Initiative Information

The Geographic Information Systems ( GIS) Strategic Initiative at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is an interdisciplinary effort to foster collaborative science, spatial data interoperability, and knowledge sharing with GIS. The main goal of the GIS Initiative is to promote and support the use of GIS as both an analysis, and an infrastructure tool in atmospheric research and to address broader issues of spatial data management, interoperability, and geoinformatics within the geosciences.

Working in collaboration with other NCAR strategic initiatives, divisions, and UCAR programs (such as Unidata, CDP, IMAGe, CGD, ISSE and RAL), we support variety of science projects at NCAR, make atmospheric data sets compatible with GIS tools, create bridges between atmospheric, geo- and social sciences, enable users to access, integrate and manage spatial information, and communicate science outcomes to the community of GIS users and the stakeholders.