USGS 3DEP LiDAR Program USGS Broad Area Announcement Grant Process - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

USGS 3DEP LiDAR Program USGS Broad Area Announcement Grant Process Jamie Young CP, CMS-L, GISP Gary Outlaw VP Business Development Steve Kasten VP Survey & Photogrammetric Engineering Cornell Rowan Project Manager Ed Turner VP Business Development Houston Galveston Area Council March 1, 2017 Engineering | Architecture | Design-Build | Surveying | Planning | Geospatial Solutions

USGS LiDAR Program Topics  USGS BAA Grant Process  USGS Compliant LiDAR  Top 10 LiDAR Benefits

BAA Grant Process  USGS Liaison – Claire Devaughan  cdevaugh@usgs.gov #512-927-3583  Apply ground-breaking LiDAR technology to acquire and distribute 3D data  Address a broad range of critical applications of national Significance  Provide 3D data including 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 PREXXXX 3

BAA Grant Process  What is the 3DEP Elevation Program?  34 federal agencies, 50 states, sampling of local Govt’s, tribes, private and non-profit organizations  Increase investment in 3D data from $45m to $146M annually to return more than $690 million annually in new benefits  Leverage collaboration among Federal, States, local, private and other partners to systematically complete national 3D data in 8 years  Use Private industry mapping firms and create jobs  Achieve 25% cost efficiency gain by collecting larger projects  Refresh National elevation data holdings with new LiDAR PREXXXX 4

BAA Grant Process  How it works  Stakeholders complete a grant application identifying proposed funding partners and developing a technical approach for a prpoject.  Typically cost per sq mile for QL2 is between $190 and $330  If stakeholder wants higher than QL2 or more products USGS will not contributed to these products but having higher Quality level or more products can’t hurt your award potential and could actually improve it.  Selection can improve if stakeholder contributes more than USGS  Selection is also improved by USGS if other federal agencies have interest in the proposed project area such as – NOAA, FEMA & NRCS. PREXXXX 5

BAA Grant Process FY16 3DEP Partnership Projects  BAA Funding USGS $6.5M  FEMA $2.1M  NRCS $5.8M  Non- Fed $12.5M  Total $27.7M   Sq. Miles 121,000.00  Per Sq. Mile $228.92  Additional investments made in FY16 that will be contracted in FY17  FY15 -$39M and 150,000 Sq. Miles PREXXXX 6

BAA Grant Process FY17 Preliminary Results of Proposals  Received 42 proposals in 26 states  Total Value of $33.0m  152,000 sq. miles  Partners offering  $19.8M and seeking $13.2M from 3DEP  Issued 24 awards $5.9M Federal Funds   Additional awards under consideration PREXXXX 7

Planning Resource: seasketch  http://www.seasketch.org/#projecthomepage/5272840f6ec 5f42d210016e4 PREXXXX 8

BAA – Can Submit Anytime.!  https://nationalmap.gov/3DEP/BAAReferenceMaterials.html • Can Submit BAA Application any time now PREXXXX 9

Collector Tool https://cms.geoplatform.gov/elevation/3DEP/Propose3DEPAOI PREXXXX 10

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  USGS National Geospatial Program Lidar Base Specification Version 1,2 November 2014 (B11-Chapter 4).  Standardize the Data For USGS. and acceptance into 3DEP( formally NED ). • Way to ensure requirements are met. • LiDAR Data continues to improve so set specifications to adapt to better Data.  http://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/11b4/pdf/tm11-B4.pdf PREXXXX 11

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  For the data to be included into 3DEP and to have a chance for BAA Funding it needs to be QL2 Data or better. PREXXXX 12

Swath Repeatability  Why we use Optech Galaxy Sensors PREXXXX 13

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  Summary of QL2 Specifications  2 points per meter, minimum 90% of cells, First return check  Vertical accuracy is 10cm or better for Non vegetated areas  Vegetated is 29.4cm at 95% confidence level  Accuracy Check Done using ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data v1.0 November 2014  100 meter buffer around project area  Use multi-return sensor  Classification Standards  Data has to be delivered in USGS Coordinates and Datum  NAD83(epoch 2010), NAVD88, Geoid 12A, UTM FEET*  Regularly point samplings (90 % of cells contain at least 1 return) PREXXXX 14

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  Summary of QL2 Specifications (cont.)  Ground conditions: snow free, Leaf off as best as possible, no flooding or water inundation  Check accuracy of data using calibrated raw Strips  Relative accuracy of the data is 6cm within Swath and 8cm between Swaths, max swath difference 16cm  Data reported in standard GPS time  accuracy reported as NVA points and VVA points based on project size  Data provided in ASPRS LAS1.4 Format  Hydro-flattened and hydro conditioned Breaklines PREXXXX 15

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  Point Classifications  These are the minimum requirements. PREXXXX 16

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  Hydro Flattening  Water bodies of 8000m(2) or greater surface area at the time of collection shall be flattened.  Flattened water bodies shall present a flat level water surface  Water-surface edge shall be at or below the immediately surrounding terrain  Long impoundments – such as reservoirs, inlets, fjords, whose water surface elevation decrease with downstream travel will be treated as streams or rivers  Inland streams and rivers of a 30-m (100-ft) nominal width shall be flattened  Streams or rivers whose width varies above and below 30 meters will not be broken into multiple segments. PREXXXX 17

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  Hydroflattening (cont.)  Flattened streams and rivers shall present a flat and level water surface bank to banks  Flattened streams and rivers will be monontonic displaying downward flow  Note that the new specification may require the Hydro to comply with NHD standards to be used in that data set PREXXXX 18

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  Tidal Hydroflattening  Any water body that is affected by tidal variations  Within each water body, the water surface shall be flat and level for each different water surface elevation  Vertical discontinuities within the water body resulting form tidal variations during collection are considered normal and shall be retained in the final DEM  Horizontal discontinuities along the shoreline of a water body resulting from tidal variations during collection are considered normal and shall be retained in the final DEM  Islands 4000m(2) (1 acre or larger shall be delineated within all water bodies. PREXXXX 19

USGS NGP LBS V1.2  Deliverables  LAS Raw strips (calibrated)  LAS fully Classified  Hydro breaklines (geodatabase, Shape file)  Hydroflattened DEM in IMG format or as required  Intensity images  Metadata (FGDC compliant) XML format  Collection report  Survey report  Processing Report  Other as need or required by Partner PREXXXX 20

USGS: Top 10 LiDAR Benefits  Flood Risk Management  Infrastructure and Construction Management  Natural Resources Conservation  Agriculture and Precision Farming  Water Supply and Quality  Wildfire Management, Planning & Response  Geologic Resource Assess/Hazard Mitigation  Forest Resource Management  Coastal, River and Stream Resource Management  Land Navigation and Safety PREXXXX 21

Thank You – Questions? PREXXXX 22