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Geographic Information Services
Geographic Information Services

How the data is being used?

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM with Kass Green

Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma Counties have all initiated or completed the creation of fine scale vegetation and landscape data bases.  These projects support many applications and a variety of users.  This presentation will review how commercial, NGA, and government agencies are using the data bases to support a variety of applications ranging from wildfire fuels management, landslide and debris modelling, watershed management, conservation easement prioritization, wetland restoration and many others.
 

Speaker

Kass Green

Kass Green

Kass Green’s experience spans over thirty years of managing and supervising GIS and remote sensing professionals for vegetation mapping, as well as leadership in GIS and remote sensing research and policy. In 1988, Ms. Green co-founded Pacific Meridian Resources a GIS/remote sensing firm that she grew to 75 employees in 7 offices nationwide and sold to Space Imaging (now part of Maxar) in 2000.

Following retirement from Space Imaging in 2003, Ms. Green founded Kass Green & Associates where she focuses on challenging remote sensing and policy projects for public agencies, development organizations, and NGOs.

Ms. Green is currently involved in several multi-county projects to create fine scale vegetation and landscape data for Sonoma, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties.  Her  coauthored texts include Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery[1], and 3 editions  of Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data, Principles and Practices[2].

Over the past 20+ years she has served on several Federal Advisory Committees for NOAA, NASA, and the US Department of the Interior (USDI). Her career is one of 23 profiled in Esri’s 2019 book, Women in GIS: Mapping Their Stories[3].