Related Projects

Committees and Working Groups

• Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) - The HIFLD Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Subcommittee was established in 2002 to address improvements in collection, processing, sharing and protection of National geospatial information across multiple levels of government in order to help provide a common foundation for data visualization and analysis.
• Science for Disaster Reduction Committee
• Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE) Geospatial Concept of Operations (GeoCONOPS)

International Collaborations and Resources

The FGDC participates in international activities to help advance the NSDI efforts to develop, coordinate and promote standards, the NSDI vision, and raise awareness of the benefits of spatial data infrastructures globally.

• United Nations
  • Working Group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters - The working group was established under decision 5/110 at the fifth session of the Committee of Experts in August 2015 with the mandate to develop and implement a strategic framework that brings all stakeholders and partners involved in Disaster Risk Reduction and/or Emergency Management together to ensure that quality geospatial information and services are available and accessible in a timely and coordinated way to support decision-making and operations within and across all sectors and phases of disaster risk management.
  • UNGGIM Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters Assessment Survey
  • UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) - The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) serves as the focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster risk reduction and to ensure synergies among disaster risk reduction activities.
  • Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
  • Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
• UNGGIM-Americas

  • UNGGIM-Americas Website
  • UNGGIM-Americas Disasters Working Group
  • UNGGIM-Americas Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
  • UNGGIM-Americas 7th Session Disasters Working Group Overview
  • UNGGIM-Americas Disasters Working Group - Diagnosis and Gap Analysis Report. A survey on “Geospatial Information Management in the context of Disaster Risk Management” was completed in 2018 by 35 countries in the Americas. The report includes answers and a gap analysis that aims to assess how far countries are from meeting the Global Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters. The survey identified that floods and hurricanes are the main disasters affecting the Americas. It also confirmed the existence of challenges when it comes to the management of geospatial information as well as collaboration, coordination and communication issues among all the stakeholders and partners involved in the response to disasters.
• Group on Earth Observations
  • Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Reduction
• Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
  • Working Group on Disasters
• International Charter on Space and Major Disasters
• The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters - The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters provides a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users. Each member agency has committed resources to support the provisions of the Charter and thus is helping to mitigate the effects of disasters on human life and property.
• OGC Domain Working Groups:

  • Earth Observation Exploitation Platform DWG - This OGC DWG charter defines the role for OGC activities within the Earth Observation Data Exploitation platform domain and provides an open forum for the discussion and presentation of interoperability requirements, use cases, pilots, and implementations of OGC standards in this domain.
  • Emergency and Disaster Management DWG - The mission of the Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM) DWG is to improve efficiency and effectiveness of users in all phases of emergency and disaster activities communities through changes and extensions to OGC Standards, which result in interoperable geospatial products and other information consumables that can be shared across these communities.
  • Health DWG - The OGC Health DWG enables OGC to identify and work with a representative group of market participants in the identification and prioritization of use cases, business and technical requirements that will provide the most significant value, or mitigate the most significant risks in this arena.
  • Citizen Science DWG - The OGC Citizen Science DWG is motivated to support citizen science, scientific research conducted in whole or in part by amateur scientists, by providing a forum for increasing understanding and demonstration of the benefits brought by the use of open standards and best practices.
  • Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies DWG - The OGC Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) DWG operates to build understanding of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, as well as to identify the potential requirements for geospatial standardization within those technologies.
  • Artificial Intelligence in Geoinformatics DWG - The OGC GeoAI DWG works to identify use cases and applications related to AI in geospatial domains with particular emphasis on information synthesis, IoT (e.g., healthcare, smart energy), robots (e.g., manufacturing, self-driving vehicles), and ‘digital twins’ (e.g., smart buildings and cities).