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GIS Day Events from The GeoCommunity
GIS Day at The USGS Mid-Continent Mapping Center
Greetings from the middle of Missouri and home of the USGS Mid-Continent Mapping Center. We at the MCMC were busy for the day and week, both
locally and regionally.
At a regional level, a senior level group from MCMC attended GIS events at
Southwest Missouri State University co-sponsored by the ASPRS - Central
Region and the Ozarks GIS User Group.
At the local level, we supported the Middle School's GEONITE with two
events. One was a hands-on digital mapping presentation by Chuck Pederson
of the USGS. His presentation allowed students to experience GIS data
using the DLGv32 viewing software. All students and parents attending
received a copy of the viewer and sample data on CD to take home. Another
event was our popular "Geography Geopardy" patterned after the TV game.
Students and parents were quizzed on their geographic knowledge in such
areas as energy, water resources, earthquakes, volcanoes and the like.
Local media featured the events.
Students received hands on experience in a computer lab setting, being
exposed to USGS digital mapping data and familiarity with the USGS viewing
software DLGv32. The students loaded the SDTS format Digital Elevation
Model (DEM) followed by loading the Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) and
produced a Shaded Relief Image. The FLOOD option was then utilized to
simulate water rising to a predetermined level, so the students could see
how water levels follow the shape of the contours on the DRG. The Digital
Ortho Quarter Quad (DOQQ) was then layered onto the shaded relief and the
students were able to find their homes and the shape of the surrounding
terrain. They really got excited when they learned where they could get for
free, most of what they just looked at, over the Internet.
Finally, although not a specific GIS Day event, a map presentation to Sen.
Jean Carnahan demonstrated the power and desirability of GIS data maps.
Central Region Geographer Max Ethridge presented the senator with a large
sized, custom-made Missouri map during the Veteran's Day Mel Carnahan
Memorial Armory Dedication on Nov. 11 in Rolla, Mo. Sen. Carnahan had
requested the map to "show case" the state and the USGS resources in her
district.
Images From The Event
Thanx to Mark Newell for this submission:
Mark Newell
Public Affairs Officer
U. S. Geological Survey
Rolla, MO 65401
(573) 308-3850
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