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USGS Geospatial Liaison for Massachusetts
Dan Walters Daniel H. Walters
Augusta, ME
207-622-8201 x128
danwalters@usgs.gov

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Peter Steeves Associate Liaison
Peter A. Steeves
Northborough, MA
508-490-5054
psteeves@usgs.gov

About National Geospatial Partnerships
The National Map partnership network cultivates and maintains long-term relationships with partners and develops agreements for The National Map and other initiatives that support USGS science. Partnerships are the foundation The National Map because they leverage funding across organizations to provide significant cost savings, reduce redundancy in geospatial data acquisition and stewardship, and ensure availability of common base data to a broad range of users and applications.

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News and Highlights for Massachusetts
NELiDAR for Massachusetts delivered
All products resulting from the NELiDAR project have been delivered to the states.
September 10, 2012
MassGIS publishes DEMs from LiDAR Collections
Between the NELiDAR project and FEMA work in the region, a significant amount of Massachusetts has very accurate land elevation data.
September 10, 2012
Massachusetts DEP Awarded USGS Partnership Funds for NHD Start-up
The project will pilot the incorporation of local scale data into NHD, translate Massachusetts water quality standards into linear events and create an event database for two historical systems that uniquely identify inland waters now represented by NHD.
August 25, 2011

Liaison Activities

Fiscal Year 2012 Highlights

Agreements

      Imagery

  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - Partnership to acquire over 1,188 square miles of high-resolution imagery over Springfield-Worcester to support community planning, emergency response, and science, environmental, and mapping user communities.
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - Partnership to acquire over 3,762 square miles of high-resolution imagery over Boston-Providence to support community planning, emergency response, and science, environmental, and mapping user communities.

Other Activities

  • Science Support - Assisted USGS biology, geology, and water scientists in obtaining imagery, elevation, and other geospatial data.
  • 3D Elevation Program Inventory - Validated information on known datasets and documented new datasets to update the national inventory of high-resolution elevation data - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/inventory/.
  • Outreach - Conducted and coordinated National Geospatial Program outreach activities by attending a range of meetings, participating in conferences, and coordinating trainings and workshops to support the geospatial community in the State.
  • Emergency Response - Liaisons provide general geospatial data discovery and acquisition assistance during emergencies as those events occur throughout the fiscal year.

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