State & Local Government

Services provided to State and Local Government clients.

Land Cover Mapping

MDA provides landcover maps to NOAA as part of the Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) and to USGS as part of the NLCD 2001 program. To produce these maps, MDA utilizes a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) mapping methodology developed in cooperation with USGS, and implemented in a production environment. NOAA C-CAP maps provide important land cover change data to NOAA's coastal monitoring program, and NLCD 2001 products are critical components of the nation's LANDFIRE program and state/local wildfire models, providing consistent, nation-wide fuel and vegetation data for fire management programs.

Analytical Modeling

MDA has GIS systems that assesses food and water balances at regional scales. MDA applies iterative process and flow models to map food and water supply, demand, and balance to identify chronic problem areas globally.

Impervious Surface and Canopy Cover Mapping

MDA maps impervious surface and canopy cover for USGS, utilizing a Classification and Regression Tree (CART) mapping methodology developed in cooperation with USGS, and implemented in a production environment. These NLCD 2001 products are critical components of the nation's LANDFIRE program and state/local wildfire models, providing consistent, nation-wide fuel and vegetation data for fire management programs.

Source of High Resolution Imagery

MDA is a distributor of essentially all the commercial and civil data types, including QuickBird, IKONOS, SPOT, OrbView, ResourceSat, Landsat, EROS, RADARSAT, ERS, Hyperion, ALI, ASTER, MODIS, SRTM, etc. MDA provides dedicated customer service to our clients, and offers priority-level services for requirements reviews, catalog searches, scene selection, browse image generation, order tracking, price estimates, and quotes.

Satellite Image Processing and Analysis

MDA has processed thousands of commercial and civil remote sensing satellite images. We provide basic image processing services such as geometric and radiometric correction, orthorectification, bundle (block) adjustment, mosaicking, merging (fusion), and advanced services such as image enhancements, in-depth quantitative analyses, image classification, and quality control.

Vector Data Conflation

MDA has the ability to conflate datasets to a target layer that has a higher level of accuracy. There are many state and local governments that have the need to 'rubber sheet' and conflate (or transfer tabular data to another layer) their GIS data layers (our outside GIS layers) to an accurate GIS base layer. As an example, TIGER/Line data has many applications for state/local government but needs to be shifted so that it aligns with the client's GIS datasets. This is where MDA can help by taking these outside datasets and inexpensively adjusting them to match the client's GIS base.

Weather Data

Using data sourced from the U.S. National Weather Service MDA EarthSat Weather has created a suite of high quality value added data products. With internally developed techniques, MDA EarthSat Weather corrects many problems intrinsic to U.S. datasets. MDA EarthSat Weather's methodologies account for the correction of erroneous values, replacement of missing values, and adjustment of time series due to observation discontinuities. MDA EarthSat Weather currently maintains archives on upwards of 5,000 U.S. locations.

Energy Weather

Launched in 1990, at the dawn of natural gas deregulation, MDA EarthSat Weather is the premier source for industry-sensitive energy weather information. Today our clients include local governments that must manage and minimize their energy risk.