USGS Programs and Activities in Minnesota

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USGS Programs and Activities in Minnesota

• Ron Wencl
• USGS Geospatial Liaison
• NSDI Partnership Office
• Hennepin County GIS User Group
• February 6, 2007

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Topics

• Recent activities
• National Orthophotography Program
• High Resolution Urban Imagery
• 2006 Twin Cities photography
• Imagery for the Nation
• Web Mapping Services
• Planning for the future

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USGS National Geospatial Activities

• National Geospatial Program Office
• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
• Geospatial One Stop
• The National Map
• National Atlas
• Board on Geographic Names
• National Geospatial Technical
• Operations Center
• Network of Geospatial Liaisons
• Other Federal Agencies
• States

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CYCLE II (2008 2012)
Approximately 10 states or 20 one meter coverage
per year
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• Transition from National Data Programs
• to Urban Areas
• and Homeland Security

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Twin Cities Urban Area Imagery

• 2002 September 0.75 meter color photos

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Twin Cities Urban Area Imagery

• 2004 April 0.3 meter color photos

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2006 Twin Cities Urban Area Orthoimagery
Collection

• Imagery Specifications (minimum)
• Pixel Resolution 0.3 meter (1 foot)
• Radiometry True color RGB
• Georeferencing NAD83, UTM
• Horizontal accuracy shall not exceed 3-meter
  diagonal RMSE (2.12m RMSE X or Y).
• Leaf-off conditions, there is no snow on the
  ground, nor ice on lakes or beaches
• Planned imagery acquisition on 2 year cycle
• for U.S. Urban Areas (HSIP 133 Cities)

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2006 USGS Metro Imagery

• USGS Cooperative Agreements signed fall 05
  w/ Hennepin and Ramsey Counties
• Additional urban footprint contracted by USGS
  early 2006
• Distribute to NGA and DHS
• To be served by USGS in 2007
• Available by Seamless Server

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Data Access

• The National Map - http//nationalmap.gov/
• Seamless Data Distribution System at EROS
• http//seamless.usgs.gov/
• State and local web services (TBD)

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http//www.nsgic.org/hottopics/imageryofnation.cfm
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Imagery for the Nation

• Current status
• USGS
• FY 2008 Reprogram 5M
• FY 2009 Request Acquisition
• USDA
• Annual NAIP - No funding request
• Other Feds - TBD

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Future Imagery Plans for Minnesota?

• 2008 Minneapolis St. Paul metro area
• (Homeland Security Urban Areas)
• Partnership opportunity?
• 2008 Statewide Digital Orthos
• NAIP partnership?
• Leaf-off, CIR?

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Lessons Learned Hurricane Katrina

• Major emphasis on geospatial information
  coordination,
• data sharing, and products
• Need for clear roles and responsibilities
• Across Federal, state, and local communities
• Between Federal agencies
• Improved geospatial data acquisition and delivery
• Pre-staged data acquisition
• Efficient organization and archival of
  information and products
• Reliable and efficient data delivery technology
  and mechanisms
• Redundancy and failover capabilities
• Enhanced products and services
• Map product generation from The National Map and
  GOS
• Maps-on-demand and just-in-time printing

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Geospatial Data Acquisition and Processing

• Partnership between NGA, DHS, USGS, and over 100
  state and local partners will put 70 million of
  imagery into the public domain
• Coastal and high-hurricane risk areas urban
  areas
• Leveraging multiple funding and contracting
  sources
• Utilizing USGS Geospatial Liaison Network for
  partnerships and data sharing agreements
• Publishing plans to Geospatial One-Stop
• Model of Federal, state, and local cooperation

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Geospatial Data Acquisition and Processing

• Partnerships with state and local government on
  cataloging and acquiring GIS vector data
• Base Data of The National Map
• GIS for the Gulf
• Best Practices Data Model
• Transportation
• Structures (hospital, shelter, fire)
• Boundaries
• Hydrography

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Data Discovery, Access and Delivery

• The National Map Data delivery, download, and
  updated USGS maps and products
• GIS for the Gulf Vector (feature) data from
  State and local sources in a best practices data
  model
• Hazards Data Distribution System Managed access
  for dedicated emergency response support

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What is HSIP?

• the HSIP will combine all NIMA Homeland
  Security commercial imagery, geospatial data, and
  Geospatial Intelligence products into a single,
  integrated database. - Source Homeland
  Security Infrastructure Program, Tiger Team
  Report.
• Collection of base map layers and homeland
  security related geospatial data.
• Sources mainly licensed commodity datasets,
  some Federal sources
• Federal Government homeland security use only
• Local governments and state governments may only
  view data through a thin client (disclosure)
• In the event of an emergency, data may be
  released to state and local governments.
• NGOs (e.g. Red Cross) may not access the data

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What is HSIP?Examples of HSIP Layers

• Fire Stations
• Law Enforcement Stations
• Prisons and Jails
• Hospitals
• Urgent Care Clinics
• Colleges Universities
• Schools
• EMS Stations
• Electric Power Infrastructure
• Gas Stations
• Pipelines
• Oil Wells
• Oil Refineries
• Oil Terminals
• Nuclear Fuel Plants
• Nuclear Waste Storage
• Nuclear Research Facilities

• Federal Reserve Banks
• Bullion Repositories
• Banks
• Food Processing Plants
• Manufacturing Plants
• Mines
• Rail Lines
• Rail Yards
• AM/FM/TV Broadcast Facilities
• Commodity Exchanges

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What is NADB?

• The Office of Infrastructure Protections
  Protective Security Division (PSD) is responsible
  for reducing the nations vulnerability to
  terrorism by developing and implementing plans to
  protect critical infrastructure and key assets,
  and to deny the use of infrastructure as a
  weapon. To facilitate this responsibility, PSD
  is building an inventory of the nation's
  infrastructure and will utilize Critical
  Infrastructure and Key Resources (CI/KR) in the
  National Asset Database (NADB). The foundation
  for the NADB was the White House Office of
  Homeland Securitys catalogue of approximately
  160 assets in its Liberty Shield list.
• Source Submissions from State, Local and Federal
  Agencies as well as Industry
• 100,000 Assets
• Everything from a certain ranch in Crawford TX to
  food cart in Wisconsin

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What is TGS Role?

• Assign Correct Geospatial Location
• Delete Duplicates, Out of Business, Does not
  Belong in Layer entities
• Find and Add Missing Entities
• Author FGDC Compliant Metadata
• Analyze Quality (accuracy, currency, completeness)

TGS Has Only Worked on Some HSIP Layers
TGS did not SELECT assets for the NADB, we
only verified name, address, phone and geospatial
location
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Project Homeland Joint Project Involving -
ESRI - USGS -Dept. of Defense (NGA)
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Project HomelandSynthesis Collaboration Data
Flows
HLS/HLD Community
Data Partners
State Agencies
Increasing Classification Level
USGS
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Consortia
ETL
USGS Liaison (Sensitive Data)
Data Passthru
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Data Passthru
Increasing Classification Level
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Local Partners
The National Map (Public)
SBU
Registered Map Services and/or Data
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Data Passthru
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Unclass
ETL Extract, Transform, Load
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Future Plans for the Twin Cities?

• Coordination for 2008 imagery
• Republican National Convention
• National Special Security Event (NSSE)
• Coordination of geospatial data among
• Federal, State and local authorities

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Questions?

• Ron Wencl
• rwencl_at_usgs.gov
• 763-783-3207