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Geospatial Standards Activities

This presentation covers various topics including announcements, endorsement of the National Vegetation Classification Standard, CAP 2008 Category 6 Awardees, and proposed standards for cultural resources data and federal trails. It also discusses the FGDC Standards Work Plan for FY 2008 and the implementation and outreach efforts for the National Vegetation Classification Standard in Oklahoma, Montana, and North Carolina.

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Geospatial Standards Activities

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  1. Geospatial Standards Activities Presented by Julie Binder Maitra To FGDC Standards Working Group February 27, 2008

  2. Topics • Announcements • National Vegetation Classification Standard, Version 2.0, endorsed • CAP 2008 Category 6 Awardees • Cultural Resources Data Standard Proposal • FGDC endorsement of Standard Practice for Minimum Geospatial Data for a Coal Surface Mining Boundary • Federal Trails Data Standard committee draft • FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan • INCITS L1/U.S. TAG

  3. CAP 2008 Category 6 Awardees • Category 6, FGDC-Endorsed Standards Implementation Assistance and Outreach • The National Vegetation Classification Standard: Implementation and Outreach for the State of Oklahoma, submitted by Coordinate Solutions • A Proposed Course and Modular Curriculum For FGDC Standards Adoption and Implementation, submitted by Delta State University (MS) • Implementing the Standard for the U.S. National Grid, submitted by NC Center for Geographic Information & Analysis (CGIA) • Outreach and training on the National Vegetation Classification system to support framework layer development in Montana, submitted by The University of Montana, Montana Natural Heritage Program

  4. Cultural Resources Data Standard Comments • Need to address prior SHPO-sponsored effort • Ambitious schedule • Funding • Potential shortage if relying on grants • Funding needed for SHPO participation • Need for inclusive participation • Concern about existing databases for cultural resources and Federal mandates

  5. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan • Integrate voluntary consensus standards into FGDC standards program of work • Develop database of voluntary consensus standards and interface • Update FGDC Standards Reference Model • Revise FGDC Standards Directive #9, Maintenance

  6. Voluntary Consensus Standards Highlights from discussion of November 7, 2007 SWG meeting • Need to promote standards • Negotiate agreement between FGDC and INCITS • Purchase standards for non-commercial use • Make UML models and implementations (e.g., GML/XML) publicly available • Develop implementation guides • Get FGDC endorsement first for future standards • ISO standards • Make Feds comply • Not meaningful for FGDC endorsement • List on FGDC websites

  7. INCITS L1/U.S. TAG • February 12, 2008 roll call votes • DIS enquiry ballots • Comments and ballots on New Work Item Proposals • Comments on NWIPs due Friday, March 7 – ballot to be issued following week • Comments on NWIPs due Friday, March 14 • Sensor model NWIPs vote due early May

  8. INCITS L1/U.S. TAG February 12, 2008 roll call votes • Registration of ISO/CD 19146, Geographic information – Cross-domain vocabularies APPROVED • U.S. Contribution Why ISO TC 211 should adopt Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised as its parliamentary authority APPROVED • Extension of target dates for ISO/CD 19144-2, Geographic information - Classification Systems – Part 2: Land Cover Classification System APPROVED • Forwarding of ISO/DIS 19115-2, Geographic information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data, to ISO APPROVED • Forwarding ISO 19119:2005/FDAM 1, Geographic information – Services, Amendment 1: Extensions of the service metadata to ISO APPROVED

  9. INCITS L1/U.S. TAG DIS Enquiry Ballots due March 18, 2008 • DIS 19126, Geographic information — Feature concept dictionaries and registers • DIS 19144-1, Geographic information — Classification Systems — Part 1: Classification system structure

  10. INCITS L1/U.S. TAG Comments on New Work Item Proposals (NWIPs) due March 7 • Geographic information - Land Administration Domain Model (LADM), TC: 211 N 2385 • Revision of ISO 19125-1:2004 Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 1: Common architecture, TC: 211 N 2392 • Revision of ISO 19125-2:2004 Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL Option, TC: 211 N 2393 • Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM), TC: 211 N 2394

  11. INCITS L1/U.S. TAG Comments only on NWIPs due March 14 • TC 211 N 2401, Draft New Work Item Proposal: Observations and Measurements - Part 1: Observation schema • TC 211 N 2402, Draft New Work Item Proposal: Observations and Measurements - Part 2: Sampling Features

  12. INCITS L1/U.S. TAG Ballots (to be issued) due early May • TC 211 N 2397 New Work Item proposal and PDTS 19130, Geographic information - Imagery sensor models for geopositioning • TC 211 N 2398 New Work Item proposal and DAMD, ISO 19131:2007, Geographic information - Data product specification, Amendment 1

  13. Thank you! (Ms.) Julie Binder Maitra Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Chair, FGDC Standards Working Group International Representative, INCITS Technical Committee L1, Geographic Information Systems Email: jmaitra@usgs.gov Phone: (703) 648 4627 GMT -5 h Web: FGDC Standards: www.fgdc.gov/standards/ INCITS: www.incits.org; www.incits-l1.org "We live in two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." - Leigh Hunt

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