Virginia's Geospatial Extension Program, in partnership with the Virginia Space Grant Consortium and Virginia Cooperative Extension, seeks to promote the integration of geospatial tools and techniques through a coordinated approach at the local, regional, and state levels. The program aims to extend opportunities and empower organizations and individuals across the Commonwealth of Virginia through training, assessing application needs, and providing increased access to data resources.

• technology and application training,
• information sharing,
• course development and dissemination, and
• educational outreach.

This program meets crucial workforce needs by providing K-12 educational outreach, specialized workforce courses, and training through Virginia's Community College System (VCCS) and other Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) member universities, faculty development, and linkages to NASA and other geospatial resources for data and programs. A key component of this program is its participation with Virginia extension agents, through Agriculture and Natural Resource programs and 4-H Youth Educational initiatives, to support the dissemination of information, training, and application development at the grassroots level.

While Agriculture and Natural Resource Extension Programs, 4-H Youth Development programs, as well as other programs associated with higher education, are some of the beneficiaries of this program, innovative partnerships have been established with other local, regional, and state organizations. One such partnership is with the George Mason University led Virginia's Access and Mid-Atlantic Geographic Information Consortium. This NASA-funded Consortium embraces a number of Virginia universities and other partners who seek to provide training in and tools for applications of geospatial data. The Space Grant Geospatial Program will work with many partners to effect the diffusion of geospatial knowledge to the most practical local levels.