Transcript National Consortia for Remote Sensing in Transportation

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Environmental Concerns
Stakeholder Viewpoint
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Streamlining regulatory compliance
Watershed hydrology
Air quality
Habitats of threatened and endangered species
Environmental justice
Cultural resources
Multiple regulatory agencies
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Wetland Mapping and Assessment
Iowa DOT & MSU
Dune Features and
Topographic Depressions
Area of Interest
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Dune Environment
Wetlands Features
Rare Plants and Animals
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Wetlands Identification
NCDOT, Earthdata, MSU
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Airborne RS can achieve accuracies
to support planning and engineering
requirements in NEPA permitting.
Airborne RS can be used
effectively to avoid or minimize
impact on wetlands in the earliest
stages of developing corridor
alternatives.
Airborne RS could be extremely
valuable in identifying high quality
mitigation sites for replacement of
lost wetlands.
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Regional-Scale Assessment
UAH, USRA, AU, MSFC
Objective: To determine the effect transportation development over the past 25
years has had on the regional-scale environment, including land cover/land
use change, runoff, streamflow, socio-economic variables, etc.
Expected Outcome: We expect to gain
valuable insight into the relationship
between transportation development
and long-term environmental changes
and possibly even rates of change.
Study Area (outlined in red):
includes 55 counties of the southern
Appalachian region of northeastern
Alabama, northwestern Georgia, and
south-central Tennessee. This
region includes the metropolitan
regions of Atlanta, Birmingham,
Chattanooga, and Huntsville.
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NEPA Streamlining
VA DOT & ICF
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Worked with the VA DOT to
investigate streamlining
opportunities as part of an
assessment of a new
highway segment.
Imaged area with a suite of
satellite sensor types to
better understand impact of
pixel size on ability to
discriminate environmentally
sensitive areas.
Created classifications of
study area.
30 meter Landsat
4 meter IKONOS
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Environmental Analysis in Transportation Planning:
Application to the Washington State I-405 Corridor
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Investigate application of
remote sensing technology
and methods that can
provide relevant land use
land cover (LULC) to
several NEPA disciplines.
Compare the cost,
timeliness and quality of
remote sensing based
products to traditional
methods and assess the
benefits and added value.
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Habitat Assessment
Washington DOT & MSU
A new study is being developed
to assess regional habitats in areas
within Washington State.
Connections between habitat areas will
be studied with respect to roads to
assess habitat connectivity and provide
early indication to planners that there
may be habitat issues for a given route.
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Transportation, Development, and Land Cover Change
in a Coastal Corridor – MS DOT & MSU
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30 years of change
Population
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Land use change
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1970 - 240,000
2000 - 350,000
Small fishing and shrimping
communities
Complex mixture of residential,
commercial, industrial, urban,
resort, and relatively unspoiled
coastal wilderness areas.
Transportation modes
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I-10
Ports (sea & air)
Rail
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I-10: MS Coastal Classification 1990 vs 2000
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MSU GeoSpatial Library
A geolibrary is "a digital library filled with geoinformation and for which the
primary search mechanism is place. Geoinformation is information associated
with a distinct area or footprint on the Earth's surface."
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I-10 Corridor Study Area – CSX Railroad
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NCRST will work with the
successful bidder (advisory
role to funded tasks)
MSU work to date is
available to bid teams
(www.ncrste.msstate.edu)
MSU will host geospatial
data and results related to
EIS via geolibrary
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Strategic Research Directions
New Research Efforts and Partners
NEPA Streamlining, Wetlands
Identification, and Data Fusion
North Carolina DOT and EarthData
Wetlands Mapping and Assessment
Iowa DOT and ITRES
Habitat Assessment and
Characterization
Washington DOT
Environmental Screening and
Characterization
Florida DOT and Washington DOT
LC/LUC and Baseline
Characterization
Mississippi DOT
Digital Spatial Data Library
Veridian and MS DOT
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