Abstract
Creating the Navigation & Coastal Data Bank A District Perspective
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Author
The Navigation & Coastal Data Bank project was a unique one-year program initiative funded to develop a geospatial data retrieval system from the US Army Corps of Engineers district project files. Contractors from Northrop Grumman were placed in 21 sites around the country.
The data was mined from Computer-Aided Design and Drafting files, image data, reports, and Geographic Information System layers. ArcMap was used to verify spatial integrity, and ArcCatalog to load data into a Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure and Environment (SDSFIE) a Department of Defense enterprise standard. At the North Atlantic Norfolk District office, a wealth of information was reveled in their data holdings, yet some selection and processing issues surfaced during the data mining phase of the program.
Organizations requiring data about channel conditions, dredging activities, and shoreline information will now have a one stop nationwide access portal providing a new level of USACE data access.
Peter Murtaugh
Northrop Grumman Information Systems
4212 7th Ave.
Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140
United States
Phone: 303-246-2416
E-mail: peter.h.murtaugh@usace.army.mil