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Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Enterprise GIS is to stand-up and maintain an enterprise Geographic Information Systems (GIS) system, establish standards, and allow for consistent dissemination formats and protocols across all NOAA geospatial data and products.  The project has a phased approach to deliver a NOAA wide GIS dissemination service; initially focusing on National Weather Service (NWS) services, while providing the framework needed to support services for all of NOAA.

Project Overview:

GIS are designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of data that are geo-referenced and served in standard formats. GIS is used by decision makers, stakeholders, emergency responders and disaster mitigation planners in both public and private sectors that include: agriculture, energy, health, water resources, humanitarian organizations, emergency management, etc. While NOAA does provide some information in geospatial formats (primarily as KML, shapefiles, geoTiff, and geoRSS), an organized and consistent approach to the management and application of geospatial data does not exist throughout NOAA. Additionally, some datasets are missing standardized metadata that detracts from the authoritativeness of our information. This project was chartered to provide an enterprise approach to reduce costs, as well as increase availability and usage of NOAA data to all of its users.