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11/16/09

LiDAR data deliverables -

Deliverables received this period and under review:

• 11/12/09 – PDS Bay d4
• 11/10/09 - PDS Brevard d4

Deliverables under review:

• 11/13/09 - PDS Dixie d3
• 11/04/09 - PDS Taylor d3

Actions taken during this period:

• 11/12/09 - PDS Gulf d6 was accepted
• 11/13/09 – PDS Jefferson d5 returned with edit calls

Estimated redelivery date of rejected deliverables:

• 10/19/09 - PDS Clay d3
• 11/17/09 – PDS Levy d4
• 10/17/09 - PDS Putnam d4
• 11/16/09 – PDS Okaloosa d7

Previously accepted deliverables:

• CDM/Sanborn - Duval
• CH2M Hill Block 1 (Monroe - Lower Keys)
• CH2M Hill Block 2 (Monroe - Upper Keys)
• CH2M Hill Block 3 (Dade - south)
• CH2M Hill Block 4 (Dade - central)
• CH2M Hill Block 5 (Dade -north)
• CH2M Hill Block 6 (Broward)
• CH2M Hill Block 7 (Palm Beach)
• CH2M Hill Block 8 (Martin)
• CH2M Hill Block 9 (Monroe - south 10,000 Islands)
• CH2M Hill Block 10 (Monroe - north 10,000 Islands)
• Merrick Herbert Hoover Dike
• PDS Clay, Brevard, Nassau and Putnam orthophotography
• PDS Escambia
• PDS Flagler
• PDS Franklin
• PDS Nassau
• PDS Santa Rosa
• PDS Wakulla
• PDS Walton
• Woolpert Area A (Pasco)
• Woolpert Area D (Sarasota with parts of Manatee and Charlotte)
• Woolpert St. Lucie orthophotography
• Woolpert Indian River
• Woolpert Area E (Lee - west)
• Woolpert Area F (Lee - east)
• Woolpert Area H (Collier)
• Woolpert Area G (Collier)
• Woolpert Pasco Coastal

SLOSH basin data deliverables -

Basin data development under review at NOAA Metrological Development Lab:

• Okeechobee – using LiDAR from the FEMA HDD project, NOAA MDL will re-develop this basin. Delivery expected 03/31/10.

Basin model updates under way at NOAA National Hurricane Center:

• 02/26/09 - Apalachicola – started time step testing
• 04/17/09 - Biscayne Bay – nearing completion
• 06/17/09 - Cedar Key – completed time step processing and going through QA/QC
• 04/17/09 - Florida Bay – nearing completion
• 05/17/09 - Fort Myers – nearing completion
• 06/17/09 - Jacksonville – started time step testing

Basin updates completed:

• 07/10/09 - Tampa Bay
• 08/26/09 – Pensacola
• 10/29/09 - Panama City
• 11/02/09 - Cape Canaveral
• 11/12/09 - Palm Beach

01/23/09 - Project Update posted

06/13/08 - Project Footprint shapefile posted

01/03/08 - Baseline Specifications updated

LiDAR Data Distribution

Keeping in mind that this project is generating terabytes of data, data distribution was not directly funded, and as the project is not completed, any time spent towards data distribution is time spent away from project completion tasks, please bear with us as we continue to complete the project. With that said, several internet accessible portals are now providing LiDAR data from this and other Florida projects --

• FIU's International Hurricane Research Center - provides tile-by-tile download of LAS and metadata files from the Florida Coastal LiDAR project. Currently has data from our project for coastal Broward, coastal Escambia, parts of Flagler, coastal Indian River, Lee, coastal Miami-Dade, parts of Monroe, parts of Palm Beach, coastal Santa Rosa, coastal Sarasota, coastal St. Lucie, and coastal Walton. Data for further areas around Lake Okeechobee, parts of Collier, Pinellas, parts of Hillsobourgh, more of Monroe, more of Sarasota, and Wakulla, have recently been shipped and are being worked on for inclusion.
• USGS Seamless - provides digitial elevation data from the National Elevation Dataset. Many Florida LiDAR projects have contributed to the available 1/9 arc second data. In addition to the counties currently availalbe -- Leon, Lake, Wakulla, Duval, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Sarasota, Lee, parts of Flagler, parts of Charlotte, and areas around Lake Okeechobee have all been recently submitted. LiDAR has been accepted and is being prepared for submission for the following counties -- Monroe, coastal Miami-Dade, coastal Broward, coastal Palm Beach, coastal Martin, coastal Collier, coastal Indian River, and St. Johns.
• USGS CLICK - provides download of LAS. Currently has data (from our project) for Sarasota and (not from our project) for Escambia, Walton, Volusia, Sumter, Citrus, Pasco, parts of Polk and Manatee. Data for all submissions listed above for the NED will also eventually reside here.
• NOAA's Digital Coast - provides many data download options both in terms of projection and datums, as well as file formats, cell sizes, and data classes. Currently has lots of data from the NWFWMD, SWFWMD, St Johns county, and coastal data from DEP’s Beaches and Coastal Systems. 2 terabytes worth of data from the Florida coastal LiDAR project were shipped to NOAA’s Digital Coast.

Additionally, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has 5 foot DEMs, LAS, breaklines, and contours for most of their district, including FDEM data from Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota counties (contact Jessica Hendrix). NWFWMD has LAS and 1.2 meter or 2 meter DEMs for most of the panhandle counties from their LiDAR collects, and has 5 foot DEMs, LAS, breaklines, and contours for FDEM efforts from southern Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, and all of Wakulla counties (contact John Crowe). And South Florida Water Management District is working on creating DEMs for all of FDEM data for coastal southeast Florida counties.

SLOSH Data Development

A goal of the project is to use the LiDAR data as new elevation inputs for updated SLOSH data grids. The following interactive mapping websites present these updates to the data grids. Ultimately, the National Hurricane Center will use these updated data grids for new SLOSH model runs for Florida's SLOSH basins.

• All SLOSH data development website have been taken down, as all review periods for the data are complete.

To receive email updates when SLOSH basins have been updated for the SLOSH Display program and/or have access to the SLOSH program data pages, go to http://slosh.nws.noaa.gov/sloshPub/disclaim.php, and register.

Data Specifications and Deliverables

Please contact Richard Butgereit at 850-413-9907 to be added to a weekly email update regarding the availablilty of the data.

The table below summarizes the deliverables to be made available for terrestrial LiDAR. Please see baseline specifications for further detail on deliverables and specifications.

Specifications

Description	Orthophotography	LiDAR
Horizontal Accuracy	7.6-foot horizontal accuracy (4.4 foot RMSE)	3.8-foot horizontal accuracy (2.2 foot RMSE)
Vertical Accuracy	Based upon digital elevation model	.6-foot fundamental vertical accuracy
Projection	Florida State Plane US Feet NAD83/HARN	Florida State Plane US Feet NAD83/HARN
Post-spacing / pixel size	1 foot	4 foot

Terrestrial LiDAR Deliverable Summary

Description	Resolution (Ft)	Datum	Format
LiDAR Mass Points	4	NAD83/HARN	LAS
LiDAR Mass points (Class 2 Ground Only)		NAD83/HARN	ArcGIS File Geodatabase
Breakline Feature Dataset		NAD83/HARN	ArcGIS File Geodatabase
Contours Feature Class	2	NAD83/HARN	ArcGIS File Geodatabase
Contours Feature Class	1	NAD83/HARN	ArcGIS File Geodatabase
Vertical Accuracy Test Points		NAD83/HARN	ArcGIS File Geodatabase
Project Tiling Footprint		NAD83/HARN	ArcGIS File Geodatabase

 

House Bill 7121 and LiDAR Data

House Bill 7121 - Disaster Preparedness Response and Recovery states, "The Legislature finds that hurricane evacuation planning is a critical task that must be completed in the most effective and efficient manner possible. Appropriated funds may be used to update current regional evacuation plans and shall incorporate current transportation networks, behavioral studies, and vulnerability studies. In addition, funds may be used to perform computer-modeling analysis on the effects of storm-surge events."

Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) has initiated an effort that will ultimately result in the update of the Regional Evacuation Studies (RES) for the State. This process will require updates to the coastal surge modeling tools with more current and accurate elevation data, i.e. LiDAR.

Baseline Specifications for LiDAR and Orthophotography

Florida Division of Emergency Management, several state and federal agencies, Water Management Districts, and several other critical stakeholders have initiated an effort to develop baseline specifications for LiDAR and orthophotography to be used for all projects flown in the State of Florida. Starting with specifications from the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), baseline specifications intended to ensure that data acquired will provide a seamless statewide dataset for use by the broadest number of stakeholders are available for review and use.

LiDAR Data Collection

FDEM will catalog all existing LiDAR data and related products (bathymetry and orthophotography) within areas of the state affected by hurricane surge. Existing LiDAR data products that meet minimum specifications will be acquired from their respective sources. Areas that do not have LiDAR data products meeting the minimum specifications will be flown with the intent of capturing terrestrial LiDAR, bathymetric LiDAR, and orthophotography. It is the intent of FDEM to foster cooperation with other government agencies for the purpose of collecting LiDAR data products that meet established minimum specifications, and alternate funding agreements may potentially be established with affected jurisdictions to acquire data that lie outside the hurricane surge zones or to ensure that existing LiDAR acquisition projects are in compliance with specifications.