Disasters.gov Geoplatform

Disasters.GeoPlatform.Gov was developed by GeoPlatform and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) member agencies led by FEMA and the Department of Interior through collaboration with partners and stakeholders.The Geospatial Platform is an Internet‐based service environment that provides a suite of well-managed, highly available, and trusted geospatial data, services, applications, and tools for use by Federal agencies and their State, local, Tribal, and regional partners (FSLT) in fulfilling their missions. The Geospatial Platform focuses on web applications that facilitate participatory information and data sharing combining rich data resources with map authoring and publishing capabilities. It is designed to promote data sharing and collaborative solution development through interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the web and is accessible from servers, desktops and mobile devices. The underlying data and services registration, search, and discovery catalog is jointly developed and managed between the Geospatial Platform and Data.gov, integrating capabilities and process steps in support of broad government data and information use.