State of Hawai‘i VTP Development Notes

The Hawaiian Islands were chosen as the first and most prominent VTP demo/testing area for their dramatic scenery, a wide variety of elevation and vegetation, decent US federal data availability, and as a prototype for potential "virtual tourism".

Statewide Data - All the Islands

• Statewide Elevation
• Statewide Imagery

Island-specific

• Hawai‘i - "The Big Island"
  • General information
  • Elevation data
  • Satellite/aerial imagery
    • NASA aerial photos
  • Buildings and structures
    • Airports and airlines
  • Vector data
  • Land Use / Land Cover, Vegetation, Rainfall
  • Topo maps (DRG)
  • Telescopes and observatories
  • areas of Honoka'a and Ahualoa
  • town of Waimea (Kamuela)
• Oahu
• Kaua‘i
• Maui
• Kaho‘olawe, Lana‘i, Moloka‘i, Ni‘ihau

Culture

• Hawaiian plants
  • Species found on the islands
  • Model and texture map status
  • Hawaiian plant textures
  • Xfrog models
• Hawaiian animals
  • Feral pig notes
• Art list
• Hawaiian Railroads

GIS Data

• Hawai‘i Statewide GIS Program
  • HIGICC (Hawai‘i Geographic Information Coordination Council)
  • NASA Land Use/Land Cover Project (The Application of Remote Sensing Data to GIS Studies of Land Use, Land Cover, and Vegetation Mapping in the State of Hawai‘i )
  • Downloadable Coverages
• the U.S. Census Bureau has some data including Hawaiian Homes lands
• Atlas of Natural Hazards in the Hawaiian Coastal Zone

Project-Related

• other Virtual Hawai‘i projects and products
• a bibliography
• Hawai‘i data contacts
• an out-of-date but still informative step-by-step explanation of an early version of the project
• Ben's house

Misc. Hawai‘i References

• The Virtual Lava Tube contains fantastic illustrations and descriptions of Hawaiian lava tubes
• Projections
  • ArcView Extension - Hawai‘i Projections/Datums for converting commonly-used Hawai‘i projections and datums
• Ecology
  • Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center (PIERC)
  • The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i
  • Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project (HEAR)
  • Alternative-Hawai‘i Nature Activities
  • Flora & Fauna (mostly flora) at GORP HVNP
• Images
  • Photo Resource Hawai‘i

• Data Collection Notes
  • marketing blurb from Laser Technology Inc. -
    "After hurricane INIKI ripped through the island of Kauai, the local power company needed to map and inventory its facilities. AT&T was contracted to do the field inventory. The individuals chosen to collect the data had no previous GPS or Laser system experience. However, the project was completed ahead of schedule due in large part to the efficient and simple-to-use combination of the GPS and Criterion/LTI Map systems." AT&T Hawai‘i
  • implies that Helco has GPS-accurate data for their facilities
  • data collection trip (march '99) with vegetation notes