NSGIC Mid-Year Reports: Geospatial Preparedness
A panel that included the National Governor's Association, NOAA, FEMA, the HIFLD Working Group, the Dept. of Homeland Security, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) , and USGS came together to look at preparedness from a geospatial perspective.
The state governors have brought together a group of their homeland security advisers to make recommendation on making better use of geospatial data and coordinating data and tools. The governor's association sees a need to increase attention to the relationships among the states, the federal government and the private sector. The governor's association is looking at and aware of several data-sharing and coordination issues, such as working together with federal agencies in fusion centers and data-sharing.
NOAA's Coastal Services Center (CSC) maintains a collection of data and tools to assist coastal communities in preparing for and handling coastal emergencies. This is generally known as "the digital coast," an approach that includes data, tools, training and actions. And the CSC is developing a partnership group of interested organizations (including NSGIC) to work together to develop the digital coast. The groups identified a number of common issues to work on, such as land use planning, water quality, and climate change.
The HIFLD Working Group has been working on bring people and agencies together to create a common operating picture among Dept. of Defense and other homeland security agencies. They faced a challenge familiar to most GIS coordinators: bringing together offices and specialties that were not previously used to working together. The next challenge will be to expand the Working Group to the state level.
The Department of Homeland Security office that helps protect infrastructure is working to create more relevant data about infrastructure and to make better use of that data. They are working with many sectors to provide and share better data. They do have some strong security controls on their data.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support and intelligence agency. It works on the Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP). It is interested is sharing parts of that data, but must be very careful about the data that it works with. HSIP starts with The National Map, and builds on top of that additional data sets needed for homeland security work. They have started working with the state GIS Coordinators to make sure that they have the best possible base map.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) includes a GIS Solutions Branch, which provides GIS services and support to FEMA. This group looks at readiness issues, flood mapping and flood mitigation mapping, cost-estimation, emergency response, and risk assessment.
The USGS is in a long-term partnership with the NGA and works with Homeland Security to develop geospatial data for preparedness and response.
Update (3/18/08): Presentation materials from this session are now available on-line.
The state governors have brought together a group of their homeland security advisers to make recommendation on making better use of geospatial data and coordinating data and tools. The governor's association sees a need to increase attention to the relationships among the states, the federal government and the private sector. The governor's association is looking at and aware of several data-sharing and coordination issues, such as working together with federal agencies in fusion centers and data-sharing.
NOAA's Coastal Services Center (CSC) maintains a collection of data and tools to assist coastal communities in preparing for and handling coastal emergencies. This is generally known as "the digital coast," an approach that includes data, tools, training and actions. And the CSC is developing a partnership group of interested organizations (including NSGIC) to work together to develop the digital coast. The groups identified a number of common issues to work on, such as land use planning, water quality, and climate change.
The HIFLD Working Group has been working on bring people and agencies together to create a common operating picture among Dept. of Defense and other homeland security agencies. They faced a challenge familiar to most GIS coordinators: bringing together offices and specialties that were not previously used to working together. The next challenge will be to expand the Working Group to the state level.
The Department of Homeland Security office that helps protect infrastructure is working to create more relevant data about infrastructure and to make better use of that data. They are working with many sectors to provide and share better data. They do have some strong security controls on their data.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support and intelligence agency. It works on the Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP). It is interested is sharing parts of that data, but must be very careful about the data that it works with. HSIP starts with The National Map, and builds on top of that additional data sets needed for homeland security work. They have started working with the state GIS Coordinators to make sure that they have the best possible base map.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) includes a GIS Solutions Branch, which provides GIS services and support to FEMA. This group looks at readiness issues, flood mapping and flood mitigation mapping, cost-estimation, emergency response, and risk assessment.
The USGS is in a long-term partnership with the NGA and works with Homeland Security to develop geospatial data for preparedness and response.
Update (3/18/08): Presentation materials from this session are now available on-line.
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