FCS Environment Data Dictionary
Several candidate data dictionaries are available
Some include:
- Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard (DIGEST): Part 4 of DIGEST is the Feature and Attribute Coding Catalogue (FACC), which is a coding schema for terrain-related features, attributes, and their values
- Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS): An emerging international standard (ISO/IEC 18025) that supports the encoding and communication of information associated with all domains of the environment. The standard has an Application Program Interface (API) and nine separate dictionaries that specify the environmental concepts. EDCS takes advantage of FACC, IHO S-57, WMO, ICAO, and several other environmental dictionaries of concepts and terms
- International Hydrographic Organization (IHO): The IHO S-57 is a standard for transfer of digital hydrological data. It has a dictionary, data model, and exchange format. It specializes in transfer of only hydrological data
- Joint METOC Conceptual Data Model (JMCDM): The JMCDM has four sections for observational, derived, climatological, and astronomical data. It is an encyclopedia of meteorological, oceanographic, and space related features and is part of the US DOD Data Model (being replaced by the Joint METOC Broker Language (JMBL)
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