The USGS National Geospatial Program hosted an instructional webinar on August 19, 2020 to provide information about the USGS Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) solicitation for costsharing lidar projects in the upcoming Federal 2021 fiscal year. Hopefully many of you were able to join the webinar, but if not, or if you want to review the material, please note that a recording of the webinar is now available, along with FAQs.
If you have interest and funding, or are in the early stages of coordinating a lidar collection for your area of interest, this webinar recording will give you the information you need for FY2021 and beyond (although program details do change slightly from one year to the next). This program has enabled much important lidar acquisition for the state in recent years.
The webinar recording and FAQs can be found on the FY20/21 BAA webpage at the link below:
https://usgs.gov/3DEP/FY21BAA
New information regarding the solicitation (federal priority maps, links to template, etc.) will be added as it comes available.
As always, please note these other helpful 3DEP-related links:
- Seasketch planning tool: https://www.seasketch.org/#projecthomepage/5272840f6ec5f42d210016e4
- US Interagency Elevation Inventory: https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory/
- Data download for existing lidar data: https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic/
- A California lidar status map maintained by the California Department of Conservation: https://arcg.is/18v8HP1
We are available for questions and assistance on 3DEP anytime. Questions on the BAA process should be addressed to gs_baa@usgs.gov.
If you have general questions about ongoing projects or project concepts that are looking for additional partners, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with any of the following people.
- Carol Ostergren (costergren@usgs.gov),
- Drew Decker (ddecker@usgs.gov),
- Nathaniel Roth (nathaniel.roth@conservation.ca.gov)