USGS Sources Sought: Requirements, Capabilities and Analysis for Earth Observations (RCA-EO) Re-compete

Notice ID: DOIGFBO250020

The USGS is seeking information from companies who have proven experience and expertise collecting and characterizing land imaging user needs and observation capabilities and evaluating land imaging observation architectures and other solutions to optimally meet these needs in the context of agency programs, science and operational applications, and other national priorities.

1. Data Collection. Collect and refresh a robust set of foundational databases comprised of user needs for land imaging, land imaging and other Earth observation (EO) capabilities, value tree constructs, and cost / benefit data. Value trees are hierarchical, networked models of an agency’s functional or strategic elements that rely on EO data.  Data collection methodologies include expert elicitation methods supplemented by surveys, and data mined from literature and other databases.  This information combined will guide EO system design requirements for temporal, spatial, spectral resolution and other observing characteristics, to assess optimal technology investment options, and identify data gaps relative to user needs. The capabilities database includes platform and sensor descriptions and attributes and expected ability to sense and …
2. Develop a framework to analyze land imaging architecture performance and compare investment options as they impact agency or national interests such as in environmental, disaster, or agricultural monitoring.  Identify and assess partnerships, multi-mission data harmonization, commercial data buys, or other approaches to satisfy EO needs.  Implement tools to flexibly measure how changes in mission configurations, evolving architectures, and derivative products could enable or degrade the ability to meet user needs.  Analysis outputs will …
3. Characterize and verify observing system capabilities and model the impacts of error propagation on derivative products, models and applications. Investigate a range of EO technologies of high relevance to USGS objectives, such as hyperspectral, radar or lidar measurements applied to …
4. System engineering. Design and develop relational databases, web services and other tools for importing, maintaining, and integrating user needs, system capabilities, organizational models, and other information supporting analysis of alternatives. Develop visualization tools to …

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