FGDC Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee

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FGDC Marine and Coastal Spatial Data
Subcommittee Chair Anne Hale Miglarese, NOAA
CSC
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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.
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MISSION Support and Promote the Marine and
Coastal National Spatial Data Infrastructure
(NSDI)
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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.
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MCSD Subcommittees Role

• 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)

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Building the Marine and Coastal Framework
Cadastral (Parcels/Boundaries)
Elevation and Bathymetry
Transportation
Hydrography
Geodetic Control
Governmental Units
Orthoimagery (DOQ)
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MCSD Subcommittee MeetingCoastal GeoTools
Conference
Purpose To bring together Federal, State, Local
and Private sector participants in the Coastal
NSDI.

Priorities/ Work Items
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.
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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

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Accomplishments- 2001

• 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.

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Web Page
http//www.csc.noaa.gov/fgdc_bsc/
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2002 Work Plan

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

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Recent FGDC Activities

• Tribal GIS Working Group
• Contact Ed Liu (Liu.Ed_at_epamail.epa.gov)
• Geospatial Applications and Interoperability
• Working Group
• Contact Marge Cole (cole_at_gst.com)
• Homeland Security Working Group
• Contact Alison Kiernan
  (akiernan_at_usgs.gov)
• Civil Imagery and Remote Sensing Task Force
• NSDI 2002 Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP)
• Announcement Late October, 2001