Agenda at a Glance

Development of a GIS Based Tool to Model and Predict Water Production in Oil Gas Wells in Northern Colorado with an Emphasis on Maximizing Water Reuse
Ashwin Dhanasekar, Colorado State University
In this research, study will be performed on the Noble Energy's oil and gas wells in the Wattenberg field of Northern Colorado to analyze the quantity and quality of produced water. Based on the existing water production data from both Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Noble Energy Incorporation, a Geographic Information Systems based tool will be developed to model and predict water production for the life cycle of these wells. Prospective plans for location of water treatment plants will be done based on the spatial analysis of produced water quantity in the field. Routing will also be done based on the analysis to reduce costs of transporting water by sending it to the nearest treatment plants. At the same time, water quality will be analyzed after detailed sampling from various parts of the field. With the use of OLI Electrolyte Simulation software, different wastewater treatment methods will be chosen based on water quality and the reuse purpose of produced water

Arkansas Basin Decision Support System (DSS): Finding Strategies for Water Allocation
Phyllis Thomas, Phyllis Thomas Consulting
The Colorado Decision Support System (CDSS) provides water administrators and consumptive and non-consumptive users with tools to allocate a scarce resource from alternative strategies. The State of Colorado Department of Natural Resources describes the CDSS as a "water management system with the goal of assisting policy makers to make informed decisions regarding the historic and future use of water'." The Department recently approved the latest addition to the CDSS for the Arkansas basin. The question explored entails how the development of the Arkansas basin CDSS will facilitate solutions for the challenges facing the basin—population and municipal demand increases, drought, agricultural water transfers, endangered species issues, river compact obligations, water quality, and reductions in Federal water program funding.

Jeff Baranyi, Esri

ArcGIS for Emergency Management is a scalable reference configuration of a common operating platform designed to organize and deliver the baseline tools and data typically needed to support an emergency management organization in a targeted and meaningful way. This includes access from the desktop, server, mobile devices, and web, each accessing a common repository of data and tools that is managed by the ArcGIS platform. These data and tools have been typically accessed by a single web-based common operating picture (COP), and as a result, the user experience and access have been difficult. ArcGIS for Emergency Management promotes a common operating platform for the organization that provides mission-specific maps or applications aligned with a user's role or responsibilities in the organization. This presentation will provide an overview of the components and templates that are part of ArcGIS for Emergency Management.a targeted and meaningful way. This includes access from the desktop, server, mobile devices, and web, each accessing a common repository of data and tools that is managed by the ArcGIS platform. These data and tools have been typically accessed by a single web-based common operating picture (COP), and as a result, the user experience and access have been difficult. ArcGIS for Emergency Management promotes a common operating platform for the organization that provides mission-specific maps or applications aligned with a user's role or responsibilities in the organization. This presentation will provide an overview of the components and templates that are part of ArcGIS for Emergency Management.

Setting Up an Emergery GIS Response Team
David Allen, City of Euless
Communities face disasters on a regular basis, both large and small, and the responding agencies are becoming more dependent on field-based mapping solutions. Some situations, like traffic accidents or apartment fires, may be handled by existing personnel, but as the disasters escalate they may bring about the need for a mapping specialist. GIS professionals can meet these needs, but there is a lot of training and coordination involved to become part of the response team. Otherwise you're just a civilian getting in the way. This session will show a case study of how the GIS professionals in Northeast Tarrant County set up an emergency response team. It will also cover how to organize the team, compile response data, required certifications, and how to set up training scenarios.

Postwildfire Debris-Flow Modeling Using the Continuous-Parameterization Technique
Kris Verdin, USGS
The State of Colorado experienced more than two dozen wildfires in 2012, with the Waldo Canyon and High Park fires being the most destructive. Following a wildfire, the burned landscape is susceptible to damage from postwildfire erosion, such as that caused by debris flows and flash floods. The probability of debris-flow occurrence and the volume of debris flow in response to wildfire can be estimated using empirical hazard-assessment models. The models, developed using data from recently burned areas of the intermountain western United States, incorporate measures of burn severity, topography, soils, and storm rainfall.

Previous applications of these debris-flow models used traditional basin-characterization approaches, which required "a priori" definition of watershed pour points and their corresponding basins. This paper presents an alternative technique that models the debris-flow probabilities and volumes in a continuous fashion across the landscape. This technique allows for a synoptic view of conditions through the entire study area, which can help identify specific stream reaches that might be particularly susceptible to debris flows.

The continuous-parameterization technique facilitated rapid production of debris-flow probability and volume maps in response to recent fires across Colorado and Arizona. The presentation will provide examples of results produced to support emergency managers for the 2012 High Park and Waldo Canyon fires (Colorado), the 2011 Wallow Fire (Arizona), and the 2010 Four Mile fire near Boulder, Colorado.

Esri Staff
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based, collaborative content management system for maps, applications, data, and other geographic information. With recent enhancements to ArcGIS Online, organizations of all sizes now have the ability to manage their geospatial content and publish their maps, applications, data, and hosted services online. Both hosted and on-premises implementation patterns will be covered in this session. Other topics will include (1) value of ArcGIS Online to an organization; (2) implementation patterns (hosted and on-premises); (3) types of data that ArcGIS Online can use; (4) publishing capabilities; (5) administration of content and users; (6) how to customize ArcGIS Online for your organization; (7) security, terms of use, and service-level agreements; and (8) resources for learning more.

Meet with Esri partners and GIS vendors offering Esri-based products and services; network with other attendees; and discuss the latest GIS software, data, and services being offered.

Show Me the Edits - Empower Your Quality Assurance
Skye Perry, SSP Innovations, LLC
A common theme among GIS management is the need to control the data that is created or updated within their GIS. In this session we will review a tool that gives your QA/QC team total control and tracking capabilities of the edits that are made within each version in a geodatabase. It accomplishes this by analyzing a version before it has been posted to create a textual and graphical report of all edits (additions, changes, and deletions) that have occurred within the version. The edits can be reviewed in a tabular report, visualized on the map, saved for later use, exported, or even fed into third party QA/QC analysis tool. The functionality can be used manually by your QA team or even automated into a BRP service. The versioned edits can even be reviewed after the version has been posted. Whether your needs are data integrity, user management, or audit control, this tool will never leave you guessing who did what, when, and where.

Water Utility Assessment Strategies in GIS
Heather Schuchard, Mueller Water
Utilities face an aging inventory of underground infrastructure that is in need of repair or replacement. The importance of a sustainable utility infrastructure is directly dependent on consistent and maintained assets. For some utilities, maintaining and adapting to modern technology standards can be a challenge with integration into multiple CMMS applications and a stable and upgradeable GIS platform. This Presentation of GIS for Water Utilities will discuss strategies for building more Intelligence and Information into your Water Utilities GIS; Data-model design, Data Workflow, Field data collection, WEB-mapping and Analysis from an Assessment/Inspection perspective.

Dave Vaillancourt, Esri
Publishing and sharing layers and maps using ArcGIS Online are effective ways to provide broader access to your information and reach new audiences. This workshop will present a variety of techniques and considerations that will enable you to share your services, maps, and other items more effectively and present the best possible user experience for your target audience. Topics that will be covered include ArcGIS service considerations, including tips on how to publish easily shareable service; tips and techniques for adding and properly documenting shared items; creating "brand" and distinction for your authoritative content; enabling the best possible user experience with your data; and supporting broadest possible access and use scenarios.

Kristen Waldvogel and Kiyoshi Yamashita, Esri
High-quality data and the ability to manage workflows are integral to a successful and efficient GIS. During this presentation, we will discuss how to leverage Esri ArcGIS tools to import data, evaluate data quality, manage workflows, and publish data online. Case studies will be presented from the airport and local government use of these technologies.

Mobile Software to Make Inspections Easier in the Field
Mitch Tweedy, CompassTools Inc
Trimble Field Inspector solution is a robust handheld maintenance and inspection solution for optimizing utility field operations. Scalable and easy to deploy, the Trimble Field Inspector solution automates a wide variety of field applications for electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities—from smart meter deployments to routine asset maintenance inspections. Come and learn how this solution connects your GIS and/or Asset Management system to the field.

Emergency GIS Response in the City of Boulder
Kip White, City of Boulder Information Technology
This presentation traces the development of a portable GIS designed for wildland fire response beginning in 2003 with the Overland Fire up to 2012 with the Flagstaff Fire. The presentation looks at becoming equipped and trained both for the GIS responder and for the Incident Commander. From an initial "one exhausted guy and a laptop", the concept has matured into a 4 person GISS section included in the recently certified Boulder County Incident Management Team Type III with tight integration into the City/County Emergency Operations Center and a view of All Hazards response. The presentation includes a display of the City's GIS response kit including "initial attack" Topo maps, multiple computers, attached storage, MiFi 4G network, printers, projector and office supplies.

Phase II Wireless 9-1-1 Call Accuracy Testing
David Beard, 911 Solutions, Inc.
Do you know what happens when you dial 9-1-1 from your cell phone? Is the 9-1-1 Center receiving correct coordinates? Are all the cell towers providing the proper Phase of cell service, i.e., Phase II compliance? Did you know the FCC has mandated certain accuracy standards for wireless carriers to meet in regards to these coordinates?

We will explain the history of 911 wireless calls, how they are currently being routed and what call takers see on their monitor. We will describe the benefits of wireless accuracy testing and define what information is necessary to get started. We will explain what processes and equipment we use for collecting wireless 9-1-1 call data and how we use ArcGIS as a central data repository for call accuracy statistics, accurate coordinates of the caller and cell towers locations, and as an analysis tool to determine proper cell tower sector assignments.

Heather Henderson, Esri
This session will provide an introduction to ArcGIS for Local Government and a set of maps and applications for local government users.

Overcoming Challenges in Managing Esri-based Mobile & WebGIS Applications
Scott Stafford-Veale, Latitude Geographics
Since the arrival of Google Maps, the bar for web-based GIS and mapping applications has risen dramatically. End-users recognized the power and efficacy of simple applications to help them 'get things done' contrasted to traditionally complex GIS applications. The majority of today's web-based applications are still custom built and have not changed significantly since before the rise of importance of Google Maps. This approach however, is not necessarily efficient or effective to the way end-users expect to interact with web-GIS applications today.

Based on the premise that the majority of end-users are more likely to be successful with a simple application, more and more organizations are attempting to build targeted, purpose-specific applications that accomplish specific objectives using simple, uncluttered interfaces combined with Workflows within the application that closely align to specific business process.

This presentation will introduce the concept of a Spatial Application Infrastructure (SAI), a more efficient way to build, deploy and maintain cross-platform mapping applications that specifically meet the business workflow requirements of end-users. This session will also explore the benefits of using an SAI and a live demonstration of building simple and elegant applications using ArcGIS Server and Geocortex software.

Web Based Water Meter Reading and Geospatial Billing
Paul Bailey, Global Water FATHOM
Global Water owns and operates 12 water and wastewater utilities within Arizona and is one of the world's leading innovators in total water management. Through multi‐million dollar investments in people, processes, and technology, Global Water utilities are some of the greenest, most efficient operations anywhere. As current economic conditions demand utility providers do more with less, Global Water is utilizing proven, integrated cost‐saving platforms.

FATHOM U2U is the Global Water online utility portal for read management of fixed network advanced metering infrastructure. U2U is built upon the Esri ArcGIS environment and is fully integrated with all other FATHOM platforms. This portal provides geospatially located information about the system including advanced analytic functionality incorporating updates to usage data every hour every day for every customer.

U2You is the Global Water online customer care portal and is fully integrated with other FATHOM platforms. A customer has the option to review bills and check consumption and transaction history. In addition Global Water provides FATHOM Mobile, the smartphone application. FATHOM Mobile puts data in the hands of customers and makes it easy to look up a bill, check account balances, and pay a bill by check or credit card.

Jason Channin, Esri
This workshop will give an overview of the different mobile solutions that are offered, the growing market for smartphones, the role of GIS, and general patterns for deploying mobile solutions.

Using GIS to Create, Visualize, Maintain, and Improve Quality of Special District Boundaries for Assessment Purposes
Rachel Parrinello and Brooke Colvin, Boulder County Assessor's Office
The Boulder County, Colorado Assessor's Office GIS group uses ArcGIS software to create, visualize, maintain, and quality-check our special district boundaries for assessment purposes. We want to share how we have used GIS to go beyond our statutory requirement to maintain tabular tax district data within the assessment role. Continual maintenance and improvement of GIS special district layers allow our staff the ability to quickly query and share district data with our partners in the taxing districts themselves and work as partners to improve the quality of special district data, recognizing patterns for further research. We will briefly discuss the 'life cycle' of a special district, how state statute governs the assessor's role in the process; and discuss how GIS layers related to special district data may be used outside of property assessment and taxation purposes. We will share some insights and lessons learned from our work related to special districts in our county, how GIS has been instrumental in our work, and where we hope to take this into the future. This presentation addresses professional knowledge and technical aspects (GIS, data model, data mining) related to tax district maintenance within the assessment database, from the perspective of a GIS Specialist.

The Denver/Boulder Roadway Data Model: A Custom Implementation of the Roads and Highways Solution
Paul Tessar, DenverGIS
The City and County of Denver, Colorado has been working with regional local governments to improve the management of roadway data so that data holdings can better serve the needs of the City as well as the Denver regional community. Participants in this project include Boulder County and the Cities of Boulder, Longmont and Erie, as well as the Boulder Regional Emergency Telephone Service Agency. J. 'Al' Butler has served as the Data Architect for the customized development of a Regional Transportation Geodatabase Model built upon the foundation of the Esri Roads and Highways solution.

A key area for improvement has been the management of roads and their associated assets using linear referencing to better integrate and support the wide variety of business systems that leverage roadway information. Following extensive research and analysis, the City determined that the best starting point was to pattern their data model after the best practices outlined in Designing Geodatabases for Transportation by J. Allison Butler (Esri Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-58948-164-0). The data modeling and database maintenance paradigms were then validated by participating in the Esri Roads and Highways solution beta release program. This product, an LRS-based highway data management solution from Esri, provided tools to help test the data model while refining the data maintenance rules. Participation in the software product's beta program gave the City and Boulder County valuable insight into the software capabilities while simultaneously providing Esri with critical feedback to improve the product.

This presentation will discuss the design of the Roads and Highways data model, including custom components built upon the Roads and Highways extensible architecture, as it has been completed in the Denver metro area. We will also discuss the current status of the ongoing project to implement the model utilizing COTS, custom tools that are being employed or are in development and integration with a variety of COTS business systems including:

• Accela-Permitting System
• Cityworks-Asset Management
• CrashMagic-Traffic Safety
• CDOT HUTF-Highway Users Tax Fund
• Pontis-Bridge Information System
• TriTech-Computer Aided Dispatch

Jason Channin, Esri
ArcGIS for Water Utilities is a collection of maps and applications packaged for the ArcGIS platform. It is designed to meet common needs of water, wastewater, and storm water utilities. During this workshop, we will explore various components of the Local Government Information Model as well as the many map and application templates available to support the five patterns of successful GIS implementation.

Dave Vaillancourt, Esri
This workshop will outline common lidar processing tasks and workflows. It will show how ArcGIS can be used to manage large lidar point collections and demonstrate approaches to mining information from them. Topics include assessing lidar point coverage and sample density, creation of digital elevation models (DEM)/ digital surface models (DSM), forest canopy density and height estimation, intensity image creation, noise reduction for contouring and slope analysis, and floodplain delineation.

Marwa Mabrouk, Esri
The architecture, functionality, and workflows used with ArcGIS for Server have seen significant changes at version 10.1. This topic will highlight many of those changes and be of particular interest to users of previous versions of ArcGIS for Server.

Tosca Hoffman, Esri
This session will cover the different Esri training options that are offered. A comprehensive overview of the Esri certification program will be discussed as well.

Aquatic, Riparian, and Wetlands Analysis Process
Tom Dudley and John Varner, USDA Forest Service
This presentation will review the process to conduct a landscape level watershed analysis using ModelBuilder to implement a complex assessment protocol. The result is easy to review data on watersheds to determine impacts on water communities in order to rank and prioritize the amount of impacts occurring and how much restoration could be implemented to bring the water resources to an acceptable level. First manual analysis took over a year and now the models allow a broad analysis to be completed in less than 1 day.

Government employees can now review what watersheds are in worst shape and how they may respond to treatments. As well, data can be changed easily and evaluations for potential changes, including climate change, will change the existing condition. The audience can see how fast an extensive analysis can be run and how these models could assist them in their business.

Vector 3D Integrated Geospatial Techniques for Visualization applied to Montezuma Castle National Monument
Erika Trigoso, University of Denver, Department of Geography
This paper will discuss the procedures that are employed to create 3D map models and animations for multi-story archaeological structures based on vector features with embedded z component. In particular a case study for site 88A-63 at Montezuma Castle National Monument is presented. This methodology integrates procedures from laser 3D scanning capture, AutoCAD manipulation, GIS vector transformation and 3D visualization and animation development. With the development of more precise technologies for 3D laser scanning, derived vector data also provides improved quality for visualization purposes. Derived 3D vector data provides a new dimensionality for the observation and analysis of archaeological structures but it could also be applied for other type of modern edifications. In this way, derived 3D vector data integrates an ample spectrum of geospatial technologies: laser 3D scanning, CAD, GIS and animation to provide a robust visualization product aimed to advance archaeological science.

Esri Staff
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based, collaborative content management system for maps, applications, data, and other geographic information. With recent enhancements to ArcGIS Online, organizations of all sizes now have the ability to manage their geospatial content and publish their maps, applications, data, and hosted services online. Both hosted and on-premises implementation patterns will be covered in this session. Other topics will include (1) value of ArcGIS Online to an organization; (2) implementation patterns (hosted and on-premises); (3) types of data that ArcGIS Online can use; (4) publishing capabilities; (5) administration of content and users; (6) how to customize ArcGIS Online for your organization; (7) security, terms of use, and service-level agreements; and (8) resources for learning more.

Closing Speaker: Chris Markuson, GISP
GIS Manager
Pueblo County, CO