Federal Geographic Data Committee
Subcommittee on Bathymetric and Nautical Charting Data
2000 Work Plan
The Federal Geographic Data Committee's Subcommittee on Bathymetric
and Nautical Charting Data’s primary mission is to develop and promote
that aspect of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) that supports
the marine navigation and coastal zone geographic information system (GIS)
community. Support will be accomplished through the development of data,
metadata, standards, and data exchange agreements. The subcommittee supports
the overall goals and missions of the FGDC by serving on several working
groups and subcommittees that have an interest in coastal and marine geographic
data issues. The Subcommittee is an active member of the Standards Working
Group and the Framework Working Group.
The subcommittee meets formally approximately three times a year in the
Washington, D.C. area. Additionally, the subcommittee sponsors a number
of community meetings and outreach workshops throughout the country during
the year. To enhance communications, the subcommittee has a home page
on the World Wide Web at the following URL: http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/ocs/text/bathy.htm.
The homepage is in the process of being updated and will be housed at
the NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) starting in April of 2000.
Items in the work plan will be led and funded by agencies that serve
on the subcommittee.
2000 Work Plan:
(in the format of the NSDI Strategic Plan)
Goal One: Increase the awareness and understanding of the vision,
concept, and benefits of the NSDI through outreach and education
Members of the Bathymetric Subcommittee will host, conduct, or participate
in outreach meetings and workshops with the coastal and ocean community.
These will take various forms including teaching hands-on metadata classes
targeted at this community, presenting workshops and seminars on related
activities, publishing papers on coastal data within the NSDI, and facilitating
community involvement in the NSDI.
Selected goals:
- Publish an updated version of Shore and Sea Boundaries by Aaron
L. Shalowitz.
- Publish an updated version of the Coastal Mapping Handbook, which
is a primer for mapping along the coast.
- Host three metadata workshops for coastal resource management professionals.
Goal Two: Develop common solutions for discovery, access, and
use of geographic data in response to the needs of diverse communities
- Continue to support data conversion, digitizing, formatting, and data
quality efforts for coastal zone GIS data—especially shoreline and bathymetric
data.
- Continue to work on a "Shoreline Profile" for the FGDC metadata standard
to support information necessary for shoreline and related data sets
(standard is now in public review).
- Continue to develop the Hydrographic Data Content Standard for
Inland and Coastal Waterways.
- Continue to develop Part 5 of the NSDI Data Accuracy Standard:
Hydrographic Data Accuracy Standard.
- Provide technical assistance to affected agencies and offices to implement
the FGDC metadata standard.
- Support state efforts to develop coastal and ocean data within the
NSDI.
- Market the NSDI to the states with respect to coastal and ocean data.
- Assist state and local FGDC Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP),
Clearinghouse, and Framework grant recipients with data issues relative
to the coastal zone.
Goal Three: Use community-based approaches to develop and maintain
common collections of geospatial data for sound decision making
- Develop a plan for the NSDI shoreline data layer to become part of
the FGDC NSDI framework data.
- Continue to develop the Ocean Planning Information System (OPIS).
OPIS provides easy access to comprehensive ocean-related data, metadata,
and other information in the Southeast.
- Complete the NOAA and USGS funded Topo/Bathy project.
Goal Four: Build Relationships among organizations to support the
continuing development of the NSDI
- Continue to maintain and add to the Email directory of over 200 GIS
experts working in the coastal zone.
- Work with members of the private sector and academia on issues relating
to shoreline and bathymetric data.
- Work with state, county, and local organizations to develop NSDI coastal
framework data and implement standards.
- Continue to participate in interagency collaboration between the Department
of the Interior, Department of Commerce, and State Department on marine
cadastral data issues.
