3D Elevation Program Multiyear Plan - Sched · 1 Dan Walters. USGS National Map Liaison. USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) meets National Lidar Business Needs + National Enhanced Elevation

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Dan WaltersUSGS National Map Liaison

USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) meets National Lidar Business

Needs

+ 2+ 2National Enhanced Elevation Assessment (NEEA) of 2012

Geologic Hazards

Aviation Safety

Annual BenefitsRank Business Use Conservative Potential

1 Flood Risk Management $295M $502M

2 Infrastructure and Construction Management $206M $942M

3 Natural Resources Conservation $159M $335M

4 Agriculture and Precision Farming $122M $2,011M

5 Water Supply and Quality $85M $156M

6 Wildfire Management, Planning and Response $76M $159M

7Geologic Resource Assessment and Hazard Mitigation

$52M $1,067M

8 Forest Resources Management $44M $62M

9 River and Stream Resource Management $38M $87M

10 Aviation Navigation and Safety $35M $56M

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20 Land Navigation and Safety $0.2M $7,125M

Total for all Business Uses (1 – 27) $1.2B $13B

Flood Risk Management

Infrastructure

NEEA Refresh is underway in partnership with NOAA Improve documentation of requirements and benefits

based on what users know and need today Plan for next cycle after national coverage is achieved

– what repeat rate and QLs are needed?

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Apply lidar technology to map bare earth and 3D data of natural and constructed features to enable more accurate understanding, modeling, and prediction

Goal to complete acquisition of national lidar coverage with IfSAR in Alaska in 8 years

Address the mission-critical requirements of 34 Federal agencies, 50 states, and other organizations documented in the National Enhanced Elevation Assessment

3D Elevation Program (3DEP)

ROI 5:1, conservative benefits of $690 million/year with potential to generate $13 billion/year

Leverage the capability and capacity of private industry mapping firms

Achieve a 25% cost efficiency gain by collecting data in larger projects

Completely refresh national elevation data holdings with new products and services

+ 4+ 43DEP for Flood Risk Management

■ Producing much higher quality flood maps, including Flood Insurance Rate Maps

■ Managing dam and levee safety programs reducing flood risks

■ Improving hydrologic modeling and flood forecasting

■ Improving State and local government flood risk management and response

■ Improving storm water facilities and dam design

■ Extracting building footprints and identifying the finished floor elevation in order to quantify potential damages based on flooding depths

Conservative annual benefits estimated at $502M

Building footprints extracted from lidar in red

Courtesy of J. Dorman, NC Department of Public Safety, Floodplain Mapping Program

Lidar aids hydraulic modeling to determine flood-inundation on the Saluda River, near Greenville, SC

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3DEP For America’s InfrastructureThe significant challenge of improving the Nation’s infrastructure depends on high-quality elevation data

Lidar point cloud (top) and a derived bare-earth digital elevation model (bottom) for Denver, CO

Conservative annual benefits estimated at $170M▪ Route, grade, line-of-sight, and utility surveys and corridor

mapping▪ Terrain and other obstruction identification for aviation▪ Dam, levee, and coastal-structure failure modeling and

mitigation▪ Hydraulic and hydrologic modeling▪ Permit application and construction plan development and

evaluation▪ Drainage issues and cut-and-fill estimate requirements▪ Vegetation, topographic, and geomorphologic feature

analysis▪ As-built model development▪ Preliminary engineering, estimate development, and

quantity estimation activities▪ Base-map and elevation model creation

+ 6+ 63DEP for Landslides Recognition, Hazard Assessment, and Mitigation Support

Input to slope-stability models used to identify where shallow landslides may mobilize into fast-moving, potentially damaging and deadly debris flows

Determine fundamental and highly detailed descriptions of boundary and conditions for landslide initiation

Plan for evacuations and staging areas Create accurate landslide inventory and deposits

maps and estimate the shape and activity of landslides

Provide baseline information for change-detection comparisons, such as estimating sediment transport rates

Develop novel approaches for estimating landslide thickness and ages of landslide deposits

Conservative annual benefits estimated at $20.2 M

Baum and others (2014) showed that compared to other technologies, using 3DEP data identified 3 to 200 times the number of landslides in densely forested areas

+ 7+ 73DEP for Volcano HazardsGlacier Peak Volcano, WA

■ Unraveling the volcano’s history by mapping volcanic deposits that are otherwise hidden by heavy forest cover and inaccessible on steep terrain

■ Modeling volcanic processes and the path of lahars that can travel downstream to populated areas, planning for escape routes

■ Designing a new real-time monitoring network

Aerial Photo

3DEP elevation model used to improve monitoring

Courtesy of D. Ramsey, USGS

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Elevation Theme Leadership

■ The Office of Management and Budget designated the lead Federal agency for■ Terrestrial elevation data – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)■ Bathymetric elevation data - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA)

■ As Theme co-leads, USGS and NOAA are responsible for the identification, coordination, and dissemination of information on best practices, standards for data exchange, standards development, and data use

■ The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) provides coordination across the Federal government and facilitates systematic reporting of NGDA status and plans

National Geospatial Data Asset

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3DEP Governance

■ 3DEP Executive Forum ■ Facilitates executive collaboration on

strategies to fund and implement 3DEP for the benefit of all its stakeholders

■ Provides direction to 3DEP Working Group

■ 3DEP Working Group

■ Coordinates implementation of 3DEP

Member AgenciesBureau of Land ManagementDepartment of Homeland SecurityDepartment of Transportation Environmental Protection AgencyFederal Aviation AdministrationFederal Communications CommissionFederal Emergency Management Agency US Forest ServiceUS Fish and Wildlife Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNational Park ServiceNatural Resources Conservation ServiceOffice of Surface Mining Reclamation and EnforcementUS Department of AgricultureUS Army Corps of EngineersUS Geological SurveyAmerican Association of State Geologists National States Geographic Information Council

+ 10+ 103DEP Data AcquisitionPartnership Process

Together determine acquisition plan for the year

Non-Federal

Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Fair and equitable process

for non-Feds to partner with Federal Agencies

Publicly announced Competitive, clear criteria Can include Federal

Agencies Partners can propose to use

USGS contract (GPSC) or their own contract

Federal Partners =

3DEP WorkingGroup

Federal interagency agreements

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U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory

Interagency Collaboration – USGS, NOAA, other Federal agencies Active updates are critical to assessing progress toward 3DEP goals

Where has lidar data been collected?

coast.noaa.gov/inventory

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Data Requirements - Seasketch

NOAA sponsored Seasketch site: U.S. Federal Mapping Coordination, A Demonstration Site for Federal Mapping Data Acquisition

http://seasket.ch/hwpR3E-MxO

+ 13USIEI and Seasketch Training Videoshttps://training.usgs.gov/TEL/TheNationalMap/TNM-TEL-Index.html

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3DEP FY17 Partnerships To Date9.4%* of the Nation has been contracted* Excludes Alaska, and does not include all projects under development

Including FY17 planned data, 3DEP data have been contracted for nearly 35% of the entire US

Alaska IfSAR – 84% available or in work to date in FY17

Map shows lidar from FY13 – FY16

+ 15Available Lidar – All Quality LevelsQuality Level

Source Vertical Accuracy RMSEz

Nominal Pulse Spacing (NPS)

Nominal Pulse Density (NPD)

DEM Post Spacing

QL1 Lidar 10 cm 0.35 m 8 points/sq. meter 0.5 meterQL2 Lidar 10 cm 0.7 m 2 points/sq. meter 1 meterQL3 Lidar 20 cm 1.4 m 0.5 points/sq. meter 2 metersQL4 Imagery 139 cm N/A N/A 5 metersQL5 Ifsar 185 cm N/A N/A 5 meters

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Quality Level 1 LidarQuality Level




DEM Post Spacing


+ 17Quality Level 2 LidarQuality Level




DEM Post Spacing


+ 18Lidar – Quality Level 3 to 5Quality Level




DEM Post Spacing


+ 19What are the 3DEP Priorities?- Areas with no lidar first priority- QL3 when 8 years old

Quality Level 1 and 2

+ 20+ 20USGS Lidar Base Specification v1.2 All 3DEP projects are required to adhere to the

specification All GPSC task orders reference the specification Specification covers Definitions of Quality Level

Vertical Accuracy

Classification Scheme

Ground conditions

MUCH MUCH MORE!

Version 1.3 is in development

https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/11b4/ pdf/tm11-B4.pdf

+ 21+ 213DEP National Multiyear PlanBackground 3DEP Executive Forum tasked the 3DEP

Working Group to develop plan to: Move from an annual, opportunistic

process to a unified multi-year plan Move from patchwork irregular acquisition

footprints to a defined planning and delivery unit (tiling scheme)

Implement a phased approach beginning in FY18

Benefits Facilitate greater investments and

leveraging through longer planning lead times

Defined units facilitate planning and understanding costs, allow for improved reporting and justification of investments

Presents a plan for nationwide coverage

Move from this…

…to something more like this

+ 22+ 223DEP Multi-Year Planning (FY18 – FY20)PRELIMINARY Federal Plan

Based on input from Federal agencies

■ Assumes a level budget

■ Identifies projects with a minimum/ partial planned funding

■ Will be adjusted annually and based on funding

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Emerging Technology Geiger mode and single photon

lidar test Potential to increase quality

and/or bring down costs

Pilots in 3 states (NC, SD, and IL)

Inland bathymetry Technology proven in coastal

areas

Initial tests by EAARL-B in Delaware River were promising

Commercial sensors becoming available

Begin assessments of commercial capabilities in FY17

Frenchtown Subregion of the Delaware River, integrated EAARL-B and topographic lidar

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3DEP FundingRough Estimate of Gap Across All Partners/Total Program Includes Alaska IfSAR and Operations (Quality Assurance and Delivery)

Complete Acquisition in 2023 (8 year program)

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

Stakeholders Submit

Proposals

NationalPublic

Webinars

BAA Released

Federal 3DEP Partners Review

Proposals

BAA Contract and Grant Administration

BAA Project Execution

3DEP FY18 BAA Timeline

Federal Agencies Submit Areas of

Interest

Other Stakeholders Submit Areas of Interest

State/RegionalPublic Meetings/Workshops

Selections Announced

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3DEP Products and ServicesThe National Map

nationalmap.gov/3DEP

https://training.usgs.gov/TEL/TheNationalMap/TNM-TEL-Index.html

http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/

+ 27+ 273DEPEndorsements and Support National lidar program is a priority of the National Science and

Technology Council’s National Plan for Civil Earth Observations

National Academy of Public Administration report on Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Mapping recommended that the Office of Management and Budget implement the 3DEP plan for national lidar

Endorsed by American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote

Sensing (ASPRS) Association of American State Geologists (AASG) Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) Management Association for Private Photogrammetric

Surveyors (MAPPS) National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC)

3DEP Coalition with website 3DEP4America.com

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Thank you!

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3D Elevation Program Multiyear Plan - Sched · 1 Dan Walters. USGS National Map Liaison. USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) meets National Lidar Business Needs + National Enhanced Elevation