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Note: The Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (GDA) establishes the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) as the lead entity in the executive branch of government for the development, implementation, and review of policies, practices, and standards relating to geospatial data. The GDA describes responsibilities related to geospatial standards for the FGDC and the agencies covered by the law (covered agencies). These responsibilities are reinforced by Office of Management and Budget Circular A-16 and OMB Circular A-119 (development and use of voluntary consensus standards). In the near future, FGDC will reestablish and resource a sustainable standards process, including implementing supporting governance requirements, updating and improving legacy processes, and validating standards for use as required under the GDA. Agencies should continue, to the extent possible in lieu of an active standards process, to develop, review, update, and achieve compliance with existing and pending standards, and become members of the appropriate FGDC standards body when active. (Approved by the FGDC 12/17/2021)

Historically, the FGDC had an active standards process as part of its funded activities. Note that FGDC standards information may date to 2017 with updates pending the revised FGDC standards process.

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GeoTIFF Revision 1.0, GeoTIFF Revision 1.0 http://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/spec/geotiffhome.html
HDF 5, Hierarchical Data Format V 5.0 http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
INCITS 145 - 1986 [R2007], Codes for Identification of Hydrologic Units in the U.S. and the Caribbean (Outlying) Areas http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ANSI+INCITS+145-1986+(R2007)
INCITS 31-2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+31-2009
INCITS 38-2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of the States and Equivalent Areas within the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+38-2009
INCITS 446-2008, Information technology - Identifying Attributes for Named Physical and Cultural Geographic Features (Except Roads and Highways) of the United States, Its Territories, Outlying Areas, and Freely Associated Areas, and the Waters of the Same to the Limit of the Twelve-Mile Statutory Zone http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ANSI+INCITS+446-2008
INCITS 453 - 2009, Information technology - North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata (NAP - Metadata) http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+453-2009
INCITS 454 - 2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Related Statistical Areas of the United States and Puerto Rico http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+454-2009
INCITS 455 - 2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of Congressional Districts and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+455-2009
INCITS/ISO 19107:2003[R2008], Geographic Information - Spatial schema http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19107-2003
INCITS/ISO 19108:2002[R2008] ISO 19108:2002 w/ Cor 1:2006, Geographic information - Temporal schema w/Corrigendum 1 http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19108%3a2002
INCITS/ISO 19110:2005 [R2010], Geographic information - Methodology for Feature Cataloguing http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19110-2005
INCITS/ISO 19111:2007 [2007], Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19111-2007
INCITS/ISO 19111-2:2007, Georgraphic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates - extension for parametric values http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19111-2-2010
INCITS/ISO 19112:2003 [2004], Geographic information - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19112-2003
INCITS/ISO 19115:2003 [R2008] ISO 19115:2003 w/ ISO 19115 Cor. 1:2006, Geographic information - Metadata + Corrigendum 1 http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19115-2003
INCITS/ISO 19115-2:2009 [2009], Geographic information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19115-2%3a2009%5bR2014%5d
INCITS/ISO 19118:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Encoding http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+19118-2005
INCITS/ISO 19119:2005 [R2010], Geographic information - Services http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19119-2005
INCITS/ISO 19119:2005/AM 1:2008 [2008], Geographic information - Services - Amendment 1: Extensions of the service metadata model http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%c3%bf19119%3a2005%2fAmd.1%3a2008
INCITS/ISO 19123:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+19123-2005
INCITS/ISO 19132:2007 [2008], Geographic information - Location Based Services - Reference model http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19132%3a2007%5b2008%5d
INCITS/ISO 19133:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Location Based Services - Tracking and navigation http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+19133-2005
INCITS/ISO 19134:2007 [2007], Geographic information - Location Based Services - Multimodal routing and navigation http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19134-2007
INCITS/ISO 19135:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Procedures for registration of geographical information items http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19135%3a2005
INCITS/ISO 19141:2008 [2008], Geographic information - Schema for moving features http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19141-2008%5b2008%5d
ISO 19109:2005, Geographic information - Rules for application schema http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19109%3a2005
ISO 19127:2005, Geographic information - Geodetic codes and parameters http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO%2fTS+19127%3a2005
ISO 19131:2007, Geographic information - Data product specifications + Amendment 1 http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19131%3a2007
ISO 19136:2007, Geographic information - Geographic Markup Language http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19136-2010
ISO 19144-1:2009, Geographic information -- Classification Systems -- Part 1: Classification system structure http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19144-1%3a2009
ISO 6709:2008/Corrigendum 1:2009, Standards representation of geographic point locations by coordinates w/Corrigendum 1 http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+6709%3a2008
ISO/IEC 13818-2:2000, Information technology -- Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information: Video http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=31539
ISO/IEC 13818-3:1998, Information technology -- Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information -- Part 3: Audio http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26797
ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004 | ITU-T Rec. T.800, Information technology -- JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37674
ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994, Information technology -- Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: Requirements and guidelines http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=18902
ISO/TS 19103:2004, Geographic information - Conceptual schema language http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO%2fTS+19103%3a2005
ISO/TS 19104:2008, Geographic information - Terminology http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO%2fTS+19104%3a2008
ISO/TS 19138:2006, Geographic information -- Data quality measures http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+TS+19138-2010
ISO/TS 19139:2007, Geographic information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+TS+19139-2010
NetCDF, NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
OGC 04-094; OGC 06-027r1, OpenGIS® Web Feature Service Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0 with Corrigendum 1 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs
OGC 04-095, OpenGIS® Filter Encoding Implementation Specification, version 1.1 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/filter
OGC 05-005; OGC 08-050, OpenGIS® Web Map Context (WMC) Documents Implementation Specification, Version 1.1.0 w/Corrigendum 1 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmc
OGC 05-007r7; OGC 08-091r6, OpenGIS® Web Processing Service, Version: 1.0.0 w/ Corrigendum http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps
OGC 05-077r4, OpenGIS® Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/symbol
OGC 05-078r4, Styled Layer Descriptor profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld
OGC 06-009r6, OpenGIS® Sensor Observation Service Interface Standard, version 1.0.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sos
OGC 06-024r4, OpenGIS® Location Services: Tracking Service Interface Standard http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols
OGC 06-042, OpenGIS® Web Map Service Implementation Specification, Version 1.3.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms
OGC 07-000, OGC 07-122r2, OpenGIS® SensorML Encoding Standard v 1.0 w/Schema Corregendum 1 (1.01) http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sensorml
OGC 07-006r1; OGC 07-010, OpenGIS® Catalogue Service (CAT) Implementation Specification (2.0.2) + Corrigendum for OpenGIS Implementation Specification 07-006: Catalogue Services, Version 2.0.2 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/specifications/catalog
OGC 07-045, OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.2 - ISO Metadata Application Profile http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/specifications/catalog
OGC 07-057r7, OpenGIS® Web Map Tile Service Implementation Standard, version 1.0.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmts
OGC 07-067r5, 07-066r5, OpenGIS® Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard, version 1.1.2 w/Corregindum 2 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs
OGC 07-074, OpenGIS® Location Services (OpenLS): Core Services, version 1.2 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols
OGC 07-147r2, OpenGIS® KML, version 2.2.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml
OGC 08-028r7, OpenGIS® Location Services (OpenLS): Part 6-Navigation Service http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols
OGC 06-024r4, OpenGIS® Location Services: Tracking Service Interface Standard http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols
OGC® 07-014r3, OpenGIS® Sensor Planning Service Implementation Specification, version 1.0.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sps
TIFF Revision 6.0, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf
UML 2.2, Unified Model Language (UML) 2.2 http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.2/
ISO 19156:2011, ISO 19156:2011, Geographic information - Observations and Measurements http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=32574
OGC 10-126r3, OGC® WaterML 2.0: Part 1- Time series http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml
TSPI Version 2.0, Time-Space-Position Information (TSPI), Version 2.0, (2012-04-05) https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=1433
WFS 2.0, OpenGIS Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard (also ISO 19142) OGC
GeoRSS, GeoRSS-Simple and GeoRSS-GML http://www.georss.org/
12-128r10, OGC GeoPackage 1.0 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geopackage
ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004 Technical Corrigenda 1:2007 and 2:2008 JPEG 2000, ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004 Technical Corrigenda 1:2007 and 2:2008 JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system http://webstore.ansi.org/
GENC Edition 2, Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard, Edition 2.0, 31 March 2014 https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=2379
AIXM 5.1, Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) 5.1 http://www.aixm.aero/
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version 2.0), FGDC-STD-001-1998 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/metadata/base-metadata/v2_0698.pdf
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Part 1, Biological Data Profile, FGDC-STD-001.1-1999 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/metadata/biometadata/biodatap.pdf
Content Standard for Digital Geosptial Metadata: Part 2, Metadata Profile for Shoreline Data, FGDC-STD-001.2-2001 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/metadata/shoreline-metadata/sp_endorsed.pdf
Cadastral Data Content Standard, FGDC-STD-003 http://nationalcad.org/download/cadastral-data-content-standard-ver-1-4.pdf
Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats in the United States, FGDC-STD-004-2013 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/wetlands/nvcs-2013
National Vegetation Classification Standard (Version 2), FGDC-STD-005-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/vegetation/NVCS_V2_FINAL_2008-02.pdf
Soil Geographic Data Standard, FGDC-STD-006 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/soils/soil997.PDF
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 1: Reporting Methodology, FGDC-STD-007.1-1998 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part1/chapter1
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 2: Standards for Geodetic Networks, FGDC-STD-007.2-1998 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part2/chapter2
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 3: National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy, FGDC-STD-007.3-1998 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part3/chapter3
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 4: Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facilities Management, FGDC-STD-007.4-2002 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part4/FGDC-endorsed-standard
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 5: Standards for Nautical Charting Hydrographic Surveys, FGDC-STD-007.5-2005 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part5/FGDC-STD-007.5-2005.pdf
Content Standard for Digital Orthoimagery, FGDC-STD-008-1999 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/orthoimagery/orth_299.pdf
Content Standard for Remote Sensing Swath Data, FGDC-STD-009-1999 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/swath_data/FGDC-STD-009-1999.doc
Utilities Data Content Standard, FGDC-STD-010-2000 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/utilities/index_html
Standard for a U.S. National Grid,FGDC-STD-011-2001 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/usng/fgdc_std_011_2001_usng.pdf
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata, FGDC-STD-012-2002 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/csdgm_rs_ex/remote-sensing-metadata
Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization, FGDC-STD-13-2006 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/geo-symbol/index_html
Geographic information Framework Data Standard - Part 0, Base document, FGDC-STD-014-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part0_Base.pdf
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 1, Cadastral, FGDC-STD-014.1-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part1_Cadastral.pdf
Geographic Information - Part 2, Digital Orthoimagery, FGDC-STD-014.2-2015 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part2
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 3, Elevation, FGDC-STD-014.3-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part3_Elevation.pdf
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 4, Geodetic Control, FGDC-STD-014.4-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part4_GeodeticControl.pdf
Part 5, Governmental Unit and Other Geographic Area boundaries, FGDC-STD-014.5-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part5_GovernmentalUnitBoundaries.pdf
Part 6, Hydrography, FGDC-STD-014.6-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part6_Hydrography.pdf
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7, Transportation Base, FGDC-STD-014.7-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7_Transportation_Base.pdf
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7b, Transportation - Rail http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7b_Transportation_Rail.pdf
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7c, Transportation - Road, FGDC-STD-014.7c-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7c_Transportation_Road.pdf
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7d, Transportation - Transit, FGDC-STD-014.7d-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7d_Transportation_Transit.pdf
Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7e, Transportation - Inland Waterways, FGDC-STD-014.7e-2008 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7e_Transportation_Waterways.pdf
Wetlands Mapping Standard, FGDC-STD-015-2009 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/wetlands-mapping/2009-08%20FGDC%20Wetlands%20Mapping%20Standard_final.pdf
United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard, FGDC-STD-016-2011 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/street-address/FGDC_endorsedAddressStandard.zip
Federal Trails Data Standards, FGDC-STD-017-2011 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/trail-data-standard/Federal_Trail_Data_Standards_FGDC-STD-017-2011.pdf
Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS), FGDC-STD-018-2012 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/cmecs-folder/CMECS_Version_06-2012_FINAL.pdf
Real Property Asset Data Standard (RPADS), FGDC-STD-019-2014 http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/RPADS/RPADS_final