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)

Legend

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 (ronnie.taylor@noaa.gov), 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

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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

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NGS Decision Making Model

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Ann

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ESC

Convocations and

Leadership Summits

Customer Focused

Integrated and Collaborative Organization

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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

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HOW WE ARE GOING TO

GET THERE

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Expand Models

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Questions, Comments, Discussion?