Template - Priority Action High Level Plan

Land Use / Land Cover - Priority Action High Level Plan

Draft 11/2/1999

Objective 1: FRAMEWORK DATA DEVELOPMENT

Produce multi-use geographic data through partnership efforts between government and private organizations.

Priority Action Item:
Develop the requirements, data design and model for a land use/land cover (LU/LC) Framework data set. Identify funding and create an implementation plan for building the LU/LC data set.

Facilitator: David Read

Description of Project:
This project will develop an implementation plan and data model for a consistent statewide land use/land cover data set. Currently, high resolution and up-to-date land use/land cover data is not available for the State of Washington.

The creation and maintenance of land use/land cover data would aid efforts in the State to address high priority issues such as salmon recovery, growth management, transportation planning, and water resource management. A high quality land use/land cover GIS data would aid decision-makers by providing reliable information for problem solving.

This project is phase 1 of a two phase project. Phase 2 will create the actual land use/land cover data set using the work accomplished in phase 1.

Potential Benefits:.
The LU/LC cover data set created by this effort will be distinguished from other LU/LC data sets currently available in the following ways:

The data model will include a defined, minimum set of standards to which participants and contributors agree.

The new LU/LC data set will provide higher resolution data than currently available LU/LC datasets.

The LU/LC data set produced by this effort will be based on new satellite imagery providing users with up-to-date data. LU/LC data sets available for Washington are based on 1990 or older imagery.

Other benefits realized by the creation a new statewide land use/land cover data set in phases 1 & 2 include:

The availability of a common statewide data set will eliminate the duplication of effort that would result from entities building overlapping and incompatible LU/LC data sets.

A common data set will provide a consistently attributed and standardized data set for the entire state.

Participants will be able to cost share and benefit from economies of scale by working together to build the LU/LC data set.

Project Objectives:
This project will enable Washington to answer complex planning and environmental questions that we will face in the next millennium including:

Growth Management, ESA/Salmon Recovery, infrastructure, sustainable development and social services
Buildable Lands - Capacity analysis for sustainable development

Integration / Linkages - Transportation / Growth Management

Salmon Recovery - Provide state, federal, and local, governmental organizations, universities, private sector, tribes, private citizens in Washington access to a common baseline LU/LC dataset for planning efforts

This project will provide federal, state and local governments, tribes, private organizations and the citizens of Washington access to a common baseline LU/LC data for planning purposes
This project will provide Washington with one LU/LC classification schema that meets the needs of Framework participants and is flexible.

Project Tasks and Estimated Effort: Major tasks that need to be completed to accomplish objectives and a high-level estimate of required effort.

Tasks	Estimated effort (person months)
Task 1 Establish LU/LC lead group Group establishes LU/LC as an official Framework project Group coordinates with the Frame-work effort	6
Task 2 Develop implementation plan for phase 2 and determine cost	12
Task 3 Political Authorization Creation of project white paper Obtain Legislative authorization and funding for phase 1 and phase 2	24
Task 4 Inventory/catalog of related efforts and products Needs assessment across all disciplines Examine data sources that will meet the established standards Investigate data partnership with NASA and possible funding	24
Task 5 Project committee choose and formally adopt LU/LC classification, methodology, and standards	6
Task 6 Formal report of work accomplished, begin phase 2 project implementation	3

Potential Project Team Leader and Members:

Lead
To be determined

Participants

Federal Agencies:

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), US Geological Survey/Federal Geographic Data Committee (USGS/FGDC)

State Agencies:

Community Trade and Economic Development (CTED), Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Department of Ecology (DOE), Department of Health (DOH), Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (IAC), Department of Fish and Wildlife (WADFW), Department of Transportation (WSDOT)

Local Government:

Cities, Counties, Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), Thurston Regional Planning Council (TRPC)

Universities:

University of Washington (UW), (ASDC), Central Washington University (CWU)

Private Sector:

Pacific Meridian, Space Imaging, White Shield Inc

Session Participants:

David Jeschke DOH

David Read (Facilitator) TRPC

Dee Southard CWU

Doretha Collins DNR

Greg Cioc PSRC

Joy Denkers DOE

Julie Knackstead CTED

Karen Zollman White Shield Inc.

Lewis Yaeger CWU

Richard German Columbia County

Shelly Snyder WADFW

Ted Gage CTED