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BOCOMO Synergy Project
Local Government Implementation
Boone County & City of Columbia

Current Participants

Boone County

Public Works
Planning & Zoning
Dept. of Information Tech
Sewer District
Design & Construction
Assessor

Boone Electric Cooperative

City of Columbia

Planning & Development
Public Works
Chief Engineer/Operations
Solid Waste Manager

City of Ashland

Public Works
City Engineer
Planning

Project Objectives
• Refinement of Local Government implementation process.
– Assessment of user context and integration potential.
– Determination of insertion points of remote sensing products and derivative products into decision-making.
– Development of remote sensing products to user requirements.
– Implementation of remote sensing products to address local government policy and planning issues.
– Delineation of programmatic opportunities for technology transfer and maintenance.
– Building within the cooperating jurisdictions the capacity and capability for independent ongoing use of remote sensing products.

Target Customers
• City and County Planners
• City and County Public Works
• City and County Assessors
• Locally Owned Utilities
• Regulated Storm Water Authorities
• Local Citizenry

Status
• Stakeholder Meetings - expanding series
– Issue and Policy Definition
– Potential Application Listing
– Prioritization of Application
– Database Inventory and Documentation
– Product Planning & Development
• Development of Internet - Intranet Site
• Base Map Evaluation and Planning
• Land Cover Mapping & Change Detection
– Aerial Photography - continuing
– TM - continuing
– IKONOS - just arrived
• Elevation Modeling

Planned Products
TARGET APPLICATIONS:
• Storm Water - Modeling, Planning, Monitoring, Maintenance
• Tax Assessment
• Inventory Development
• Traffic Demand Modeling
• Flood Zone Determination
• Right-of-Way Management
• Ecological Sensitivity Modeling

Initial Results
• PROGRAMATIC:
– Application/Data Base Matrix
• Interrelationships and Interdependence
– Publicity in Local Papers
– Managing Expectations
– Initiate Project / Product Teams
– Internet InfoMart Development
• APPLICATION:
– Stormwater Modeling
– Ecological Sensitivity

Issues
• Scale / resolution / accuracy interrelationships within local government applications - Undefined accuracies.
• Policies to ensure privacy.
• Conversion of existing data / data transfer / data update.
• Building a technology transfer / informational program for the development of staff resources for more independent use of remote sensing products.
• Building collaborative business relationships with the commercial sector focusing on local government needs and applications.

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