Iowa Geographic Information Council 2007 NSDI 50 States Cap Grant A Business Plan for the

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2007 NSDI 50 States Cap Grant2007 NSDI 50 States Cap Grant

A Business Plan for the A Business Plan for the Iowa Geospatial Iowa Geospatial

Infrastructure (IGI)Infrastructure (IGI)

Jim GiglieranoJim [email protected]@dnr.iowa.gov

July 17, 2008July 17, 2008


Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure

http://www.iowagic.org/

http://www.iowagic.org/about/projects-and-initiatives/igi/documents/

Check out Appendix A with text

of interviews


What is the IGI?• Iowa Geospatial Infrastructure (IGI) is Iowa’s

contribution to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)

• IGI’s central focus is on the collection of consistent, common, integrated, standardized local, state, federal and other GIS data layers (“framework” data layers in NSDI terminology) that are freely available to the public through the Internet

• IGI will follow NSDI practices for metadata and data standards, and use Iowa’s data clearinghouse for data discovery

• IGI includes people, technology and agreements to make this happen


Lots of GIS pieces out there

State Agency

#1State

Agency#2

State Agency

#3

State Agency

#4

County #1

County #2

County #3

Utility

University#1

University#2

City#1

City#2

FederalAgency

#1

FederalAgency

#2


Connecting the PiecesIGI Components:

• Framework data layers– Best practices/standards for seamless, statewide databases– Metadata– Public access

• Data and web application servers• Services to framework data providers and users

– Coordination assistance– Contracting assistance– Web hosting and application development assistance– Training– Technical assistance

• Agreements between data providers, service bureaus and funding sources


IGI: Delivering consistent framework data from centralized locations on the web

State Agency

#1

State Agency

#2

State Agency

#3

State Agency

#4

County #1

County #2

County #3

Utility

University#1

University#2

City#1

City#2

FederalAgency

#1

FederalAgency

#2

County #4

Statewide GIS Infrastructure

•Master agreement to participate•Content standards/best practices and metadata•Different ways to provide content•Includes crossed linked GIS service bureaus


IGI: Facilitating development of seamless statewide applications

State Agencies

Counties PrivateEntities

Universities colleges

Cities andtowns

FederalAgencies


Web-basedApplication

Application building blocks: for example,a geocoding service, a routing service, various web mapping services


IGI: Fostering Communities of Practice

State Agency

#1

County #1 Utility

University#2

City#1

FederalAgency

#1


Economic DevApplications

EnvironmentalApplications

Public HealthApplications

EmergencyManagementApplications


IGI Framework Layers1. Geodetic control: county GPS control monuments and

NGS benchmarks2. Ortho imagery: BW, color and CIR orthorectified

aerial imagery3. Administrative boundaries: city, county and state

boundaries4. Cadastral data: public land survey section corners,

section lines and parcel boundaries5. Transportation: road centerlines, railroads, trails,

airports, waterways6. Elevation: digital elevation models and contours7. Hydrography: rivers and streams, water bodies,

watershed boundaries8. Address points9. Structures: 2D building footprints, bridges, towers


IGI Framework Layers: Data Sources

1. Control points – counties

2. Administration boundaries - counties

3. Ortho-imagery – counties, state, federal

4. Cadastral - counties

5. Transportation – state and counties

6. Hydrography – state and federal

7. Elevation – state (and federal?)

8. Address points – state and counties

9. Structures – state and counties


County and State GIS Service Bureaus

• Provide assistance to data stewards to get data into the IGI

• Provide assistance to data stewards to get benefit from participating in IGI

• Provide information and assistance to all GIS users to gain benefits from using IGI


ROI Study – Costs Benefits of IGI

• Interviewed Counties with GIS

• Interviewed Counties without GIS

• Interviewed State and Federal Agencies

• Utilities and others


Benefits to Counties with GIS Participating in IGI

• Using lidar in county engineer office for road maintenance $12k-90k/yr

• Using lidar in county engineer office for surveying and design $10k-50k/yr

• Cost avoidance for web server $10k/yr• Cost avoidance for aerial photography

$20k/yr through participation in IFTNFrom $50k to $150k in benefits per

county per year


Benefits to Counties with GIS Participating in IGI

• GIS Coordinator – reduced aerial contracting• Emergency planner – automated mapping• Sheriff dispatcher – locating addresses• Economic Dev staff – producing information

packets faster• Conservation staff – faster project planning• Public Health inspector – locating inspection

sites From $50k to $150k in benefits per county

per year


Costs to Participate in IGI

• GIS Coordinator – providing data

• County Staff – learning to use lidar elevation, other data layers

• Participate in Imagery for the Nation (IFTN)

~ $5k-6k in real costs per county per year to participate in IGI


IGI County GIS Service Bureau

• Job functions: about 4 FTEs– County IGI coordinator– County ortho-imagery coordinator– GIS web application developer– GIS tech/training specialist

• Funded by the state – free to counties who participate in IGI


66 Counties WITH GIS participating in IGI

Breakeven Year: 2009

Payback Period (in Years): 1

Net Present Value: $218,563,418

Present Value of Costs: $5,808,835

Return on Investment: 188.13% (Annualized)

66 Counties with GIS

$0

$50,000,000

$100,000,000

$150,000,000

$200,000,000

$250,000,000

Cumulative Costs

Cumulative Benefits


ROI Results:Counties WITHOUT GIS

• Typical approach for counties wanting to adopt GIS:– Initial outlay of $200k to $500k for GPS control,

orthos, centerlines and parcel conversion project– GIS staff: coordinator and half-time tech– 2 or more copies of desktop GIS software; GIS

hardware, servers, plotter– Web mapping server– OR all above services provided by a vendor

• Many of the remaining counties can’t afford startup or maintenance costs of GIS


Status of County GISPBC, Inc. Interviews

GIS yes

GIS no

GIS comingor intransition

InterviewCompleted

All other counties have GIS in some form


Counties adopting GIS: parcel maintenance and tax assessment only

Breakeven Year:Does Not Break

Even

Payback Period (in Years):

No Payback Anticipated

Net Present Value: ($1,106,613)


Return on Investment: -2.28% Annualized

One County Stand Alone

$0$500,000

$1,000,000$1,500,000$2,000,000$2,500,000$3,000,000

2008

2011

2014

2017

2020

2023

2026

Cumulative CostsCumulative Benefits


Problems• “Standard” GIS approach is not cost effective for

smaller counties if parcel maintenance and tax assessment are the only applications of GIS

• Many counties WITH GIS are not getting all the possible benefits of their GIS if all they do is parcel maintenance and tax assessment

• May feel compelled to sell data to recoup costs • IGI (and therefore NSDI) won’t happen without

major assistance to local data producers to lower their ongoing costs, and expand their overall benefits of having a GIS


IGI Benefits

• IGI County Coordinator helps with regional approach starting a GIS– Sets up agreement to share a GIS person among

3 counties– Assists with contracting for GIS data conversion

among 3 or more counties; parcel maintenance outsourcing

– Data hosting and web application by service bureau

• Benefits of access to IGI data (lidar contours, etc).




Net Present Value: $590,491

Present Value of Costs: $905,393

Return on Investment: 3.26%

County Adopting GIS with IGI Assistance – sharing costs with 2 other counties

One County with IGI

$0

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

2008

2011

2014

2017

2020

2023

2026

Cumulative Costs

Cumulative Benefits


IGI State GIS Service Bureau*

• Job functions – 4 FTEs– GIS database/clearinghouse administrator– Web application developer– GIS tech/training specialist– Community of Practice coordinator

• Funded by the state – free to state agencies

* Not equivalent to a state agency “bureau”


Communities of Practice

• Economic Development

• Education

• Health and Humans Services

• Environment

• Public Safety

• Emergency Management

• Gov’t Efficiency


The IGI ROI Calculation – 20 year cost scenario

• 20 counties w/o GIS will build county GIS programs, phased into GIS/IGI over 10 years

• 79 counties w/ GIS, will participate in IGI, phased in over 10 years

• State and federal agencies will provide funding GIS service bureaus and IFTN

• Costs of participating were phased in over first 10 years, then full cost of maintaining for next 10 years


State IGI Costs

• Salary and benefits 4 FTEs - $260k/yr

• Staff Travel and Training - $25k/yr

• Hardware, Software and Office expenses - $100k/yr

• IFTN Orthos and Lidar Data - $600k/yr

Total $985k/yr (paid by the state)


County IGI Costs

• Salary and benefits 4 FTEs - $260k/yr• Staff Travel and Training - $25k/yr• Hardware, Software and Office expenses -

$100k/yr• Control Monument Maintenance Program -

$50k/yr• Framework Data Acquisition/Modernization

Assistance - $250k/yr

Total $685k/yr (paid by the state)


Other IGI Costs

• Data Conversion Projects– Convert USGS National Hydrography

Dataset to high-resolution, lidar-based stream lines: $100k/yr for 5 years

– Create address point and structures framework layers; merge county boundary and parcels into statewide coverages with metadata: $300k/yr for 5 years

Total $2M (paid by the state)


Costs for Counties to Participate

• Counties with GIS: $5k per county per year to contribute framework data and IFTN local share (based on 25% of 60k for a typical county)

• Counties without GIS: cost to adopt GIS with assistance from IGI: $1M over 20 years (~$50k/yr) based on the regional sharing of GIS staff person

These costs paid by counties


Quantitative Measures

NPV

Subtract Costs from

Benefits

ROI

Divide Benefits by Cost

BreakEven

Cumulative Benefits Equal

Cumulative Costs

PayBack

Time from Now to Breakeven

Point


Multi-agency IGI Study



Net Present Value: $271,103,423


Return on Investment: 24.21% annualized

Multiagency Cumulative Costs and Benefits

$0$50,000,000

$100,000,000$150,000,000$200,000,000$250,000,000$300,000,000$350,000,000

2008

2011

2014

2017

2020

2023

2026

Cumulative CostsCumulative Benefits


Major Findings – ROI Spreadsheets

• The 20 year analysis shows Net Present Value of $271M and Return on Investment of 24.21%. Present value of total 20 yr costs is $56M (about $3M a year).

• Sensitivity analysis shows that delayed adoption of GIS, with counties phasing in GIS capabilities over 20 years instead of the desired 10 year span, does not result in extreme detriment to the project. NPV is reduced from $271M to $230M and ROI is reduced from 24% to 22%.


Major Findings – ROI Spreadsheets

• With a county GIS service bureau and other benefits, IGI is a good deal for counties with GIS (get more out than put in)

• For counties without a GIS, IGI can turn a negative ROI into a positive ROI


Major Findings – Economic Development Interviews

• A Chamber of Commerce interview cited GIS as contributing more than 50% of the resources needed to bring in new business

• Estimate of $13.5M/year in benefits to a community of modest size

• Did not use this in the ROI spreadsheets but it certainly shows the potential for growth in this area


Major Findings – Emergency Response Interviews

• Emergency response staff just beginning to reap the rewards of GIS capabilities

• BIG need for statewide data sets. • No means to track benefits during a natural

disaster or other type of unique emergency - ad hoc response mode

• Must devise methods for measuring the improvements in processes through use of GIS

• General lack of good base maps and need for expertise and tools for analysis - limiting factors in continued adoption of GIS.


Summary!

• A program to build a statewide spatial data infrastructure in Iowa is possible, and financially compelling

• By providing funding for services to county and state GIS programs, the state can insure that everyone benefits by participating in IGI

• Now we’ve got financial data to help make the case with decision makers, we can now move ahead, cautiously optimistic, to our funding sources in the next year


Things To Do

• To finish up the 2007 CAP Grant, we have 90 days to submit final report to FGDC on our IGI business plan

• IGI ROI covered by GITA report

• Must complete an implementation section to the IGI business plan


Implementation Plan

• Discuss ongoing efforts for framework data development and integration

• Develop options for funding IGI1. Project-based Funding – funding from Pooled

Technology, LGIF, Homeland Security, Economic Development, Power Fund, other state grants, FGDC CAP

grants, one-time flood opportunities

2. Long-term Funding – state appropriation from infrastructure funds, real estate transfer fees, or other sources


Moving Ahead with IGI

• Another $50k CAP Grant – load DOT transportation layers and lidar-based structures (2D building footprints) into NSDI/IGI servers

• Create a web-based maintenance tool for structures

• Update hardware for ISU Geographic Map Server and IGIC Clearinghouse

2008 NSDI CAP Category 5: Building Stewardship Capacity for Structures and Transportation Geodata within the Iowa

Geospatial Infrastructure


Structures• We need some

counties that would like to pilot the business process for attributing the lidar footprints and updating via the web-tool

• Develop 3D KML web mapping services??


Structures (Lidar Status)



Status of statewide 2’ pixel 4-band spring ortho-imagery program

• USGS provided $200k for 17 counties in NW Iowa, flown Spring 2007 – viewable on ISU Ortho Server (a few areas had to be reflown this year)

• Nothing new flown in 2008 (too rainy anyway!)• $500k from Pooled Technology Fund available this

year for Spring 2009 flights• July 14 - Applied for additional $500k for Spring 2010

flights• For new flights, DNR looking at RFP or RFI on COE

contract by the end of summer



2008 NAIP

• statewide 1 meter color leaf-on flight in Iowa locked in with $175k local contribution (DOT $100k, IA Soybean Assoc $25k, DNR $40k, $10k others)

• No new NAIP flights in Iowa until 2011 unless we come up with full cost ~$800k/yr – not part of IGI ROI cost calculation



National Hydrography Dataset

• Create a local resolution stream and water body dataset using NHD attributes conflated to lidar-based high-resolution stream networks – include NWI attributes

• $50k for USGS for pilot for 27 12-digit HUCs. Only 1750 HUCs left to go!


Planning Ahead for IGI• 2009 Pooled Technology Grant submitted

July 14• Asking for $650,000 to create GIS coverages

for address points and structures for 30-50 counties

• Develop a web-based geocoding service that can validate and standardize addresses, perform single and batch geocoding, web-tools to update and maintain databases

• If approved, money available July 2009• Apply again next year for second half


Planning Ahead for IGI

Local Government Innovation Fund• $800,000 available (though funding

may disappear into flood relief efforts)• Use ROI data from GITA study to build

pieces of COUNTY GIS SERVICE BUREAU

1. Work with counties that do not have GIS2. Coordinate joint ortho-imagery

acquisitions3. Training county staff to use GIS


Planning Ahead for IGI – new land cover/land use product

• High-resolution – 1 meter?

• High-accuracy – 1”=400’ (1:4800 scale) ~5 meters OR BETTER

• Yearly updates

• Cover classes needed by a wide variety of users

• A data model that can include land use


Land Cover vs. Land Use

Land Cover– Water– Trees– Grass– Pavement– Sand– Corn

Land Use– Reservoir– Orchard– Golf Course– Parking Lot– Beach– Private Farm


Landsat 15 meter land cover


High-resolution land coverderived from 1 meter CIR and NAIP airphotos


High-resolution Land Cover

• Meeting of potential users June 24,’08

• Natural vegetation/wildlife habitat group

• Local government/land use group

• Agricultural/watershed modeling group

• Looking at Iowa Power Fund – carbon accounting and management tool


Next CAP Grant Application• Due in December of this year• My suggestion is a continuation of the ROI

study to include cities and towns, more utilities, regional governments, tribal and non-profits (why stop now since we know how to do it)

• Look at different set of framework layers and services needed by towns and cities

• Project start-up April 2009• Need a NEW Project Coordinator?• Start planning NOW – get League of Cities

and others involved


IGI Outreach

• Talk to Legislative contacts about GIS and IGI

• Talk to Lt Gov and “big” agency heads• Talk to CIO Council and/or TGB• Talk to county supervisors - ISAC Fall

School – Nov 19-21 Coralville• Get ICIT involved as an IGI partner• Get League of Cities involved in next

CAP grant application


Recap – things to do• Finish CAP Final Report by end of Sept. –

Implementation Plan• Apply LGIF – letter of intent due Sept 15,

proposal due Nov 1.• Apply CAP 50 States Grant – Municipal ROI –

due Dec?• Develop prototype IGI agreements for county

data providers, state agencies and service bureaus

• Talk to decidersWe need Volunteers to help!


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