Digital Coast: Geospatial Information for Coastal Communities

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Digital CoastGeospatial Information forCoastal
Communities
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Coastal Populations

• U.S. Coastal
• Watershed Counties
• lt 20 percent
• of total land area
• 52 percent
• of total population

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Coastal Economies

• In 2010, the U.S. Ocean and Great Lakes economy
  produced
• 2.8 million
• jobs and
• 258 billion
• in GDP

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Coastal Challenges

• Nine
• Of the top ten most destructive events on record
  have occurred since 1999.
• 24 Billion
• In total losses have been paid out by the
  National Flood Insurance Program within the
  coastal floodplain from 1978 to 2011.

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Barriers

• Coastal data availability
• Data integration and accessibility
• Improved intergovernmental coordination
• Techie and non-techie
  tools
• Training
• Outreach and awareness

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Digital Coast

• Approach Bring the geospatial and coastal
  management communities together
• Outcome A constituent-driven, integrated,
  enabling platform supporting coastal resource
  management that is used

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Digital Coast Partnership

• American Planning Association
• Association of State Floodplain Managers
• Coastal States Organization
• National Association of Counties
• National Estuarine Research Reserve Association
• National States Geographic Information Council
• The Nature Conservancy
• Urban Land Institute
• NOAA Coastal Office

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A Sampling of Our Contributors

• Federal
• NOAA
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. Geological Survey
• State
• Mississippi State Coordinating Council for
  Remote Sensing and GIS
• Maryland Department of
  Natural Resources
• Academic
• University of South Carolina
• University of Hawaii

• Nongovernmental
• Resources for the Future
• Management Association for Private
  Photogrammetric Surveyors
• Private
• Dewberry
• Fugro EarthData
• PhotoScience
• Sanborn
• Woolpert

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Digital Coast Data

• Over 65 terabytes of high-resolution elevation
  data, land cover data, and orthoimagery
• 200-plus
  Web-mapping services
• Linkages to over 40 national-level coastal data
  sets

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Digital Coast Tools
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts
Viewer

• An inventory of over 50 decision-support and
  information visualization tools
• Many provide visualization and analysis
  capabilities without the need for GIS software

Sea Level Rise Viewer
Coastal County Snapshots
CanVis
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Digital Coast Training

• 22 training courses, including many Web-based
  options
• An archive of recorded webinars highlighting
  Digital Coast tools and data

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Stories from the Field

• 90-plus place-based narratives highlighting the
  application of Digital Coast resources to coastal
  management issues
• Focus on partners and outcomes

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Apply-It

• Comprehensive information resources providing
  context and direction to facilitate use and
  application

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The Digital Coast in ActionFacilitating Use and
Application
INFORMATION
DATA
ACTION
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Demonstrating Value to the Nation
Net present value is 41.8 million
254 percent return on investment
Benefits are 3.5 times greater than costs
FY 2012 benefit projection of 6.47 million
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Connect with the Digital Coast
www.csc.noaa.gov/DigitalCoast