The report discusses issues that may be of interest to Congress-managing, sharing, and coordinating geospatial information-and includes examples of legislation.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to support national security, both as a national intelligence and a

In the past few years the United States has experienced a series of disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which have severely taxed and in many cases ov

Land parcel data (also known as cadastral data) provide geographically referenced information about the rights, interests, and ownership of land and are an impo

From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population projected to p