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Kevin T. GallagherAssociate Director, Core Science SystemsMAPPS Winter Conference, January 20, 2020

Geospatial Products and Services Contracts 4 (GPSC4): Meeting the Data Needs for our Geospatial Future

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Pre-1998, series of “stovepipe” contracts - Digitizing Services, NAPP, & DOQ contracts

1998 – Cartographic Services Contract - DLG, DEM, and ortho tasks

2001 – Cartographic Services Contract 2 - still some DLG and standard DEM products

2006 – Geospatial Products and Services Contract - primarily digital imagery and lidar; $25M ceiling

2010 – Geospatial Products and Services Contract 2 - expanded digital imagery and lidar; total obligation of $140.1M

2016 – Geospatial Products and Services Contract 3 – digital imagery, heavy focus on airborne lidar, addition of aeromag and other custom products; $338.9M as of 2019

To know your future you must know your past

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+ 4+ 4What ISN’T Changing in GPSC4

The Geospatial Product and Service Contracts (GPSC) is a suite of contracts used by Federal, State, and municipal government entities for fulfilling their geospatial data requirements

Photogrammetric and mapping services are primarily awarded under Architect-Engineer (A&E) contracting: the GPSC is broad in scope and can accommodate any activity related to standard, nonstandard, graphic, and digital geospatial products

Services provided include, but are not limited to: imagery and lidar data acquisition; photogrammetric mapping; and aerotriangulation; orthophotography; thematic mapping; geographic information systems development; surveying and control acquisition; image manipulation, analysis, and interpretation; map digitizing; data manipulations; primary and ancillary data acquisition; metadata production and revision; and the production or revision of geospatial products defined by formal and informal specifications and standards

The GPSC gives customers quick-access one-stop shopping to the professional servicesthey require

Purpose to Meet Broad Data Acquisition Needs

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A public/private partnership 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, developing future technology, and supporting 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 and are implementing a model public/private partnership and good government story that is a foundation for GPSC4

MAPPS and its Members are Essential!

+ 6+ 6What IS Changing in GPSC4

EarthMAP

3D Nation

NHD

EarthMRI

3D National Terrain Model

Partner data and applications needs

Evolving and expanding data needs for the USGS and its partners

Frank Dianahttps://frankdiana.net/2019/07/11/the-convergence-of-science-and-technology/a-science-and-technology-explosion/

Accelerate adoption of new technology in science

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USGS Role: Providing impartial integrated physical and biological science that can be used by the nation to strengthen the economy, ensure homeland and national security, protect health and safety, and reduce uncertainty of decision making.

Biothreat Network

Drought and Fire Early Warning

Water Prediction

Earthquake/Volcano/Landslides Early Warning

Health Threats (HAB Early Warning)

Surface Water Network

4D Subsurface

Invasives Forecasting

EarthMAP

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Increasingly, land, water, mineral, energy, and ecosystem resource managers and decision makers must consider complex tradeoffs among multiple and often competing objectives

To meet their needs, we need to bring the full range of USGS expertise to bear and provide next-generation observing systems, integrated multidisciplinary science, geospatial information, predictive models, and decision-support that result in actionable science to effectively inform their decisions

EarthMAP: Interlinked Connectivity from Acquisition to Cloud to Processing to Distribution

Images courtesy of One Web

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EarthMAP: High Performance Computing, AI/ML

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EarthMAP: Modeling and MonitoringWildlife Monitoring Project –Corridor Mapping

Simulation of Fire Spread & Wind

Mapping Forest Canopy Fuels with Lidar

Mapping Volcano Hazards

+ 13EarthMRI – Earth Mapping Resources Initiative

+ 14+ 143D NationBuilds a modern elevation foundation –from the peaks of our mountains to the depths of our waters – for stronger, more resilient communities and U.S. economy

+ 15+ 153DEP Future Generation Just Around the Corner3D Nation Elevation Requirements and Benefits Study Working with NOAA to understand inland, nearshore and offshore bathymetric data requirements and

benefits

Plan for the next round of 3DEP when the first-ever national baseline of consistent high-resolution data is in place – what is needed for monitoring, change detection and other new applications?

Gather technology-agnostic user information to be able to assess new technologies against requirements and identify the tradeoffs between different approaches

Results will lead to a completely new approach regarding QLs, refresh frequency by geography, products offered, and other changes

+ 16+ 163DEP Future Generation Just Around the CornerPotential multi-modal approach

Areal Coverage

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Ground-based surveys

UAS-based

Airborne-based

Satellite-based

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Higher Lower

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Implement the USGS component of 3D NationCombining the 6 Strategies – the 3D National Terrain Model

Improve and enable critical applications Flood forecasting in 3D, at the street level Hydrologic observing systems and models

that account for water from the atmosphere to the oceans

3D Geologic models New and unimagined 3D applications

+ 19+ 19Growing DemandInland Bathymetry

Copco Dam

1-meter topobathymetric DEM Klamath River

3D Nation Study PRELIMINARY Information Source of approx. 500 mission critical activities that identified the need for inland bathymetryState or U.S. Territorial government 43%Federal Agencies and Commissions 31%Regional, County, City, or other local government 11%Academic or Not-for-Profit 10%Private or Commercial 5%Tribal government 1%

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Ecological flows Drought Flooding Spill response Infrastructure

engineering

Modeling and prediction

Watershed condition reporting and analysis

Resource reporting and analysis

Many more…

■ Current Annual Benefits - $538M Total Potential Annual Benefits - $1.14B

Hydrography Requirementsand Benefits Study documented 420 mission critical business uses with 23 Federal agencies, 50 states, 8 Tribal governments and 3 national associations

Improvement of Hydrography Data

+ 21+ 21Growing Demand3D Hydrography (Elevation-Derived Hydrography)

+ 22+ 22Growing Demand3D Hydrography (Elevation-Derived Hydrography)

IN USE TODAY:NHDPlus Medium Resolution

IN PROGRESS:NHDPlus High Resolution

FUTURE:Hydrography Derived from Lidar

Elevation source 30 meter

10 meter 1 meter

Hydrography source

1:100,000-scale NHD

1:24,000-scale or better NHD

1:5,000-scale or better derived from

lidar

Number of features nationally

2.7 million 26 million 200-300 million

Forecasting at neighborhood level

Forecasting at street level

Simulates conditions for 2.7 million stream

reaches, representing the biggest improvement in flood forecasting ever

+ 23+ 23Growing DemandThe Inland Bathy Workshop, September 2019 62 attendees from USGS, NOAA, USFWS, NRCS, USACE, NASA, the

Univ of TX, UT State, and GPSC firms involved in bathymetric lidar data acquisition, ~30 more attended virtually, including the BOR

Dr. Maidment remarked that the workshop was “a “magic moment”, the beginning of “something new and important” and added,

“I reached the conclusion that since elevation plays such a critical role in flooding, what we need to be aiming at is 3D flood inundation mapping, which in turn rests on a 3D hydrography(EDH), and that in turn on a topo-bathy surface for CONUS (inland bathy) like what has already been achieved along the coastline.”

Key Takeaways The need for national 3D mapping - discussion throughout the meeting

confirmed the 3D NTM vision The importance of establishing a national program for inland

bathymetry – a sense of urgency among the agencies to establish a national program

+ 24+ 24Growing DemandWater is among the defining issues of our times

A March 17, 2016 New York Times editorial summarizes that we as a nation have water-related “crises percolating all over, but lack the data necessary to make smart policy decisions”

The nation has no common infrastructure for managing water information collected by the nearly two dozen federal agencies and hundreds of state and local organizations with water in their mission

From internetofwater.org

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Combine foundational hydrography datasets with hydrographic addressing, catalog, and search engine functionality

Provides the universal infrastructure for sharing and discovering limitless sources and types of water information

Underpins interagency hydrologic observing systems and enable models that account for all the water in the water cycle – from the atmosphere to the oceans

Underpins the Internet of Water - a dynamic, interconnected network where water data are readily discoverable, easily accessible, of known quality, and are put to use to inform decisions that transform how we manage our water resources

Hydrography Framework

Hydrographic Addressing Capability

Data Search and Discovery

Community

Growing DemandNational Hydrography Infrastructure

+ 26+ 26Growing Partner DemandOver 260 3DEP partners including 18 Federal agencies and 249 state and local governments

CA Geological Survey CA Natural Resource Agency CalFireCity of San Diego OHS, CALos Angeles Regional Imagery

Consortium, CASan Diego County, CASan Diego Association of

Governments, CASouthwest Wetlands Interpretive AssociationCity of Montrose, COCO Division of Rec and MiningCO Governor's Office of

Information Technology CO Water Conservation BoardDenver International Airport Garfield County, COGunnison County, COTown of Castle Rock, COFL Division of Emergency

Management State of FLMartin County Engineering Dept., FLNorthwest Florida Water

Management DistrictOsceola County, FL Office of

Emergency ManagementPalm Beach County, FLSeminole Tribe of FloridaSt. Johns River Water

Management DistrictSuwannee River Water

Management DistrictCity of Roswell, GAGA Coastal Regional CommissionGA Environmental Protection

Division GA Mountains Regional

CommissionIA Department of Agriculture

and Land Stewardship Nez Perce County, IDCook County, ILIL Champaign County GIS

Consortium IL Department of Natural Resources IL State Geological SurveyKane County, ILLake County, ILMcHenry County, IL

Marion County GIS, INHamilton County, INWayne County, INKS Department of AgricultureKS GIS Policy BoardKY Commonwealth Office of

TechnologyKY Division of WaterLA Coastal Protection and

Restoration Authority LA Department of Transportation

and Development Arlington, MAState of MAMassGISBaxter State Park, MEBureau of Parks and Lands, MEClayton Lake Woodland Holdings, LLCCooperative Forestry Research

Unit. MEDrinking Water Commission, MEKing Pine Win, MEME Bureau of Parks and LandsME Department of Transportation ME Office of Information

TechnologySeven Islands Land CompanyWashington County, MECharlevoix County, MIGratiot County, MI Drain

CommissionLittle Traverse Bay Band Odawa

IndiansThe Southeast Michigan Council

of GovernmentsState of MIBoone County MOMetropolitan St Louis Sewer DistrictMS Environmental Quality

DepartmentNC Department of TransportationNC Department of Public SafetyNC Floodplain Mapping ProgramCity of Blair, NECity of Fremont, NECity of Lincoln-Lancaster County, NECity of Omaha, NEDouglas County, NENE Office of the Chief

Information Officer Papio Missouri River Natural

Resources District

Sarpy County, NENH Department of Environmental ServicesNH Department of TransportationNJ Department of Environmental

ProtectionDE Valley Regional Planning

Commission City of Henderson, NVCity of Las Vegas, NVClark County Regional Flood, NVClark County Water Reclamation District, NV

Clark County, NVLyon County, NVSouthern NV Water AuthorityStorey County, NVUniversity of Nevada RenoWashoe County, NVCity of Buffalo, NYInternational Joint Commission (IJC)NY State Information Technology

ServicesNY State Office of Information Technology Services

City of Columbus OHClinton County OHDelaware County OHLucas County, OHMuskingum Watershed Conservancy

DistrictOH Department of Administrative

ServicesSandusky County, OHWood County, OHCity of Hillsboro, ORCity of Portland, ORCoquille Indian TribeMetro Regional Gov, OROR Department of Geology and Mineral

Industries OR Water Enhancement Board GrantOR Department of ForestryUmatilla Indian ReservationCity of Allentown, PAPA Turnpike CommissionPA Department of Environmental

Protection PA Department of TransportationPA Dept of Conservation and Natural

ResourcesPA Emergency Management AgencySusquehanna River Basin CommissionTri-County Regional Planning

Commission, PAPuerto Rico Planning Board

AIken County, SCAnderson County, SCBeaufort County, SCCharleston County, SCCity of Aiken, SCCity of Greenville, SCCity of North Augusta, SCDorchester County, SCJasper County, SCLexington County, SCNewberry County, SCPickens County, SCRichland County, SCSCANA Public Utility, SC South Carolina Lidar Consortium 911, TNAppalachian Electric Co-op, TNArlington, TNCity of Bartlett, TNCity of Bristol, TNCity of Kingsport, TNCity of Germantown, TNHamilton County, TNJohnson City Metro Transportation

Planning Organization, TN City of Lakeland, TNMemphis Chamber of CommerceMemphis Light, Gas and Water City of Memphis, TNMetropolitan Planning Department Nashville Davidson County City of Millington, TNMorristown-Hamblen GIS Group Rutherford County, TNShelby County, TNSullivan County, TNTN Department of Finance and

Administration Town of Collierville, TNHouston-Galveston Area CouncilSan Antonio River AuthorityTX Commission on Environmental

QualityTX Water Development BoardWilliamson CountyUT Division of Emergency

ManagementUT Geological SurveyUT Forestry, Fire, and State LandsMoab City, UTWasatch Ski ResortsTooele Army DepotBryce Canyon HistoryRiverdale City, UTPark City, UT

Mohave County, UTBear Lake WatchCity of Tremonton, UTCity of Logan, UTCity of Brigham, UTFairfax County, VAHenrico County, VAUniversity of VirginiaVA Dept of Environmental QualityVA Information Technologies

Agency City of Williamsburg, VAVT Agency of Commerce and Community DevelopmentColumbia CountyWA Dept of Natural ResourcesAdams County, WIBayfield County, WICalumet County, WIClark County, WIDane County, WIDodge County, WIFond du Lac County, WIForest County, WIGreen Lake County, WIJefferson County, WILa Crosse County, WILafayette County, WILanglade County, WILincoln County, WIMonroe County, WIOneida County WI Land

InformationPepin County, WIPortage County, WIPrice County, WISawyer County, WISoutheastern Wisconsin Regional Planning CommissionTaylor County, WICity of Washburn Waupaca County, WIWinnebago County, WIWisconsin Coastal Management Program

Illinois Height Modernization Program

MI Dept of Environmental QualityMI Department of Technology,

Management and BudgetNatrona County, WYCapitol Region Council of

Governments County of HawaiiWaushara County, WI

Bureau of Indian AffairsBureau of Land ManagementDOD - AZ National GuardDepartment of EnergyFederal Emergency Management

AgencyFish and Wildlife ServiceNational Geospatial-Intelligence

AgencyNational Oceanic and Atmospheric

AgencyNational Park ServiceNatural Resources Conservation

ServiceTennessee Valley AuthorityU.S. NavyUS Army Corps of EngineersUS Bureau of ReclamationUSDA-ARSUS Forest ServiceUSGS AK Dept. of Natural Res. AK North Slope Borough City of GustavusFairbanks North Star BoroughGolden Valley Electric AuthorityMatanuskaMetlakatlaMunicipality of AnchorageOrganized Village of KakeSealaskaThe Nature ConservancyAL Department of Economic

and Community AffairsAL Department of Transportation Chilton County, ALCullman County, ALFranklin County, ALHuntsville, City ofRussell County, ALTown of Thorsby, ALTuscaloosa County, ALWalker County, ALAR Game and Fish Commission Northwest AR Regional

Planning CommissionPulaski County Area GIS, ARCoconino County, AZPima Association of Governments, AZC A Department of Water Resources

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3DEP 3D Nation 3D National Hydrography Dataset Internet of Water Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) EarthMAP

Will Require-

USGS Priorities, Vision and Direction

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The Land Surface Elevation Man Made Structures

Flora (Agriculture, Forests and Tree Canopy) Hydrography Bathymetry GeologyWhich will require-

A High Resolution Interpretation Of:

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Lidar Geophysics (AeroMag, Hyperspectral, etc.) Imagery Processing:

Lidar derived hydrography including water infrastructure Geophysical data interpretation Structure from Motion, Other?

Survey, Ground Control and Quality Assurance

Data Collection, Processing and Services

And must meet-

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Higher and Higher Resolution Shorter Refresh Rates Near Real-Time Processing Near Real-Time Delivery Analysis Ready Data

Greater Expectations

Which will require-

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Space, Airborne and Terrestrial Sensors UAS

Airborne and Waterborne High Performance Computing Cloud Storage Data Science

Which Will Require-

A Wide Variety of Technologies

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MAPPS and its Members!

+ 33+ 33In the Coming Months and Years: For Each of These Major Evolutions/Revolutions in Technology and Practice

We Encourage You to: Accelerate and Focus your R&D Efforts, Seek Productive Partnerships, Test and Mature Through Pilots, and Seek to Operationalize for Repeatability

and Reliabiilty

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■ GPSC 4 intended to meet the expanding needs of the USGS and our partners for data and services

■ Synopsis will be released in the next few months

■ USGS will host an Industry Day while the synopsis is open ■ Opportunity for potential contractors to learn more about USGS requirements and

GPSC scope

■ Increasing scope in new version of GPSC to cover growing DOI and USGS requirements■ Expanding geophysical data acquisition, unmanned systems, hydrography derived

from lidar/high-resolution elevation data

GPSC 4 Recompete

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■Approval by Department of Interior Leadership and Acquisition Authorities

■Issuance of A&E Synopsis

■Industry Day

■Receipt and Evaluation of SF-330s (Architect-Engineer Qualifications)■ Large and Small Businesses Evaluated Separately

■Issuance of RFPs to Firms as Ranked

■Receipt, Evaluation and Negotiation of RFPs

■Contract Awards

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3D Elevation Program (3DEP)

THANK YOU!

�� �Geospatial Products and Services Contracts 4 (GPSC4): Meeting the Data Needs for our Geospatial FutureGPSC4GPSC SummaryWhat ISN’T Changing in GPSC4What ISN’T Changing in GPSC4What IS Changing in GPSC4Slide Number 7USGS Role: Providing impartial integrated physical and biological science that can be used by the nation to strengthen the economy, ensure homeland and national security, protect health and safety, and reduce uncertainty of decision making.EarthMAPEarthMAP: Interlinked Connectivity from Acquisition to Cloud to Processing to DistributionEarthMAP: High Performance Computing, AI/MLEarthMAP: Modeling and MonitoringEarthMRI – Earth Mapping Resources Initiative3D Nation3DEP Future Generation Just Around the Corner3DEP Future Generation Just Around the CornerSlide Number 17Combining the 6 Strategies – the 3D National Terrain ModelGrowing DemandGrowing DemandGrowing DemandSlide Number 22Growing DemandGrowing DemandGrowing DemandGrowing Partner Demand�Over 260 3DEP partners including 18 Federal agencies and 249 state and local governmentsSlide Number 27Slide Number 28Slide Number 29Slide Number 30Slide Number 31Slide Number 32In the Coming Months and Years: �For Each of These Major Evolutions/Revolutions in Technology and PracticeGPSC 4 RecompeteHigh Level MilestonesThanks to MAPPS and its Members!Slide Number 37