
• Next step was to explore economic development
  models for colonias
• Results of work paired specific models of
  development with colonias, based on typology

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Colonias in Texas, New Mexico, and
ArizonaEconomic and Business Development
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Colonia Geographic Regions
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Typology of Colonias
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Paso del Norte Watershed Council Coordinated
Database Project

• Long term discussions within and regional
  stakeholders on utility of a database
• Idea initially advanced by Conrad Keyes as a
  contract to El Paso Water Utilities and New
  Mexico Texas Water Commission
• Watershed Council formally proposed this concept
  to El Paso Water Utilities in 2002
• EPWU funded Phase I NMSU developed project
  prototype completed in fall 2003

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Objectives of DB Project

• Historically, large numbers of agencies collected
  wide range of water resource data
• Access to data lacked much coordination
• Goal of the PdNWC project is to provide
  coordinated access to wide range of data via
  web-based access and GIS interface
• Project facilitates greater sharing of data among
  both providers and end users
• Overall goal is to enhance water resource
  management via regional approach in the PdN
  region

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PDNWC Coordinated DB Project
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NM County Cadastral Mapping

• In 1999 a new state statute was released
  mandating GIS-based cadastral mapping
• New Mexico Statutes Annotated (NMSA) 3.6.7.17.9.
• States "Every County shall have a digitized set
  of maps . . .
• Property Tax Division contacted NMSU Geography
  Department to assist the counties in this
  undertaking.
• In the last 5 plus years, NMSU has done GIS-based
  cadastral mapping for numerous NM counties.

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NM County Cadastral Mapping

• Completed Projects
• Torrance County
• DeBaca County
• Lea County
• Hidalgo County
• Grant County
• Current /Pending Projects
• San Miguel County
• Taos County

• Valencia County
• Mora County
• Colfax County
• Taos County
• Cibola County

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NM County Cadastral Mapping

• Process
• Meet with county personnel to discuss their needs
  and current mapping status
• Locate any existing digital data to help the
  conversion process.
• PLSS
• E-911
• Aerial Photography
• Existing digital parcel data (internal and
  external county data)
• Digitize mylar maps
• Adjust to imagery
• Assign Uniform Property Code (from maps)
• Assist counties with linking their GIS to the
  main database

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Impediments

• Not all UPC (unique IDs) are shown on maps.
• Solution County personnel need to update maps
  before shipment
• Alternate idea is to edit/update the digital data
  upon completion.
• Mylar maps are unreadable or missing data.
• Solution work with County personnel to provide
  other ancillary data or new maps

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Impediments

• Drafted mylars are not spatially accurate
• Solution Spatially adjust parcels to other
  registered data layers
• e-911 road data,
• PLSS,
• DOQQ or higher resolution imagery.

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Spatial Adjustment (PLSS)
before
after
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Spatial Adjustment County Road Data
before
after
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Future GIS Work

• SCERP project for binational GIS (see next map)
• Builds on earlier binational projects (SCERP,
  USDOT/SCT, and others)
• Goal is prototype network with existing nodes
  longer term work plan for more robust network
• Continued efforts on Paso del Norte Watershed
  Council Project
• Linking USACE and FBOR funds to explore more
  automated data transfer
• Identifying and including new sources of water
  resource data

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Draft Outline of Border-wide GIS Network
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Future GIS Work

• What of Statewide Cadastral Mapping?
• Remembering the intent of (NMSA) 3.6.7.17.9. -
  "Every County shall have a digitized set of maps
  . . .
• Ideas towards this goal include
• Regionalization of counties
• Develop statewide service mechanism
• Work towards enterprise type of cadastral mapping
  DB
• Exploring impediments and ideas to overcome
• Other ideas??? Vamos a charlar