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GIS Partnership Summary
Suffolk County GIS Consortium
for Color Digital Aerial Photography
Partnership Purpose and Goal
A Suffolk County consortium of GIS users determined that a current digital image map base covering the entire land area of the County would provide benefits to many agencies, particularly those with responsibility in the areas of planning, public safety and public works. A Suffolk County aerial photography contract, in spring of 1996, resulted in a digital image map base of County-wide 1"=1200' scale scanned and registered digital photography (2.5 ft pixel). The goal was an improved, 1999, 1"=1000' scale, one foot pixel, color digital aerial photo base-map which can be digitally positioned under data sets for use with GIS products such as MapInfo and ArcView.
Participants and Resource Contributions
1996 Digital Aerial Photography Base
Suffolk County Police Department - $90,000 (sole project funding)
1999 Color Digital Aerial Photography Base
Suffolk County Police Department - $30,000
Other County agencies (Planning, MIS, Health, DPW) - $16,900
Suffolk County Water Authority - $30,000
Suffolk County's 10 towns, with each town contributing a percent equal to it's area toward the cost (Babylon 5.7%, Brookhaven 26.1%, Easthampton 10.0%, Huntington 8.3%, Islip 10.8%, Riverhead 6.4%, Shelter Island 2.0%, Southold 8.7%, Smithtown 5.1%, Southampton 16.4%) - $29,400
For both projects, data was made available to Suffolk County's 10 towns; state and federal Agencies including the New York State Department of State, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Transportation, Fire Island National Seashore, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Cancer Institute, US Fish and Wildlife, and Brookhaven National Lab; Suffolk County departments of Public Works (Vector Control, Transportation, Sewage & Water ways), Fire Rescue, Civil Service (Management Information Services), Planning, Department of Health Services (Office of Ecology, water monitoring), Real Property Tax Service Agency, Soil and Water; and other groups including Suffolk County Water Authority, Suffolk Community College, Suffolk County Library, Long Island Railroad, the Nature Conservancy, Cornell Cooperative Extension as well as numerous fire departments, schools and municipalities.
Time Frame
Date Partnership Began: Nov 1998
Completion Date: June 2000
Deliverables
Color photography, CD-ROMs with resampled 8 bit tiff images of the photography, and an UNLIMITED LICENSE TO USE AND DISTRIBUTE THE DIGITAL PRODUCTS AMONG THE LICENSED ENTITIES TO ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT AND UNLIMITED LICENSE IN THE UNLIMITED PRODUCTION OF HARDCOPY PRODUCTS.
Brief Summary of Partnership
In 1999 this consortium of GIS users joined in the acquisition of Color Digital Aerial photography at an improved 1"= 1000' scale. The Color Digital Aerial photo base map can be digitally positioned under GIS data sets, as source aerial photography prior to leaf out in the spring of 1999.
Any other agencies providing services to a town can have access to Color Digital Aerial photography as a GIS base. This GIS consortium was possible because the towns and county agencies could buy off of a County contract with the exception of the S.C.W.A. (a state agency) which had to give money to the county by resolution. This economy of scale allows $100,000 worth of Digital imagery for a proportional fraction of the cost. The 1999 GIS consortium of Color Digital Aerial Photography was done without the need for any agreements other than the establishment of a county contract and each agency covering their respective cost.
Additional Information Available On-line
http://gis.co.suffolk.ny.us
Contact Information
Veronica Veras
GIS Coordinator
Suffolk County Information Services
Post Office Box 6100
North County Complex, Bldg # 50
Hauppauge, NY 11788-0099
Phone: (631) 853- 4458
Fax: (631) 853-4979
E-Mail: veronica@suffolkcountyny.gov