Greetings, The USGS ARRA opportunity is now open at the grants.gov website The USGS seeks to award American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 assistance funds for the collection and processing of high resolution elevation data and orthoimagery. Many organizations including state and local governments, private and nonprofit firms, as well as many Federal government agencies use these data to support their applications and requirements planning, infrastructure improvements, resource assessments and scientific studies. The data collected under this announcement will become available to the public through The National Map. Priorities for the program include collecting elevation data over those coastal areas of United States most susceptible to storm and hurricane flooding, earthquake damage, and coastal erosion and also increasing coverage and availability of leaf-off high resolution orthoimagery. Refer to announcement # 10HQPA001at www.grants.gov Dan Dan Walters Geospatial Liaison for Maine USGS NSDI Partnership Office 196 Whitten Road Augusta, Maine 04330 207-776-1293 [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list Maine GeoNews (GEOLIBRARY-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all Maine GIS Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove your name and email address yourself at the this web address: http://lists.maine.edu/cgi/wa?SUBED1=geolibrary-l&A=1 Or,you may also request that your name be removed by sending email to: [log in to unmask]