Geospatial Data Coordination Report Spring 2008 Version: 2.2 March 2008 Document Management History Document Location Location https://www.mapmodteam.com/Deliverables/DM/9908/Work%20in%20Progress/Forms/AllItems.aspx Revision History Version Number Version Date Summary of Changes Team/Author 1.1 June 16, 2006 Geospatial leverage status J. McCarty 1.2 August 30, 2006 Updates Spring 2006 report J. McCarty 2.0 April 13, 2007 Updates Fall 2006 Report J. McCarty 2.1 Sept 21, 2007 Updates Spring 2007 Report J. McCarty 2.2 March 28, 2008 Updates Fall 2007 Report J. McCarty Approvals This document requires the approval of the following persons: Role Name Phone Ext Title (CLIN/RMC) Review Date Approved Date Originator Jerry McCarty 3115 Project Manager 3/21/2008 3/24/2008 CLIN/ Proj Mgr Lillian Pitts 5334 Process Area Mgr 3/24/2008 3/24/2008 Exec Reviewer Andrea Ryon 6259 Program Director 3/25/2008 3/25/2008 Client Distribution Name Title/Organization Paul Rooney FEMA Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Summary 2 2.1. Geospatial Data Contributions 2 2.2. Available Data 5 Appendix A: Geospatial Data Contributions to FEMA Appendix B: FEMA Data Collection in U.S. Urban Areas Appendix C: Elevation and Imagery Data Available from FEMA 1. Introduction The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has developed a Geospatial Data Coordination Policy (Maurstad, 2005) that establishes the principles for coordinating, communicating, documenting, and reporting existing and proposed geospatial data collected, produced, or manipulated under FEMA's Map Modernization Program. The purpose is to facilitate data sharing and secondary data use. The primary goals of this policy are to ensure that the Map Modernization Program will: 1. protect its investments in geospatial data by requiring data to be documented, standard-compliant, and easily accessible to the general public when appropriate and release of the data does not pose a security risk; 2. maximize the use of partnerships, including Federal, State and local partners, for the acquisition and production of geospatial data; 3. minimize duplicative requests from Federal agencies to State and local data stewards; 4. recognize the value of existing coordination efforts at the State and local levels; and 5. comply with all Federal requirements for coordination and reporting of geospatial activities. Through Circular A-16 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed Federal agencies that produce, maintain, or use spatial data, either directly or indirectly, to participate in the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The goals of the NSDI are to reduce duplication of effort among agencies; improve quality and reduce costs related to geographic information; make geographic data more accessible to the public; increase the benefits of using available data; and establish key partnerships with States, counties, cities, tribal nations, academia and the private sector to increase data availability. FEMA supports the requirements, guidance and standards provided by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the e-Government initiative goals of the Geospatial One-Stop that implement the NSDI. 2. Summary This report has two primary purposes. The first is to provide a summary of the two most critical types of geospatial data for Map Modernization. Elevation and imagery data sets collected or produced by FEMA's Map Modernization Program are listed to provide Federal Agency members of the National Digital Elevation Program (NDEP) and the National Digital Orthophoto Program (NDOP) information where FEMA may have mutually beneficial data sets or planned data collection activities that may be integrated into other national data sets. Listings of these data sets are provided in Appendices B and C of this report. The second purpose is to provide a summary of the funds spent by FEMA on elevation and imagery data and the value of geospatial data investments provided by other Federal, State, and local government agencies that have been leveraged by the Map Modernization Program. Summary information of geospatial data contributions is provided below in Section 2.1, and the value of geospatial data contributions in each FEMA Region is provided in Appendix A. This report is updated on a semi-annual basis occurring in the Spring and Fall. This Spring 2008 Report will mark the final time this report is updated by the MOD Team in support of FEMA HQ. 2.1. Geospatial Data Contributions The leverage of existing geospatial data from locals, States, and other Federal Agencies is an important component to the success of Map Modernization. It is also important for FEMA to report the value of the contributed data to DHS and OMB to illustrate FEMA's success in taking advantage of existing data sets. Contributions are reported here in approximate dollar values for elevation data and imagery data. Appendix A provides the estimated total contribution values for each data category for each FEMA Region. These totals were derived from estimated contribution values reported in the 4th Quarter 2007 Cooperating Technical Partner (CTP) Leverage Report and leverage contribution values reported for MIP project data development task assignments. Projects that leveraged partner data that were not tracked through CTP leverage reporting or by the MIP are computed with a standard value assigned to each data set used on a Map Modernization project and inventoried in this report. FEMA contributions to topographic data development for Map Modernization are also provided as a summary of FEMA funds spent on framework geospatial data. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) partnered with FEMA to investigate their geospatial data holdings and identify terrain data that might be used for FEMA's Flood Map Modernization Program. The total value of the data identified was estimated at $2.9M. The contribution values are estimates of the cost FEMA would typically incur to acquire the data through traditional contractor mechanisms. Data acquisition costs that were used to compute contribution values for each data category are based on estimated average costs to acquire base map and topographic data in FEMA's Regions: * Topographic Mapping - $421 per square mile for 4' contours, or higher resolution - $105 per square mile for 5' - 10' contours - $50 per square mile for other elevation data * Base Map Acquisition - $16 per panel for USGS DOQs with minimum features - $452 per panel for local orthophotos with maximum features Note: For projects that track leverage contribution values through the MIP workflow, unit costs or actual costs are provided in Appendix A as reported by the mapping partner. Figures 1 and 2 provide a comparison of the geospatial data contribution information collected for the Fall 2007 report and the current contribution information to date for projects funded through Fiscal Year 2008 to date. The increase in estimated contribution value to FEMA is largely due to having more complete information on contributions by FEMA's CTPs as well as additional high quality topographic and base map data used in projects since the values were last reported in the Fall 2007 report. Since FEMA does not typically fund base map data collection, Figure 1 only includes base map contributions leveraged from partners. Figure 1. Cumulative Data Contributions With Change Since Fall 2007 Figure 2. Spring 2008 Cumulative Basemap and Terrain Contribution Values 2.2. Available Data Where has FEMA discovered data? Where does FEMA plan to produce DFIRMs in the near future? Where is there data that the USGS can incorporate into the National Elevation Dataset? Where are there basemap data sets that the U.S. Census Bureau could use for TIGER/MAF modernization? Where are there imagery data sets that the National Digital Orthophoto Program partner agencies might be interested in? Where are there elevation data sets that National Digital Elevation Program partner agencies might be interested in? And where do these areas possibly intersect the NGA/USGS 133 Urban Area data development initiative? These are the questions answered in the tables and maps provided in Appendix B of this report. Answering these types of questions is intended to lead to opportunities to share data or share data development costs with NGA, USGS, and Census. FEMA has inventoried over 1000 elevation data sets and over 700 imagery datasets that may be of interest to its partners. This increase in data collection over the previous Fall 2007 report was expected as the majority of the funding for Fiscal Year 2007 projects did not occur until midway through 2007. As part of the Map Modernization Program, FEMA has developed the Mapping Information Platform (MIP), a Web-based enterprise project management portal that enables the management, production, extraction, and sharing of FEMA's Map Modernization data. The MIP stores both final and intermediate geospatial data, which allows FEMA's partners to search for metadata artifacts and retrieve geospatial data sets that may be useful to their projects. Registered MIP users may download these data directly from the MIP by searching metadata records registered with the MIP's Content Manager, which catalogs all geospatial information stored on the MIP. Orthoimagery and Elevation data sets that are currently available for download from the MIP at www.hazards.fema.gov are listed in Appendix C, "Elevation and Imagery Data Available from FEMA", of this report. 2 September 2004 September 2004 7 March 2008 i 6 March 2008 March 2008 5 March 2008 1