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Hawaii and US Pacific Basin Orthoimagery Update
HIGICC Conference
October 15th, 2015
Anthony Kimmet
USDA-NRCS
National Geospatial Center of Excellence
Acting National Imagery Leader
tony.kimmet@ftw.usda,gov

2.
Discussion Points
- Imagery Status of Hawaii and US Pacific Basin
- Satellites Information
- Distribution of Imagery Data – How do HIGICC/GIS members
receive these datasets?

3.
Hawaii Orthoimagery Availability
1997 - 2015
Camera/Sensor Resolution Islands Covered Years_____
- Aerial - CIR 1 Meter All / 70% 1997-2002
- Aerial – USGS/NGA 1 Ft GSD Oahu 2005, 2008
- Satellite/DG-QB2 .6 Meter All / 100% 2003-2008
- Satellite/DG-WV2 .5 Meter All / 100% 2009-2012
- Satellite/DG-WV2&WV3 .4-.5 Meter All / Started 2014 - 2015
Camera/Sensor Resolution Islands Covered Years_____
- Satellite/DG-QB2 .6 Meter All / 100% 2005-2009
- Satellite/DG-WV2&WV3 .5 Meter All / 100% 2012-2015
US Pacific Basin Orthoimagery Availability
Version 3
Version 2

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- Since the early 1990’s, the Federal Government has worked together to acquire Orthoimagery for the
United States via an inter agency coordination committee called NDOP.
- NDOP strives for “one payer, many users” model and too avoid duplication of Imagery purchases.
- NDOP including USDA has advocated new Orthoimagery for Hawaii-US Pacific Basin on a 3-5 year
cycle. More frequent updates for areas with land use or environmental/disaster issues.

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Hawaii and US Pacific Basin Orthoimagery Acquisition
- USDA-NRCS acquires when possible, Imagery for Hawaii and the US Pacific Basin from
DOD-NGA with High Resolution Commercial Satellites.
- USDA-NRCS does acquire Imagery from USDA Satellite contracts if not available from
DOD-NGA.
- USDA-NRCS is upgrading the license of all Hawaii/Pacific Basin data distribute to
Enterprise Premium.
- Satellite tasking requests are submitted by USDA-NRCS to DigitalGlobe in advance of
possible.
- The newest version of Hawaiian Islands was submitted for “speculative” tasking in
2013.

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Imagery Collected at an
Altitude
617 km above Earth’s
Surface
Swath
13.1 km
Scene
13.1 km x 14 km
DigitalGlobe WorldView 2 & WorldView 3 Satellite Sensors
DigitalGlobe WorldView-3
Imagery Collected at an
Altitude
770 km above Earth’s
Surface
DigitalGlobe WorldView-2
Scene
16.4 km x 14 km
Swath
16.4 km
DG-WorldView-3 Sensor
Maximum Pan Resolution = 30 cm/.3 m
Maximum MS Resolution = 120 cm/1.2 m
SWIR Resolution = ~ 370 cm/3.7 m
Bands = 16
Revisit = < 1.0 days
Capacity KM2 per day = 680,000
DG-WorldView-2 Sensor
Maximum Pan Resolution = 40 cm/.4 m
Maximum MS Resolution = 160 cm/1.6 m
SWIR Resolution = N/A
Bands = 8
Revisit = < 1.1days
Capacity KM2 per day = 1,000,000
DigitalGlobe can effective combine WorldView 2 and 3 datasets together.

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DigitalGlobe WorldView 2 & 3 have the same band
layout for the first 8 bands!

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- With increased water penetration with the “Coastal Blue” band of WorldView-2 & 3, USDA has requested
larger AOI’s for areas with shallow water reefs.
New Orthoimagery Acquisition Goal
Molokai 2010
Molokai 2015

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- With increased water penetration with the “Coastal Blue” band of WorldView-2 &3, USDA has requested
larger AOI’s to include complete atoll/shallow water areas.
New Orthoimagery Acquisition Goal
FSM-Chuuk Lagoon 2010 FSM-Chuuk Lagoon 2014

10.
Hawaiian Islands Update
Orthoimagery Status, Version 3
October 2015
Successfully acquired and delivered to NRCS
Acceptable Imagery – Still Tasking
Niihau Kauai
Oahu
Maui
Lanai
Kahoolawe
Molokai
Hawaii
Island
Goal for USDA-NRCS is cloud free Imagery!

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Areas with higher rainfall totals (Dark Green to Violet) usually are
much difficult to successfully acquire Imagery.

12.
Temporary USDA-NRCS Imagery…
Replaced in 2015
Imagery Acquisition Dates: March, 2013 to May, 2014.
Quality similar of commercial map services.

13.
1-11-2011
2014-07-14
7-15-2014
8-12-2013
7-15-2014
2-16-2015
1-11-2011
12-24-2014
2011 Imagery
Since 1/12/2011, DG has
acquired at least 192
scenes in this area.
Image Quality that is more typical of
USDA-NRCS released Imagery.

14.
Kauai and Niihau
Kauai Imagery is a
combination of WV 2 & 3

15.
The new Maui and Lanai Imagery datasets are some of the best Imagery
we have ever acquired!

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Hawaii Island Prototype
Version 3
October 2015
- Over 80% of the Island will be
acquired in 2014-2015.
- The areas outlined in orange
have updated Imagery.
- East end of island will be post
Hurricanes Julio and Iselle.
- Kona and south will be clear
for first time on USDA released
Imagery.
- North-West end near coast
will be nearly cloud free.
Areas with Updated Imagery

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SW Hawaii Island
Scale 1:1,500

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US Pacific Basin Orthoimagery, Version 2
• Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands*
• Guam
• American Samoa
• Marshall Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Palau
• Minor Outlying Territories (Palmyra, Wake, Kingman’s Reef etc..)
• North West Hawaiian Islands (Available from NOAA)
• All areas above are available starting in late October, 2015.
• FSM-Pohnpei and Palau are still tasking along with selective areas of FSM/Marshall Islands
• Most Orthoimagery is DG-WV2&3 (.5 Meter GSD, All 8 bands except a few areas in the Marshall
Islands).
• Total dataset size is 7 TB. The compressed files (MrSID. ECW) are less than 500GB.
• *USDA-NRCS-NGCE upgraded all DOD NextView License to USDA Enterprise Premium. This
action will result in better usage of DOD Imagery and help with any GAO inquires.
• ALL HIGICC members can acquire the datasets above.

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Guam 2013
DG-WV2
Guam 2013
High Resolution
Aerial and High
Resolution
Satellite/Astrium-
Pleiades
Agrijan, CNMI
2013
DG-WV2
Alamagan, CNMI 2012
DG-WV2
Anatahan, CNMI 2012
DG-WV2Asunction, CNMI
2012
DG-WV2
Guguan, CNMI
2013
DG-WV2
Tinian, CNMI
2012
DG-WV2
Sarigan, CNMI 2013
DG-WV2
Pagan, CNMI 2012
DG-WV2
Farallon de Medinilla, CNMI
2011
DG-WV2
Farallon de
Pajaros, CNMI
2012
DG-WV2
Rota, CNMI 2013
DG-WV2
Saipan, CNMI
2013
DG-WV2
Agrihan, CNMI
2013
DG-WV2
Rota, CNMI 2010-2012
DG-WV2
Pacific Basin Orthoimagery
USDA-NRCS-NGCE
Maug, CNMI
2011
DG-WV2
Kingman’s Reef US Outlining Territories
2013, DG-WV2

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Distribution of Imagery Data
- Hard Disc Distribution
- Web Map Service (Hawaii) from State of Hawaii/Pacific Disaster Center
- USDA Gateway (MrSID, ECW Compressed Mosaic)

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What Imagery data is available to you?
- Original GeoTIFF files (Natural Color Pan Sharpen, 8 Bands Multi-Spectral)
- ESRI Shapefiles
- Erdas Imagine File
- Natural Color (CIR for Hawaii)
- Pan Sharpen, 8 Band Multi-Spectral
- ECW Compressed, 8 Band Multi-Spectral
- MrSID Compressed (Natural Color, Color Infrared-CIR)

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Hawaii and US Pacific Basin Imagery Datasets
Dataset Size:
Hawaii, Version 3: (.4 - .5 Meter Resolution)
- Complete Dataset (GeoTIFF, ERDAS Imagine, MrSID, ECW, Shapefiles = 6.5 Terabytes
- Compressed (MrSID, ECW, Metadata): 50 Gigabytes
US Pacific Basin, Version 2: (.4 - .5 Meter Resolution)
- Complete Dataset (GeoTIFF, ERDAS Imagine, MrSID, ECW, Shapefiles = 7 Terabytes
- Compressed (MrSID, ECW, Metadata): 75 Gigabytes
Hard discs are available from the following:
- Tony Kimmet, USDA-NRCS, Fort Worth, Texas, All Datasets, All Versions for Hawaii & US Pacific
Basin
- Craig Clouet, ESRI Hawaii (Oahu), Current Datasets for Hawaii & US Pacific Basin
- Peter Gehring, County of Maui, Current Maui County Imagery
Many or most GIS users can successfully use MrSID or ECW Compressed files
for visualization purposes!

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http://gis.hawaii.gov/arcgis/rest/services/imagery/wv2_oahu/ImageServer
Arc GIS Server

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USDA Geospatial Data Gateway
https://gdg.sc.egov.usda.gov/
Compressed mosaics in MrSID format are available online at USDA Geospatial Data Gateway!

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Hawaii and US Pacific Basin Imagery Costs
2013 - 2015
• USDA-NRCS acquires most data from DOD-NGA.
• USDA-NRCS has funded Imagery acquisitions in Hawaii and the US Pacific
Basin in 2013-2015 for $ 325,000.
• USDA-NRCS has upgraded all DigitalGlobe licenses to Enterprise Premium
to enable GIS Users full access to Imagery datasets.
• Costs of Imagery from DOD-NGA/USDA-NRCS for 2013-2015 is $ 1,000,000
+ for Hawaii/US Pacific Basin.

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Please let me know how USDA-NRCS can assist you?
Thank You for your time!
Questions?

27.
Requested Scene August, 2015

28.
Hurricanes Julio and Iselle
Strike Eastern Hawaii in
August 2014.

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US Pacific Basin Web Map Services
- USDA-NRCS-NGCE cannot host a public facing Web Map Service for
Imagery.
- USDA-NRCS-NGCE has completed Cache Tiles in ESRI-ArcGIS
Server for most of the US Pacific Basin such as Guam,
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa
etc..
- If you are interested in hosting a free Web Map Service for Hawaii
and/or the US Pacific Basin, please contact Tony Kimmet.

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DigitalGlobe Enterprise Premium License would allow the following.
- Allows USDA to post compressed mosaics on the “Public” side of the USDA
Gateway. All users would have access to these datasets. The USDA
Gateway is also the compressed raster data distribution portal for Imagery
for the Nation (IFTN).
- Allows data to be hosted on a Web Map Service (WMS) available to the
General Public if the site does not charge a fee for the service.
- All Federal/State/Local Government, Universities, Non-Profit Organizations
and the General Public would be allowed to use DG Satellite data.

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DigitalGlobe Enterprise Premium License exclusions.
- DigitalGlobe currently does not offer a “Public Domain” license for DG-
QB2/WV2/WV3 data. The Enterprise Premium License is the most open
license available from DigitalGlobe.
- The only exclusion in broad terms of the Enterprise Premium License is that
DigitalGlobe Imagery data itself could not be re-sold by anyone else
(Vendors, Universities etc..). Please refer to Appendix C and D for more
information on exclusions to Enterprise Premium.

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Temporary Imagery…
Replaced in 2015

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Temporary Imagery…Replaced in 2015

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Maui, Hawaii
DigitalGlobe, WorldView-2
September, 2010
16 Bit, Original Values

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Maui, New Version, 2/07/2011
16 Bit, 8 Band, Radiometric Balanced