NGS Orientation
Who are our stakeholders?
Why are they important?
What is the future of NGS?
October 29, 2008
David Zilkoski, Director NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
• Coastal Inundation• Droughts• Earthquakes• Floods• Human & Ecosystem Health• Hurricanes• Landslide and Debris Flow• Tornados• Tsunamis• Volcanoes• Heat Waves• Technological Disasters• Wild Fires• Winter Storms
Some Outcomes On Which We Need to Focus
Some Customers We Need to Listen to and Work With
• Emergency Managers
• Planners and Developers
• Insurance Industry
• Agricultural Industry
• Construction Industry
• Environmental Engineers
• Coastal Managers
• Local governments
• Tribal governments
• International Organizations
• Academia
• Professional Organizations
• Private Sector
• Foreign Counterparts
How do we getstakeholder input?
• ACSM AAGS Government Program Committee
• ESRI NGS Special Interest Meeting
• National Association of Counties– National Association of County
Surveyors County Scorecard web survey
– National Association of County Engineers County Scorecard web survey planned for FY09
• Web Requests for Input– Strategic Plan– Suggestion Box Button– ForeSee Pop Ups
• NGS Products and Services Committee– Requires Customer Input before
finalizing new products and services
• Geomatics Industry Assn. of America/ American Congress on Surveying and Mapping/NGS Joint Meeting
Height Modernization: Stakeholder Input in Action
Previously Funded States
States that Have Shown an Interest
Inactive States
Recent accomplishments:
• National Annual Height Mod Forum
• Enhanced NGS’ Corbin Training Center’s courses on leveling.
• Awarded 11 competitive grants to states.
• Outreached through 12+ Height Mod user forums, workshops, and meetings.
Involved stakeholders:
• Universities
• Spatial Reference Centers
• State Agencies (DOTs and DNRs)
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Spatial Reference Centers
Regional Leaders
Lead Agencies
• GRAV-D– Airborne gravity survey (10 years)– Gravity monitoring into the future– Coastal areas surveyed first– All USA states and territories– www.ngs.noaa.gov/GRAV-D
• 2017 Targets:– Orthometric heights good to 2 cm
anywhere, anytime from GNSS technology
– Height changes easily monitored using new vertical datum
The Future of Height Mod: GRAV-DGravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum
Collaboration with Potential GRAV-D Partners
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers- Director of Civil Works- Chief, Engineering and Construction
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency- Director, Source Operations and Management
Directorate- Director and Dep. Dir., Source Operations and
Management Directorate
• U.S. Geological Survey- Associate Director for Water- Associate Director for Geology- Senior Advisor for Science Applications- Chief Scientist, Geology- Coordinator, Coastal and Marine Geology
Program
• NASA- Director for Earth Science - Associate Director for Research- Lead, Earth Surface and Interior Focus Area
Sending letters to potential partners to share costs of GRAV-D
• FEMA- Assistant Administrator, Mitigation Directorate- Director, Risk Analysis Division
• Office of Naval Research- Chief of Naval Research- Commanding Officer, Naval Research
Laboratory
• FAA - FAA Chief Operating Officer - Associate Director for Geology
- VP of System Operations
Airborne Gravimeter
IOCM – New Products and Tools Required by Ocean and Coastal Geospatial Data Users
• International Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IWG-OCM)
Goal: Increase efficiency and improve coordination of many Federal mapping agencies.
• Coordination of ocean and coastal mapping data and activities
• Partnerships for resource synergies
• Integrated products and services
State Advisors: Reaching Out to Local Partners/Stakeholders
• New Advisors in FY08:– Alabama (Jim Harrington)
• Loss of Advisors– South Carolina (Jim Harrington)– Mississippi (Kurt Shinkle)– Washington State (Gary Perasso)** these positions are being temporarily
covered by Ronnie Taylor ([email protected]), State Advisor Branch Chief
• Potential new advisor opportunities in FY09:
– Mississippi Refill– Florida Refill– Oregon Refill
• Other Prospects:– Georgia– West Virginia– Alaska
States Covered By The NGS State Advisor Program
For a current map, visit: (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/ADVISORS/)
• Help shape geospatial policy by being more involved in positions that create national and international policy
• Work with other disciplines to achieve agreed upon outcomes
• Retrain workforce from being the “doers” to being the teachers and trainers
• Set goals and actions that require collaboration with other organizations to achieve a common outcome
• Develop cross-discipline work plans that will achieve agreed upon outcomes
How Can We Make This Happen?
Branch
and Divisio
n Chiefs
Groups
What Have We Been Doing for the Last 10 Years?
Leadership
Development
Efforts
Succession Planning
Workforce/Outsourcing
Plan
NGS 10 Year
Plan
GeodesyWhat Lies
Ahead
We’ve been putting the
pieces together and building on past efforts for over a
decade
WorkforceManagement
Team
PSCNGS Decision
Making Structure
NGS Decision Making Model
Str
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Ann
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Doc
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Ann
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Pla
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ESC
Convocations and
Leadership Summits
Customer Focused
Integrated and Collaborative Organization
=CulturalChange
One Pie
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Mis
sing!
Evolve Infrastructure
Modernize the 3-D Geometric
Reference System*
Evolve Infrastructure
Modernize the
Geopotential (“Vertical”)
Datum
Increase Agency Visibility
Build Outside Capacity
Migrate the Coastal Mapping
Program
Evolve Core
Capabilities
Cultural
Change
Cus
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Integrated and Collaborative Organization
HOW WE ARE GOING TO
GET THERE
Outcom
e Driven
Expand Models
& Tools
Questions, Comments, Discussion?