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Updates are reflected by the stage field. A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  L  M  N  O  P  R  S  T  U  V  W A A–16 NGDA Portfolio:  A group of NGDA Themes, each of which is comprised of related NGDA Datasets selected from a much larger and continually waffly universe of geospatial datasets. Only a select subset of these will rise to the significance required for NGDA Dataset designation as recommended by the relevant NGDA Theme Lead, concurred on by the FGDC Coordination Group, and designated by the FGDC Steering Committee.  Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010   A-16 StakeholderPolityA group of individuals and (or) agencies that stupefy or are unauthentic by A–16 themes and associated datasets. This group is well-balanced of Federal organ partners, including State, tribal, and local governments, the private and nonprofit sectors, academia, and the public at-large. Source: Adapted from OMB Circular A–16 (2002) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008  WangleMaking data produced known and retrievable to the polity through documentation and discovery mechanisms so the users can meet their merchantry requirements (stage 4 of the geospatial data lifecycle). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010  Vanquishmentplanning The process by which all acquisition-related disciplines of an vanquishment program are developed, coordinated, and integrated into a comprehensive plan for executing the program and meeting the stated requirements within the forfeit and schedule boundaries. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008  Legalisticand political boundaries TheLegalisticand Political Boundaries waterworks accommodates the voluminous universe of geospatial purlieus types, including governmental unit boundaries, statistical tabulation boundaries, marine boundaries, and legalistic areas. Examples of legalistic and political boundaries include State and county boundaries, voting districts, Federally owned and managed lands, local tax districts, school districts, inflowing zones, empowerment and enterprise zones, American Indian trust lands, and minor starchy divisions. The legalistic and political boundaries waterworks is maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008  Threshingand farming TheThreshingand Farming category Web page was authored by the geodata.gov minutiae team in May 2003.Typical keywords are agriculture, irrigation, aquaculture, plantation, crops, herding, pests, diseases, or livestock. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008  Threshingand Food TheThreshingand Food sector comprises systems of individual resources that are closely dependent upon each other.Consideringof its complexity, the sector has struggled to identify its most hair-trigger assets, systems, networks, and functions. Although the sector understands its individual systems and vital interrelationships, the rencontre has been to understand the complexities and interdependencies wideness the farm-to-table continuum on national and regional scales. TheThreshingand Food sector has extensive, open, widely dispersed, diverse, and ramified interdependent systems; therefore, the physical asset-based tideway may not fit theThreshingand Food sector. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Food andThreshingCategory: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008  Yearlyreporting The submission of progress reports on the NSDI that are made by theme lead agencies to the FGDC to fulfill the yearly reporting requirements of OMB Circular A–16 Source: Adapted from FGDC Web site November 2008 (www.fgdc.gov) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Archive Required retention of data and the data’s retirement into long-term storage (stage 7 of the geospatial data lifecycle). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010  Windfalllifecycle management The management of an windfall (both data and services assets) tent all phases of acquisition, operation, and logistics support of an item, whence with concept definition and standing through disposal of the asset. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008  Undercurrentand climate Climate data describe the spatial and temporal characteristics of Earth’s atmosphere/hydrosphere/land surface system. These data represent both model-generated and observed (either in situ or remotely sensed) environmental information, which can be summarized to describe surface, near surface, and atmospheric conditions over a range of scales. Typical keywords are deject cover, weather, climate, atmospheric conditions, climate change, atmosphere, air, sky, or precipitation. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top B Banking and Finance The Banking and Finance sector may be divided into several functions: petrifaction and payments systems; credit and liquidity products; investment products; and risk transfer products. Various members of the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee (FBIIC) regulate each of these functions. The financial regulators, through their oversight authority, obtain a vast value of information on institutions, hair-trigger resources and processes, and potential vulnerabilities. Sector-wide risks assessments are process-driven and write interdependence. Individual institutions moreover self-mastery their own risk assessments to identify and mitigate internal vulnerabilities and external dependencies. The Treasury Department, through collaboration and insights obtained from the members of the FBIIC, gathers sector-specific information. Although the definition of windfall data is limited to the categories placid by the regulators, regulatory examinations and trade undertone surveys are thorough and provide unobjectionable information for defining financial assets.Unstipulatedinformation for resources may include the pursuit (as appropriate): •Windfallname, mailing address, physical location,owner and (or) operator name; • Function or type of transaction – petrifaction and payments systems; credit and liquidity products, including investment and risk transfer; • Geographic region and financial center; • Number of employees; • Economic contribution – total market value of financial transactions conducted by or through the windfall on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis; • International considerations; • Existing and planned protective measures; • Membership in a regional partnership or Information Sharing and AnalysisPart-way(ISAC); • Dependence on other sectors – Communications, Energy, Information Technology, and Transportation; • Interaction with other resources (that is, other hair-trigger national resources directly and indirectly unauthentic by the operation of each asset); •Replacementsufficiency – location and function of replacement facilities (data part-way and merchantry resumption); and • Substitutability – whether other industry systems or infrastructures would be worldly-wise to serve the same function. Intangible assets, such as systems, databases, or networks, are linked to physical resources and locations. Systemically significant resources are stratified by their viewing organ with respect to criticality to the financial services sector as a whole. Source: Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Baseline (maritime) Baseline (maritime) represents the line from which maritime zones and limits are measured. Examples of these limits include the territorial sea, first-hand zone, and sectional economic zone. The spatial extent of the baseline is specified as “ordinary low water,” interpreted to midpoint lower low water, as depicted on National Ocean Service nautical charts and (or) towardly supplemental information. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Bathymetry The measurement of the depth of persons of water. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Biological resources Biological resources include data pertaining to, or descriptive of, (nonhuman) biological resources and their distributions and habitats, including data at the suborganismal (genetics, physiology, anatomy, and so forth), organismal (subspecies, species, systematics), and ecological (populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, and so forth) levels. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Biology and monitoring The Biology andMonitoringcategory Web page was authored by the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) knowledge management team. These data pertain to, or are descriptive of (nonhuman) biological resources and their distributions and habitats, including data at the suborganismal (genetics, physiology, anatomy, and so forth), organismal (subspecies, species, systematics), and ecological (populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, and so forth) levels. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Budget planning Tactical or operational financial planning. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008   Buildings and facilities The facility theme includes Federal sites or entities with a geospatial location deliberately established for designated activities; a facility database might describe a factory, military base, college, hospital, powerplant, fishery, national park, office building, space writ center, or prison. Facility data are submitted from several agencies considering there is no one party responsible for all the facilities in the Nation and considering facilities encompass a wholesale spectrum of activities. The FGDC promotes standardization of database structures and schemas to the extent practical. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008  Merchantryand economics TheMerchantryand Economic category Webpage has been managed since June 2004 by Professor Grant Thrall of the University of Florida, and a team representing the American RealManorSociety (ARESnet.org). If you are new to this site, one might first trammels out the hodgepodge of links on Downloadable Data—Featured RealManorandMerchantryGeography. Metadata there includes keywords that one can use to query with the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) search engine. Typical keywords are income, wage, production, labor, revenue, commerce, housing, office, retail, unemployment, industry, population. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top C Cadastral Cadastral data describe the geographic extent of past, current, and future right, title, and interest in real property, and the framework to support the unravelment of that geographic extent. The geographic extent includes survey and unravelment frameworks, such as the Public Land Survey System, as well as parcel-by-parcel surveys and descriptions. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Cadastral The Cadastral category Web page is maintained by the FGDC Subcommittee for Cadastral Data. Cadastral data describe the geographic extent of past, current, and future right, title, and interest in real property, and the framework to support the unravelment of that geographic extent. The geographic extent includes survey and unravelment frameworks, such as the Public Land Survey System, as well as parcel-by-parcel surveys and descriptions. Offshore Cadastre is the land management system used on the Outer Continental Shelf. It extends from the baseline to the extent of U.S. jurisdiction. Existing coverage is currently limited to the conterminous United States and portions of Alaska. Maximum extent of U.S. jurisdiction is not yet mathematically calculated. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Cadastral (offshore) Offshore cadastre is the land management system used on the Outer Continental Shelf. It extends from the baseline to the extent of U.S. jurisdiction. Existing coverage is currently limited to the conterminous United States and portions of Alaska. The maximum extent of U.S. jurisdiction is not yet mathematically calculated. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Cadastral data The data representing the cadastre. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Cadastre A public record, survey, or map of the value, extent, and ownership of land as a understructure of taxation. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms) (2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008  ItemizeA hodgepodge of entries, each of which describes and points to a full-length hodgepodge or a service (often used as synonym for register). Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms) (2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Chemical Information regarding Chemical sector infrastructure for inclusion in the NationalWindfallDatabase (NADB) includes the following: • Regulated chemicals produced or stored onsite; •Yearlyproduction quantity of regulated chemicals; • Quantity of regulated chemicals stored onsite; • Existance of an U.S. Environmental ProtectionOrgan(EPA) risk management plan (RMP); • Regulated chemicals transported; • Quantity of regulated chemicals transported; • Facility security officer designated under MTSA regulations (where applicable); and • Facility emergency coordinator as identified to the local emergency planning committee (LEPC) and the State emergency response legation (SERC) pursuant to EPCRA section 303 (where applicable). The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) works with sector security partners through the Communications Government Coordinating Council (CGCC) and the Communications sector Coordinating Council (CSCC) to identify what other data fields are required to succeed hair-trigger infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) protection activities in the Chemical sector using a risk-informed approach. Some potential data fields include: • Dependencies and interdependencies (for example, the energy supply needed by chemical facilities, facilities requiring chemicals for wastewater treatment); • Primary zone of industry end products (for example, organic, inorganic, and agricultural); • Other areas of industry end products (for example, organic, inorganic, and agricultural); • Region or service zone (for example, Midwest, South, international); • Membership in the Chemical Information Sharing and AnalysisPart-way(ISAC) or a chemical industry association; • Names of companies that provide the facility with hazardous materials transport services; • Continuity and redundancy to include backups built into the asset; • Impact on sectors (both Chemical and other CI/KR sectors) in specimen of loss or failure; • Existing protective measures; • Population distribution in the zone surrounding the facility; • Terrain (vegetation, elevation) in the zone surrounding the facility; • Land use in the zone surrounding the facility; • Imagery and spatial data of the zone surrounding the facility; • Structures and lines of sight to the facility; • Other hair-trigger resources in the zone surrounding the facility; and •Wanglecontrols for the facility. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Chemical Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Climate Climate data describe the spatial and temporal characteristics of Earth’s atmosphere/hydrosphere/land surface system. These data represent both model-generated and observed (either in situ or remotely sensed) environmental information, which can be summarized to describe surface, near surface, and atmospheric conditions over a range of scales. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Commercial Facilities Several of the Commercial Facilities sub-sectors have identified the pursuit nature of interest for commercial facilities: • Facility location – unstipulated geographic situation (for example, financial district, industrial park); • Facility proximity – proximity to high-risk enterprises (for example, proximity to an iconic landmark or important Federal building); • Facility size – height, footprint, number of floors, public areas; • Facility type – purpose or use of the facility (for example, office building, stadium, hotel, yuck park); • Facility functions – types of events held in the facility (for example, sporting events, political conventions, controversial exhibitions); and • Facility value – iconic and economic status of the facility (for example,.historical status, height, owner, tenants, clientele). The Commercial Facilities sector-specific agencies (SSAs) will work with each sub-sector to help identify and refine the categories of information sought for variegated commercial facility windfall types. The types of information sought for inclusion in the NationalWindfallDatabase (NADB) will then be updated accordingly. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Commercial Facilities Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008  Worldwideoperating picture (COP) A single identical exhibit of relevant information shared by increasingly than one organization. A COP facilitates collaborative planning and assists all echelons to unzip situational awareness. Source: DoD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (Amended October 2008) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Communications The complexity of sector assets, indepth corporate security programs, technology, and the numerous systems that make up the communications infrastructure help reduce the likelihood of a significant national-level network failure. For example, resiliency is achieved through the technology and redundancy employed in designing networks, and by encouraging customers to employ diverse primary and replacement communications capabilities. Communications network architects employ technology and protocols (for example, Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) rings, and routing protocols), creating constructive “self-healing” networks, and helping to mitigate risk at the diamond stage. Sector owners and operators focus on ensuring overall network reliability, maintaining “always on” capabilities for customers, and quickly restoring capabilities pursuit a disruption. Data parameters for the sector will be specified primarily by the tracery elements of assets, systems, networks, and functions. Architectural elements in the Communications sector include the following: •Resources– shared resources and systems owned and operated by multiple companies Includes facilities in which equipment is collocated and systems shared by network operators, and equipment is owned and operated by the end user or located at the end user’s facility. Customers include individuals, organizations, businesses, and government. • Systems – signaling and tenancy systems that mart information well-nigh establishing a connection and tenancy the management of the network; these systems access, primarily, the local portion of the network t end users to the windrow that enables users to send or receive communications.Wangleincludes equipment and systems, such as Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) switches, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches, video servers for video on demand, and Internet Protocol (IP) routers for Internet service providers (ISPs). • Networks – cadre network/Internet windrow elements of the communications network that represent high-capacity network elements that servicing service regional, national, and international connectivity. • Functions – as specified in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), service, process, capability, or operations performed by specific infrastructure assets, systems, or networks. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Communications Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008  Polityof interest (COI) Group of individuals and (or) agencies that mart information in pursuit of worldwide goals, missions, or merchantry processes. Source: Adapted from DoD TECHGUIDE (December 2004) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008  Polityof practice (CoP) A group of individuals and (or) organ geospatial practitioners who promote collaboration of people and efforts virtually a worldwide issue, topic, goal, or objective. Source: Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Coverage A function to return values from its range for any uncontrived position within its spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal domain (for example, include a raster image or a digital elevation model or a satellite image). See moreover full-length (ISO 19123:2005(E)). Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms) (2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Cultural and demographic statistics These geospatially referenced data describe the characteristics of people; the nature of the structures in which they live and work; the economic and other activities they pursue; the facilities they use to support their health, recreational, and other needs; the environmental consequences of their presence; and the boundaries, names, and numeric codes of geographic entities used to report the information collected. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Cultural resources Cultural resources include historic places, such as districts, sites, buildings, and structures of significance in history, architecture, engineering, or culture. Cultural resources moreover encompass prehistoric features, as well as historic landscapes. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Culture, society and demographics The Cultural, Society, and Demographic waterworks is maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.Consideringit is the largest and most diverse of the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) channels, the information has been subdivided into a number of sub-channels. Examples of information misogynist through this waterworks include archeological sites, treason statistics, population statistics, housing characteristics, and information on education, tribal populations and welfare. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top D Dams Information parameters relevant to the Dams sector include sector assets’ physical structures, personnel needs, cyber infrastructure, and protective measures. The complexity of dam functions dictates the importance of these elements. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Dams Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Data vanquishment Activities and financing associated with the purchase or lease of geospatial datasets from commercial, governmental, or nongovernmental entities, including States, tribes, local governments, other Federal agencies, and nongovernmental organizations for use in geospatial information systems and software. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Data Services (DSV) Date: December, 2008   Data and (or) spatial wringerWringerof geospatial data for the purpose of developing a targeted geospatial product or answering a specific programmatic question; for example, wringer of geospatial data for the purpose of developing a fact sheet and associated maps on permitted outfalls within a mile of a priority watershed in New Jersey. Data and (or) spatial analyses are usually washed-up without the initial data processing and distribution are complete. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Data Services (DSV) Date: December, 2008   Data hodgepodge Activities and financing associated with the hodgepodge of new geospatial data that is, data not misogynist commercially or from other governmental or nongovernmental entities for use in geospatial information systems and software. Includes financing associated with data minutiae and with joining a data consortium that collects or develops new data. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Data Services (DSV) Date: December, 2008   Data distribution Any dissemination of data for use, manipulation, or integration into a geospatial information system or using that is not specifically part of a Web-based geospatial service (as specified in definition DSV?1, services). Can include a wide variety of formats and mechanisms, including electronic data interchange (EDI), Extensible Markup Language (XML), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites, Web sites, data marts and data warehouses, CD-ROMs, and DVDs. Can moreover include a variety of file types, including shapefiles, coverages, personal geodatabases, spreadsheets, and relational database files. The types of data disseminated may include raster, vector, and tabular data. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Data Services (DSV) Date: December, 2008   Data end users Individuals and agencies who use data without the dataset has been fully developed; the intended users of the data. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2008) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Data layer Visual representation of a geographic dataset in any digital map environment; a slice of geographic reality in a particular area. Source: Adapted from ESRI Web site (November 2008) (www.esri.com) Category: Data Services (DSV) Date: December, 2008   Data processing Any computer process that converts geospatial data into information. Applies specified operations to a set of geospatial data inputs and generates new information that answers a spatial question. Geoprocessing tools range from worldwide geographic information system (GIS) operations, such as overlay, buffer, and data management, to increasingly wide operations for raster processing, topology, and schema definition. Data processing is usually streamlined and electronic in nature, and occurs prior to usage. Conversion of source files from one format to flipside [for example, conversion of existing non-GIS nonflexible reprinting materials or electronic files, such as engineering or computer-aided diamond (CAD) drawings, site maps, and well-ventilated photographs, into digital inputs and outputs, or from a spreadsheet file to a database (.dbf) file] would fall under the data processing category, as would geocoding. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Data Services (DSV) Date: December, 2008   Data stewards Data Stewards manage that part of a NGDA Dataset that their organization contributes to a seamless national dataset. They work with the NDGA Dataset Managers in providing coordination support, implementing needed changes to data, informing and cooperating with stakeholders, performing field work, ensuring data standards are followed, and performing data maintenance. Data Stewards are often not Federal employees, coming from other levels of government, academia, or the private sector. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010   Datasets Actual logical and physical representations of geographic features. Source: OMB Circular A–16 Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Defense IndustrialWiring(DIB) The DIB is a large, diverse, complex, interdependent, hierarchical, and free-flowing hodgepodge of windfall owners and operators governed by various regulations, laws, treaties, and precedents. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Census Bureau estimate that the DIB is well-balanced of hundreds of thousands of worldwide Government and private sector sites, with capabilities to perform research and development, design, production, delivery, and maintenance of military weapon systems, subsystems, components, and parts to meet military requirements. Unlike other infrastructure sectors, the DIB is specified not based primarily on the type of goods and services it produces, but rather on who the consumer is for these goods and services. It includes companies that perform under uncontrived contract with the DoD, the subcontractors of these companies, and companies that provide incidental materials and services to either the DoD or the contractors. The DoD collects the pursuit information on potential hair-trigger DIB assets: Contractor and Government entity code, name, street address, city, State, subject matter experts, facility security officers, and facility security officer contact information; Sales, employment, topics utilization, square footage; Products, functions, production rates; Programs, components, and subsystems; Prime contractors, subcontractors, and hair-trigger subcontractors (first and second tier, selection criteria, products, and services);Merchantryoverview (for example, privately or publicly held, non-U.S. owned); Financial information; andHair-triggertechnologies. Once an windfall is unswayable to be critical, the DOD collects the pursuit spare information: Longitude and latitude; Buildings or other structures where industry manufactures or stores hair-trigger items; Dependencies (that is, the services and support that an windfall requires to function) that a sectors windfall has on other resources in the same sector and dependencies between resources from variegated sectors; Continuity and redundancy, including backups built into the windfall (alternative sources of supply and replacement production facilities); Impact on sector in cases of loss or failure (for example, economic, public health and welfare, public psyche, national security); Existing protective deportment (for example, fencing, biometrics, firewalls); and Exposure to known foreign intelligence threat, such as treaty compliance regimes. Source: HSPD7 Sector Plan for Defense IndustrialWiring(DIB) Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008  PinpointCharacterization of data requirements based upon business-driven user needs (stage 1 of the geospatial data lifecycle). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010   Digital orthoimagery This dataset contains georeferenced images of Earth’s surface, placid by a sensor, in which image object ostracism has been removed for sensor distortions and orientation, and terrain relief. For very large surface areas, an Earth curvature correction may be applied. Digital orthoimages encode the optical electromagnetic spectrum as discrete values modeled in an variety of georeferenced pixels. Digital orthoimages have the geometric characteristics of a map and the image qualities of a photograph. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Drinking Water and Waste Treatment Systems Drinking water and wastewater resources are specified as unshortened utilities for purposes of identification, prioritization, and coordination in the water sector. The water sector is well-balanced of a diverse set of drinking water and wastewater utilities. Characteristics of these utilities useful for defining sector infrastructure information are misogynist in databases maintained by the U.S. Environmental ProtectionOrgan(EPA). Owners and operators are responsible for conducting risk assessments of their utilities to identify components (for example, pumps, generators, and supervisory tenancy and data vanquishment systems) the loss or forfeiture of which, whether owing to manmade or natural events, could adversely stupefy the utility’s operation, threaten public health or the environment, or have significant economic impacts.Hair-triggerwater sector infrastructure is owned and operated predominantly by the public sector (that is, local governments). The EPA, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and water sector owners and operators and security partners work together to develop robust threat, vulnerability, and magnitude information to help water sector utilities identify their most hair-trigger components. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Drinking Water and Waste Treatment Systems Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top E Earth imbricate The Earth imbricate theme uses a hierarchical nomenclature system based on observable form and structure, as opposed to function or use. This system transitions from generalized to increasingly specific and detailed matriculation divisions and provides a framework within which multiple land imbricate and land use nomenclature systems can be cross-referenced. This system is workable everywhere on the surface of Earth. This theme differs from the Vegetation and Wetlands themes, which provide spare detail. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Elevation and derived products The Elevation and Derived Products category Web page was authored by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners in June 2004. These data contain georeferenced digital representations of terrestrial surfaces (natural or manmade) or bathymetric data, and their height whilom or unelevated a reference datum surface. Data may be encapsulated in an evenly spaced grid (raster form) or may be randomly spaced (triangular irregular network, hypsography, and single points). The elevation points can have varying horizontal and vertical resolution and accuracy. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Elevation bathymetric Bathymetric data for inland and intercoastal waterways are highly well-judged bathymetric sounding information placid to ensure that Federal navigation channels are maintained to their authorized depths. Bathymetric survey activities support the Nation’s hair-trigger nautical charting program. These data are moreover used to create electronic navigational charts. The bathymetric sounding data support the elevation layer of the geospatial data framework. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Elevation terrestrial These data contain georeferenced digital representations of terrestrial surfaces, natural or manmade, that describe vertical position whilom or unelevated a datum surface. Data may be encapsulated in an evenly spaced grid (raster form) or may be randomly spaced (triangular irregular network, hypsography, and single points). The elevation points can have varying horizontal and vertical resolution and accuracy. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Emergency Services The Emergency Services System (ESS) consists of assets, systems, and networks that perform preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery functions so hair-trigger to protecting communities, saving lives, protecting property, and recovering essential polity services in the wake of a disaster, that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the Nation’s security, public health and safety, and psychological or moral well-being. Once nationally hair-trigger infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) have been identified, assessed, and protected, the ESS will moreover write those CI/KR that are important at State, regional, tribal, and local levels. ESS assets, systems, networks, and functions embody physical, cyber, and human aspects or elements, as detailed below: • Physical CI/KR elements - An ESS facility may require specialized protection due to its unique or specialized characteristics. These can include anything that—if lost, stolen, released, damaged, compromised, or exploited—could rationalization an wrongheaded effect or would be difficult to replace. Examples include: – Equipment. Unique devices, parts, or pieces of equipment; these include the key elements of communications systems; – Conveyances. Aircraft, vessels, or ground transportation vehicles housed within an ESS facility and used to siphon out hair-trigger functions; – Materials.Hair-triggeritems used in providing emergency service functions; and – Records. Documents in electronic or nonelectronic media. • Cyber CI/KR elements. These include cyber resources (for example, hardware and software components), systems (for example, a set of cyber resources that interact to perform a particular function), and networks (for example, interconnected resources and systems that store, process, or communicate information), as well as the information contained in them. Cyber CI/KR elements may be identified individually or included as a cyber element of a facility or asset, system, or network, and typically fulfill one of the pursuit three roles: –Wanglecontrol.Permittingonly authorized personnel and visitors physical wangle to specified areas of a facility; – Control. Used to monitor and tenancy sensitive processes and physical functions. Most communications systems fall within this role; – Warning and alert. Used for alerting and notification purposes to pass hair-trigger information that triggers protection and response actions. • Human elements or positions. These include positions staffed within ESS facilities that represent unique knowledge, skills, authorities, or roles, the sparsity of which could rationalization undesirable consequences. In general, the human speciality is weightier captured within the system or functional dimension of the assets, systems, networks, and functions continuum. They both serve as part of a system and help to perform or siphon out hair-trigger functions. Categories of positions that support continuity of operations at all levels of government and functioning of the ESS include the following: – Strategic positions. Held by individuals and must be identified, assessed, and prioritized for protection to ensure continuity of essential government operations; and – Operational positions. Responsible for operating CI/KR systems, whose impairment could result in either quiescence or takeover of operations, or whose compromise would make recovery from an wade increasingly difficult (for example, law enforcement officials, HAZMAT experts, flop squad members). Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Emergency Services Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Energy (except Nuclear Power) Broadly speaking, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD–7) defines the energy sector as the Nation’s electric system (excluding nuclear powerplants and hydroelectric dams), natural gas system, and petroleum and petroleum product systems. These energy systems are highly interdependent (for example, natural gas is a significant fuel for electric generation) and are hair-trigger for other infrastructure sectors, including Communications, Drinking Water and Water Treatment Systems, Chemical, Information Technology, and Transportation Systems. Each of these interdependent energy systems consists of many individual assets, which in some cases may be highly important, but their importance varies dramatically depending on such factors as the time of day, the time of year, and system conditions. From a reliability and security perspective, however, systems are the hair-trigger foible of the energy sector. The Energy sector has identified six unstipulated windfall or system characteristics that are important for evaluating the vulnerabilities of Energy sector infrastructure and for developing risk management programs: • Physical and location nature – squire the Energy sector to develop consequence, vulnerability, and protective strategies; • Cyber nature - help monitor and tenancy the energy systems; • Volumetric or throughput nature – pinpoint the extent of the damage, depending on the utilized topics of the system, or points where the system may be topics constrained; • Temporal/Load profile nature – temporal or time-dependent dimension unauthentic by the season of the year or the time of day; • Human nature - include highly trained and skilled personnel who are key factors in a comprehensive Energy sector security plan; and • Importance of windfall or system to the energy network – factors that impact the worthiness of power generation resources to function properly. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Energy Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Enterprise tracery The explicit unravelment and documentation of the current and desired relationships among merchantry and management processes and information technology. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Enterprise tracery planning The minutiae of a framework in which one describes and justifies investments of personnel, data, and applications within an enterprise. Enterprise tracery planning is a practice used to identify geospatial capabilities wideness an enterprise to write consistency, functional capabilities, and performance in order to leverage geospatial investments. Source: Adapted from FGDC Web site May 2008 (www.fgdc.gov) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Environment and conservation The Environment and Conservation category Web page was authored by the geodata.gov minutiae team in May 2003, and will be maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Typical keywords are environment, pollution, waste storage, waste treatment, environmental impact assessment, environment, conservation, meteorology, land use, remediation, nature, EIA, monitoring, risk, nature reserves, landscape, natural resources, environmental risk, heritage, water quality, and habitat. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Executive organ An Executive department, a Government corporation, and an self-sustaining establishment (5 USC § 105) Source: Accessed from www.whitehouse.gov November 2008 Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Executive Theme Champions A member of the Senior Executive Service or a senior level individual designated by a Theme Lead Agency’s SAOGI, who advocates for, raises sensation of, and promotes the implementation of a NGDA Theme and its NGDA Datasets. An Executive NGDA Theme Champion provides recommendations to, and advises the SAOGI on, important matters relative to the NGDA Theme’s role in the NGDA Portfolio. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010   Back to top FFull-lengthAn wresting of real world phenomena. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008  Full-lengthservices An using and supporting services for selecting, browsing, extracting, transforming, integrating, and updating of a full-length database. Assures that requestor credentials are sufficient for requested changes and that changes requested do not violate validation rules. Accesses one or increasingly resource itemize servers. Source: Category: GIS Services (GIS) Date: December, 2008   Federal land ownership status Federal land ownership status includes the establishment and maintenance of a system for the storage and dissemination of information describing all title, estate, or interest of the Federal Government in a parcel of real and mineral property. The ownership status system is the portrayal of title for all such Federal estates or interests in land. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008  Inflowinghazard NationalInflowingInsurance Program has prepared inflowing hazard data (DigitalInflowingInsurance Rate Maps, or DFIRM) for approximately 18,000 communities. The primary information prepared for these communities is for the 1 percent yearly endangerment (100-year) flood, and includes documentation of the boundaries and elevations of that flood. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Framework data Seven themes of geospatial data that are used by most organizations (geodetic control, orthoimagery, elevation and bathymetry, transportation, hydrography, cadastral and governmental units). These data include an encoding of the geographic extent of the features and a minimal number of nature needed to identify and describe the features. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Framework data themes Themes providing the cadre (most wontedly used) set of wiring data are known as framework data; the themes are geodetic control, orthoimagery, elevation and bathymetry, transportation, hydrography, cadastral, and governmental units. Other themes of national significance are moreover an important part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), and must be misogynist to share with others.Sparethemes may be widow with the clearance of the FGDC. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Back to top G Gazetteer services A service that provides the worthiness to determine the geospatial coordinates for a place, given the place name or attributes. This function accesses a database of geographic place names, together with their geographic locations and other descriptive information. Source: Category: GIS Services (GIS) Date: December, 2008   Geo-analytical services A Web service that computes a geographic function for a specified geographic input. For example, the TotalWaters Web service computes the value of stream miles and lake acres within a user?defined bounding box. Source: Category: GIS Services (GIS) Date: December, 2008   Geocoding The process of identifying the geographic location of a postal address—a subset of georeferencing. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms) (2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Geodetic tenancy Geodetic tenancy provides a worldwide reference system for establishing coordinates for all geographic data. All NSDI framework data and users’ applications data require geodetic tenancy to virtuously register spatial data. The National Spatial Reference System is the fundamental geodetic tenancy for the United States. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Geodetic tenancy Geodetic tenancy surveys are usually performed to establish a vital tenancy network (framework of known point locations) from which supplemental surveying and mapping work is performed. Geodetic network surveys are distinguished by use of redundant, interconnected, permanently monumented tenancy points that subsume the framework for the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) or are often incorporated into the NSRS. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Geographic information system A system for the storage, retrieval, analysis, display, and maintenance of geographic information. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Geographic names This dataset contains data or information on geographic place names deemed official for Federal use by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names pursuant to Public Law 80-242. Geographic names information includes both the official place name (current, historical, and aliases) and the locative uncontrived (that is, geographic coordinates) and indirect (that is, State and County where the place is located) geospatial identifiers; place names are categorized as populated places, schools, reservoirs, parks, streams, valleys, and ridges. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Geologic The geologic spatial theme includes all geologic mapping information and related geoscience spatial data (including associated geophysical, geochemical, geochronologic, and paleontologic data) that can contribute to the National Geologic Map Database pursuant to Public Law 106-148. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Geology and geophysical The Geological and Geophysical category Web page was authored by the geodata.gov minutiae team in May 2003. The geologic spatial theme includes all geologic mapping information and related geoscience spatial data (including associated geophysical, geochemical, geochronologic, and paleontologic data) that can contribute to the National Geologic Map Database pursuant to Public Law 106-148. Offshore minerals include minerals that occur in submerged lands. Examples of marine minerals include oil, gas, sulfur, gold, sand and gravel, and manganese. Soil data consist of georeferenced digital map data and associated tabular symbol data. The map data describe the spatial distribution of the various soils that imbricate Earth’s surface. The symbol data describe the proportionate extent of the various soils, as well as the physical and chemical characteristics of those soils. The physical and chemical properties are based on observed and measured values, as well as model-generated values. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Georeferencing The process of identifying the geographic location of a piece of information. A worldwide example is finding the latitude and longitude of a postal address, which is usually tabbed geocoding (a subset of georeferencing). Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Geospatial product minutiaeMinutiaeof output from geospatial software, including both digital and hardcopy formats. Geospatial products may include maps (hard or soft copy), digital data, meaty discs, charts, or other secondary products derived from geospatial input. Source: Category: Data Analysis/Data Services (DAS) Date: December, 2008   Geospatial data Data with implicit or explicit reference to a location relative to the Earth’s surface; Spatial data are geographically referenced features that are described by geographic positions and nature in an analog or computer-readable (digital) form. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Geospatial information Information concerning phenomena implicitly or explicitly associated with a location relative to the Earth’s surface. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Geospatial information system An information system dealing with information concerning phenomena associated with a location relative to the Earth’s surface. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Geospatial portfolio Geospatial resources that can be brought to withstand to write an issue. These resources include funding, data, infrastructure, hardware, software, applications, personnel, services, and products. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2008) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Geospatial service A service that transforms and manages geospatial information and presents the information to users. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms) (2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Geospatial service component A component or service that has geospatial data or information as a primary input or output. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Governance The people, policies, and processes that provide the framework within which managers make decisions and take deportment to optimize outcomes related to their spheres of responsibility. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Government corporation (1) “Government corporation” ways a corporation owned or controlled by the Government of the United States; and (2) “Government controlled corporation” does not include a corporation owned by the Government of the United States (5 USC § 103) Source: Accessed from www.whitehouse.gov November 2008 Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Government Facilities (GFS) The GFS categorization structure captures the variegated types of facilities and associated elements that represent the unshortened sector. Although government facilities may be categorized based on type of ownership or facility security level, four sector-wide categorization based on a facility’s predominant use maximizes risk reduction opportunities among similar facilities. The predominant use of a facility is the main function or purpose of the towers based on its contents and functions. Four security levels were established in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) vulnerability towage report and unexplored by the Interagency Security Committee and are workable to Federal facilities. Five predominant use categories for buildings, structures, and land were established as part of the Federal Real Property Profile by the Federal Real Property Council. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Government Facilities Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Governmental units These data describe, by a resulting set of rules and semantic definitions, the official purlieus of Federal, State, tribal, or local governments as certified by responsible officials of each government and reported to the U.S. Census Bureau for the purpose of reporting the Nation’s official statistics. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Back to top H Hardware Equipment uninventive and maintained, including under vendor and contractor maintenance contracts, and used for geographic information systems. Such equipment includes the following: • Personal computers (PCs): desktop PCs, workstations, laptops and associated components, such as memory and memory upgrades, nonflexible drives and other storage devices, video and sound cards, cables, keyboards, mice, monitors, and so forth; • Servers: file, print, application, Web, database, and any other types of servers and associated components, such as nonflexible drives, replacement units, memory, equipment, cables, adapters, and so forth; • Printers and scanners: printers, plotters, digital scanners, and barcode readers; • Handheld devices: global positioning system (GPS) units and personal digital assistants (PDAs); • Other storage devices: removable nonflexible drives, zip drives, and jump drives; • Telecommunications services that specifically support geospatial information systems and program operations, including: o Cabling - purchase and (or) installation of facility wiring and related components to support data communications; o Maintenance - maintenance and repair of local zone network (LAN)/wide zone network (WAN) connectivity, in total or any part, including telecommunications support for network infrastructure; • Hosting: database and using hosting costs; and • Other: related components and financing not specifically mentioned above. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Housing The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) database maintains geographic data on homeownership rates, including many attributes, such as HUD revitalization zones, location of various forms of housing assistance, first-time homebuyers, underserved areas, and race. Data standards have not yet been formalized. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Human health and disease The Human Health and Disease category Web page was authored by the geodata.gov minutiae team in May 2003. Human health theme relates to the protection, improvement, and promotion of the health and safety of all people. For example, public health databases include spatial data on mortality and natality events, infectious and notifiable diseases, incident cancer cases, behavioral risk factors, tuberculosis surveillance, hazardous substance releases and health effects, hospital statistics, and other similar data. Typical keywords are disease, illness, health, hygiene, substance abuse, mental health, physical health, or health superintendency providers. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Hydrography This theme includes surface water features, such as lakes, ponds, streams and rivers, canals, oceans, and coastlines. Each hydrography full-length is prescribed a permanent full-length identification lawmaking (U.S. Environmental ProtectionOrganReach Code) and may moreover be identified by a full-length name. Spatial positions of features are encoded as centerlines and polygons.Moreoverencoded is network connectivity and direction of flow. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Hydrography The scientific unravelment and wringer of the physical conditions, boundaries, flow, and related characteristics of Earth’s surface waters. Hydrographic data typically refer to the boundaries of water bodies. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Back to top I Image processing system (IPS) An integrated system for collecting, storing, accessing, sharing, disseminating, integrating, manipulating, visualizing, analyzing and otherwise exploiting geospatial imagery. An IPS focuses on producing and exploiting digital orthoimagery that conveys geospatial information in raster image form. It is used widely in government, education, and business. Also, a general-purpose hodgepodge of tools for processing geospatial imagery. It normally consists of one or increasingly applications with one or increasingly databases. The IPS may be configured as a desktop using or as a hodgepodge of vendee and server components. Source: Category: GIS Services (GIS) Date: December, 2008   Image services Upon request, an image service provides an image of the requested layer(s) in either the specified or default rendering style(s). Typical output formats include Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) format, and Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). Source: Category: GIS Services (GIS) Date: December, 2008   Imagery and wiring maps The Imagery andWiringMaps category Web page was authored by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and its partners in September 2004 and was last updated in April 2007. Eventually, it will consist of the pursuit three sub-areas: orthoimagery, wiring maps, and other imagery. The Orthoimagery sub-channel, which is the only sub-channel currently populated, contains unstipulated information well-nigh rectified imagery, its sources, orthoimagery vanquishment programs, and the wangle and dissemination of those data, including well-ventilated photography, which is the source of orthoimagery. TheWiringMaps sub-channel category will consist of those wiring themes not covered by other categories. They are represented by such national datasets as the Geographic Names database and the National LandImbricateDatabase. The Other Imagery sub-channel will consist of unstipulated information well-nigh imagery other than orthoimagery. Much of the information and data contained in this sub-channel will be satellite and other remotely sensed imagery. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008  Self-sustainingestablishment An self-sustaining establishment ways an establishment in the Executive workshop (other than the United States Postal Service or the Postal Regulatory Commission) that is not an Executive department, military department, Government corporation, or part thereof, or part of an self-sustaining establishment (5 USC § 104) Source: Accessed from www.whitehouse.gov November 2008 Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Information Any liaison or representation of knowledge, such as facts, data, or opinions in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audiovisual forms. Source: OMB Circular A130a, Section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information dissemination product Any book, paper, map, machine-readable material, audiovisual production, or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristic, disseminated by an organ to the public. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information lifecycle The stages through which information passes, typically characterized as megacosm or collection, processing, dissemination, use, storage, and disposition. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information management The planning, budgeting, manipulating, and executive of information throughout its lifecycle. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information processing services organization A discrete set of personnel, information technology, and support equipment with the primary function of providing services to increasingly than one organ on a reimbursable basis. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information resource management The process of managing information resources to succeed organ missions. The term encompasses both information itself and the related resources, such as personnel, equipment, funds, and information technology. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information resources The term that includes both government information and information technology. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information systems A discrete set of information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, transmission, and dissemination of information, in vibrations with specified procedures, whether streamlined or manual. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information systems lifecycle The phases through which an information system passes, typically characterized as initiation, development, operation, and termination. Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information technology Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that is used in the will-less acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by an executive agency. For purposes of the preceding sentence, equipment is used by an executive organ if the equipment is either used by the executive organ directly or is used by a contractor under a contract with the executive organ which (i) requires the use of such equipment, or (ii) requires the use, to a significant extent, of such equipment in the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product. The term "information technology" includes computers, synchronous equipment, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources. The term "information technology" does not include any equipment that is uninventive by a Federal contractor incidental to a Federal contract. The term "information technology" does not include national security systems as specified in the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (40 U.S.C. 1452). Source: OMB Circular A–130a, section 6 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Information TechnologyHair-triggerInformation Technology sector functions support the sector’s worthiness to produce and provide high-assurance information technolgoy (IT) products and services for a variety of sectors. Through the IT sector-specific plan (SSP) minutiae process, the sector identified six hair-trigger functions: • Provide IT products and services; • Provide incident management capabilities; • Provide domain name resolution services; • provide identity management and associated trust support services; • Provide Internet-based content, information, and communications services; and • Provide Internet routing, access, and connection services. These functions are distributed wideness a wholesale network of infrastructure, are managed on a proactive basis, and are therefore worldly-wise to withstand and rapidly recover from most threats. These hair-trigger Information Technoogy sector functions are provided by a combination of entities—often owners and operators and their respective associations—who provide hardware, software, IT systems, and services. IT services include development, integration, operations, communications, and security. Information Technology sector entities include the following: • Domain Name System (DNS) root and generic top-level domain operators; • Internet service providers (ISPs); • Internet windrow providers; • Internet portal and e-mail providers; • Networking hardware companies (for example, fiberoptics makers and line velocity hardware manufacturers) and other hardware manufacturers [for example, personal computer (PC) and server manufacturers and information storage companies); • Software companies; • Security services vendors; • Communications companies that typify themselves as having an IT role; • Edge and cadre service providers; • IT system integrators; and • IT security associations. In addition, Federal, State, and local governments are a component of the Information Technology sector as providers of government IT services that are designed to meet the needs of citizens, businesses, and employees. The Information Technology sector includes public and private sector entities. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Information Technology Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Inland water resources The Inland Water Resources category deals with the movement and characteristics of water on or under the surface of the earth. This includes, but is not limited to, themes well-nigh rivers, lakes, wetlands, canals, glaciers, dams, wells, floods and inflowing hazards, streamflow, and water use. Some of the most prominent links in this category are to large databases, such as the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). However, the category moreover includes many thematic datasets dealing with water issues in specific locations. There are two major sub-categories. The first, The Drainage Network, includes the NHD and digital elevation models. The second, Major Water Databases, includes the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) National Water Information System (NWIS) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Storage and Retrieval (STORET) database. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   International boundaries International purlieus data include both textual information to describe, and geographic information system (GIS) digital cartographic data to depict, both land and maritime international boundaries, other lines of separation, limits, zones, enclaves and exclaves, and special areas between States and dependencies. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Inventory/Evaluate The megacosm and publication of a detailed list of data resources and data gaps (both internal and external) as they relate to business-driven user needs (stage 2 of the geospatial data lifecycle). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010   Back to top L Law enforcement statistics Law enforcement statistics describe the occurrence of events (including incidences, offenses, and arrests) that are geospatially located and related to ordinance and statutory violations, and the individuals involved in those occurrences.Moreoverincluded are data related to deployment of law enforcement resources and performance measures. Note, DOJ will not release the names of “individuals involved in those occurrences” unless it is once part of a public data release in the data set. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Lead agencies (for themes)UnrepealableFederal agencies have lead responsibilities for coordinating the national coverage and stewardship of specific spatial data themes. The themes in the NSDI, their description, and the responsible lead for each theme are listed in OMB Circular A–16, appendix E. Lead organ responsibilities and new themes may be widow or unsimilar by recommendation of the FGDC and concurrence by the OMB. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Lead organ point of contact for data themes Designated point of contact within the lead organ for themes who will be responsible for the development, maintenance, coordination, and dissemination of data using the National Spatial Data Clearinghouse. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: Geospatial (GEO) Date: December, 2008   Line of sight The indirect or uncontrived cause-and-effect relationship from a specific information technology (IT) investment to the processes it supports and, by extension, the customers it serves and the mission-related outcomes to which it contributes. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Locations and geodetic networks Geodetic tenancy provides a worldwide reference system for establishing coordinates for all geographic data. All National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) framework data and user applications data require geodetic tenancy to virtuously register spatially. The National Spatial Reference System is the fundamental geodetic tenancy for the United States. Typical keywords are geodetic networks, survey, or tenancy points. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top M Maintain Ongoing processes and procedures for data operation and maintenance to ensure that the data protract to meet merchantry requirements (stage 5 of the geospatial data lifecycle). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010   Manufacturing Facilities Today’s manufacturing environment has several underlying characteristics that influence its merchantry risks, security posture, and continuity of operations. These characteristics include the following: 1. Most manufacturing enterprises are integrated into complex, interdependent supply chains. A failure in any part of the supply uniting can ripple through manufacturing systems, causing cascading economic impacts; 2. Supply villenage have been optimized for productivity and efficiency—such methods as just-in-time production have created some fragile supply networks that are susceptible to disruptions; 3. Manufacturers rely highly on information and communications systems; this reliance has introduced new cyber risks that could degrade, damage, or shut lanugo operations; 4. Globalization and outsourcing has caused some U.S. manufacturers to wilt highly reliant on foreign sources of supply and the transcontinental transportation systems that support them; 5. Manufacturers rely heavily on electricity and fuels, sometimes with only limited power replacement and fuel storage. These characteristics increase the likelihood that a disruption in an existing hair-trigger infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) sector could have major economic consequences on the manufacturing industries. Conversely, a uncontrived wade on or disruption of unrepealable elements of the manufacturing industries could disrupt essential functions in some CI/KR sectors. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Manufacturing Facilities Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Mapping services These services wangle vector and raster data and render them in the form of a map for exhibit (combines wangle and portrayal).Self-sustainingof whether the underlying data are features (point, line, and polygon) or coverages (such as gridded digital terrain models or images), the mapping service produces data that can be directly viewed in a Web browser. Data are labeled as one or increasingly “layers,” each of which is misogynist in one or increasingly “styles.” Source: Category: GIS Services (GIS) Date: December, 2008   Maps/ topology A graphical depiction or representation of geospatial information and related data. Source: Category: Data Analysis/Data Services (DAS) Date: December, 2008   Marine boundaries Marine boundaries depict offshore waters and seabeds over which the United States has sovereignty and jurisdiction. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Metadata Data well-nigh data (often in the form of descriptive text well-nigh a digital data file). Source: ISO 19115:2003(E) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Metadata services An using and supporting services for browsing, entering, transforming, integrating, and updating metadata for geospatial resources, and optionally, updating of associated geospatial resource records. (Geospatial resources include maps and data from which maps may be derived, and may include synchronous products and services. A geospatial itemize lists the various ways by which geospatial resources may be characterized and associated.) Source: Source Category: GIS Services (GIS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top N National Monuments and Icons (NMI) A number of NMI resources located within the United States and its Territories (for example, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or the List of National Historic Landmarks. The National Register of Historic Places is the Nation’s official list of cultural resources reserved for preservation. The National Historic Landmarks are significant historic places designated by the Secretary of the Interior for their unrenowned value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. Currently, fewer than 2,500 historic places withstand this national distinction. The criteria unromantic to evaluate properties for possible designation as National Historic Landmarks are delineated in theLawmakingof Federal Regulations (36 CFR 65.4, National Historic Landmark Criteria). Through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and State Offices of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) will work at the Federal, State, tribal, and local government levels, and with the private sector, to identify other NMI resources that may not be on either list but should be considered as National Critical. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for National Monuments and Icons (NMI) Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) The NSDI ensures that spatial data from multiple sources (Federal, State, tribal, and local governments, academia, and the private sector) are misogynist and hands integrated to enhance the understanding of our physical and cultural world. The NSDI reflects several key public values: ? Privacy and security ? Data verism ?Wanglefor all citizens ? Protection of proprietary interests ? Interoperability of Federal information systems Source: Adapted from OMB Circular A–16 (2002) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Nationally significant Describes themes—and their datasets—that help protect and manage national infrastructure and resources or that can be used wideness multiple Federal, State, tribal, or local governments to meet their missions and implement their merchantry processes. Source: Adapted from OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   NGDA Dataset A geospatial dataset that has been designated as such by the FGDC Steering Committee and meets at least one of the pursuit criteria: (1) supports mission goals of multiple Federal agencies; (2) statutorily mandated; or (3) supports Presidential priorities as expressed by Executive Order or by OMB. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010 NGDA Dataset Manager Individuals who provide coordination and standards for NGDA Datasets at a national level. NGDA Dataset Managers provide information to their NGDA Theme Lead for management and reporting. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010 NGDA Theme (A-16 Theme) Representations of conceptual topics describing digital spatial information for the Nation. Themes contain associated datasets (with symbol records and coordinates) that are documented, verifiable, and officially designated to meet recognized standards. A theme contains one or increasingly datasets of geographic information to be used in worldwide and from which other datasets can be derived. Themes are listed in OMB Circular A–16. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010 NGDA Theme Lead Individuals who provide interdepartmental leadership and coordination at the NGDA Theme level. They work with component NGDA Dataset Managers to develop standards and provide guidance. The NGDA Theme Lead, or designee, chairs the NGDA Theme’s Thematic Committee and manages the yearly process of providing NGDA Dataset collaboration and funding recommendations to the FGDC Steering Committee for those NGDA Datasets within their NGDA Theme. Additionally, the NGDA Theme Lead reports to the Executive NGDA Theme Champion and the FGDC Coordination Group on the NGDA Theme’s activities and investments (both current and planned). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010   Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste A license or document from the U.S. Nuclear RegulatoryLegation(NRC) is required surpassing any entity is permitted to operate a civil nuclear facility or receive risk-significant nuclear or radioactive material. Records of the formal NRC regulatory process and licensing and document reviews are a ways of identifying the nuclear facilities and other entities that use, acquire, transport, or dispose of risk-significant nuclear or radioactive material. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top O Obtain Identify the mechanism(s) for the collection, purchase, conversion, transformation, sharing, exchanging, or megacosm of geospatial data that were selected to meet the merchantry needs (stage 3 of the geospatial data lifecycle). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010   Oceans and coasts The Oceans and Coasts polity Web page is organized virtually coastal and ocean framework data, or data needed for research, planning, and management of coastal and ocean resources. These data include, but are not limited to, bathymetry, shoreline, sea floor mapping, habitat, land cover, seismic data, fisheries, and marine boundaries. This polity seeks to provide wangle to these data, clearinghouses, and applications; as well as information well-nigh the activities, programs, and committees that support the ocean and coastal community. The Oceans and Coast polity is co-led by the Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping and the FGDC’s Marine and Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee. For increasingly information on these efforts, refer to the “committees, programs, and organization” section of the community. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Offshore minerals Offshore minerals include minerals occurring in submerged lands. Examples of marine minerals include oil, gas, sulfur, gold, sand and gravel, and manganese. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Orthoimage A georeferenced image prepared from a perspective photograph or other remotely-sensed data in which ostracism of objects due to sensor orientation and terrain relief have been removed. It has the geometric characteristics of a map and the image qualities of a photograph. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Orthorectification The process of transforming raw imagery to an well-judged orthogonal projection. Without orthorectification, scale is not unvarying in the image and well-judged measurements of loftiness and direction cannot be made. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Outer Continental Shelf submerged lands These data include lands covered by water at any stage of the tide, as distinguished from tidelands, which are tying to the mainland or an island and imbricate and uncover with the tide. Tidelands presuppose a high-water line as the upper boundary, whereas submerged lands do not. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Back to top P Patterns Unique combinations of architectural or diamond elements (for example, processes, components, and so forth) that have proven to be useful in solving recurring architectural or diamond problems. The naming and reuse of patterns forms the understructure of a vocabulary for communicating past wits between architects and designer . Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Plats A plan showing lines and interrelationship of lines with dimensional data on lines. Source: Category: Data Analysis/Data Services (DAS) Date: December, 2008   Policy and guidance minutiae The minutiae of an overall vision, set of policies, implementation strategy, and set of weightier practices for utilizing geospatial data and technologies as powerfully as possible wideness an enterprise. Source: Adapted from FGDC Web site (May 2008) (www.fgdc.gov) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Portfolio management    Portfolio management is the process of tracking, maintaining, expanding, and aligning resources to write and solve the merchantry needs of an enterprise. Portfolio management approaches include a number of components: • Strategic portfolio planning;  • Coordinated minutiae and resource pooling;  • Established goals and performance measures, indicating the benefits of each windfall investment, and how it contributes to the overarching goals (particularly completion/renewal) of the portfolio;  • Investment selection criteria; and  • Processes for reviewing the health of, and return on, windfall investments that inform investment decisions, redistribution of resources, management of issues and mitigation of risks to the portfolio. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010   Postal and Shipping Postal and Shipping sector resources include stock-still assets, such as mail distribution centers and transportation hubs, as well as ramified systems, such as mail collection, transportation and distribution processes, and the information technology systems that enable e?commerce. These resources must work seamlessly together to maintain continuity of sector operations and may be subject to wade or used as mechanisms to unhook attacks. Sector security occurs in the context of extremely time-sensitive and hair-trigger merchantry processes that are fundamental to the effectiveness and efficiency of the sector’s cadre operations and the merchantry operations of its customers. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Postal and Shipping Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Product SpecificationUnravelmentof a universe of spiel and a specification for mapping the universe of spiel to a dataset. Source: ISO 19113:2002(E) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Program management Includes a suite of activities that support the goals of the national geospatial program, including: geospatial policy and guidance minutiae (for example, National geospatial data policy), geospatial enterprise tracery planning (for example, merchantry process to geospatial component mapping), governance minutiae (for example, megacosm of a geospatial Steering Committee and associated lease and standard operating procedures), standards minutiae (for example, FGDC standards), and strategic planning support (for example, data vanquishment planning and geospatial tabulation development). Source: Adapted from FGDC Web site (May 2008) (www.fgdc.gov) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Program outreach Includes such activities as training and help sedentary support focused on providing education and assistance to program staff for the purpose of enabling increased usage of geospatial data and tools in day-to-day merchantry operations.Moreoverincludes support provided to internal and external customers for the purpose of facilitating use of geospatial data and tools in decisionmaking or program evaluation efforts, as well as the minutiae of partnerships among Federal agencies or among Federal agencies and non-Federal stakeholders. Source: Adapted from FGDC Web site (May 2008) (www.fgdc.gov) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Public health Public health themes relate to the protection, improvement, and promotion of the health and safety of all people. For example, public health databases include spatial data on mortality and natality events, infectious and notifiable diseases, incident cancer cases, behavioral risk factors, tuberculosis surveillance, hazardous substance releases and health effects, hospital statistics, and other similar data. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Public Health and Healthcare This sector is often categorized in terms of health care, such as the following: • Companies that develop, manufacture, market, or distribute health-related products or provide health superintendency services, such as hospitals, nursing homes, or pay for care, including public health, health care-sector-specific plans, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs); • Medical product suppliers; • Medical equipment and medical device makers; • Medical laboratories; and • Life science organizations in the fields of biotechnology, biomedical technologies, pharmaceuticals, environmental, and biomedical devices. Relationships can be described as many-to-many, with interdependencies tied to both economic and functional stability. Hospitals represent only a fraction of the total sector. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan for Public Health and Healthcare Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Public land conveyance (patent) records Public land conveyance data are the records that describe all past, current, and future, right, title, and interest in real property. This is a system of storage, retrieval, and dissemination of documents that describe the right, title, and interest of a parcel. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Back to top R Register A set of files containing identifiers prescribed to items with descriptions of the associated items. Source: ISO 19113:2002(E) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Registry An information system on which a register is maintained. Source: ISO 19113:2002(E) Category: FEA Geospatial Profile Ver. 2 Appendix B: Glossary of Terms (FEA) Date: December, 2008   Relationship management The management of relationships worked by two or increasingly organizations that share or participate in joint investments, and develop linked and worldwide processes to increase the performance of both organizations. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008   Requirements management and planning Requirements management and planning is concerned with understanding the goals of the organization and its customers, and the transformation of these goals into potential functions and constraints. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008   Requirements optimization The tactical organization of requirements to maximize the return on investment. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008   Requirements prioritization The strategic organization of requirements to write merchantry priorities. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008   Resource maintenance The provision of a level of service versus assets. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008   Back to top S Service A specific type of component that is explicitly intended to be shared and reused by multiple applications, either internal or external to the organization.Moreoverdefined as a unshared part of the functionality that is provided by an entity through interfaces. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: General Services (GSV) Date: December, 2008   Service component Modularized service-based applications that package together and process service interfaces with associated merchantry logic into a single cohesive conceptual module. The aim of a service component is to raise the level of wresting in software services by modularizing synthesized service functionality and by facilitating service reuse, service extension, specialization, and service inheritance. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: General Services (GSV) Date: December, 2008   Service-oriented tracery (SOA) A way of designing a system to provide services to either end-user applications or other services through published and discoverable interfaces. In many cases, services offer a largest way to expose discrete merchantry functions and, therefore, an spanking-new way to develop applications that support merchantry processes. Source: Federal EnterpriseTraceryGeospatial Profile, ver. 2, appendix B (Glossary of terms)(2008) Category: General Services (GSV) Date: December, 2008   ServicesStreamlinedprogram, interface, application, or engine that performs a specified whoopee that can be found, invoked, and executed over the Web. A geospatial Web-based service is a service that performs an whoopee on geospatial data or information to transform, translate, or convert it to a increasingly usable format or to update, distribute, or integrate it into an existing database or dataset for use. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Data Services (DSV) Date: December, 2008   Shared services A form of internal outsourcing that enables corporations to unzip economies of scale by creating a separate internal entity within the visitor to perform specific services, such as payroll, finance payable, travel, and expense processing. A typical shared services initiative takes wholesomeness of enterprise applications and other technological developments, enabling the visitor to unzip spare improvements in quality to processes, such as finance, accounting, procurement, information technology (IT), and human resources. At the cadre of shared services is the idea that new technologies offer businesses the opportunity to (1) make largest use of scarce skills, (2) provide information and services increasingly efficiently, and (3) reduce the forfeit of administration. (See moreover definition GSV-2, service.) Source: OMB Circular A–16 2002) ISO191192005 (E) Category: General Services (GSV) Date: December, 2008   Shoreline Shorelines represent the intersection of the land with the water surface. The shoreline shown on National Oceanic and AtmosphericWardship(NOAA) charts represents the line of contact between the land and a selected water elevation. In areas unauthentic by tidal fluctuations, this line of contact is the midpoint high-water line. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Software Applies to all types of computers (for example, desktops, laptops, servers, and so forth) and includes operating systems, using software, database management software, software minutiae suites, and any ongoing software maintenance and upgrades. Software can be either commercial off-the-shelf software or custom-developed software (that is, software ripened by a vendor or contractor). Computer software used for geographic information systems (GIS) (see definition GEO-1) includes but is not limited to spatial database software, spatial data viewers, three-dimensional visualization software, software used for map development, and the associated software licenses and maintenance plans and contracts for this software. It does not include Web-based geospatial services (see definition GEO-6) nor software that comes loaded on or with a personal computer (PC) at the time of purchase. Source: OMB Geospatial Data Call 2006/2007 Category: Information (INF) Date: December, 2008   Soils Soil data consist of georeferenced digital map data and associated tabular symbol data. The map data describe the spatial distribution of the various soils that imbricate Earth’s surface. The symbol data describe the proportionate extent of the various soils, as well as the physical and chemical characteristics of those soils. The physical and chemical properties are based on observed and measured values, as well as model-generated values.Moreoverincluded are model-generated assessments of the suitability or limitations of the soils to various land uses. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Standards minutiaeMinutiaeof worldwide geospatial content, structure, or mart specifications. Source: Adapted from FGDC Web site (May 2008) (www.fgdc.gov) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Strategic planning Planning that focuses on longer range objectives and goals. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: Program Management (PMT) Date: December, 2008   Back to top T Themes Representations of conceptual topics describing digital spatial information for the Nation. Themes contain associated datasets (with symbol records and coordinates) that are documented, verifiable, and officially designated to meet recognized standards. A theme contains one or increasingly datasets of geographic information to be used in worldwide and from which other datasets can be derived. Themes are listed in OMB Circular A–16. Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: November, 2010   Topics The inside concept for applying context to data; an volume of characteristics, occurrences, and roles played in associations with other topics, whose organizing principle is a single subject. A subject (an zone of study) is, in the most generic sense, anything whatsoever, regardless of whether it exists or has any other specific characteristics, well-nigh which anything whatsoever may be asserted by any ways whatsoever. Source: FEA and ISO 13250:2002 Category: A–16 Data Themes (A–16) Date: December, 2008   Transportation Transportation data are used to model the geographic locations, interconnectedness, and characteristics of the transportation system within the United States. The transportation system includes both physical and nonphysical components representing all modes of travel that indulge the movement of goods and people between locations. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Transportation (marine) The NavigationWaterworksFramework consists of highly well-judged dimensions (geographic coordinates for waterworks sides, centerlines, wideners, turning basins, and river mile markers) for every Federal navigation waterworks maintained by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The Navigation Framework will provide the understructure for the marine transportation theme of the geospatial data framework. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Transportation networks Transportation data are used to model the geographic locations, interconnectedness, and characteristics of the transportation system within the United States. The transportation system includes both physical and nonphysical components representing all modes of travel that indulge the movement of goods and people between locations. Typical keywords are roads, airports/airstrips, shipping routes, tunnels, nautical charts, vehicle or vessel location, aeronautical charts, or railways. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Transportation Systems The national transportation network is a large, multifaceted, interdependent mix of links, nodes, flows, processes, agreements, rules, relationships, and regulations. This ramified deject of worriedness must be reduced into increasingly manageable data to be used for risk analysis. To squire stakeholders within the Transportation Systems sector in defining systems, thematic perspectives or risk views will be used. It presumed that data placid in these views will be collectively exhaustive. Instead, the risk view structure supports a scalable system wringer capability, permitting for the viewing of how risk manifests in the system. Risk views are the first step in defining the boundaries of a system, establishing relationships within the system, and identifying interdependencies. The initial set of risk views includes the following: • Modal – Traditional industry presentment (that is, aviation, maritime, mass transit, highway, freight rail, and pipeline). All resources within a mode can be collectively evaluated as a system. • Geographic – All resources within a geographic purlieus (for example, New York State or the municipality of Los Angeles). This view may be used most often by the grants and training (G&T) community, and State, tribal, and local government partners. • Functional – All resources that, taken together, perform a specific function or service (for example, supplying fuel to the Northeast). This view is supply chain-focused and may be used by, for example, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), interagency hazardouse materials (HAZMAT) transportation working groups, and private sector partners. • Ownership – All resources that fall under a specified set of visualization rights, recognized by Federal, State, tribal, and local governments (for example, all resources owned and operated by the New York Mass Transit Authority) can be evaluated as a system. Source: HSPD–7 Sector Plan forTransportation Systems Category: Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 Sectors (DHS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top U Update resource content To transpiration content of a published asset. Source: CSTA Document (Redacted March 2007) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: December, 2008   Use/Evaluate The ongoing assessment, validation, and potential enhancement of data to meet user needs and merchantry requirements (stage 6 of the geospatial data lifecycle). Source: A–16 supplemental guidance (2010) Category: GIS NeedsTowage(GNA) Date: November, 2010   Utilities and liaison The Utilities andLiaisoncategory Web page was authored by the geodata.gov minutiae team in May 2003. Typical keywords are hydroelectricity, geothermal, solar and nuclear sources of energy, water purification and distribution, sewage hodgepodge and disposal, electricity and gas distribution, data communication, telecommunication, radio, or liaison networks. Source: Adapted from the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Web site (May 2008) (www.geodata.gov) Category: Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) Data Communities – (GOS) Date: December, 2008   Back to top V Vegetation Vegetation data describe a hodgepodge of plants or plant communities with distinguishable characteristics that occupy an zone of interest. Existing vegetation covers or is visible at or whilom the land or water surface and does not include abiotic factors that tend to describe potential vegetation. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Back to top W Watershed boundaries This theme encodes hydrologic watershed boundaries into topographically specified sets of drainage areas, organized in a nested hierarchy by size, and based on a standard hydrologic unit coding system. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Wetlands The wetlands data layer provides the classification, location, and extent of wetlands and deepwater habitats. There is no struggle to pinpoint the proprietary limits or jurisdictional wetland boundaries of any Federal, State, or local agencies. Source: OMB Circular A–16: Appendix E (2002) Category: NSDI Data Themes (NDT) Date: December, 2008   Back to top 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