ARRA National Map Program: Imagery and Elevation Data

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ARRA National Map ProgramImagery and Elevation
Data

• SE Area Real-Time Inundation Meeting
• Atlanta, GA
• October 29, 2009

U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological
Survey
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NGPO Mission

• Provide leadership and guidance to key
  stakeholders
• Facilitate strategy and policy development
• Provide financial and other incentives
• Facilitate the development of key standards and
  data models
• Coordinate governance structure for the NSDI
• Negotiate collaborative agreements with
  stakeholders
• Provide forum for technology transfer and sharing
  best practices
• Implement key components of the NSDI
• Host spatial datasets, web sites, knowledge base,
  and tools for discovery and access
• Perform data integration and Quality Assurance of
  spatial data
• Produce spatial data as last resort
• Manage geospatial service contracts
• Provide training, education and consulting
• Conduct and sponsor research for GI Science
• Support GIS applications and services
• Create map products

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NSDI Partnership Office Functions

• NSDI Partnership Offices house USGS Geospatial
  Liaisons
• Liaisons represent, coordinate and implement NGPO
  programs and initiatives in the context of State,
  local, other federal agency and regional needs
  and strategies
• Liaisons cultivate relationships and develop
  partnerships and supporting agreements as the
  local face of the NSDI and NGPO programs

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Emergency Operations

• Geospatial information coordination
• Liaison support DHS, NGA, CIA, DOI, etc
• National Security Special Events
• Homeland Security/Defense requirements gathering
  and planning
• Support for deployed geospatial experts
• Custom and sensitive products

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Multiple Funding Approaches

• Combination of Cooperative Agreements and
  Contracts for elevation data (lidar)
• Cooperative Agreements for Orthoimagery
• Flexible funding

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Major milestones/timelines and accomplishments

• Program Announcement approved at DOI, awaiting
  OMB clearance on Paperwork Reduction Act
• Science Projects selected, Tasks Orders in work
  using Geospatial Products and Services Contract
  (GPSC)
• Federal projects identified and in progress
• Alaska IFSAR acquisition in FY10

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Cooperative Program via Grants.Gov
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Cooperative Program via Grants.Gov
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Science Projects

• Seven projects selected
• Review of footprints, specs, and cost estimates
  in progress
• Work with points of contact to adjust if
  necessary
• Develop task orders for GPSC2
• Award contracts when GPSC2 is available

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Regional Lidar Science Projects

• Mobile Bay
• Indiana Flood forecast libraries
• Stone County, MO
• Loch vale and HandCart Gulch, CO
• NPS Lidar
• San Francisco Bay Coastal System
• Sandy River, OR

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• Project AOI square mileage in written proposal
  240 sq mi, but shapefiles 165 sq mi
• 9 areas are non-contiguous which will affect
  mobilization, collection, and base station
  control set-up
• Cost estimate is good

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• Tippecanoe River (North) and flood plain within
  Tippecanoe, White, and Carroll Counties

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• Tippecanoe River (South) flood plain within
  Tippecanoe, White, and Carroll Counties

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• Wabash River and contiguous flood plain within
  Terre Haute, Vigo County

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• East Fork White, Flatrock and Driftwood Rivers
  within 5 miles of Columbus, IN

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• White River and Flood Plain, Spencer, IN

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• White River and Flood Plain, Seymour, IN

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• White River and Flood Plain, Newberry, IN

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• Iroquois River and Flood Plain, Rensselaer, IN

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Eastern Region Projects Priority 2
Flood-inundation Libraries for 20 NWS Flood
Forecast Points in Indiana

• Elkhart River and Flood Plain, Goshen and
  Elkhart, IN

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Federal Partnerships

• Numerous meetings with other Federal agencies to
  partner ARRA stimulus funds with non-ARRA funds
  over a number of areas
• Alaska IFSAR
• USGS, NGA, BLM, USACE
• Coastal US lidar
• NOAA, FEMA, USACE, USGS
• Interior US lidar projects
• NRCS

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Federal PartnershipsFEMA-USGS-NJ

• Project to complete lidar coverage over NJ
• USGS pays for areas west of CAFRA (Coastal Area
  Facility review Act) line, FEMA east of CAFRA
  line
• 1.3M, 750K USGS, 298K FEMA, 500K for hydro
  enforcement, survey checkpoints and QAQC
• Coastal FL a possibility

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Issues/Problems/Risks

• GPSC contract protest
• Timing of Program Announcement for Cooperative
  Agreements
• Limited number of projects suitable for flying
  before spring
• Leveraging with other Federal ARRA and SIR funds
• Large Consortium requests
• Overlapping project areas

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Next Steps

• Develop all task orders and be ready for GPSC
  availability
• Post Program Announcement on grants.gov
• Develop interagency agreements and associated
  task orders

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More Information

• Contacts NGP ARRA Co-Managers
• Teresa Dean (tdean_at_usgs.gov)
• Jim Mauck (jmauck_at_usgs.gov)
• Greg Desmond (gdesmond_at_usgs.gov)
• USGS Center for LiDAR Information Coodination and
  Knowledge (CLICK) http//lidar.cr.usgs.gov