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FGDCUnshutWater Data Initiative — Federal Geographic Data Committee Home Who We Are Organization History Policies & Planning FGDC Secretariat What We Do ADVANCEMENT OF THE NSDI Collaboration & Partnerships Develop Geospatial Shared Services Geospatial Platform Cloud Computing Geospatial Interoperability Manage Federal Geospatial Resources A-16 NGDA Portfolio Management Geospatial Platform Marketplace StandardsMinutiaeGeospatial Metadata Initiatives Current NSDI Strategic Plan 2014-2016 Geospatial Platform Shared Services NGDA Management PlanUnshutWater Data Initiative NationalWriteDatabase GeoPathways Emerging Topics Geolocation Privacy Crowdsourcing Education & WorkforceMinutiaeNew Geodetic Datums Past Activities Cooperative Agreements Program Fifty States Initiative Geospatial Line of Business SmartBUY Organization Overview Steering Committee Executive Committee National Geospatial Advisory Committee Coordination Group Working Groups Subcommittees FGDC Secretariat Collaborating Partners Membership Directory Resources Key Publications Download Geospatial Standards Policies & Planning Lexicon of Geospatial Terminology FGDC Geospatial Services Status Checker News Calendar Media Resources FGDCUnshutWater Data Initiative Home Initiatives FGDCUnshutWater Data Initiative The United States faces increasing pressures on the nation’s water supply from shifting demographics, white-haired infrastructure and increasing complexities from climate change. This is remoter complicated by the various roles that over 26 Federal agencies, and myriad state and local entities play in collecting, reporting and synthesizing water information. Quantifying the availability, use, and risks to our national water resources is strategic and security issue for the present and the foreseeable future. Improving wangle to data wideness the Federal enterprise, and enabling unshut mart of water information is foundational to understanding existing water resources issues and developing sustainable future solutions. To write this challenge, the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and the Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI) launched theUnshutWater Data Initiative (OWDI) in the summer of 2014.  Goal The goal of the OWDI is to integrate currently fragmented water information into a connected, national water data framework by leverage existing systems, infrastructure and tools to underpin innovation, modeling, data sharing, and solution development. Moreover, the adoption of polity data standards, protocols, and ontologies is hair-trigger to this effort. Agencies managing the OWDI include the Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS) in partnership with other agencies and organizations, such as the University of Texas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR).  Though OWDI is supported and guided through the transferral of these agencies and partners, its success and effectiveness are due to a growing grassroots, cross-sector movement. The Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI) and FGDC created the Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data (SSWD) to squire coordination of Federal and non-Federal interests in spatial water data. Since reinventing the FGDC/ACWI Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data (SSWD) as the home of OWDI, the subcommittee has grown its participants to over 90 representatives of increasingly than 30 organizations that span Federal, state, local governments and includes participation from industry leaders, nonprofits, and academia.  The FGDC National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA) Portfolio Management reporting for water-related data is through the Inland Waters Theme that is comprised of five datasets of the USGS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and USACE.  The theme co-leads are the USGS and USFWS. TheUnshutWater Data Initiative will seek to modernize theUnshutWater Web. This diagram summarizes the components of the this web of unshut water data, processing, and cataloging services. Current Work The SSWD is exploring three initial use cases, which help to identify hair-trigger data needs, then facilitating and making the needed datasets openly misogynist as Web services and downloads. The initial use cases were chosen to imbricate important societal needs and to write several diverse facets of the water information infrastructure. The three initial use cases are: Flooding - The National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) is a joint effort between FEMA, the National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA, USGS, USACE, the academic community, and commercial partners. The goal of NFIE is to demonstrate a transformational suite of science and services for the next generation of national flood hydrology and emergency response. Drought - The OWDI drought use specimen is aimed at providing an integrated picture of water supply and drought information sources, and emphasizes integration and visualization of information from disparate sources. Spill Response - The goal of the OWDI spill response use specimen is to identify datasets, tools, and environmental parameters that would enable Web-based predictive modeling of the path and traveltime of contaminants as they travel downstream. Progress Much progress has been made in the past year. Some of the highlights are: Outstanding engagement and participation in the SSWD, with over 90 people from increasingly than 30 organizations indicating interest, and with half peekaboo the meetings on a regular basis. Special OWDI tracks offered at the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) national conferences in 2014 and 2015. A featured hodgepodge of technical papers related to OWDI, hosted by the Journal of the AWRA. Based on user feedback, a “flattened” data model developed using National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus). The linking of USGS streamgaging stations and NWS forecast points to NHDPlus.Minutiaeof OGC and Esri Web services for NHDPlus streamgaging stations. ResourcesIncreasinglyinformation well-nigh the OWDI can be found on the SSWD OWDI websiteUnshutWater Data Initiative Proposal and Charge for Discussion, FGDC Steering Committee, June 2014 (pdf) Contact Us Office: 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. MS 590 Reston, VA 20192 Fax: (+1) 703 648 5755Email: fgdc@fgdc.gov Subscribe to Our Mailing List for Important News & Updates Subscribe Like us Follow us Follow us The Federal Geographic Data Committee. Policies & Notices / USA.gov Download Adobe Reader / Download Office Viewers