Title: National Digital Elevation Program (NDEP) August 2001
1National Digital Elevation Program (NDEP)August
2001
U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological
Survey
2National Elevation Dataset
3Seamless/Framework Elevation DatabaseConcept
Assembly
Irregular Polygons
Conflation Update Tools
National Elevation Data Set Best
Available Regularly Gridded Multi-resolution
Mass Points Break Lines
Contours
Source Product Distribution
Grids
Raw Base Data
Control
Source Database
4National Digital Elevation Program (NDEP)
- In keeping with National Spatial Data
Infrastructure principals, and Executive Order
12906, establishing the NSDI - Enhance Data Sharing
- Minimize redundant data production
- Leverage resources to satisfy multiple
requirements - Apply flexible and common standards
- Ensure availability of best available base
cartographic data
5NDEP Partnership Mechanisms
- Joint Production Plans, developed by the NDEP
Project Coordination Subcommittee - Member Agency requirements
- Joint funding agreements with other Federal and
State agencies - Data Exchange, Data Share, and Work Share
agreements with other Federal, State, and local
agencies - Innovative Partnerships with State agencies and
private firms - Existing partnerships, such as DOI High Priority,
and the USGS-USFS-BLM Management Oversight
Committee, among others.
6NDEP Membership
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
- U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) - National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
- U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- National Aeronautics Space Administration
(NASA) - National States Geographic Information Council
(NSGIC) - Other Organizations can be added
7NDEP Charter
- Presents Guidelines and Operating procedures for
the NDEP Organization. - Establishes the NDEP Steering Committee,
identifying functions, authorities, and
responsibilities. - Charter signed by Members as of September 2000.
- Charter Revision, led by USACE underway.
8NDEP Organization
- Steering Committee
- USGS elected to Chair- Ken Osborn
(kjosborn_at_usgs.gov) - USGS elected to Executive Secretary- John Crowe
(jcrowe_at_usgs.gov) - Technical Subcommittee
- USGS Chair, Jim Mauck (jmauck_at_usgs.gov)
- Project Coordination Subcommittee
- USGS Chair, Dave Saghy (dsaghy_at_usgs.gov)
9NDEP Steering Committee
- Oversee the NDEP, including identifying the
vision, direction, and goals of the program,
planning and finalizing program requirements,
determining general digital elevation production
strategies, and reviewing product costs,
contracts, funding, contracting mechanisms and
resource allocations. - Promote joint funding, cost-share and work-share
agreements, and innovative partnerships with
Federal and State agencies and other entities. - Review and coordinate technical criteria for the
program, including the technical standards and
guidelines for the development, quality assurance
and distribution of digital elevation data, and
the assessment of emerging alternative
technologies.
10NDEP Steering CommitteeContinued
- Meet semi-annually, or when called by the
chairperson. Review the MOU and Charter annually
to keep current. Update the MOU appendices by
reviewing and approving the proposed Interagency
Agreements and NDEP production plans. - Participate in annual professional society
meetings to provide general information, program
status, and other activities of NDEP to agency
participants and to potential new Federal and
State members and contributors. - Each agency has one voting member. Voting
processes and procedures established by the
Steering Committee. - The NDEP Steering Committee membership will be
comprised of agencies and organizations signed to
the Charter and MOU/IA.
11NDEP Steering CommitteeContinued
- Annual consideration will be given to new
leadership of the NDEP Steering Committee and its
subcommittees, facilitating alternation among the
member agencies. A chairperson will be nominated
by the chairing agency and approved by the NDEP
Steering Committee - The NDEP Steering Committee will form a Technical
Subcommittee and a Project Coordination
Subcommittee to provide advice and support.
Participating agencies will submit nominations of
representatives to the subcommittees to the NDEP
Steering Committee. The NDEP Steering Committee
will select a Chairperson for each subcommittee.
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13NDEP Technical Subcommittee
- The Technical Subcommittee will address technical
issues related to - research
- production
- distribution
- application
- Lead the implementation and or development of
digital elevation data product guidelines, to
facilitate NDEP operations. - Significant technical issues will be presented to
the NDEP Steering - Committee, and specific technical guidance will
be provided. - Meetings will occur on an ad hoc basis as
required. The committee may seek the input of
and participation from representatives from
commercial entities, academic organizations, and
various levels of government.
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15NDEP Project Coordination Subcommittee
- Coordinates requirements from NDEP members.
- Identifies overlapping, matching, or near
matching requirements. - Provides a mechanism for adjudication of
requirements to facilitate joint data production. - Develops and monitors production and funding
plans. - Addresses significant program issues, and reports
to the Steering Committee. - Fiscal Year implementation plans and schedules
will be presented to the NDEP Steering Committee
for review. - Meetings will occur on a quarterly basis prior to
NDEP Steering Committee meetings.
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17Program Execution
- Modeled after the successful National Digital
Orthophoto Program. (NDOP) - Joint approach to products definition and
contract administration. - Consistent approach to quality assessment and
quality control. - Unified approach to providing archive and data
dissemination services. - Maintain archive of native data.
- Provide seamless data delivery over the WWW.
18Benefits
- Provides the mechanism for the NDEP membership to
satisfy requirements for elevation data in
support of Member Agency Missions, utilizing a
leveraged approach to minimize redundancy,
enhance data sharing, and pool resources to
achieve common goals. - Enhances the ability to satisfy a broader suite
of requirements, from multiple perspectives, by
contributing to a National Program which provides
broader access to data, constituting a key
contribution to the development of a National
Elevation Framework. - Provides the potential for a strong, sustainable
National Elevation Program in support of National
as well as place based requirements. - Shows commitment to NSDI principals and executes
the vision of executive order 12906.
19Meetings Status
- First NDEP Steering Committee Meeting held at
USGS, Reston on Dec 11, 2000. - Elections to Technical Subcommittee made by
member organizations. Initial focus on
standards/specifications, database/archive, and
quality control/quality assessment. - Joint meeting of the NDEP Steering Committee and
the Technical Subcommittee held at FEMA on
February 16, 2001. - Technical guidance provided for subcommittee,
work assignments and approach determined. - Reached agreement to elect membership to the NDEP
Project Coordination Subcommittee. Data Call and
FY 2002 Program Call, initiated 3/16/01.
20Meetings Status
- Joint meeting of the NDEP Steering Committee and
the Project Coordination Subcommittee held at BLM
on May 2-3, 2001. - Report on initial results of data and program
call - Discussion of development of NDEP information
infrastructure - Data Holdings
- Production Plans
- Program Requirements
- Production Management
- Process Overview
- Status Reporting
- Identify Partnership Opportunities
- Develop Production Plans
21Meetings Status
- NDEP Steering Committee meeting held at USDA-FS,
August 15-16 - Census Bureau joins the NDEP
- Subcommittee Reports
- ASPRS/MAPPS Elevation Conference Updates
- FEMA Cooperating Technical Partners Program
- MOU/IA Discussions/review
- Data Licensing/Data Access issues
- Intermap Proposals
- Consortia Commitments
- Public Domain
- Program Coordination/Data Sharing
- Promote fair Development of Markets and
Technologies - Cooperative business solutions