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Allyson Jason,

USGS, 3DEP Analytics and USIEI Coordinator

Paul Rooney,

FEMA (detail to USGS), 3DEP Federal Coordination

April 2, 2015

3D Elevation Program

(3DEP)

Coastal Connections

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■ 3D data include surface elevations

and natural and constructed features

■ 3DEP increases the quality level of

lidar being acquired to enable more

accurate understanding, modeling,

and prediction

■Goal to acquire national coverage in

8 years

Applies ground-

breaking lidar

technology to acquire

and distribute 3D data

Addresses a broad

range of critical

applications of national

significance

3D Elevation Program (3DEP)

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3DEP in the Coastal Zone

Beach Slope

Nearshore

Inte

rtid

al

Zon

e

Coastal Uplands

3DEP Partnership NOAA OCS

Shore Outer Continental Shelf

Offshore

IWG-OCM

3DEP

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1/9 arc-second

1 meter

1 Meter vs 1/9 arc-sec

DEM at full resolution

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From point cloud data to information

+ 6 + 6 New products and services being made

available in 2015 from The National Map

Lidar Point Cloud

5 meter Alaska DEMs 1 meter DEMs Alaska Ifsar DSMs Alaska Ifsar ORIs

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Building a Landscape-Level

Understanding of our Resources Lidar-supported science: understand, model, predict

Solid Earth

• Landscape

evolution

• Climate/tectonics/

erosion

interactions

• Natural hazards

Vegetation

• Carbon storage

• Structure

• Disturbance

• Biodiversity

• Fire fuel loads

Cryosphere

• Glacier mass -

balance

• Ice flow

dynamics

+ 8 + 8 Ensuring Healthy Water Sheds – Open

Water Data Initiative

Elevation is a foundational National data set.

Water Cycle

• Storage

• Snow depth

• River discharge

• Flood models

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Climate Action Plan

• Subsidence

• Flood Risk Mapping

• Wildfire Preparedness and

Response

Cross-Cutting Priority

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BEFORE

Hurricane

Sandy

AFTER

Hurricane

Sandy

Elevation

Change

From

Hurricane

Sandy

Community Resilience – Breach at Mantoloking, NJ

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U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory Acquisition of Elevation Data in the US*

To view the inventory visit: www.coast.noaa.gov/inventory

*All lidar quality levels, by Fiscal Year (ifsar Alaska). Some repeat coverage is due primarily to replacing older or less accurate data, change detection studies, or to overlap along the edges of adjacent acquisitions.

10-12%

coverage/year

to complete

US in 8 years

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U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory 2014 Status Map of Publicly Available Lidar Point Cloud (Ifsar Alaska)

To view the inventory visit: www.coast.noaa.gov/inventory

Only 6.8% of the lower 49

states meets the 3DEP

quality goal (QL2 or

better) lidar coverage

About half the State of

Alaska needs ifsar data

to complete the 3DEP

goal for coverage

+ 13 + 13 3D Elevation Program A call for action to…

Accelerate data acquisition to systematically

complete national 3D elevation data

coverage in eight years (lidar in

conterminous U.S., Hawaii, and the

Territories; and ifsar data in Alaska)

Digital 3D Elevation Models (DEMs) with

new lidar and ifsar elevation data products

and services

Increase the overall national investment in

3D elevation to $146 million annually to

return more than $690 million annually in

new benefits

+ + 14 3DEP 2015-2018 Call for Partnership!

■ Today, an annual average of around $45M is invested in lidar and ifsar data,

and our FY14 inventory shows that only 6.8% of the lower 49 States has lidar

data that meet 3DEP quality levels

■ An additional $100 million among 3DEP stakeholders is needed annually to

implement the national, 8-year program

■ Would result in a nearly 5:1 ROI, save lives, and improve our environment through

informed decisions

■ Presents a unique opportunity for collaboration

between all levels of government, to leverage

the services and expertise of private sector

mapping firms that acquire the data, and to

create jobs

■ The 2015-2018 “3DEP Call for Action” is

to build the investment needed to

establish a steady state program for a

nationwide elevation program

■ How will you Partner with 3DEP?

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3D Elevation Program

FY15 BAA Awards

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3DEP Acquisition Strategy

Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Opportunity for Feds, States, locals and others to partner on 3DEP

data acquisition

USGS GPSC

Assistance Awards for Partner Acquisitions

Purchase Orders

Contributed Data Stakeholders make use of the GPSC services to contract for Lidar

data and production of derivative products; provide copy of the data

to the 3DEP program for integration into the national 3DEP program

Stakeholders contract directly for acquisition of lidar and production

of derivative products and provide a copy to the USGS for

integration into the 3DEP program

Multi-faceted

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FY15 BAA Awards Proposed* body of work resulting from FY15 BAA submissions

(*offerors notified, authoritative paperwork in progress)

http://nationalmap.gov/3DEP/3dep_fy15projectlist.html

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Start Mon 1/12/15

Finish Fri 6/30/17

3rd Quarter 1st Quarter 3rd Quarter 1st Quarter 3rd Quarter

Inventory Elevation -

Spring Update 1/12/15 -

4/2/15

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Prepare FY16

BAA Documentation

4/3/15 - 7/16/15

Co

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Meetings: Project

Formation & Public

Outreach

5/4/15 - 7/1/15

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Inventory Elevation -

Fall Update 8/31/15 - 11/13/15

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Issue Task Orders/ Agreements 12/7/15 - 4/8/16

Project Selection

Notification (subject to funding)

12/1/15 - 2/23/16

Data Delivery Window 9/1/16 - 6/30/17

Prioritize Stakeholder Needs 1/12/15 - 7/3/15

Solicit Partnerships 4/3/15 - 2/19/16

Validate Requirements for FY16 BAA 6/12/15 - 7/1/15

Acquire Data 11/2/15 - 6/30/17

FY16 Fall/Winter Acquisition

Window 11/2/15 - 1/29/16

FY16 Spring Acquisition Window

2/1/16 - 4/29/16

FY17 Fall Acquisition Window

11/2/16 - 1/30/17

Federal Requirements Coordination

Meeting 4/23/15

Publish Federal Requirements

5/1/15

Issue Public Pre-Proposal Announcement

7/17/15 Issue Invitation for Full

Proposals 9/11/15

Publish FY16

Annual Report 2/29/16

3DEP FY15 Planning Timeline

for FY16 Data Acquisition (BAA)

As of 3/25/14

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BAA Planning for FY16 Awards

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Next 3DEP BAA Cycle

■Geospatial Platform

as “Homebase” for

Data Acquisition via

the Elevation

Community

■BAA process and

timelines

■Publish

requirements, allow

ongoing updates

■Access to US

Interagency

Elevation Inventory

Improve Public Information

Requirements Portal

Inventory

BAA

Info

Geospatial Platform Elevation Community “Mock Up”

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Key Goals for Next BAA

■Support the formation of potential 3DEP projects by providing a forum and facilitation for discussing state, local, Tribal, regional Federal and other stakeholder elevation data acquisition priorities and connecting potential partners with shared interests

■Enable continuing dialog among potential partners

■Increase participation from non-traditional elevation users

■Improve engagement of USGS Liaisons in process

■Enhance coordination with Federal agencies at the state and local level regarding 3DEP projects

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Enabling Project Formation

■Publish Federal and state priorities along with potential 3DEP projects in a open requirements system

■Hold public meetings to facilitate discussions about potential projects

■Competitive funding approach required changes to how USGS Liaisons participate in project formation

■Strategy is to share potential projects publicly and facilitate open dialogs about forming projects to insure that everyone has equal access to information

■Create environment where USGS can facilitate connections without creating unfair advantage

Create public forums for coordination

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Coordination Prior to BAA Announcement

BAA announcement July 2015

Launch requirements system by May 1

Publish coordinated Federal requirements

Seeking approach to include state plans / current

year priorities in requirements system

Hold meetings in May and June

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3DEP Workshops ■ USGS and stakeholders coordinate public meetings

to discuss potential partnerships

■ Meetings will be in-person with remote participation

available

■ Key goal is to create an open forum for project

formation at the meeting

■ Planning about 30 meetings around the country

■ Please participate – Engagement from coastal

interests will by critical to success

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Requirements Tracker National Digital Elevation Program (NDEP) and Interagency

Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IWG-OCM)

have agreed to a joint system for tracking elevation projects,

similar to old NDEP tracker

Build on NDEP/IWG-OCM tracker as tool for sharing potential

projects

Require projects to be in the requirements system prior to

public meetings

Viewed through NOAA’S SeaSketch initially

Working with GeoPlatform on how Marketplace might

eventually support this

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SeaSketch Coordination Viewer

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Requirements Categories Proposed Mapping Projects

3DEP BAA

Federal proposed projects (Input to BAA)

By agency

Consolidated

Potential 3DEP projects (Possible BAA proposals)

Near term state priorities from state plans

Other Information

Planned and Ongoing projects - Near final scope or in-

progress

Existing Data

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Approach

“ArcGIS Online” / mashup model

Standardized services hosted by many participants

Categories in Legend / Layers list in Sea Sketch will

provide primary structure

Manage categories as separate services, managed

by individual agencies

States and other organizations involved in geospatial

data coordination may want to host services

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Share Your Plans

3DEP Web Site will have information about the meeting

schedule and how to participate

Includes a simple tool to submit a proposed project for 3DEP

Anyone that wants can share a potential project and discuss it

at one of the workshops

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Thank you!