Coastal Services Center

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee


Standards

Currently, the FGDC Marine & Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee is developing three standards that support the documentation, collection, and distribution of coastal and marine data. Below you will find the status of the standards, links to the proposals, and the official standards documents, if presently available. The documents on this page are in Portable Document Format. You can download a free PDF reader from Adobe.

Standard Name Status
Shoreline Metadata Profile FGDC Endorsed
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standard, Part 5: Navigation Charts and Hydrographic Surveys Pending Endorsement
National Shoreline Data Content Standard Pre-Review Stage