Imagery Business Plan & Best Practices Project

CGIA is partnering with the US Geological Survey, the California Resources Agency, and the California GIS Council to develop a California Digital Imagery (CDI) Business Plan and Best Practices Report. This goal of this project is to identify best practice options for cooperatively acquiring and procuring digital imagery, as guidance for regional and other multi-participant digital imagery projects that may be conducted within California. To accomplish this goal, an inventory of major imagery projects will be conducted. Then interviews and workshops will be held based on a selected group of digital imagery projects, either started or completed within the past three years, to develop case studies of best practices and identify imagery projects that may not have met their goals. Finally, public workshops will be held to present a summary of survey and interview findings to be reviewed and included in the final CDI Business Plan and Best Practices Report. This presentation will provide summary highlights of the major findings, conclusions, recommendations, and lessons learned from the project.

• An online survey will be developed in December 2007.
  
• Workshops are scheduled for February 2008.
  
• For more details, see the Imagery Business Plan and Best Practices Work Plan, developed using feedback from Principal Sponsors (California GIS Council and USGS) and selected stakeholders that have had a digital imagery project implemented in their area.