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SpatialNews.com Press Release
USGS NGPO Update
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The USGS National Geospatial Program Office (NGPO) was formed in January of 2005 as a result of the USGS Geography discipline reorganization. The office was established to provide leadership and coordination for Federal mapping and geospatial activities.
The NGPO encompasses the USGS project areas of The National Map, the Geospatial One-Stop, the Federal Geographic Data Committee, the USGS Geospatial Liaison network, The National Atlas, and emergency operations support. The Chief of the NGPO, Bill Carswell, has instructed NGP staff and employees to stress the “Relevance of Geospatial Readiness” within their projects and is working to re-energize the planning and development of geospatial science, support and application. Recent geospatial program highlights include:
The National Map: (nationalmap.gov)
In the process of rebuilding viewers
Viewers will be incorporated in GOS portal and will provide access to The National Map and National Atlas
Re-engineering The National Map system
Land cover will be included as a layer of The National Map
Geospatial One-Stop: (www.geodata.gov)
Overall collection grew from 81,000 to 123,000 records in 2006
In excess of 4,800 map services published by our partners
GOS Marketplace grew from 500 plans to more than 2,000
Greater than 1,000 contacts made to date in FY’07
FGDC Executive Secretariat: (www.fgdc.gov)
Geospatial Line of Business support and Program Management Office (PMO)
Establishing National Geospatial Advisory Committee under FACA
2007 CAP Grant recipients have been selected for four of five categories
USGS Geospatial Liaisons
More than $10.3 million in agreements for high-resolution imagery for NGA and DHS leveraging more than $40 million in state and local investments
More than $1.1 million in partner funding agreements to support high-priority NSDI development needs such as strategic and business planning, clearinghouse infrastructure and data portals, framework data stewardship, integration of local data
Coordinated NHD Maintenance, Geospatial One-Stop and Metadata workshops in multiple states
Coordinated technical expertise support from NGTOC to enable partner successes
Emergency Operations
USGS work with state, local and regional organizations
Participating in Project Homeland
Providing data for first responders
Collaborating on building systems to rapidly ingest and disseminated data
Collaborating in DHS and NGS collections of HSIP data
Graphic Products
Work in progress using best available data from The National Map
Strives to replicate the look of original USGS topographic maps, where feasible
Will develop local workshops and customer feedback forums to refine standards, improve data quality and provide input
Image maps will be a companion to geo-referenced pdf topographic maps
The NGPO web site can be found at: www.usgs.gov/ngpo
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