RSVP

You are cordially invited to the Thursday, August 29^th Western Regional Partnership (WRP) webinar featuring USGS’s National Land Imaging (NLI) Program. This webinar will begin at 1:00 pm Pacific and conclude by 2 pm Pacific.

It is helpful for western partners to use common, objective, time-tested data and information. USGS has many helpful programs to estimate water volumes and quality, including the Streamgage Network, the 3D Elevation Program, the 3D Hydrography Program, and the Landsat Program. Landsat satellite imagery serves a wide array of applications (e.g., to support water resources and assist with wildland fires) and has been providing open, remotely-sensed key data for over 50 years. The NASA-USGS Landsat Next mission would enable federal, state, and local authorities to improve their mapping, monitoring, and management of U.S. land surfaces, surface waters, and coastal regions. Information from Landsat Next will enhance detection of algal bloom-forming organisms, early detection of crop stress, and monitoring of crops’ water usage.

Learn more about and the Landsat Program and the Landsat Next mission, and how they might be helpful to your planning information and decision-making.

Speaker bio

This presentation will be provided by Tim Newman, National Land Imaging Program Coordinator, USGS.  Tim serves as the Program Coordinator for the $100 million per year USGS National Land Imaging (NLI) Program, which develops and operates the Landsat satellites and provides the Nation’s portal to the largest civil archive of remotely-sensed land data in the world. As Program Coordinator, Tim is responsible for the NLI-related activities of nearly 150 Federal Government personnel and 300 contractor staff at six locations across the Nation, including the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Tim’s USGS headquarters office is responsible for providing program policy, oversight and guidance, formulating and executing budgets, interfacing with senior Administration and Congressional staff, building international earth observation partnerships, interacting with the aerospace and remote sensing industries, and overseeing the development of remote sensing science and applications. Before he came to the USGS, Tim served in the U.S. Air Force in a variety of space-related activities, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Please email amyduffy@westernregionalpartnership.org with any questions for the presenter to address during the webinar.