USGS Geospatial Liaison for Arkansas
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William D. Sneed
Little Rock, AR
501-228-3665
wsneed@usgs.gov
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About National Geospatial Partnerships
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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 of 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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Useful Links
- The National Map
- National Geospatial Program
- Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
- National Atlas
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News and Highlights for Arkansas
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[Archive]
Arkansas Address Point Update
Arkansas Geographic Information Office (AGIO) continues to be amazed by the cooperative effort to develop address point level data with the counties as a natural progression from the Arkansas Centerline File (ACF) Program. While AGIO provides...
January 11, 2012
Arkansas GIS Day
Bill Sneed, Geospatial Liaison for Arkansas participated in GIS Day with the River Valley GIS Users Group in Fort Smith, Arkansas on Wednesday, November 16. Activities included Geocache, GPS Labs, and GIS Labs. Over 550 Middle School and...
January 11, 2012
2011 Arkansas GIS Users Forum Symposium & Training
The 2011 AR GIS Users Forum Symposium & Training was held in Bentonville, AR August 29-September 2, 2011. The USGS exhibit highlighted real-time water data collected and distributed by the USGS Arkansas Water Science Center and showcased the...
January 11, 2012
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Liaison Activities
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[Archive]
Fiscal Year 2012 Highlights
Agreements
Elevation
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - Partnership to acquire over 5,827 square miles of lidar over areas in FEMA Region 6 to support multiple studies including flood analysis and response, vegetation mapping, structures mapping, land use planning, and habitat modeling by providing data for analysis.
Hydrography
- Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality - Stewardship project to revise 32 Hydrologic Unit Codes in the LAnguille area of Arkansas utilizing current high-resolution imagery and lidar to support hydrographic modeling, resource assessment, and flood analysis.
- Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality - Stewardship project to identify the location of low crossing areas in the State and assigning event features for them in the National Hyrography Dataset.
Imagery
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Pulaski Area GIS - Partnership to acquire over 2,085 square miles of high-resolution imagery over Little Rock 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 - 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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