# Presentation: 253713

## Watershed Assessment, Tracking, 

**and Environmental Results**
**(WATERS)**
**Forum**
**Tuesday **
**December 7, 2004**** **

**Brenda Smith**
**Geospatial Information Officer**
**U.S. Environmental Protection Agency**

**Notes:**
Visualizing our information via graphical representations, specifically 

## Topics to Cover

- Background
- Goals/Priorities
- Activities/Plans
- Enterprise Architecture
- Geospatial Framework
- Data
- Enterprise Licensing Agreements
- Locational Improvement Plans

## Where the GIO Fits at EPA

**Reports to the CIO/Assistant Administrator for Office of Environmental Information (OEI)**

**Where the GIO Fits at EPA**

**Notes:**
This is a new position at EPA
Provides visibility into the corporate/enterprise issues
Through weekly meetings with the AA/D-AA, they will hear geospatial specific concerns.

## Roles & Responsibilities

**Provide senior leadership and visibility into the importance of location**
**Work to** **enhance geo-temporal capabilities enabling all EPA offices to quickly generate, share, and USE necessary geospatial data **
**Enterprise Architecture **
**Geospatial Blueprint**
**Geospatial Framework**

**Roles & Responsibilities**

**Notes:**
General guidance received from AA/D-AA on entering the position.

## EPA GIO Priorities

**EPA GIO Priorities**

** ****Data**
** ****Access and Availability**
** ****Collaboration and Partnerships**

## Enterprise Architecture – What does it look like? For EPA ? 

## Geospatial Integration

**Use**

**Connect & **
**Exchange**

**Process & Stage**

**Store for Use**
**(Business Warehouse Framework)**

**Metadata Registries**

**Internal**
**and**
**External**
**Users**

**Exchange****Partners**

**Portal**

**Admin Partners**

**E-Gov**
**Portals**

**Portlets**

**Tools**
**Catalog**

**Apps**
**&**
**Tools**
**Catalogs**

**Others**

**Collect**

**EIMS**

**Res & Sci**
**Partners**

**CDX**

**Admin**

**Mgmt**

**Science**

**Geospatial Interfaces**

**Geospatial Data Validation**

**OW**

**Notes:**
(Access to) National Spatial Data Infrastructure

C&E:
Gereferenced Data 
Geospatial Data

CDX:
Georeferencing Interface (Tool)

(Comb.) Tools:
Geospatial enabled models
Geo enabled analytical tools
Geo services finder

Science & Mgmt: Geospatial interfaces

Collect:
GPS
Handhelds
Remote Sensors

Process & Stage:
Geospatial locational & data accuracy (validation)

Ent int warehouse, R&S warehouse – geos. data
Biz Area Warehouse, – georeferenced data

Geos = vector & raster data

Highlight
Geo piece in CDX
Geo subcomponent of:
	Exchange, R&S, E-Gov
Others,Science,Mgmt,?Admin?
Metadata registries
	GDI	Geospatial Data Index
RSA & Comb. Apps
Instruments & other
Enterprise Integration, Science 
Portal – Imagery Portal

High
GDI – subset of EIMS (node)
Imagery
Geo One Stop
	Environmental & Conservation Channel
Geo Data Mart or Warehouse

DV: EPA AA w/o RSA + RSA
 	Combined Apps Catalog & Tools Catalog boxes b/c otherwise, 
		admin & mgmt users only access Apps
		science & other users only access Tools
		(What is the difference between Apps & Tools?)
	Added RSA Apps & Tools blocks
	Added EIMS block
	Added Collect box (e.g., for data sourced directly from instrumentation, etc. like remotely accessible microscope)
	Added R&S Staging block for R&S storage
	Added R&S Store for Use elements
	Added R&S Partners for CDX and nonCDX R&S exchange
	Conveyed elements from old diagram not in 5/21/04 OMB pres (can be easily deleted)
		“Enterprise Repository: “
		Exchange block
	Added elements from 5/21/04 OMB pres
		omnidirectional arrows from Metadata Registries
		Data Mart blocks
	Softened color of green stuff

Comb.	combined?
CDX		Central Data Exchange
EAI		Enterprise Application Integration
ODS		Operational Data Store

## Geospatial Framework Workshop – Nov 04

**Geospatial Framework Workshop – Nov 04**

** ****What are the main components**
** ****What needs to get done**
-  **Where we need to focus**
** ****How our work affects others**
** ****How various efforts fit in**
** ****What we need to build/do**
** ****How important each of our activities are to achieving our goal architecture**

**Common Understanding of**

**Notes:**
This is a new position at EPA
Provides visibility into the corporate/enterprise issues
Through weekly meetings with the AA/D-AA, they will hear geospatial specific concerns.

## Geospatial FrameworkStudy Teams

- Technology
- Data
- Applications
- Governance
- Business

## Geospatial FrameworkNext Steps

- Jan 05
- Study Team White Papers due
- Reconvene Workshop
- Feb 05
- Identify individuals/org
- Begin Detailed work in each area
- 	(Plans, deliverables, etc.)

## Questions?

**Brenda Smith**
**Smith.Brenda@epa.gov**
**202.546.2034**