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Vicki LukasFebruary 1, 2016

3D Elevation Program (3DEP)

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3DEP Status and Plans

Data Acquisition Status

Budget Outlook

Unified Federal Approach and Best Practices

Governance Structures

Emerging Lidar Assessment

TOPICS

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3.4% of entire US was acquired to 3DEP quality in FY15 - includes complete, in progress, and planned/funded

13.9% of Lower 49 Meets 3DEP quality (2008-2015 only)

63.6% of AK Meets 3DEP quality (QL5 – ifsar)

Data Acquired through FY 2015

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FY15 3DEP Preliminary SummaryLidar Data Acquisition

3DEP Lidar Data Contracted in FY153DEP Funds $M Partner Funds $M Total $M Sq Miles

USGS FEMA NRCS Other Feds Non-Fed$38.6 151,000$7.2 $11.2 $7.1 $2.5 $10.7

$25.5 $13.2

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FY15 3DEP SummaryAlaska Ifsar

BLM, FWS, NPS, USFS and USGS provided ~$2.8M end-of-year to acquire ~25,000 square miles of ifsar in critical areas of Arctic Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula, and the Yukon Delta

Funding from all contributors totaled over $7.4M 

Total square miles of ifsar acquired were 69,000, adding approximately 12% coverage, raising the State's overall coverage to 63.4%

Goal is to reach 70% coverage in FY16

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41 proposals submitted for projects in 29 states + 1 territory

Total project value of $36M; $21M in partner contributions, requesting $15M 3DEP funding

Coverage proposed 142,000 sq mi

BAA remains open to new proposals through the year

FY16 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)Project Selection In Progress

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FY16 BAA

# of awards Sq. mi.

3DEP USGS,

FEMA HQ,NRCS GCE

$M

Other Partners

$M

Total Cost $M

Geospatial Products and

Services Contract (GPSC)

17 79,082 $6.5 $11.5 $17.9

Cooperative Agreements 5 15,916 $2.0 $2.4 $4.4

Total as of 01/31/16 22 94,998 $8.5 $13.8 $22.4

Summary to Date – Project Selection Ongoing

• Additional FY16 3DEP acquisitions funded by 3DEP Federal partners are underway• FY16 increases will help increase overall totals for acquisition• BAA remains open to new proposals

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April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March

Submit Proposal

Submit Pre-

proposals

Selections Announced

NationalPublic

Webinars

BAA Released

Feedback provided on Pre-

proposals

BAA Contract and Grant Administration

BAA Project Execution

3DEP Annual BAA CycleNational Public

Webinars

State/ RegionalPublic

Workshops

Federal Areas of Interest

Submitted

Submit Public

Areas of Interest

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FY16/17 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)Potential Enhancements

Further develop the online requirements tools along with business rules to manage Federal and State/Local requirements, including definitions for requirements (prioritized), planned / funded acquisition and in-work projects

Develop a streamlined BAA option or other defined process specific to coordination and consideration of Federal-only projects

Develop a flow chart to communicate how and when Federal agencies can plug in, as well as a flow chart for other stakeholders

Online application process to streamline submittal, evaluation and application processing and servicing

Explore options to make funds available early in the fiscal year to enable the process to better meet spring acquisition deadlines

Revise BAA selection from single round to biannual or multiple selection periods to better reflect State and Local funding cycles and acquisition windows

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Geospatial Products and Services ContractSummary of FY15 Funding

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 (est)$0

$5

$10

$15

$20

$25

$30

$35

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(Milli

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$34.7M

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3DEP Budget Outlook

FY16 increase: $3M for 3DEP and $1.3M for AK = $4.3M, total program $24.7M Rough estimate - about $25M needed for an 8-year program (1/3 USGS, 1/3 other

Federal, and 1/3 other partners costshare)

Good progress, more work to do PRELIMINARY –

Numbers to be refined

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3DEP Unified Federal Plan and Best Practices

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3DEP Unified Federal Plan and Best Practices

Move from an opportunistic, ad hoc partnering process to a unified Federal multi-year plan for acquiring and disseminating data

Attract increased participation of state, local and other stakeholders

Aid the Federal community in reaching a higher level of coordinated implementation and to reduce the number of years it will take to complete national coverage

Purpose

Best practices provide documentation and a mechanism for agencies to assess participation and to inspire further adoption of Federal enterprise practices that advance joint 3DEP coverage goals for the benefit of agency missions and the Nation as a whole

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3DEP Unified Federal Plan

Known roles and responsibilities Active participation in governance structure Acquire data through the 3DEP data acquisition process (work through the 3DEP

Working Group to submit areas of interest, and coordinate data acquisition throughout the year and EOY)

Agency commitment to ensure data investments support national goals Agency enterprise coordination to participate in 3DEP Active role in defining the acquisition process Ensuring 3DEP-quality datasets acquired outside of the process for ingestion into

national holdings Joint funding and reporting on data investment Help bring additional stakeholders into the plan

What does it look like?

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3DEP Federal Best Practices

Reduced unit costs by pooling funding with other partners Reduced unit costs through the economy of scale achieved through larger project sizes Access to qualified and experienced mapping firms under contract to acquire and

process data USGS programmatic infrastructure that issues and manages data acquisition contracts,

and inspects, accepts, and distributes point cloud and derived data products; reduced costs for not replicating the same infrastructure in multiple agencies

More consistent data from standardized acquisition and larger project areas Increased state, local, tribal and other data acquisition partnerships through advance

planning and earlier notification of opportunities enabled by a defined, stable Federal acquisition budget

The opportunity to “buy up” higher-quality data for specialized applications The opportunity to receive 3DEP cost-share funding to acquire lidar data Publicly accessible data

Benefits of a Unified Federal Plan for Investments

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3DEP Federal Best Practices - DRAFT Sign 3DEP governance memorandum of understanding (when available) Assign agency representatives to 3DEP Executive Forum and Working Group Acquire data through the 3DEP data acquisition process (work through the 3DEP

Working Group to submit areas of interest, and coordinate data acquisition throughout the year and EOY)

Implement an agency policy to work within the Unified Federal 3DEP plan for data acquisition and sharing

Coordinate internally to link regional/field offices into 3DEP and data acquisition process Provide input and support to improve the acquisition process Share 3DEP-quality datasets acquired outside of the process for ingestion into national

holdings Participate in 3DEP Budget Initiatives Report 3DEP investments to Flood Risk Budget Cross Cut (participating 9 agencies) Promote 3DEP to agency constituents to participate in or support the national 3DEP

effort

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3DEP Interagency Coordination Structures

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3D Nation Elevation Subcommittee Addresses the need

for a formal A-16 theme subcommittee

Builds on existing successful coordination and establishes a formal linkage between 3DEP and IWG-OCM

3DEP Working Group Re-charter the NDEP committee to meet new 3DEP data acquisition approach Formalize successful coordination group

3DEP Executive Forum Support A-16 coordination at executive level Provide programmatic oversight to 3DEP Working Group

Elevation Theme Governance

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Status 3D Nation Elevation Subcommittee – Approved in

December, 2015 by the FGDC Steering Committee 3DEP Executive Forum and 3DEP Working Group Draft

Charters – Next steps Combine into one document MOU instead of charter Request each agency to name representatives to each group Draft in progress Benefit – provide more structure and accountability as we work

towards unified Federal plan for 3DEP

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Emerging Lidar/E3D-WG Update

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Emerging 3D Technologies Working Group

Result of Emerging Lidar Technology Federal Roundtable meeting of 9/14

Members from USGS, NOAA, NGA, FWS, USACE, USFS, NRCS

Coordination with NGA-led Lidar Interoperability Work Group (LIWG)

Better understand emerging instruments: potential strengths and limitations

Come to Federal consensus on whether these instruments can meet 3DEP requirements

Current focus on high altitude and topobathy lidar systems

E3D-WG under the 3DEP Working Group

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Emerging 3D Technologies Working Group

Study contracted through the USGS Geospatial Products and Services Contracts (GPSC) Single Photon Lidar –

Sigma Space, HRQLS Geiger Mode Lidar –

HARRIS Corp., Intelliearth

Emerging Lidar Technical Assessment

Study area (red outline) 500 sq. mi. overlaps recently acquired Sandy QL2 data in Connecticut Includes landcover and terrain variability, portions of Hartford including the main

airport, and rivers and lakes to test hydro-flattening Includes leaf-on QL2 linear lidar data acquisition (yellow outline) Data collected in August

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Independent Assessments

Help acquire data

Collect some leaf-on data using ‘status-quo’ system (Woolpert)

Perform bare earth filtering of data and create DEMs for evaluation

Perform independent evaluations of accuracy assessment

Report findings and recommendations

Present findings at ILMF 2016 (and follow on at ITGF 2016)

Work with companies to help improve their methodologies, if data do not meet 3DEP requirements

Not assessing cost in this evaluation - only performance

Dewberry and Woolpert GPSC tasks

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Compliance with Current Specification Requirement Intelliearth HRQLS

LAS Version 1.4 LAS v1.4 LAS v1.2

Point Data Format Compliant Compliant

Coordinate Reference System Compliant Compliant

Global Encoder bit Compliant Compliant

Time Stamp Not Compliant Not Compliant

System ID Compliant Compliant

Multiple Returns Not Compliant Not Compliant

Point Source ID Not Compliant Compliant

Intensity Psuedo-intensity Not Compliant

Overlap and withheld Not Compliant Compliant

Scan Angle Not Compliant Not Compliant

XYZ Coordinates Compliant Compliant

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Vertical Accuracies

Dewberry Woolpert E3D-WGNVA VVA NVA VVA NVA VVA

HRQLS 17.2 cm 17.4 cm 14.1 cm 40.6 cm ? ?

Intelliearth 17.0 cm 25.6 cm 15.2 cm 92.0 cm ? ?

A major objective of this evaluation is to assess absolute horizontal and vertical accuracy

Specification

Non-vegetated Vertical Accuracy (NVA)

Vegetated Vertical Accuracy (VVA)

≤19.6 cm at 95% confidence level

≤29.4 cm at 95% confidence level

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Preliminary Observations

Point densities and relative accuracies more than adequate

Non-vegetated vertical accuracies are within specification

Concerns about point densities and vertical accuracies under dense vegetation

Non-compliance of attributes for USGS Lidar Base Specification 1.2 - must be worked through the 3DEP-WG and the broader community to develop policy and adapt specification and file formats

E3D-WG is conducting its independent review of the data to confirm this and/or to identify any additional issues – presenting results at ILMF

Overall the technology shows potential - warrants additional testing and next steps – need to continue to learn about, adapt to, and help these systems come in to full compliance with our specifications

Assessment is ongoing

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THANK YOU MAPPSLet’s Make 3DEP a Reality!

■ Guiding principles of the vision include that we recognize and value:■ The role of public/private partnerships■ The inherently governmental responsibility of maintaining a lean core competency,

while leveraging the expertise and capacity of the private industry■ The essential USGS role in acquiring critical public domain data that can be accessed,

value-added, and underpin a host of new and evolving uses and technologies  ■ The role of the private industry in provisioning the data, maintaining the operational

expertise and capacity, future sensor development, and increasing new applications ■ The USGS role as the lead Federal agency for elevation to create a National program

that results in quality and consistency while reducing/eliminating duplication

■ Together we have crafted are and implementing a vision that is a model public/private partnership and good government story

■ We greatly appreciate MAPPS and its members for its role in getting us to this point

■ We look forward to your continued cooperation and mutual support as we work together to achieve the bold goals of the 3D Elevation Program

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Thank you!