US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ® U.S. Army Corps of Engineers W. Jeff Lillycrop Technical Director Engineer Research and Development Center NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel 17 September 2015

BUILDING STRONG ® Recreation areas: 370 M Visitors/yr Generate $16B in economic activity, 270,000 jobs 12,000 miles of Commercial Inland Waterways transport goods at ½ the cost of rail or 1/10 the cost of trucks #1 Federal Provider Of Outdoor Recreation 54,879 Miles Of Shoreline at USACE Lakes ~14,500 Miles of Levees 926 Shallow & Deep Draft Harbors Stewardship of 12 Million Acres Public Lands 137 Major Environmental Restoration Projects ¼ of Nation’s Hydropower: $1.5B + in power sales Corps Civil Works Value to the Nation Emergency Operations Regulatory Responsibilities

BUILDING STRONG ® USACE Navigation Assets INLAND NAVIGATION 27 Inland River Systems 207 lock 171 lock sites 12,000 miles of inland river channels COASTAL NAVIGATION 1067 Navigation Projects 19 lock chambers 13,000 miles of channels 929 navigation structures 844 bridges

BUILDING STRONG ® Most Used NOAA Products  Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) and chart catalog web services  Digital Coast  Bathymetric data (new and not)  Critical Chart Corrections database (CRIT)  Online Positioning User Service (OPUS)  National Spatial Reference System  Met-Hydro observations (web services)  Tides & currents (API)  Vdatum  WALI  Continually Updated Shoreline Product  REST Services, Web Services  Others

BUILDING STRONG ® Tides & Water Levels  USACE working closely with NOAA (NGS, Office of Coast Survey, and CO-OPS) ► Source for gauge data Datums Extreme Water Levels ► Assistance in Developing Guidance ► Training and Workshops District Datum Coordinator Training ► Tools for Connection to NSRS (OPUS-DB, VDATUM)

BUILDING STRONG ® Coastal Ocean Data Systems Wave Measurements  Provide high-quality wave observations, for model evaluation, testing/improvements, climate variation, wave data analysis for intra- measurement evaluation, and decision tools to the CE and user base community.  Collaborators / Contributors: ► CA Department of Parks & Recreation/Division of Boating & Waterways ► Scripps Institution of Oceanography (CDIP) ► US Navy and Marines (Funding) ► National Coastal Wave Climate / Wave Information Study ► NOAA/NDBC ; NOAA/NOS/PORTS (Collaboration) ► IOOS, and External Partners (Buoy Sites) ► IOC/WMO/JCOMM: (Test and Evaluation) ► Environment Canada (Test and Evaluation) ► BOEM / DOE (Buoy Sites) ► Port Authorities / Portland, San Francisco / LA ► FRF Data Integration Framework

BUILDING STRONG ® Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Annual Technical Workshop, June 2015, Corvallis, OR Hardware Data exploitation Procedures Surveys Software Algorithms Aircraft People

BUILDING STRONG ® JALBTCX at the Statistics 26,000 downloads 5.4 TB 1.2 trillion elevations and depths!

BUILDING STRONG ® Enhanced Marine Safety Information (eMSI) NOAA USCG NGA USACE ws IMSIB 1.____ 2.____ 3.____ 4.____  Current state:Agencies provide MSI in different ways; information is sometimes duplicated; users need to go various places to get it  Goal: Coordinate various government-provided navigation information services to provide an “integrated navigation information bulletin”

BUILDING STRONG ® 10 Collaborative Research & Development Field Research Facility Modeling Data Management and Access Measuring & Monitoring

BUILDING STRONG ® Recommendations Improving Navigation Data, Services, and Products 1.OPUS Projects could be used to establish and publish new control points within the NSRS (saves = $1,000 X 220/yr = $200,000 1 ) 2.Online tools for datum conversions – replaces CorpsCon. 3.Release WALI 4.National Coastal Mapping Program data utilization – saves $5M/yr 5.Research & Development 1. Hyperspectral & lidar fusion 2. Total propagated uncertainty 3. Bottom classification 4. Satellite bathymetry 5. Object detection 6.All data available through REST & Web Services 7.3-click access to all data for all purposes 1/ SWAG, don’t send an invoice!

BUILDING STRONG ® More Recommendations Improving Navigation Data, Services, and Products  Continued collaboration between USACE and NOAA HQs to continue to streamline the IA process.  Enhanced climate change products.  More collaboration on data sharing  More detail in documentation of tools and data  Help certify channel framework through our tools, not the old way  Chart tile services