27 National Academy of Sciences Recommendations: FEMA Floodplain Mapping & Earth Sciences Decadal Survey Two NRC Committee Reports Issued in January, 2007 Earth Science and Applications from Space to Advise NASA, NOAA and USGS Global topo & vegetation structure 5 m spatial resolution 0.1 m vertical precision for ground Launch time frame: 2016-2020 Floodplain Mapping Technologies Commissioned by Congress to Advise FEMA Elevation for the Nation Nationwide, seamless, consistent, public- domain, elevation data set created using airborne laser swath mapping (ALSM) Contours: 1 ft (low relief), 4 ft (high relief) LIDAR Surface Topography (LIST) Update 10 m & 30 m NEDUpdate 30 m & 90 m SRTM
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