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CDMP has grown over the years to support many tasks outside the NCDC proper. Each year NOAA agencies are encouraged to submit proposals for projects requiring image scanning and digitizing.
Below is a partial list of recent projects which illustrates the breadth of CDMP's scope.
- Shoreline Vectorization - National Ocean Service/Coastal Services Center
- A digital national shoreline database which can be used for spatial analysis of coastal areas is being
created by converting topographic sheet images to a geo-referenced vector format. This shoreline data is used
to help protect coastal resources, sustain the environmental quality of the coastal environment, and mitigate
impacts from coastal processes. Find out more about Shoreline Mapping.
- Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Film Imaging - National Geophysical Data Center
- Scanning of DMSP film from the early 1970's to the mid-1980's.
The DMSP film contains observations relevant to global cloud climatology, hurricane and typhoon climatology,
the extent and conditions of polar ice, continental and mountain snowpack, and the record of expansion in
human settlements and electrification. Find out more about DMSP.
- Imaging of NOAA Central Library Holdings - NOAA Central Library
- Imaging of foreign climate data books; U.S. daily weather maps from 1871 to the late 1960's; and,
in coordination with the American Meteorological Society, imaging of the Monthly Weather Reviews. These
images will be made available on the NOAA Central Library web site.
- Digitization of U.S. Upper Air Pilot Balloon (Pibal) Data/Digitization of African Upper Air Data -
National Weather Service
- Imaging (from film) and keying of U.S. pibal observations prior to 1948. The African task involves
imaging and keying of upper air observational data from several African nations: Senegal, Niger, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique.
- Imaging of Historical U.S. Coast Pilot Editions - National Ocean Service/Office of Coast Survey
- The Coast Pilot collection consists of approximately 800 volumes from the 1800's to today.
These volumes are being scanned and will be available on the web sites of both the Office of Coast Survey
and the NOAA Central Library. The collection includes significant navigation information, and descriptions
and locations of localized atmospheric features and conditions.
- Digitization of Ionospheric Data - National Geophysical Data Center
- Digitization of ionospheric bottom side vertical incidence sounding data values from the 1930's through 1957.
The paper media contains both half hourly and hourly data.
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