# Presentation: 646049

## WELCOME TO CHICAGO!

**REGIONAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP**
**on**
**REMOTE SENSING & ****  LANDSCAPE CHRACTERIZATION *****  ***** **
**A Collaboration of**
**EPA REGIONS - ORD - PROGRAMS - PARTNERS**
** ****USEPA Region 5 Office**
**November 1, 2 & 3, 2005**

## Meeting Objectives:

- Discuss current and planned projects using remote sensing and landscape characterization information
- Identify real possibilities for collaborative projects on the gathering and application of remote sensing and landscape characterization information

## Tuesday November 1, 2005  

**1:00 – 4:30 PM**
- Welcome to the Workshop:       **Bharat Mathur**
- Introductions:     **David Klauder & Gary Foley**** **
- Remote Sensing Opportunities:    **Ross Lunetta**
- NWI & Remote Sensing Applications in Wetlands Evaluation:
**                                                               ****Brian Huberty**
- CCRS Activities in Great Lakes Landscape Characterization and Urban Energy:
**                                                                ****Bert Guindon**

## Wednesday November 2, 2005  

**8:30 – 12:00 AM**
**Great Lakes Challenges**
- Great Lakes geographic analysis 	                                  **Rick Lopez**
- Great Lakes Observation System “GLOS”                  **Roger Gauthier**
- Midwest Watershed Decision Support Systems Partnership Update:
**                                                                  ****Rick Farnsworth & Jon Bartholic**
- Did the May 2004 Milwaukee Sewer Overflows affect Chicago Beaches?“                                                                          **David Rockwell**
- Remote sensing for day versus night population estimating/uses in emergency response and homeland security**           ****Budhendra Bhaduri**
- Landscape Indicators: Estimating Pesticides, Nutrients, Sediments in Small Streams of Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain and Midwest Corn Belt:
**                                                                                                               ****Ann Pitchford**

## Wednesday November 2, 2005  

**1:00 – 4:30 PM**
- Data integration:  Making data accessible and useful for Regions, States & Tribes:                                  **Steve Young**
- GEOSS:   My life and times with a Global Consortium:
-                                                                                         **John Lyon**
- Landscape changes – opportunities for real time monitoring & enforcement follow-up            **Ross Lunetta**
- Forecasting environmental change               **Bruce Jones**
- NOAA C-CAP Program                                 **John McCombs**

## Thursday November 3, 2005  

**8:30 - 12:00**
- Crop identification:  Genetically modified crops & identification of crop damage
-                                                                                                                                            **John Glaser**
- LIDAR for leak detection                                                                                  **Barry Feldman**
- Quantifying stream attributes using LIDAR and hyperspectral imagery
**                                                                                                                                            ****Robert Hall**
- Regional, State, Tribal and local Views – Round Table
-               **Ted Prescott (IL)    James Robb (IN)     John Esch (MI)      Jeff Herter (NY)**
**              ****Dreux Watermolen (WI)**
- “What’s in it for me?”  Are these tools helpful now or in the future? For air quality / urban and rural air pollution; water quality monitoring / aquatic ecosystems; contamination sources for recreational waters; pollutant source identification; and agriculture
- Open discussion with audience regarding the application and value of remote sensing for monitoring, landscape characterization, and enforcement.

## EPA & the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)

**Steve Goranson & Carmen Mas****ó**
**USEPA Region 5**
**GIS National Workgroup Meeting**
**September 15, 2005**

## Discussion Purposes:

- What is GEOSS?
- How is EPA involved?
- How EPA Offices are involved?

## Discussion Purposes:

**What is GEOSS?**
- How is EPA involved?
- How EPA Offices are involved?

## Earth Observation Systems (EOS)

- Consist of measurements of air, water, and land made on the ground, from the air, or from space.
- Historically observed in isolation, the current effort is to look at these elements together and to study their interactions.

## Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

## What is the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)?

- International and national cooperative effort
- Build on and improve existing national and international monitoring systems
- Provide more complete, accurate and accessible data and information to users and decision-makers
- GEOSS: Important to national & global strategies for managing our natural resources in a sustainable way

##  Implementation Plan Development (IP)

- Work review
- - ITALY  Nov. ’03 -

- GEO  Secretariat

- Subgroups,  Secretariat and IPTT compose
- Draft 10-year Plan (IP)

- Subgroups and Secretariat compose
- Draft Framework Document for IP

- Earth Observation Summit III
- and GEO VI
- launches 10-year Plan (IP)
- - EUROPE, Brussels, Feb. ‘05-

- Draft Framework Document components** **for GEO II

-  Implementation Plan Development (IP)

- Architecture

- Data Utilization

- Capacity Building

- User
- Requirements &
- Outreach
- (EPA Co-Chair)

- Int’l Cooperation

- Earth Observation Summit I and GEO I
- - UNITED STATES, July ’03 -

- Earth Observation Summit II and GEO IV
- Framework Document accepted
-  JAPAN, April ‘04 –
- (M. Leavitt, Head of US Delegation)

- GEO III
- Framework Outline developed
- - SOUTH AFRICA, Feb.’04 -

- Group on Earth
-     bservations

- GEO V approves
- Draft 10-year
- Plan (IP)
- - CANADA, Nov. ‘04 -

- Establishes Subgroups

## U.S. Contribution to GEOSS

- VISION
- Enable a healthy public, economy, and planet through an integrated, comprehensive, and sustained Earth Observation System.

- _[http://](http://iwgeo.ssc.nasa.gov/)__[iwgeo.ssc.nasa.gov](http://iwgeo.ssc.nasa.gov/)_

**Notes:**
Over the past year, the Interagency Working Group on Earth Observations has worked to develop the Draft Strategic Plan for the U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System

The IWGEO has held public workshops and participated in industry fora to ensure that the U.S. is developing a truly comprehensive plan, responsive to the needs of society.

The public comment period has now closed
The final will be published at the end of January

Thanks to Cliff Gabriel, Ghassem Asrar and Greg Withee for successfully shepherding this process along

## Earth Observing Systems

***Earth Observing Systems***

***Continual Benefits toward Sustainability***

- “Understanding the Earth system—its weather, climate, oceans, land,
- geology, natural resources, ecosystems, and natural and human-induced
- hazards**—**is crucial to enhancing human safety and welfare, alleviating
- human suffering including poverty, protecting the global environment,
- and achieving sustainable development.”

## GEOSS & Environmental Decision Making

- Will improve the current framework for environmental monitoring, which exists largely in support of regulatory imperatives
- But does not yet comprehensively communicate the information and models needed for decision makers and the public to understand and address today's complex environmental questions.

## Increasing

***Increasing***
***Sources***
***of Data -***
***In Situ***
***(ground level, under ground, water based, airborne) ***
***& Remote***

## Discussion Purposes:

- What is GEOSS?
**How is EPA involved?**
- How EPA Offices are involved?

## EPA & Earth Observations

- In its environmental protection role,
- EPA continually collects and utilizes a wide variety of environmental data,
- Makes sound forecasts for environmental conditions,
- Uses indicators that describe particular aspects of the natural, economic, and social environment, but
- Recognizes that earth system knowledge or data gaps can affect the strength of information and decision-making.

## EPA & Earth Observations

- For the future of environmental protection,
- EPA needs to become a much larger user of remotely sensed earth observation data,
- Through the integration and use of its decision support tools, the observation, modeling and information needs are being defined, and
- Partnerships with the Earth Observation community are being sought.

## Potential for more air pollution applications, e.g., in urban areas 
Potential for water quality monitoring and forecasting applications
Aquatic ecosystems, fresh water/marine
Recreational waters, coastal sewage contamination (storm water events), and sources of drinking water
Potential for tracking of major ecosystem stressors, forecasting effects on coral reef health, including climate and land use changes

- Potential for water quality monitoring and forecasting applications
- Aquatic ecosystems, fresh water/marine
- Recreational waters, coastal sewage contamination (storm water events), and sources of drinking water
- Potential for tracking of major ecosystem stressors, forecasting effects on coral reef health, including climate and land use changes

**EPA & Earth Observations**

## EPA’s GEOSS Tools

**EPA’s GEOSS Tools**

## Discussion Purposes:

- What is GEOSS?
- How is EPA involved?
**How EPA Offices are involved?**

## How will EPA Coordinate?

- Science Policy Council established EPA GEOSS Coordinating Committee (co-leads ORD and OEI); charter for EPA GEO approved
- Verifying the systems/databases EPA will include in GEOSS:
**Committee will review “Button Chart” (more detailed characterizations in spreadsheet) listing of EPA systems (databases) that ORD has identified;**
**Which to consider for inclusion in GEOSS?**

## How will EPA Coordinate?  (cont.)

- Are there Information Quality Guidelines (IQG) issues with Agency databases being considered for inclusion in GEOSS?
- 4.	How will EPA’s (and other’s) systems, or databases,  _interoperate_, i.e., function as a “system of systems?” (OMB  requirements pertaining to Federal Enterprise Architecture and Information Technology)

## How will EPA Coordinate? (cont.)

- Under societal-benefit categories of GEOSS, identify near-term opportunities for EPA (Program Offices, Regions).  What are: the specific uses/users of GEOSS data; short-term tangible products and results; and the state, regional, and local GEOSS benefits?
- How will EPA identify database/model/ decision support gaps and build the capacity and partnerships for GEOSS uses?  Expanding outreach to private and sectors and public engagement (planning May 9-10, 2005, Public Engagement Workshop in RRB)

## How will EPA Coordinate? (cont.)

- How will these systems/databases, _interoperate_, i.e., function as a “system of systems?” (OMB  requirements pertaining to Federal Enterprise Architecture and Information Technology and other EPA Information Requirements)
- Approved draft “Screening Parameters, Process Timeline and Ranking Factors” for developing/prioritizing ORD’s **AMI pilot projects in FY06** (funding contingent upon appropriations)

## How will EPA Coordinate? (cont.)

- Implications for EPA of the February 16th launching of 10-Year Implementation Plan of GEOSS.  Under the U.S. Strategic Plan all Agencies will begin to realize the implementation details within this _strategic_ document.  What are the GEOSS implementation opportunities for EPA as both a data user and a data collector?
- 8.	What are the implications of GEOSS and FY05/06/07 Budgets? (FY05 and Tsunami; FY06 and ORD’s Advanced Monitoring Initiative (AMI) pilot ideas; Agency FY07 Budget Forum in July)

## How will EPA Coordinate? (continued)

- Continue leveraging EPA resources/expertise with NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE, CDC, etc.
**Advance Monitoring Initiative (AMI)** is linked with international community through GEOSS program
- Delivery of AMI outcomes in relatively short timeframe (< 2 years)
- Demonstrate far-reaching results, useful to State/Regional and EPA programs (build **Improving Environmental Health Decision-making** knowledgebase)
- Target those responsible for making environmental decisions and responding to environmental threats

## Building the GEO User Community

- _Planned Steps_
- Engage existing groups
- Outreach to additional groups
- Characterize the activities of the newly identified user groups
- Augment the existing gap analyses
- Maintain appropriate inventories
- Have a mechanism for periodic update

## EPA GEO Principals

- OIA - John Diamante	OAR - Terry Keating	OW - Mary Reiley
- OSWER - Peter Gattuso	OPPTS - Mary Belefski	OPEI - John Davidson
- OCFO - Arden Calvert	SAB - Tom Armitage	OEI- Steve Young
- ORD- Ed Washburn	OGC - Manisha Patel (primary contact)
- OECA - Carrie Middleton (acting primary contact)
**Regional Contacts:**
- Carmen Maso (R5)	Jan Baxter (R9)		Tai-ming Chang (R3)
**Backup Regional** **Contacts:**
- Neil Burns (R4)		Cory Berish (R4)		Steve Goranson (R5)
- Sharon Osowski (R6)	Barry Feldman (R6)

## ORD’s Advanced Monitoring Initiative (AMI)

- Pilot projects: test beds to improve environmental health decision making in specific contexts
- E.g., geographic locations, demographic groups, and economic sectors) by advancing scientific understanding
- Showcasing approaches and outcomes suitable for broad EPA application.

## ORD’s Advanced Monitoring Initiative (AMI)

- Projects  ≤ $250K
- 76 proposals received
- 27 proposals (4 Regional) will go forward for expanded proposal  and peer review
- Expecting to fund ~12

## Regional Lead Project Examples

- R9- Identifying and Assessing Impacts from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) or Smaller Animal Feeding Operations (AFOs) using Hyperspectral (MASTER) Data
- R9- Ground-Level Ozone Concentrations Based on Satellite Observations and Ground Surface Monitoring Data in Support of Environmental Health Decisions US- Mexico Border 2012 Program
- R10- Arctic Coastal Integrated and Comprehensive Coastal Monitoring Pilot Program
- R9- Use of Satellite data to evaluate PM2.5 formation and transport in San Joaquin Valley, California

## ORD Lead Project Examples

- Enhancements to Blue Sky RAINS
- Water quality input and analysis web tool
- Advanced update and outreach for nutrients  and pesticides – Chesapeake Bay Coastal Plain
- Integrating O3 observing system and  application to Lake Ontario O3
- Three-dimensional habitat assessment of ecological conditions in Hoope Valley Reservation of Klamath River Basin,CA

## ORD Lead Project Examples (cont.)

**Advanced monitoring of smoke plumes for improved air quality simulations of wildland fires**
**Modeling Integrated Spatial Data for Improved Public Information Air Quality**
**Pacific Coast Ecosystem Information System (PCEIS)**
**Bi-national Expansion of Harmful Algal Blooms Observing Systems**

## AMI Timeline

-   **Full proposal due September 30****th**
**  ****Peer Review  - starting October**
**  ****SPC approval of implementation plans**
**     ****for pilots for FY2006**
**  ****Funding awarded – Jan/Feb 2006**

## For More Information

- Advanced Monitoring Initiative (AMI) Quick Place:
- 		_[https://epaqpx.rtp.epa.gov/ami](https://epaqpx.rtp.epa.gov/ami)_
-    (Contact Steve Young for access)
- EPA Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS or GEO) program:
- 		_[http://](http://www.epa.gov/geoss/)__[www.epa.gov/geoss](http://www.epa.gov/geoss/)__[/](http://www.epa.gov/geoss/)_** **

## 1990s MSS-derived land cover

- (Guindon, Edmonds, Lyon and Zhang, CCRS and EPA)

**Notes:**
Initially we worked with Dr. Burt Guindion and Dr. Ying Zhang at the Canada Center for Remote Sensing, who had use 1990s Multispectral Scanner Data to produce a 4-class land cover dataset fro the entirety of the glb.

## Slide 40

**Notes:**
We used these geographic data to assess human land use, and to develop metrics of the basin that might become good indicators of water quality, by hydrologic assessment units throughout the basin.

Watersheds with relatively greater human land use (i.e., combined agriculture and urban areas) are more likely to contribute nutrients, metals, and other contaminants to the great lakes than those watersheds than have lesser human land use.