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State GIS director tells House committee statewide LiDAR, parcel and imagery programs support flood, land-use and municipal work
Summary
John Adams, director of the Center for Geographic Information, told the House Agriculture Committee that Vermont’s statewide GIS programs produce high-resolution LiDAR, parcel and imagery datasets used by state agencies, municipalities and the public and are publicly available through a central GeoData portal.
John Adams, director of the Center for Geographic Information at the Agency of Digital Services, told the House Agriculture Committee that the state’s geographic information system (GIS) program maintains foundational datasets — including imagery, elevation (LiDAR), parcels and land cover — and makes them available through a single GeoData portal.
Adams said the program “build[s] the foundational datasets” and that the portal is widely used: “In 2024, we had, really an astounding number of users. We have around 250,000, unique users.”
Why it matters: the datasets Adams described are used for flood modeling, parcel management, emergency response and other planning tasks that state and local agencies rely on. Adams demonstrated tools that let users view buffers around designated areas, inspect parcel ownership and export parcel tables for analysis.
Adams described recent technical upgrades and key program facts. The agency now uses high-resolution airborne…
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