The Place of NHD Stewardship in the National Map Program

1. The Place of NHD Stewardship in the National Map Program Craig A. Neidig WV Geospatial Liaison U.S. Geological Survey Eastern Region Partnership Office

2. USGS Science StrategyFacing Tomorrow’s Challenges – U.S. Geological Survey Science in the Decade 2007-2017

3. USGS Science StrategyFacing Tomorrow’s Challenges – U.S. Geological Survey Science in the Decade 2007-2017 • Six Science strategic directions • Understanding Ecosystems and Predicting Ecosystem Change: Ensuring the Nation’s Economic and Environmental Future • Climate Variability and Change: Clarifying the Record and Assessing Consequences • Energy and Minerals for America’s Future: Providing a Scientific Foundation for Resource Security, Environmental Health, Economic Vitality, and Land Management • A National Hazards, Risk, and Resilience Assessment Program: Ensuring the Long-Term Health and Wealth of the Nation • The Role of Environment and Wildlife in Human Health: A System that Identifies Environmental Risk to Public Health in America • A Water Census of the United States: Quantifying, Forecasting, and Securing Freshwater for America’s Future • Refocus on Integrated Science (interdisciplinary approach)

4. The USGS National Geospatial Program • Headquarters (Reston, VA)– Programmatic Guidance, Product and Service Leads, Funding • National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC – Rolla, MO / Denver, CO) - Operations, Data Services, Technical POCs • Geospatial Research Center (CEGIS) • Emergency Operations • Partnerships and External Coordination • State Geospatial Liaison Network • Partners

5. National Geospatial Program

6. The National Map • The National Map contributes to the NSDI • The National Map includes eight “framework” data layers: hydrography, elevation, imagery, geographic names, boundaries, transportation, land cover, structure • Public domain data to support: • USGS topographic maps • Products and services at multiple scales and resolutions • Analysis, modeling and other applications at multiple scales and resolutions • The National Map is built on partnerships, standards, and best practices

7. The National Map Vision • Aseamless, continuously maintained, trusted, nationally consistent, integrated and currentset of base geographic data • Developed and maintained throughpartnerships • A nationalfoundationfor science, land and resource management, recreation, policy making, and homeland security • The source for revisedtopographic maps • In the public domain • Available via the internet The vision has not significantly changed since 2001

8. Framework National Databases • USGS A-16 Responsibility Themes • Elevation - National Elevation Database (NED) • Hydrography – National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) • Orthoimagery – Seamless Server • Geographic Names – Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) • Land Cover – National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) • USGS Managed Themes (non-A-16 responsibility) • Boundaries (Governmental Units) – Census, BLM • Structures - Census • Transportation – Census, Federal DOT

9. The National Map 2.0 - Tactical Plan Focus • Integration into consistent, quality-assured, seamless databases • Guided by the 2-year Tactical Plan • Next generation topographic map series • Geospatial Web-Services • Alignment of Data, Systems, and Liaison Network • Focused on USGS Science Strategy • Foundation for DOI Data Integration Blueprint

10. The National Map 2.0 Tactical Plan • Data Products • National databases of base content (centralized) • Partner data holdings of base content (distributed) • Graphic Products • Legacy topographic maps (high resolution scans) • Standard digital image maps with limited vector overlays • Standard digital topographic maps (geopdf) • Custom topographic maps (Map On Demand) • Services • Improved interfaces and faster data download • WMS, WFS, WCS, KML, replication services • GOS Marketplace

11. TNM Program Priorities • Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coasts (CONUS) • Two counties (~50 miles) deep from the coastline; • Mexico and Canada borders • 50 miles on the U.S. side of the international boundaries • USGS Science Priorities • DOI High Priority Lands • Major Urban areas (“133 cities”) • Supports emergency management, homeland security, and USGS disciplines and programs

15. FY09 Mapping Contracts and Partnerships USGS ARRA (“Stimulus”) Funding $140M $14.6M to NGP for mapping $1M for Alaska IFSAR and LiDAR elevation $7M for Imagery and LiDAR (urban areas, borders and coasts) Approximately $6M for everything else Pooled funding from Partnership Office and TNM Product and Service Leads TNM Management Team (NGP Chief and program managers) allocate to themes Approximately $800K to NHD program

16. Partner Input to The National Map • State, local, Tribal, Federal, and private entities produce and maintain a vast array of current, accurate geospatial data • Over the years, a significant objective and investment focus of NGP has been the development of mutually beneficial partnerships to coordinate data acquisition, integration, maintenance and stewardship • Partner contributions and data remain a primary input and foundation of TNM • NGP Geospatial Liaisons are placed in the states to support partnership development

17. State Geospatial Liaison Role • Facilitate growth of NSDI and TNM in a state • Link to FGDC activities and grants • Federal representation on state/regional GIS coordination bodies • Support development of specific GIS layers • Promote partnership and stewardship opportunities • Fifty-States strategic planning initiative (NSGIC) • Support Geospatial Technology exchange • Provide information on USGS TNM programs and activities • Facilitate training and professional development opportunities • GIS support for homeland security and natural disaster response

20. NHD Stewardship • The NHD was designed and substantially built by three Federal partners: USGS, EPA and the USDA Forest Service. It was designed to be a reliable source of data that would grow both through system-wide revisions and the contributions of its users. • Because the data will come increasingly from local sources, there will be a greater need for management and oversight at an intermediary level. Those intermediaries are referred to as "data stewards.” • The NHD has been specifically designed to accommodate transactions. • The USGS is actively working with a network of agencies and groups that have or are interested in becoming NHD data stewards. • The most direct benefit of shared maintenance is the ability to have access to up-to-date information of changes on the landscape and to receive spatial data that faithfully represents those changes. • The key to implementing stewardship is having an editing tool that can deal with the unique characteristics of NHD data. An editing tool specific to the NHD, known as NHDGeoEdit, was originally developed by ESRI for the Forest Service.

21. Organization Identify Stakeholders Mission / Business drivers Needs Assessment / Best Practices NHD Business Plan Links to State GIS Strategic Plan Partnership Agreement Statement of Work Deliverables / Reports Funding Process Development Path to NHD Stewardship • MOU / Charter • Steward / Sub-stewards / other partners • General Terms and Conditions • Roles and Responsibilities • Outreach / Education

22. The Role of the Data Steward • The data steward's responsibilities include: • Guarantee that updated NHD data pass all validation tests. • Assure that the core content (features, attributes and relationships identified in the NHD standards) is included. • Keep the data current. • Consider any change submitted and decide authoritatively if it will be accepted or not. • Report the decision publicly. • Respond to proposed changes within a reasonable time. • Provide publicly available information on status of data development and updating. • Maintain awareness of activities by other agencies and groups.

24. Factors Considered Partnership Funding • USGS to Partner funding ratio (typically 50% match required) • NGP geographic area priorities • Builds more current data • Improve resolution or accuracy • Meets TNM data integration goals • Partner Priority / Statewide Plans • Technical soundness / completeness of proposal • Areal extent of project (regional / statewide / inter-state) • Stewardship Agreement in place or imminent • Partner Past Performance • Regional science priority • Leverages other partnership activities

25. Partnership Funding Process • Liaisons consult with Program Lead (NHD=Jeff Simley) at beginning of fiscal year for proposal guidelines • Liaisons submit proposals after collaborating with partners in their states. Proposal characteristics are scored by the liaison, the product lead, the regional liaison chief, and NGTOC • Proposal Review Board votes on all proposals. Requires unanimous vote from at least 2 Regional Chiefs, 2 Product and Service Leads, and 1 NGTOC Location Chief. If not unanimous, forwarded to NGP managers for resolution • Hold continuous review meetings every two weeks throughout the year

26. USGS Contracting Process • Liaisons work with a USGS Contracting Officer from their region; each region operates somewhat independently • Liaisons have access to multiple contracting vehicles – work share, Cooperative Agreement, grants, Joint Funding Agreement (JFA), Interagency Agreement • Liaisons develop the initial statement of work and requisition paperwork, in conjunction with the state partner • Liaisons can assist with Grants.gov process, or work with the contracting officer to have training provided as required

27. USGS Commitment to States • State Geospatial liaison • Hydrography area specialist • Works with 8-10 states • Technology expert • Applications support • Coordination/Continuity • Training • Advocate for hydrography • The USGS Geospatial Liaison, the NHD Technical POC and NGTOC, and NHD Product lead will work together to provide support to state stewards.

28. Why Stewardship • Goal: To assume (shared) ownership for the greater good of all the water resource data users in West Virginia . . . • Motivation: • The USGS wants to maximize the efficiency of surface water mapping and analysis for its needs. • The community of users become the stewards of the data • The USGS facilitates the stewardship process • The users evolve the data to best meet their needs • The USGS guides the evolution for national continuity

30. NHD Stewardship Issues • Level of Densification – Ephemerals? • When Should Local Resolution Be Incorporated? • Freeze a High Resolution Dataset for In-State Use? • Can we produce derivative products? • What’s Important to Edit? • Frequency of Revisions? • Training (who/how many)? • Certified Contractors? • Geographic Names (GNIS) integration? • Sub-Stewardships? • Annualized costs for maintenance after implemented?