National Geospatial Program: Roles and Activities

• The NGP provides leadership and guidance for key NSDI and geospatial community stakeholders:
• Facilitates policy development
• Provides incentives
• Facilitates the development of key standards and data models
• Coordinates and facilitates the governance structure for the NSDI
• Negotiates collaborative agreements with stakeholders
• Facilitates the development of a national Geospatial Enterprise Architecture
• Provides a forum for technology transfer, best practices, and program guidance
• The NGP implements key components of the NSDI:
• Produces map products
• Hosts spatial datasets, websites, knowledge base, and tools for discovery and access
• Data integration and quality assurance of spatial data
• Staff enterprise architecture, governance body, and spatial operations
• Conducts and sponsors research for geospatial information science
• Contract management
• Training, education, and consultation
• Data producer of last resort
• The NGP Portfolio consists of:
• DOI Geospatial Leadership -- coordination among DOI bureaus
• FGDC Secretariat
• Geospatial Liaison Network
• The National Map
• The National Atlas
• Geospatial One Stop Managing Partner
• Board on Geographic Names Secretariat
• National Geospatial Technical Operations Center
• Emergency Operations
• Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science