1. ICAN and the Digital Coast Initiative
Introducing the International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) Coastal Zone 2009 – Boston, Massachusetts
ICAN and the Digital Coast Initiative
National Coastal Atlas Perspective
Tony LaVoi
NOAA Coastal Services Center

2. Overview National Coastal Atlas
Current State
Enablers
Digital Coast – Use Case

3. Federal Landscape Numerous Federal ‘national’ atlas projects
DOI – National Map, National Atlas of the U.S., Geospatial One-Stop
USACE – eCoastal
EPA – e-Estuary
NOAA – Multipurpose Marine Cadastre (MMS), Legislative Atlas, nowCoast, Electronic Nautical Charts
No comprehensive, authoritative national coastal atlas

4. State Landscape – July 2007 34 states/territories with CZM programs
21 have some type of “atlas” product
Various levels products and technology
Download data only
Static maps only
IMS only
Comprehensive atlas / IMS products
wide range of analysis tools and other widgets
No comprehensive, authoritative national coastal atlas

5. National Coastal Atlas Enablers
Issues
Policies
Technologies

6. Regional Ocean Governance Marine Spatial Planning
Enablers - Issues
A national coastal atlas could assist in addressing critical coastal management issues…
Regional Ocean Governance
Marine Spatial Planning
Ecosystem Based Management
Climate Impacts

7. Enablers - Policies
Policies and governance activities currently underway could provide foundational support for a national coastal atlas…
Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act (H.R. 146)
“A bill to establish a coordinated and comprehensive Federal ocean and coastal mapping program/plan”
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC)
Reviewing core components of National Spatial Data Infrastructure and developing national geospatial strategy
CZMA Reauthorization

8. Enablers - Technologies
Substantial progress in technologies and standards to implement national coastal atlas…
Open standards and open source tools
Web map services
Metadata/ontologies - federated access and searching of distributed catalogs
Neographies / mashups

9. Building the Digital Coast

10. Easy access to data and tools Coastal organizations come together
Vision
Easy access to data and tools
Coastal organizations come together
to address coastal issues

11. Partnership Group Association of State Floodplain Managers
Coastal States Organization
National Association of Counties
National States Geographic Information Council
The Nature Conservancy

12. Priority Issues Land use planning Hazards and community resilience
Water quality
Habitat conservation
Marine spatial planning and ocean governance
Climate change

23. Digital Coast – Use Case
Recap
Current State
Enablers
Digital Coast – Use Case

24. NOAA Coastal Services Center
Tony LaVoi
NOAA Coastal Services Center