Coastal Services Center

Overview

The nation's coasts face many issues, from concerns about growth and development, to the need for protection and management of resources, to the desire to create hazard-resilient communities. The GIS Integration and Development Program works to address these resource management issues from a spatial perspective and provides data, technology, technical assistance, and partnership facilitation that might otherwise be unavailable.

The program's strong suit is the ability to combine technical expertise with content knowledge to support spatial approaches to coastal decision making.

Content Knowledge Areas

• Coastal conservation planning
• Hazards Resilience
• Marine spatial planning (more information coming soon)

Program Approach

• Enable others to use geospatial technology to solve spatial problems
• Use content knowledge and spatial technology to address coastal issues
• Work with partners to ensure solutions are appropriate to the region of interest

Tools and Services Provided

• Collaborative approaches
• Geospatial training and technical capacity building
• Spatial tools for decision making

Did you know?

The NOAA Coastal Services Center offers training to coastal managers in analysis and creation of GIS data.