1. 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

2. 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

3. BUILDING STRONG ® USACE Navigation Assets INLAND NAVIGATION 27 Inland River Systems 207 lock chambers @ 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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, 16-18 June 2015, Corvallis, OR Hardware Data exploitation Procedures Surveys Software Algorithms Aircraft People

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

9. 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”

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

11. 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 10hrs/ @$100/hr = $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!

12. 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