MAST Meeting Minutes (Draft): 4 April 2014, D’Iberville

Draft of Meeting Minutes from the 4 April 2014 Meeting in D’Iberville

MAST has a new Secretary/Treasurer

  • Emma Strong, City of Gulfport

Mississippi Preparedness Summit, http://msprepsummit.org/

  • Hosted by:
    • MEMA
    • MS Dept. of Health
    • MS Office of Homeland Security
    • MS Civil Defense Emergency Management Association
    • MS Hospital Association Foundation
    • MS Coordinating Council for Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information Systems
  • May 27-29, Coast Coliseum
  • Deadline to register May 1
  • MAST swag (pencils) to promote MAST and MGC to new audience, poster or booth

Informational Meeting on LiDAR

  • USGS office, 308 Airport Rd S, Pearl, MS
  • Thursday, April 10, 10 am
  • Regarding LiDAR passes in MS and AL, where they’re flying next and how they can meet the needs of other agencies

LiDAR workshop at MARIS

  • April 22 and 23
  • More information to come

Mississippi Geospatial Conference

  • October 2014
  • USM on the Coast again
  • At the June 6 meeting, we will need to put together a conference committee

Coastal Restoration, http://www.restore.ms/

  • Call for sharing of GIS info
  • Related to post BP spill
  • Website includes link to add projects

Gary Hennington’s presentation

  • Mapping state-owned buildings
  • Streamlined workflow of annual report of inventory of state owned buildings
  • Add attributes, e.g. facility management, floor plans, photos, videos
  • Features including location mapping, building footprints, and floor plans inside map viewer

Other Announcements

  • MS State offers free GIS and remote sensing workshops around the state
    • Contact Gunnar Oson for more information
  • Mapfolio has rolled out new updates
    • Add favorites
    • Automatic install button
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