How We Got Where We Are - Who Got Us Here and How?

R. Boggs

Kentucky Division of Forestry

The NASA funded KLS Project was not performed in isolation in Kentucky. Several existing digital geospatial data infrastructures have been leveraged as well as the expertise and cooperation of both KLS team members, federal and state government employees. We will also discuss the GIS architecture, digital geospatial assets, and interagency interfaces that were in place in KY and necessary to enable the creation of tools such as the Forest Plan GeoBook ® for delivery of the Forest Stewardship Plans to KY woodlot owners. Kentucky has an unusually talented and active governmental GIS community, albeit a nascent remote sensing community. When the team was put together - consideration was given to both the pioneering spirit and the capabilities of some of the members of the KY GIS community who had a keen interest in becoming conversant with remote sensing technologies to carry out their mission mandates. We will discuss the training components of the project, as well as the methods we've employed to ensure that a cadre of people is in place after the project is over to proliferate remote sensing capabilities in a peer-to-peer setting.

Keywords: Kentucky Landscape Snapshot, KY Forest Plan, GeoBook

(presentation)