EDAC Projects
Friday, September 16th, 2011
The "New Mexico Watch Demonstration Project" (nmwatch.org) that focuses on Statewide Wildfire Reporting is an example of building onto the existing structure created by the Broadband Program. The interactive website distributes maps, data, and related information of natural disasters within New Mexico. Functionality includes, but is not limited to allowing ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
In 2010 and 2011 EDAC contracted with the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer to georectify several hundred historic water related maps. The first project was to georectify hydrographic survey maps of the Pecos Basin using the 2005 statewide digital aerial imagery as the mapping base. Some of the ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
From 2007 to 2011, EDAC, in conjunction with Natural Heritage New Mexico, mapped the land cover of the 7,000 acre Petroglyph National Monument. Although covering a relatively small area, the park with its volcanoes and lava cliffs found at the transition between the Great Plains, the Desert Basin and the ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
As part of a project being conducted by URS Corp to map the land-use change in Harris County, Texas (greater Houston), EDAC was contracted in 2011 to create an ortho-photo map of the county using aerial photography acquired in 1983. At that time the National High Altitude Program acquired some ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
The New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBB) is part of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) State Broadband Initiative (SBI), which implements the joint purposes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Broadband Data Improvement Act. The SBI program facilitates the integration of broadband and information ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
The New Mexico Public Schools Facilities Authority (PSFA) Statewide Web Map http://psfa.unm.edu was developed to communicate information about public schools in the State of New Mexico. The Web Map displays the public school information including school enrollment numbers, school capacity calculations, the New Mexico Facilities Database ranking information, and community ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
At the beginning of almost every legislative session, EDAC provides representatives of New Mexico's Senate and House Districts with maps depicting the locations of University of New Mexico (UNM) Students, Employees, and Alumni within the individual districts. According to Marc H. Saavedra, UNM's Director of the Office of Government and ...
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
The Pre-Disaster Hazard Mitigation Act of 2010 (PDM), administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), provides funding and technical assistance to state and local governments for disaster preparedness and management. Over the last two years, UNM has developed the first university approved Natural Hazard Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan in New ...
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Saturday, September 25th, 2010
In collaboration with the Center for Rapid Environmental Assessment and Terrain Evaluation (CREATE) EDAC has developed a system for the rapid post-processing and delivery of true-color MODIS (Terra and Aqua) images for the display of recent conditions over the entire state of New Mexico. The current full-sized file provided by ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Begun in 1999, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is a cooperative agreement between the world’s major space agencies to pool their remote sensing satellites and archival imagery libraries to aid countries whose people are impacted by natural or man-made disasters. When a disaster occurs the Charter members ...
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
NASA's "What on Earth" blog has posted excerpts from an interview that they conducted with EDAC's Stan Morain before he presented information about our work with the University of Arizona, Marshall Space Flight Center, and New Mexico's Department of Health in modeling dust events in the Southwestern US at the ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Exposure to fine particulate dust and adhered endotoxins is an increasing Public Health concern, particularly in the exacerbation of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. This concern is demonstrated by the deployment (funded by NASA’s REASoN program) of a moderate resolution dust forecasting system (the DREAM ETA model) into the SYRIS syndromic ...
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
From 2001 to 2009, EDAC, in conjunction with Natural Heritage New Mexico, mapped the land cover of the 34,000 acre Bandelier National Monument in north-central New Mexico. The monument presented some unique challenges, from an elevation difference of 5,000 feet, to a terrain that includes riverine and lacustrine habitats, deep ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Beginning in 2005, EDAC in conjunction with Natural Heritage New Mexico mapped the land cover of the 86,000 acre Guadalupe Mountains National Park in western Texas. A diverse range of environments are found in the park from the gypsic dunes and alkali playas on the west side, to the oak ...
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
After several months of development, the public beta release of the next version of the New Mexico Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS) has been released. This version provides vastly improved search capabilities and Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services (WFS) for many layers, and will ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
With support from the ESIP Federation EDAC developed a basic conversion capability that allows for the automated generation of KML (viewable in Google Earth and other KML clients) from the service metadata for an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) that provides access to the map layers advertised by that ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
ENPHASYS Home Page
This three year NASA funded project builds upon EDAC’s combined experience and capabilities built as part of the PHAiRS and NM EPHT projects through the development of dust and ozone forecast products and information delivery capabilities that are deliverable through the NM EPHT system. While still in progress, ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Almost continuously since 1994 EDAC has provided the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories with technical assistance in remote sensing and GIS technology. The mission of the CMC is to demonstrate the various unclassified technologies that can be used in border monitoring, arms control, and international security. EDAC ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
EDAC, using digital aerial imagery, produced housing unit counts in ten of the most historically undercounted counties in New Mexico. EDAC, in collaboration with UNM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) and under contract to the NM Department of Finance and Administration, addressed the population undercount in the Local ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
EDAC, in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM), continues the partnership among state and Federal agencies, local communities, tribal entities, and professional associations to assess, inventory, acquire, and distribute data supporting coordination, planning, and development of floodplain mapping, as stated in New Mexico’s ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
In 2008 the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) completed the second year of a five-year Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cooperative agreement to develop an Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) program. The CDC program's purpose is to provide state health departments with resources to implement statewide ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
In 2008, the five-year NASA-funded REASoN project known as PHAiRS entered its fifth and final year. This project is unique in that it has successfully modified a dust forecast model for conditions in the southwest United States and improved the model’s performance by using NASA Earth observation data as input ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
The Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC), University of New Mexico continues to work closely with the National Diabetes Prevention Center (NDPC), Program Development Branch, National Diabetes Wellness Program, and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to assist in serving Native communities in largely untapped areas of healthcare related ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
The Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) at the University of New Mexico, in cooperation with the National Indian Council on Aging, and sponsored by the Indian Health Services (IHS) through the Indian Elder Care initiative developed an interactive Atlas of Indian Elder Health using Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies. The ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
In conjunction with our application development work, we also provide ongoing hosting of the applications that we develop for particular projects. The specific hosting model will vary from project to project, but the following services are available as part of any hosting package:
Daily incremental and weekly full backups to tape ...
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