The term geospatial refers to anything that has a geographic location on the earth. Our geospatial information will help you answer questions such as:

• Is there a Superfund site located in my neighborhood?
• What is the air quality in Evanston, IL?
• Where are all of the Brownfield sites in the United States?

Geospatial data helps you understand environmental conditions in specific locations, so that you can, for example:

• target areas of greatest environmental risk, 
• enforce environmental regulations and 
• address potential homeland security issues.  

EPA's National Geospatial Program coordinates the use of geospatial data in a variety of ways to help EPA carry out its mission to protect human health and the environment. We:

• collect and create geospatial data, 
• build applications that allow users to search, 
• discover and visualize geospatial information, and 
• create standards and policies that increase the ability for applications and data to be shared and used.