Cooperative Agreement G13AC00206

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817) provides $410,000.00 to the New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) to collect high-quality Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data covering Nassau and Suffolk counties in New York. The project will update the existing elevation dataset, which is from 2014 and has a point spacing of 0.7 meters, to meet at minimum Quality Level 2...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $313,950 Cooperative Agreement to the County of Solano Administrators Office to conduct a QL1 LiDAR data collection over the entire Solano County, California under the USGS National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817). This LiDAR project, which represents the first countywide QL1 data collection for Solano County, will provide high-resolution elevation data to support a variety of critical applications including fire monitoring,...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $2,657,323 Cooperative Agreement to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) under the National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817). The project, titled "WASHINGTON SIX COUNTIES RE-COLLECTION PROJECT", will fund the collection of 7,770 square miles of full LiDAR coverage over six counties in Washington state at the Quality Level 1 standard. This re-collection effort will update and maintain...

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $114,998 Cooperative Agreement to Northern Arizona University under the USGS Research and Data Collection Program (CFDA 15.808) to test the utility of terrestrial LiDAR scanning (TLS) in estimating key wildfire fuels variables. The 2-year project will develop methods to estimate fuel load, vegetation cover, and vertical plant density from TLS data combined with other remote sensing sources. The researchers will establish field plots across different...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $249,990 Cooperative Agreement under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to the University of Oklahoma's Office of Research Administration. This 3-year project will operationalize two fixed-mount, laser scanning (LIDAR) instruments to measure cross-sectional channel geometry in shallow rivers with frequently changing geomorphologies. The data collected will be integrated into USGS workflows to produce real-time, stage-area...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $2,473,614.72 Cooperative Agreement under the National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817) to the Indiana Office Of Technology (In.gov), a division of the Indiana State Budget Agency. The purpose of this 3-year award, running from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, is to update the state of Indiana's LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) dataset. Specifically, the vendor will collect Quality Level 1 (QL-1) LiDAR data for the central...

This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreement (CFDA 15.674 National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance) provides $676,991 in funding to explore two applications of high-density LiDAR technology: Applying LiDAR vegetation data as inputs to the QUICFIRE fire behavior model to evaluate fuel treatment prescriptions and monitor model performance at management scales across priority landscapes in the U.S., including Alaska. Developing a LiDAR feature detection...

This $140,335 Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Landslide Hazard Mapping and Assessment Program (CFDA 15.821) supports two key activities in Oregon: Landslide inventory mapping using LiDAR data in the northern portion of Clackamas County. This region has experienced historic landslides and debris flows, and continues to undergo development along a major highway corridor. The detailed mapping will benefit local communities by identifying areas at risk....

The University of Arizona, through the Arizona Board of Regents, has been awarded a $154,398 Project Grant from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Cooperative Landslide Hazard Mapping and Assessment Program (CFDA 15.821). The 1-year project aims to collaborate with the Hopi Tribe to map geologic hazards, specifically landslide risks, at First Mesa in northeastern Arizona. The key project objectives are to: 1) create baseline geologic and topographic maps of landslide hazards, 2) provide...

The US Geological Survey, through its National Geospatial Program: Building The National Map (CFDA 15.817), awarded a $197,452 cooperative agreement to the Commonwealth Office Of Technology on March 26, 2021 to complete by March 25, 2023. Under this award, the Commonwealth Office Of Technology will acquire LIDAR data for Kentucky from 2020-2021. The National Geospatial Program promotes the use of space-based land remote sensing data and technologies through collaborative state and local...