On August 19, an educational forum on aerial and satellite imagery available for Rhode Island was held at the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) main campus with the goal of informing attendees on a variety of online resources for image data of Rhode Island, with a heavy emphasis on RIGIS and the US Geological Survey (USGS); this forum also highlighted the new suite of ArcGIS Image Services featuring RIGIS data that are being developed by the Rhode IslandView. There are three ways to download imagery from RIGIS. The majority of RIGIS imagery is available as tiled GeoTIFF and JPEG2000 format files, however historical imagery is available as tiled MrSID format files…
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The First RIGIS Metadata Author’s Workshop
The first RIGIS Metadata Author’s workshop was held on March 25, 2016 at the University of Rhode Island. Throughout the all-day workshop participants learned the ins and outs of metadata and how to author it using ArcCatalog. The goal of this workshop was to provide RIGIS data contributors with the new minimum metadata standard, based on the FGDC metadata standard, that all RIGIS data must meet for inclusion on the site, however this workshop was great for anyone looking for more guidance on how to create and write metadata for themselves or their organization. Throughout the morning’s presentations attendees were able to ask questions and have discussions about how metadata…