# Presentation: 453382

## FGDC Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee

**FGDC Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee**
- Chair: Anne Hale Miglarese, NOAA CSC

**Notes:**
began in 1995
service oriented facility 
stretches across NOAA organizational boundaries
located outside of Washington

## Federal Geographic Data Committee

-     The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency committee, organized in 1990 under OMB Circular A-16, that promotes the coordinated use, sharing and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis.

**Federal Geographic Data Committee**

## Slide 3

## MISSION:

**MISSION:**
- Support and Promote the Marine and Coastal National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)

**Notes:**
Foster and sustain the environmental and economic well being of the coast by linking people, information, and technology.

## The Vision of Coastal NSDI

- Current and accurate geospatial **coastal and ocean** data will be readily available to contribute locally, nationally, and globally to economic growth, environmental quality and stability, and social progress.

**The Vision of Coastal NSDI**

**Notes:**
Coastal National Spatial Data Infrastructure
The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is a nationwide effort to improve the
utilization of geospatial data within the United States. The Center fully supports this effort
for the benefit of local and state coastal resource managers. Center projects in this theme
area assist coastal managers in a variety of data-related tasks, including data acquisition,
processing, storage, distribution, ease of use, and inclusion in the decision-making process.

## MCSD Subcommittee’s Role

**MCSD Subcommittee’s Role**

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**Standards development**
**Outreach**
**Technology transfer**
**Partnerships **
**Coastal and Marine Data Stewardship**
**hydrographic data, including all nautical charting and bathymetric data**
**shoreline data **
**marine cadastral data **
**coastal remote sensing data **
**benthic (ocean floor data)**

## Building the Marine and Coastal Framework

**Building the Marine and Coastal Framework**

**Governmental Units**

**Geodetic Control**

**Transportation**

**Elevation and Bathymetry**

**Hydrography**

**Cadastral (Parcels/Boundaries)**

**Orthoimagery (DOQ)**

**Notes:**
The framework is a collaborative effort to create a widely available source of basic geographic data. It provides the most common data themes geographic data users need, as well as an environment to support the development and use of these data. The framework’s key aspects are:

seven themes of digital geographic data that are commonly used;  
procedures, technology, and guidelines that provide for integration, sharing, and use of these data; 
institutional relationships and business practices that encourage the maintenance and use of data. 

## MCSD Subcommittee MeetingCoastal GeoTools Conference

- 1. Push for an offshore Cadastre as a framework data set
-     through the rewrite of OMB Circular A-16.
- 2. Initiate the development of and FGDC Marine Boundary
-     Working Group.
- 3. Development of "products" that document the process
-     associated with the Topo/Bathy project.
- 4. Dedicate resources to keeping the funding page updated.
- 5. Explore the development of 3D/4D and marine and coastal
-     data models.
- 6. Prototype an intelligent nautical chart.

- Priorities/ Work Items

**MCSD Subcommittee Meeting****Coastal GeoTools Conference**

- Purpose:  To bring together Federal, State, Local and Private sector
- participants in the Coastal NSDI.

## Accomplishments- 2001

**Accomplishments- 2001**

-   Marine Cadastre has been included as a framework data
-     set in the revised version of OMB Circular A-16.
-  Initiated the development of an FGDC Marine Boundary
-    Working Group (two meetings have been held)
-   Participated in initial meetings to develop marine and
-     coastal ArcGIS data models.
-   Held four, two-day metadata workshops.
-   Conducted two Subcommittee meetings.
-   Continued development of a national shoreline data base.
*  **Shoreline Profile* of the FGDC metadata standard was
-    endorsed in June 2001.
-  Continued to develop the *Hydrographic Data Content                      *
*  **Standard for Inland and Coastal Waterways*

**Notes:**
Clients determined focus

-  Continued to develop the *Hydrographic Data Accuracy   *
*   **Standard*  (standard has completed public review).
-  NOAA and the USGS completed the Topo/Bathy pilot project
-   in Tampa Bay designed to produce a high-resolution,
-   seamless digital database, from elevation down to
-   bathymetry, including the shoreline.
-  Continued to maintain and build an Email directory of over
-   400 GIS experts working in the coastal zone.
-  Held a special meeting of the MCSD Subcommittee at the
-   Coastal GeoTools conference to bring together state, local
-   and private sector interests in the NSDI.

## Web Page

**http://www.csc.noaa.gov/fgdc_bsc/**

## 2002 Work Plan

** ****Priorities**
** ****New Ideas**
** ****State and local collaboration**
** ****Marine and Coastal Framework Standards**
** ****Data Models**

## Recent FGDC Activities

** ****Tribal GIS Working Group**
**        ****Contact: Ed Liu (Liu.Ed@epamail.epa.gov)**
** ****Geospatial Applications and Interoperability **
**   ****Working Group**
**      ****Contact: Marge Cole (cole@gst.com)**
** ****Homeland Security Working Group**
**         ****Contact: Alison Kiernan (akiernan@usgs.gov)**
** ****Civil Imagery and Remote Sensing Task Force**
** ****NSDI 2002 Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP)**
**          ****Announcement: Late October, 2001**