National Geospatial Program

This lesson will provide a brief overview of the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), describe what features make up NHD, show how NHD functions as a national hydrographic network, and provide information on accessing data and additional resources.
 

Map of Fiscal Year 2018 status of 3DEP quality data, as of October 2018. The Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks submission of proposals to continue to expand the extent of lidar data that meet 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) specifications. Approximately 53 percent of the Nation has 3DEP-quality data available or in progress.

This is a group shot of the North American National Mapping Meeting more information can be found at the website on the meeting

This is a wide panarama shot of the North American National Mapping Meeting more information can be found at the website on the meeting

This is a group shot of the North American National Mapping Meeting more information can be found at the website on the meeting

Two NGP staff members working together

This graphic depicts the status of USGS US Topo map production as of May 29, 2019, showing maps published from 2013 to 2018, and maps planned to be published in fiscal year 2019, under the Alaska Mapping Initiative.

Governance structure of the National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA) Elevation Theme

A 3D Elevation Program lidar point cloud colored by RGB color from imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program and showing simulated flooding (in blue) of an area in Denver, Colorado.

This lesson shows how to add data to the map view in the National Map Viewer from URLs or files.
 

3D view of Zion National Park DEM