USGS Programs and Activities in Minnesota

1. USGS Programs and Activities in Minnesota Ron Wencl USGS Geospatial Liaison NSDI Partnership Office Hennepin County GIS User Group February 6, 2007

2. 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

3. Coordination& Standards Consistent & Current Content Data Discovery & Access 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

7. CYCLE II (2008 – 2012) Approximately 10 states or 20% one meter coverage per year

8. Transition from National Data Programs to Urban Areas and Homeland Security

9. Twin Cities Urban Area Imagery • 2002 September 0.75 meter color photos

10. Twin Cities Urban Area Imagery • 2004 April 0.3 meter color photos

11. 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)

12. 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

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

16. http://www.nsgic.org/hottopics/imageryofnation.cfm

19. Imagery for the Nation • Current status: USGS FY 2008 – “Reprogram” $5M FY 2009 – Request Acquisition $ USDA Annual NAIP $ - No funding request Other Feds - TBD

20. 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?

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. What is NADB? • The Office of Infrastructure Protection’s Protective Security Division (PSD) is responsible for reducing the nation’s 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 Security’s 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

33. 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 ***

34. Project Homeland Joint Project Involving: - ESRI - USGS -Dept. of Defense (NGA)

35. Project HomelandSynthesis & Collaboration Data Flows HLS/HLD Community Data Partners State Agencies Increasing Classification Level USGS 1 Consortia ETL USGS Liaison (Sensitive Data) 4 Data Passthru 5 Data Passthru Increasing Classification Level 1 6 7 Local Partners The National Map (Public) SBU Registered Map Services and/or Data 3 Data Passthru 2 Unclass ETL = Extract, Transform, Load

36. 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

37. Questions? Ron Wencl rwencl@usgs.gov 763-783-3207