Note: The Geospatial Data Act of 2018 (GDA) establishes the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) as the lead entity in the executive branch of government for the development, implementation, and review of policies, practices, and standards relating to geospatial data. The GDA describes responsibilities related to geospatial standards for the FGDC and the agencies covered by the law (covered agencies). These responsibilities are reinforced by Office of Management and Budget Circular A-16 and OMB Circular A-119 (development and use of voluntary consensus standards). In the near future, FGDC will reestablish and resource a sustainable standards process, including implementing supporting governance requirements, updating and improving legacy processes, and validating standards for use as required under the GDA. Agencies should continue, to the extent possible in lieu of an active standards process, to develop, review, update, and achieve compliance with existing and pending standards, and become members of the appropriate FGDC standards body when active. (Approved by the FGDC 12/17/2021)
Historically, the FGDC had an active standards process as part of its funded activities. Note that FGDC standards information may date to 2017 with updates pending the revised FGDC standards process.
| STANDARD | DOWNLOAD LINK |
|---|---|
| GeoTIFF Revision 1.0, GeoTIFF Revision 1.0 | https://www.remotesensing.org/geotiff/spec/geotiffhome.html |
| HDF 5, Hierarchical Data Format V 5.0 | https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ |
| INCITS 145 - 1986 [R2007], Codes for Identification of Hydrologic Units in the U.S. and the Caribbean (Outlying) Areas | https://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ANSI+INCITS+145-1986+(R2007) |
| INCITS 31-2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of Counties and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas | https://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+31-2009 |
| INCITS 38-2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of the States and Equivalent Areas within the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas | https://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+38-2009 |
| INCITS 446-2008, Information technology - Identifying Attributes for Named Physical and Cultural Geographic Features (Except Roads and Highways) of the United States, Its Territories, Outlying Areas, and Freely Associated Areas, and the Waters of the Same to the Limit of the Twelve-Mile Statutory Zone | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ANSI+INCITS+446-2008 |
| INCITS 453 - 2009, Information technology - North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata (NAP - Metadata) | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+453-2009 |
| INCITS 454 - 2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Related Statistical Areas of the United States and Puerto Rico | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+454-2009 |
| INCITS 455 - 2009, Information technology - Codes for the Identification of Congressional Districts and Equivalent Areas of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+455-2009 |
| INCITS/ISO 19107:2003[R2008], Geographic Information - Spatial schema | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19107-2003 |
| INCITS/ISO 19108:2002[R2008] ISO 19108:2002 w/ Cor 1:2006, Geographic information - Temporal schema w/Corrigendum 1 | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19108%3a2002 |
| INCITS/ISO 19110:2005 [R2010], Geographic information - Methodology for Feature Cataloguing | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19110-2005 |
| INCITS/ISO 19111:2007 [2007], Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19111-2007 |
| INCITS/ISO 19111-2:2007, Georgraphic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates - extension for parametric values | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19111-2-2010 |
| INCITS/ISO 19112:2003 [2004], Geographic information - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19112-2003 |
| INCITS/ISO 19115:2003 [R2008] ISO 19115:2003 w/ ISO 19115 Cor. 1:2006, Geographic information - Metadata + Corrigendum 1 | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19115-2003 |
| INCITS/ISO 19115-2:2009 [2009], Geographic information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19115-2%3a2009%5bR2014%5d |
| INCITS/ISO 19118:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Encoding | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+19118-2005 |
| INCITS/ISO 19119:2005 [R2010], Geographic information - Services | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19119-2005 |
| INCITS/ISO 19119:2005/AM 1:2008 [2008], Geographic information - Services - Amendment 1: Extensions of the service metadata model | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%c3%bf19119%3a2005%2fAmd.1%3a2008 |
| INCITS/ISO 19123:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+19123-2005 |
| INCITS/ISO 19132:2007 [2008], Geographic information - Location Based Services - Reference model | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19132%3a2007%5b2008%5d |
| INCITS/ISO 19133:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Location Based Services - Tracking and navigation | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO%2fIEC+19133-2005 |
| INCITS/ISO 19134:2007 [2007], Geographic information - Location Based Services - Multimodal routing and navigation | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19134-2007 |
| INCITS/ISO 19135:2005 [2006], Geographic information - Procedures for registration of geographical information items | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19135%3a2005 |
| INCITS/ISO 19141:2008 [2008], Geographic information - Schema for moving features | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19141-2008%5b2008%5d |
| ISO 19109:2005, Geographic information - Rules for application schema | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19109%3a2005 |
| ISO 19127:2005, Geographic information - Geodetic codes and parameters | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO%2fTS+19127%3a2005 |
| ISO 19131:2007, Geographic information - Data product specifications + Amendment 1 | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19131%3a2007 |
| ISO 19136:2007, Geographic information - Geographic Markup Language | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+19136-2010 |
| ISO 19144-1:2009, Geographic information -- Classification Systems -- Part 1: Classification system structure | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+19144-1%3a2009 |
| ISO 6709:2008/Corrigendum 1:2009, Standards representation of geographic point locations by coordinates w/Corrigendum 1 | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO+6709%3a2008 |
| ISO/IEC 13818-2:2000, Information technology -- Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information: Video | http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=31539 |
| ISO/IEC 13818-3:1998, Information technology -- Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information -- Part 3: Audio | http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26797 |
| ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004 | ITU-T Rec. T.800, Information technology -- JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system | http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37674 |
| ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994, Information technology -- Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: Requirements and guidelines | http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=18902 |
| ISO/TS 19103:2004, Geographic information - Conceptual schema language | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO%2fTS+19103%3a2005 |
| ISO/TS 19104:2008, Geographic information - Terminology | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ISO%2fTS+19104%3a2008 |
| ISO/TS 19138:2006, Geographic information -- Data quality measures | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+TS+19138-2010 |
| ISO/TS 19139:2007, Geographic information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation | http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS%2fISO+TS+19139-2010 |
| NetCDF, NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) | http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ |
| OGC 04-094; OGC 06-027r1, OpenGIS® Web Feature Service Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0 with Corrigendum 1 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs |
| OGC 04-095, OpenGIS® Filter Encoding Implementation Specification, version 1.1 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/filter |
| OGC 05-005; OGC 08-050, OpenGIS® Web Map Context (WMC) Documents Implementation Specification, Version 1.1.0 w/Corrigendum 1 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmc |
| OGC 05-007r7; OGC 08-091r6, OpenGIS® Web Processing Service, Version: 1.0.0 w/ Corrigendum | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps |
| OGC 05-077r4, OpenGIS® Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/symbol |
| OGC 05-078r4, Styled Layer Descriptor profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld |
| OGC 06-009r6, OpenGIS® Sensor Observation Service Interface Standard, version 1.0.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sos |
| OGC 06-024r4, OpenGIS® Location Services: Tracking Service Interface Standard | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols |
| OGC 06-042, OpenGIS® Web Map Service Implementation Specification, Version 1.3.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms |
| OGC 07-000, OGC 07-122r2, OpenGIS® SensorML Encoding Standard v 1.0 w/Schema Corregendum 1 (1.01) | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sensorml |
| OGC 07-006r1; OGC 07-010, OpenGIS® Catalogue Service (CAT) Implementation Specification (2.0.2) + Corrigendum for OpenGIS Implementation Specification 07-006: Catalogue Services, Version 2.0.2 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/specifications/catalog |
| OGC 07-045, OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.2 - ISO Metadata Application Profile | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/specifications/catalog |
| OGC 07-057r7, OpenGIS® Web Map Tile Service Implementation Standard, version 1.0.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmts |
| OGC 07-067r5, 07-066r5, OpenGIS® Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Standard, version 1.1.2 w/Corregindum 2 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs |
| OGC 07-074, OpenGIS® Location Services (OpenLS): Core Services, version 1.2 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols |
| OGC 07-147r2, OpenGIS® KML, version 2.2.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml |
| OGC 08-028r7, OpenGIS® Location Services (OpenLS): Part 6-Navigation Service | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols |
| OGC 06-024r4, OpenGIS® Location Services: Tracking Service Interface Standard | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols |
| OGC® 07-014r3, OpenGIS® Sensor Planning Service Implementation Specification, version 1.0.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sps |
| TIFF Revision 6.0, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) | http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf |
| UML 2.2, Unified Model Language (UML) 2.2 | http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.2/ |
| ISO 19156:2011, ISO 19156:2011, Geographic information - Observations and Measurements | http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=32574 |
| OGC 10-126r3, OGC® WaterML 2.0: Part 1- Time series | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml |
| TSPI Version 2.0, Time-Space-Position Information (TSPI), Version 2.0, (2012-04-05) | https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=1433 |
| WFS 2.0, OpenGIS Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard (also ISO 19142) | OGC |
| GeoRSS, GeoRSS-Simple and GeoRSS-GML | http://www.georss.org/ |
| 12-128r10, OGC GeoPackage 1.0 | http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geopackage |
| ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004 Technical Corrigenda 1:2007 and 2:2008 JPEG 2000, ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004 Technical Corrigenda 1:2007 and 2:2008 JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system | http://webstore.ansi.org/ |
| GENC Edition 2, Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard, Edition 2.0, 31 March 2014 | https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=2379 |
| AIXM 5.1, Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) 5.1 | http://www.aixm.aero/ |
| Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version 2.0), FGDC-STD-001-1998 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/metadata/base-metadata/v2_0698.pdf |
| Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Part 1, Biological Data Profile, FGDC-STD-001.1-1999 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/metadata/biometadata/biodatap.pdf |
| Content Standard for Digital Geosptial Metadata: Part 2, Metadata Profile for Shoreline Data, FGDC-STD-001.2-2001 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/metadata/shoreline-metadata/sp_endorsed.pdf |
| Cadastral Data Content Standard, FGDC-STD-003 | https://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/cadastral/cadastral-data-standard-v1-4.pdf |
| Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats in the United States, FGDC-STD-004-2013 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/wetlands/nvcs-2013 |
| National Vegetation Classification Standard (Version 2), FGDC-STD-005-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/vegetation/NVCS_V2_FINAL_2008-02.pdf |
| Soil Geographic Data Standard, FGDC-STD-006 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/soils/soil997.PDF |
| Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 1: Reporting Methodology, FGDC-STD-007.1-1998 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part1/chapter1 |
| Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 2: Standards for Geodetic Networks, FGDC-STD-007.2-1998 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part2/chapter2 |
| Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 3: National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy, FGDC-STD-007.3-1998 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part3/chapter3 |
| Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 4: Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facilities Management, FGDC-STD-007.4-2002 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part4/FGDC-endorsed-standard |
| Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 5: Standards for Nautical Charting Hydrographic Surveys, FGDC-STD-007.5-2005 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/accuracy/part5/FGDC-STD-007.5-2005.pdf |
| Content Standard for Digital Orthoimagery, FGDC-STD-008-1999 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/orthoimagery/orth_299.pdf |
| Content Standard for Remote Sensing Swath Data, FGDC-STD-009-1999 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/swath_data/FGDC-STD-009-1999.doc |
| Utilities Data Content Standard, FGDC-STD-010-2000 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/utilities/index_html |
| Standard for a U.S. National Grid,FGDC-STD-011-2001 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/usng/fgdc_std_011_2001_usng.pdf |
| Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata, FGDC-STD-012-2002 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/csdgm_rs_ex/remote-sensing-metadata |
| Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization, FGDC-STD-13-2006 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/geo-symbol/index_html |
| Geographic information Framework Data Standard - Part 0, Base document, FGDC-STD-014-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part0_Base.pdf |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 1, Cadastral, FGDC-STD-014.1-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part1_Cadastral.pdf |
| Geographic Information - Part 2, Digital Orthoimagery, FGDC-STD-014.2-2015 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part2 |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 3, Elevation, FGDC-STD-014.3-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part3_Elevation.pdf |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 4, Geodetic Control, FGDC-STD-014.4-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part4_GeodeticControl.pdf |
| Part 5, Governmental Unit and Other Geographic Area boundaries, FGDC-STD-014.5-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part5_GovernmentalUnitBoundaries.pdf |
| Part 6, Hydrography, FGDC-STD-014.6-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part6_Hydrography.pdf |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7, Transportation Base, FGDC-STD-014.7-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7_Transportation_Base.pdf |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7b, Transportation - Rail | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7b_Transportation_Rail.pdf |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7c, Transportation - Road, FGDC-STD-014.7c-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7c_Transportation_Road.pdf |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7d, Transportation - Transit, FGDC-STD-014.7d-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7d_Transportation_Transit.pdf |
| Geographic Information Framework Data Standard - Part 7e, Transportation - Inland Waterways, FGDC-STD-014.7e-2008 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/framework-data-standard/GI_FrameworkDataStandard_Part7e_Transportation_Waterways.pdf |
| Wetlands Mapping Standard, FGDC-STD-015-2009 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/wetlands-mapping/2009-08%20FGDC%20Wetlands%20Mapping%20Standard_final.pdf |
| United States Thoroughfare, Landmark, and Postal Address Data Standard, FGDC-STD-016-2011 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/street-address/FGDC_endorsedAddressStandard.zip |
| Federal Trails Data Standards, FGDC-STD-017-2011 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/trail-data-standard/Federal_Trail_Data_Standards_FGDC-STD-017-2011.pdf |
| Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS), FGDC-STD-018-2012 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/cmecs-folder/CMECS_Version_06-2012_FINAL.pdf |
| Real Property Asset Data Standard (RPADS), FGDC-STD-019-2014 | http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/RPADS/RPADS_final |