digital coast an enabling platform for coastal communities

Digital Coast

An Enabling Platform forCoastal Communities

Coastal Populations

U.S. Coastal Watershed Counties:

< 20 percentof total land area

52 percentof total population

Coastal Economies

In 2011, the economy of U.S. coastal shoreline counties

produced

51 millionjobs and

$6.6 trillionin GDP

Barriers

• Coastal data availability• Data integration and

accessibility• Intergovernmental

coordination• Non-techie tools• Relevant training• Outreach and awareness

Digital Coast

• Approach: Bring the geospatial and coastal management communities together

• Outcome: A constituent-driven, integrated, enabling platform supporting coastal resource management that is used

Digital Coast Partnership

• American Planning Association• Association of State Floodplain

Managers• Coastal States Organization• National Association of Counties• National Estuarine Research

Reserve Association• National States Geographic

Information Council• The Nature Conservancy• Urban Land Institute• NOAA Office for Coastal

Management

A Sampling of Our Contributors

Federal• NOAA• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers• U.S. Geological Survey

State• Mississippi State Coordinating Council

for Remote Sensing and GIS• Maryland Department of

Natural Resources

Academic• University of South Carolina• University of Hawaii

Nongovernmental• Resources for the Future• Management Association for

Private Photogrammetric Surveyors

Private• Dewberry • Fugro EarthData• PhotoScience• The Baldwin Group• Woolpert

Digital Coast Data

• Over 65 terabytes of high-resolution elevation data, land cover data, and orthoimagery

• 200-plus Web-mapping services

• Linkages to over 40 national-level coastal data sets

Digital Coast Tools

• An inventory of over 50 decision-support and information visualization tools

• Many provide visualization and analysis capabilities without the need for GIS software

Coastal County Snapshots

Sea Level Rise Viewer

Coastal County Snapshots

CanVis

Digital Coast Training

• 22 training courses, including many Web-based options

• An archive of recorded webinars highlighting Digital Coast tools and data

Stories from the Field

• Over 100 place-based narratives highlighting the application of Digital Coast resources to coastal management issues

• Focus on partners and outcomes

Topics

Comprehensive information resources providing context and direction to facilitate use and application

Climate Adaptation

Water Quality

Green Infrastructure

Digital Coast - An Enabling PlatformFacilitating Use and Application

DISCOVER

Information on the C-CAP land

cover data set on the

Digital Coast website

DOWNLOAD

Land cover data for

your community via the Data

Access Viewer

MAP

Develop mash-ups with ESRI and OGC

map services

ANALYZE

Change in your county

with the Land Cover

Atlas

LEARN

From data experts through recorded webinars

SHARE

Outcomes with others

though Stories in the Field

DATA INFORMATION ACTION

Demonstrating Value to the Nation

Benefits will be

5.1 timesthe amount of costs

411 percent return on investment

Net present value through FY28 will be

$ 117.4 million

FY16 annual benefit projection of

$7.42 million

Connect with the Digital Coast

www.coast.noaa.gov/DigitalCoast

Coastal.Info@noaa.gov

www.facebook.com/NOAADigitalCoast

@NOAADigCoast