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- description: National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) geospatial plan and the associated memo (Date: 20160304; FWS/ANRS/ITM/062385)
from Cynthia Martinez (Chief, NWRS) to the NWRS Regional Chiefs announcing the approval and release of the plan by the NWRS
Leadership. This five-year plan describes a framework to strengthen the geospatial capabilities of the National Wildlife Refuge
System (NWRS) in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS). The charter of the NWRS Geospatial Advisory Committee (NWRS GAC)
describes two primary avenues to do this: 1) developing GIS capability at field stations to support local decision making
and 2) providing a national framework to enable efficient and effective application and sharing of geospatial information
and tools across the entire organization. The refuges and regions continue to develop their local GIS capacities as needs
and resources permit. The principle objective of this plan is the development of a national framework that can provide a coordinated
and standardized system-wide geospatial capacity to address resource management and associated issues. The GAC identified
six priority data layers to enhance system-wide refuge management to focus efforts over the next five years: Assets, Water
Resources, Management Units, Oil and Gas Locations, Monitoring Sites, and Vegetation. The NWRS GAC recommends implementing
seven building blocks necessary to define, develop, manage, maintain and share each of these layers Standardize IT System
Architecture; Identify Data Owners and Establish Data Stewards; Articulate Data Products for Priority Layers; Define Data
Standards and Requirements; Explore Additional Authority for Geospatial Accountability; Improve Workforce Geospatial Capacity
through Personnel, Technical Support and Training; and Create, Maintain, Archive, and Publish NWRS Priority Data. Implementing
this approach will allow the NWRS to leverage the full value of geospatial services in an enterprise system. Other data layers
beyond the six that arise as priorities will follow the same strategies for development. These recommendations are compiled
with the acknowledgement of workforce constraints. While additional personnel would accelerate the process, we believe these
recommendations can be achieved through adjustments to current staffings overall approach to developing and using geospatial
data. Designating data stewards and adding authority to individual positions will enable workflows to become streamlined and
remove redundant work. Improved data infrastructure will lead to less time spent on local data management and provide wider
access to NWRS geospatial data both internally and externally.; abstract: National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) geospatial
plan and the associated memo (Date: 20160304; FWS/ANRS/ITM/062385) from Cynthia Martinez (Chief, NWRS) to the NWRS Regional
Chiefs announcing the approval and release of the plan by the NWRS Leadership. This five-year plan describes a framework to
strengthen the geospatial capabilities of the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
(FWS). The charter of the NWRS Geospatial Advisory Committee (NWRS GAC) describes two primary avenues to do this: 1) developing
GIS capability at field stations to support local decision making and 2) providing a national framework to enable efficient
and effective application and sharing of geospatial information and tools across the entire organization. The refuges and
regions continue to develop their local GIS capacities as needs and resources permit. The principle objective of this plan
is the development of a national framework that can provide a coordinated and standardized system-wide geospatial capacity
to address resource management and associated issues. The GAC identified six priority data layers to enhance system-wide refuge
management to focus efforts over the next five years: Assets, Water Resources, Management Units, Oil and Gas Locations, Monitoring
Sites, and Vegetation. The NWRS GAC recommends implementing seven building blocks necessary to define, develop, manage, maintain
and share each of these layers Standardize IT System Architecture; Identify Data Owners and Establish Data Stewards; Articulate
Data Products for Priority Layers; Define Data Standards and Requirements; Explore Additional Authority for Geospatial Accountability;
Improve Workforce Geospatial Capacity through Personnel, Technical Support and Training; and Create, Maintain, Archive, and
Publish NWRS Priority Data. Implementing this approach will allow the NWRS to leverage the full value of geospatial services
in an enterprise system. Other data layers beyond the six that arise as priorities will follow the same strategies for development.
These recommendations are compiled with the acknowledgement of workforce constraints. While additional personnel would accelerate
the process, we believe these recommendations can be achieved through adjustments to current staffings overall approach to
developing and using geospatial data. Designating data stewards and adding authority to individual positions will enable workflows
to become streamlined and remove redundant work. Improved data infrastructure will lead to less time spent on local data management
and provide wider access to NWRS geospatial data both internally and externally.
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- Title Five-Year Action Plan to Improve NWRS Geospatial Capabilities.
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