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GIS Partnership Summary
USGS and New York City DOITT
Partnership Purpose and Goal:
USGS approached New York City DOITT, Citywide GIS regarding anticipated Home land Security requirements for the August 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC) to be held in Madison Square Garden. This opportunity also would allow USGS to advance it’s National Map initiative while NYC-DOITT was able to use USGS funding along with additional City funding to expand orthoimagery acquisition for all 5 Boroughs. Other ongoing City GIS activities were enhanced for GIS data creation in the central Manhattan area. Additionally some of the funding was used to create a detailed underground rail station viewing application for the RNC area. This was created using the CAD files of the stations. In preparation for emergency management for the RNC USGS was able to distribute the NYC-DOITT data and application to various Federal agencies.
Participants and Resource Contributions:
USGS contributed a $100,000 grant to NYC-DOITT. DoITT was able to use a Citywide GIS contract to obtain current orthoimagery for the RNC area and obtain addition City funding for orthoimagery of the entire City. Orthoimagery was taken at six (6) inch resolution for use by Government entities while USGS will make this data available to the public at a two (2) foot resolution through The National Map.
Time Frame
Date Partnership Began: October 2003
Completed: Sept. 2004
Deliverables:
The USGS grant to DoITT called for better than 1-foot pixel resolution orthoimagery (restricted use), 2' pixel resolution orthoimagery to be displayed on The National Map, (actual highest resolution delivered was six (6) inches). The grant also called for subway and rail vector data with attribution for Manhattan , and building outlines with address ranges, be displayed on The National Map.
Brief Summary of Partnership:
USGS provided funding to NYC-DOITT to acquire orthoimagery, rail and subway data, and building outlines with address ranges. NYC-DOITT leveraged ongoing activities to enhance rail and subway data collection, and building outlines with address ranges. The orthoimagery was collected in late April 2004 to take advantage of the high sun-angle over mid-town Manhattan. Unlike the 2001 City orthoimagery which was film-based, digital imagery was used this time which produces better imagery resolution and speeds the delivery process. USGS then distributed data to NGA, North American Defense Command, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Marshall’s Service, and the Department of Home land Security. USGS will take delivery of a two (2) foot resolution orthoimagery dataset for display in The National Map that will be available to the public. This data was also provided by NYC-DOITT to local and State government entities as well as Federal Agencies for planning. Reviews of this data were extremely positive from agencies that used it.
Contact Information:
Roger Barlow - USGS Liaison
USGS
12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. Reston , VA. 20192
Phone: 703-648-5189
Fax: 703-648-5120
E-mail: rbarlow@usgs.govMarsha D. Kaunitz - Director, Citywide Geographic Information Systems
NYC-DOITT
59 Maiden Lane New York , NY 10038
Phone: 212-232-1114
Fax: 212 232-1180
E-mail: mkaunitz@doitt.nyc.gov