Spatial Applications and Spatial Applications and Research Laboratory Research Laboratory

(SpARC)(SpARC)

Dr. Christopher BrownMs. Elizabeth Ayarbe

New Mexico State UniversityDepartment of Geography

Development of the SpARC LabDevelopment 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

CapabilitiesCapabilities

• 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

Current ProjectsCurrent Projects• Binational Transportation GIS Study - Federal

Highway Administration/NMDOT & Mexico’s 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

• 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

BiNational Transportation GIS Study, BiNational Transportation GIS Study, Federal Highway Administration/NMDOTFederal Highway Administration/NMDOT

BiNational Transportation GIS Study, BiNational Transportation GIS Study, Federal Highway Administration/NMDOTFederal Highway Administration/NMDOT

Land Use Classification Within One Mile of POELand Use Classification Within One Mile of POE

Transportation Planning and UrbanSim, Transportation Planning and UrbanSim, El Paso MPOEl 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.

SCERP ProjectSCERP 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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COMUNIDAD

AGRICULTURA DE RIEGO (INCLUYE RIEGO EVENTUAL)

AGRICULTURA DE TEMPORAL CON CULTIVOS ANUALES

AREA SIN VEGETACION APARENTE

ASENTAMIENTO HUMANO

BOSQUE DE PINO

CHAPARRAL

MATORRAL DESERTICO MICROFILO

MATORRAL DESERTICO MICROFILO CON VEGETACION SECUNDARIA

MATORRAL DESERTICO ROSETOFILO

MATORRAL DESERTICO ROSETOFILO CON VEGETACION SECUNDARIA

MEZQUITAL (INCLUYE HUIZACHAL)

MEZQUITAL (INCLUYE HUIZACHAL) CON VEGETACION SECUNDARIA

PASTIZAL INDUCIDO

PASTIZAL NATURAL (INCLUYE PASTIZAL-HUIZACHAL)

RIEGO SUSPENDIDO

VEGETACION DE DESIERTOS ARENOSOS

VEGETACION DE GALERIA (INCLUYE BOSQUE, SELVA Y VEGETACION DE GALERIA)

VEGETACION HALOFILA Y GIPSOFILA

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VALUE

Open Water

Residential (Low Intensity)

Residential (High Intensity)

Commerical/Industrial/Transportation

Bare Rock/Sand/Clay

Quarries/Strip Mines/Gravel Pits

Transitional

Deciduous Forest

Evergreen Forest

Mixed Forest

Shrubland

Orchard/Vineyards

Grasslands/Herbaceous

Pasture/Hay

Row Crops

Small Grains

Fallow

Urban/Recreational Grasses

Woody Wetlands

Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands

Land use/land cover classifications

Colonias in Texas, New Mexico, and ArizonaColonias in Texas, New Mexico, and ArizonaEconomic and Business DevelopmentEconomic and Business Development

• US HUD funded NMSU to conduct survey of Colonias with active GIS component

• Project also funded Dave Hohstadt’s 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

Colonias in Texas, New Mexico, and ArizonaColonias in Texas, New Mexico, and ArizonaEconomic and Business DevelopmentEconomic and Business Development

Colonia Geographic RegionsColonia Geographic Regions

Typology of ColoniasTypology of Colonias

Paso del Norte Watershed Council Paso del Norte Watershed Council Coordinated Database ProjectCoordinated 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

Objectives of DB ProjectObjectives 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

PDNWC Coordinated DB ProjectPDNWC Coordinated DB Project

NM County Cadastral MappingNM 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.

NM County Cadastral MappingNM 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

NM County Cadastral MappingNM 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

ImpedimentsImpediments

• 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

ImpedimentsImpediments

• 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.

Spatial Adjustment (PLSS)Spatial Adjustment (PLSS)before after

Spatial Adjustment Spatial Adjustment County Road DataCounty Road Data

before after

Future GIS WorkFuture 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

Draft Outline of Border-wide GIS NetworkDraft Outline of Border-wide GIS Network

Future GIS WorkFuture 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