SDMI Briefing Paper and AKSMC booth
A two page paper summarizing SDMI goals and status as of February 2008 is now avaialble.
From the briefing:
Summary:
Government, military, and commercial operations need accurate digital base maps to meet their missions. Alaska’s Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative (SDMI) is an interagency program to produce high-resolution, digital base maps of the entire state. Existing topographic maps of Alaska are more than 40 years old, and inaccuracies of up to a quarter-mile exist in places. Alaska is the only state in the nation without current digital imagery and elevation maps at nationally accepted standards.
Read more… SDMI Briefing Paper: February 25, 2008
Also, SDMI will have a booth at the 42nd annual Alaska Surveying & Mapping conference this week from Tuesday afternoon until Thursday evening. There will also be a Friday morning technical session about SDMI.
Continue Reading…Posted by admin on Feb 26, 2008