Transcript The WV NHD Stewardship Program

The WV NHD Stewardship
Program: June ‘10 Update
Evan J Fedorko
Outline
• Status
• Year One Proposal
– Players
– Task 1: Stewardship program establishment and
organization
– Task 2: Editing of known errors
– Task 3: High change area targeted editing
(research)
– Funding
Status
• Memorandum of Understanding
– Between WV Office of GIS Coordinator, NRCS and
the USGS
– Identifies two stewards: WVOGC (NHD), NRCS
(WBD)
– Identifies a technical lead: WVGISTC
– Signed, sealed and delivered!
• Year one proposal
– Submitted and approved!
Year One Proposal
• Players
– WVOGC
– West Virginia GIS Technical Center (Fedorko)
– Natural Resource Analysis Center (Strager)
– West Virginia Department of Environmental
Protection (Daugherty)
– West Virginia stewardship community
Task 1: NHD Stewardship Program
NHD National
USGS NHD Stewardship
Program
NHD Steward
WV Office of
GIS Coordination
Stewardship
Technical Lead
WV GIS Technical
Center
NHD Error
Stakeholders and Reporting Tool
Stewardship
Mechanisms
NHD Training
and Policies
Primary SubStewards
NHD Users
Group
e.g., WVDEP,
USFS, WVDNR
NHD Data Users
Task 1 (cont.)
Users
• Establishment of NHD
!
Group
• Establishment of Stewardship mechanisms,
including:
– Mailing list of updates
– Error reporting tools
– Training (also related to task 2)
– What else?
Task 2: Known errors
• Utilize NRAC/WVDEP compilation of errors
• NRAC and WVGISTC will edit as many 8 digit
HUs as possible during project period
Task 3: High change areas targeted
editing (research)
• Work with WVDEP to develop methodology, data sharing
mechanisms, etc., to most efficiently edit areas of high
change; e.g. surface mining areas, road construction, etc.
Funding
• Total funding is $50K - $25K from USGS
matched by $25K from WV Office of GIS
Coordination
• Funding will be split between NRAC and
WVGISTC
Discussion
• We want your feedback and participation!