Building National Spatial Data Infrastructures

Using Diverse Data Sources to Build an SDSFIE-compliant Installation GIS

—Kathleen Cullinane, Tobyhanna Army Depot

Army Installations are challenged to develop GIS infrastructure, processes and skills to maintain data from many diverse sources. This paper will examine the standard operating procedures used at Tobyhanna Army Depot for GIS database development, and will discuss the advantages of using spatial data standards throughout DoD for consistency, flexibility, security, efficiency and searchability. By demanding that CAD and other data deliverables comply with written standards, the usefulness and currency of GIS data is increased exponentially. This paper will demonstrate processes that are being employed at Tobyhanna for data extraction, transformation and loading into an ESRI SDE (Spatial Data Engine) system. Processes and procedures will be discussed and demonstrated.