Massachgusetts, USGS, and Fugro/Earthdata

NATIONAL STATES GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COUNCIL


2105 Laurel Bush Rd.

Bel Air, MD 21015

443-640-1075 www.nsgic.org

Public-Private Partnerships: The Key to a Successful Statewide Mapping Program in Massachusetts

Lynn Bjorklund, USGSBrian Wegner, Fugro EarthData

CLC Session II - October 7, 20092009 Annual Conference, Cleveland OH



2105 Laurel Bush Rd.

Bel Air, MD 21015

443-640-1075 www.nsgic.org

TopicsHistoryCurrent cooperative projectsOrtho applications

Take-home messages:Very successful public-private partnership:

MassGIS - USGS - Dewberry - Fugro EarthData

Derivative products are huge

Applications should drive specs


MA Orthophoto Program

• pre-1994: mechanical orthos!• 4 sets of statewide imagery

– 1994 - 1999: Black & white film– 2001: Color film– 2005: Digital camera 4 bands– 2008: Digital 3 bands with IR retrofit– 2009: Digital 4 bands

• related products – DTM– image classification (LULC,

impervious)


50 cm imagery - 2005






Zoomed in – 15 cm


Orthoimagery Projects with USGS 2008/9

Worcester/SpringfieldUrban Areas

Spring 2009 5700 square miles Total project cost $940,000

Spring 2008 Boston Urban Area Total cost $583,000


2008 – Painful lessons learned

• 30 Joint funding agreements • chasing contributors• fiscal year constraints• timing payments to match deliverables• specs were not what we wanted • projection • distribution • sensitive areas


2008 – Some bright spots

• imagery was superb• customers were happy• state contributed survey control for 50 pts• saved municipalities on buy-ups• state got a great product for nothing!• estimates were right on • USGS staff were incredibly flexible, helpful and

patient


2009 – Much less painful !

• set up trust account for payments• anticipated timing issues and matched payments

to deliverables• got commitments in writing early • vendor did projection • sensitive areas • got IR plus retro-fitted for 2008• USGS role saved our agency 30% charge from

State Comptroller • estimates were right on


Funding Breakdown

• 2008– 30 municipalities $208,000– USGS/NGA $375,000– state (sanity)

• 2009– 13 municipalities $132,000– Westover Air Reserve Base $ 8,000– 4 state agencies $630,000– USGS/NGA $170,000


Savings 2008

All municipalities except Boston:

Buy-up Area 351 sq. miles

Est. on-their-own cost per sq mi (based on survey)$1,500

Cost per sq mi through USGS w/out Boston $ 483

Estimated on-their-own costs $526,500Cost via USGS project $169,533

Municipal Partner Savings $356,967

Boston “True Ortho” Area:

Cost (44 sq. miles, some at 80% lap) $39,000

Savings based on bid for “True Ortho” $100,000

Total estimated savings $456,967


Overall Lessons learned

• Perseverance furthers! …communication is good

• Collaborate!

• Trust, respect and leverage each partner’s roles & expertise

At many points the deal could have fallen through


[a few other nit-picky kinds of] Lessons Learned

• Interested municipal partners need cost estimates up front

• Keep unit costs and area units straight, translatable & adjustible: – MassGIS built handy spreadsheet– Communicate costs in terms each player understands or

needs– Fair share estimates– municipal area and tile areas

• Let the vendor do the burdensome stuff, like re-projection and distribution

• Allow lead time for paperwork such as trust account or other

mechanisms requiring multi-agency approvals.


Why the Governor needs orthos

• Current applications that are high priorities for Patrick administration– wind turbine siting– compiling cable maps– adjusting population numbers – one-stop/on-line permitting– environmental regulation enforcement


Wind energy site screening


Image-derived impervious areas provide input for…


Buffer residential structures

Impervious surface, with roads erased, overlaid with parcels, provides a quick and effective residential setback for site screening

NATIONAL STATES GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COUNCIL Broadband availability - building points

Broadband initiative aims to analyze service levels down to the individual household. Impervious surface “blobs” shrunk to points provide quick point feature class

NATIONAL STATES GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION COUNCILLand use change – population update

10 years is a long time – ortho supports updates of land use as basis for revised population estimates – important for formula-based funding


April 2001

Wetlands regulation enforcement

Automated change detection identified dozens of violations and led to enforcement actions totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars

Earlier photo- interpretation of wetland boundary simplifies change detection


Ortho – ePermitting

DEP Site Locator

Self-reporting of regulated object locations supports better resource management, such as water budgets, discharge monitoring, evaluation of hazardous material releases etc..


• Very successful publicn-private partnership– Collaboration trusting each partner’s roles

& expertise

• Derivative products are huge

• Applications should drive specs & deliverables

Conclusion


Questions?

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