Enabling the California geospatial community
The USGS National Geospatial Program collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders to share costs of topographic data acquisition in support of collective mission and business requirements. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 3D National Topography Model (3DNTM) Data Collaboration Announcement…
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The 3D National Topography Model (3DNTM) Data Collaboration Announcement (DCA) for Fiscal Year 2024 opens on September 7, 2023. The 3DNTM is a new initiative that updates, improves, and integrates USGS elevation and hydrography data to support the most demanding…
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Dear colleagues, The USGS National Geospatial Program is again updating the US Interagency Elevation Inventory. We invite you to provide us information so that your data is discoverable by others. Your data need not be in the public domain, and…
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Hello Everyone: The 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) continues to utilize the NOAA sponsored Seasketch: U.S. Federal Mapping Coordination – A Demonstration Site for Federal Mapping Data Acquisition Coordination) site for planning, coordinating partnerships, and tracking elevation data acquisition projects. The…
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High-quality hydrographic data are critical to a broad range of government and private applications. Resource management, infrastructure planning, environmental monitoring, fisheries management, and disaster mitigation all depend on up-to-date, accurate, and high-quality hydrographic data. The U.S. Geological Survey National Geospatial Program has begun a…
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Passing this information along from Drew Decker of the USGS: USGS has now posted 2014 imagery for a portion of the southern California urban region. New imagery was collected in mid 2014 by USGS contractors for the built up areas around…
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Attached is the April 2015 U.S. Geological Survey National Hydrography Dataset Newsletter (click here to view). You will find important information about planning hydrography for the year ahead, the Hydrography Seminar Series, conflation research, proposal to improve NHD stream classification, mapping Indiana’s…
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From Drew Decker: New 1:24,00-scale topographic maps are now available for download for California. These maps include several new datasets and data updates (such as revised NHD in Ventura and Tehama Counties, and some crowd sourced structures) as compared to the last…
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