[OGIC] URGENT MATTER - Aerial Imagery project - ACTION NEEDED

[SMITH Cy * DAS]

OGIC Members:

VOTING MATTER:  I am coming to you today with an urgent request.  I need you to vote, by email reply to this message no later than Friday, June 9, 2017 COB, on a funding proposal from your Imagery Framework Implementation Team, led by Brady Callahan with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.

PROPOSAL:  The funding proposal is to commit $100,000 of the Framework data development funds for the 2017-19 biennium to development of statewide, one-foot resolution aerial imagery.  All 15 of the other Framework Implementation Team leads have been asked for their approval of this funding request and they have responded affirmatively, with one abstention and two absent.  Here are two quotes from FIT Leads:

Don J Pettit, RG
Oregon Preparedness Framework Data Lead

"I support that plan.  I believe that imagery is one of the foundational data types that would be prioritized during the full Framework Funding evaluation process...and this is more of an expediting of the process to meet a deadline.  As aerial imagery is one of the primary preparedness datasets, and currency of the data is critical, I believe the Preparedness Framework Implementation Team can support this wholeheartedly."

Eric Brandt
Land Cover/Land Use FIT Co-Chair

"I strongly support the Imagery FIT's Statewide Remote Sensing Program and recognize the orthoimagery is a foundational data element to much of the Framework data used and shared among state, federal and local agencies. As co-chair of the LC/LU FIT, I support the recommendation to commit $100,000 of the 2017-19 biennial FIT funding to this program and the pursuit of regular statewide 1' resolution imagery acquisition."


Here's some additional information about the funding proposal and the project, written by Brady Callahan:

The Imagery FIT has been working closely with GEO and DAS Procurement Services to secure a contract for the new Statewide Remote Sensing Program. We're very close to reaching an agreement with our chosen statewide remote sensing vendor, Quantum Spatial. Our hope was to acquire the entire state with orthophotography at 1ft resolution this year, but due to timing we came up short by about $1.5m. We are now planning to acquire half the state this year and the other half next year.

Imagery FIT has been planning to submit a proposal for the 2017-2019 biennial FIT funding but the submission deadline falls too late for the funds to be included in our Statewide contract. In order to begin acquisition, we need to finalize funding immediately. Therefore on behalf of Imagery FIT, I am taking the unusual step of asking each of you as FIT leads to agree to committing $100,000 of the 2017-19 biennial FIT funding to this program. As you know, orthoimagery is a foundational data element leading to many derivative datasets, so I believe this request to be an appropriate portion of the overall funding. That would leave $400,000 to be spent on the rest of the Framework proposals. We would not ask FIT to supply any additional funding in this cycle and our request will be leveraged at a 26:1 ratio to acquire statewide aerial imagery. This request would, obviously, fall outside the normal request approval process. If the FIT leads agree to this request, I will ask the State GIO to take this request directly to OGIC by email for their approval.

A couple notes about our effort. The goal is a sustainable cyclical program, optimally at a two year cycle. Overall we have quite a bit of interest from local governments (counties, regionals, larger cities) and state agencies, as well as the USFS and BLM. By cooperating we are getting a much better product at a lower per unit cost.

This will be a new, RGB-NiR, 'true' 1ft product, not pan-sharpened like off the shelf data being offered from vendors such as Hexagon. Quantum has stated the accuracy will be ~2.5ft @ 95%. We plan on having data hosting included, for the new imagery and for several years of historical data. We are including options for phodar, higher resolution imagery (6in & 3in), as well as lidar, bathymetry and hyperspectral imaging.

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or Brady directly.
cy


Cy Smith, GISP, State GIO
OSCIO Geospatial Enterprise Office
Secretary, Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO)
Past President, Urban Regional Info. Systems Association (URISA)
Past President, National States Geographic Info. Council (NSGIC)
(503) 378-6066, http://gis.oregon.gov<http://gis.oregon.gov/>

Brady Callahan, GISP  |  GIS Program Lead, Oregon Imagery FIT Lead
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Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
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