New York State Office of Cyber Security
Geographic Information Systems Clearinghouse
GIS Partnership Summary
Integrated Border Enforcement Teams (IBET)
Partnership Purpose and Goal:
GIS can play a key role in increasing the effectiveness of Integrated Border Enforcement Teams (IBET), one of 30 points in the Smart Border Action Plan signed by the US Attorney General and the Canadian Solicitor General in December 2001. The IBET GIS Work Group was formed to support IBET's mission of securing the US/Canadian border by facilitating partnerships such as the Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Project described here. The LULC data and the partnerships developed through this project will support a joint Common Operational Picture (COP) that involves multiple law enforcement agencies.
Participants and Resource Contributions:
The Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT): Provided grant funding for LULC production, Landsat 7 data, and project review.
The National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Center - Northeast (NLECTC‑NE): Provided in-kind support for project management and technical coordination.
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources: Performed production of LULC inexpensively, and in a short time frame.
NYS GIS Clearinghouse, Land Information Ontario, and the Province of Quebec: provided GIS data and imagery to support LULC production.
NYS Dep't of State (NYS DOS), US Border Patrol, US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of NY, Franklin County District Attorney's Office, NY State Police (NYSP), NYS Office of Cyber Security (NYS OCS), Land Information Ontario, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ontario Provincial Police: All provided review and supported the project.
Data Sharing Cooperative Members: NYS DOS, NYSP, NYS CSCIC, Ontario membership is pending.
Time Frame
Date Partnership Began: March 2004
Completed: No
Deliverables:
This partnership will deliver a unique set of LULC data that spans the US/Canadian border. It has been developed from 2002 Landsat 7 imagery and in part from 2003 ortho-imagery produced by NY that also extends into Canada. Anticipated delivery date is 31 August, 2004.
It is expected that the data will be made available to members of the NYS GIS Data Sharing Cooperative.
Brief Summary of Partnership:
The IBET GIS Work Group's LULC Partnership has been very successful to date in meeting an aggressive schedule, and this success is credited to the partners' professionalism, skills, enthusiasm, and a desire to secure the homeland. Tasks accomplished include obtaining grant funding from the IAGT, defining requirements, assembling the required data sets, and beginning production. It is also important to note that the data being used to produce the LULC is local in nature. The Ontario data at 1:10,000, Quebec data at 1:20,000 and the New York State data, such as the Accident Location Information System (ALIS) street layer, provide far more accuracy and detail than the federal data available from either nation. The cooperation between two provinces and one state to accomplish this is significant
This partnership was developed through the IBET GIS Work Group (WG), and it built on the results of previous WG partnership efforts. In the spring of 2003, the Work Group requested that NYS CSCIC produce digital ortho-imagery (DO) into Canada as part of NY's DO program to support IBET activities. The collection of necessary ground control for the ortho-imagery production was in turn facilitated by the WG. Among other things, this ortho-imagery is being used as ground truth for the LULC production. In a continuation of the bootstrapping process, the current LULC project will be used to demonstrate some of law enforcement's geospatial requirements in the border region, and this demonstration of need will then be used to enlist the support of national mapping agencies such as the USGS or Natural Resource Canada. A national, regional, provincial, state and local partnership will most likely be necessary to extend data collection and production nationwide, to periodically update LULC and DO coverage, and to maintain historical data for change detection. With the National Map, the National Digital Ortho, and the National Land Cover Dataset programs as models, and frameworks, this should only be a matter of making room at the table for a Canadian partner or two. This will most definitely be an ongoing partnership.
Additional Information Available On-line: http://www.iagt.org, http://www.justnet.org, http://www.lio.mnr.gov.on.ca
Contact Information
Ed Freeborn - Senior Geographic Information Analyst
National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center - Northeast (NLECTC-NE)
1300-B Floyd Avenue
Rome, NY 13440
Phone: (315)339-6184
Fax: (315)339-6923
E-mail: edwin.freeborn@l-3com.comMike Robertson - Policy Analyst
Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange
Land Information Ontario, Information Access Section
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
PO Box 7000, 300 Water Street
Peterborough, ON K9J8M5
Phone: (705)755-1280
E-mail: mike.robertson@mnr.gov.on.caMatt Mercurio - Remote Sensing Specialist
Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology
199 Franklin Street, Suite 300
Auburn, NY 13021-3025
Phone: (315)252-8669
Fax: (315)253-7335
E-mail: mmercurio@iagt.org