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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819955603321

Titolo

Advancing strategic science : a spatial data infrastructure roadmap for the U. S. Geological Survey / / Committee on Spatial Data Enabling USGS Strategic Science in the 21st Century, Mapping Science Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : National Academies Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

0-309-26460-X

0-309-26458-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 p.)

Disciplina

910.285

Soggetti

Spatial data infrastructures - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Background -- Key challenges and lessions learned -- A vision for optimizing the USGS spatial data infrastructure -- A roadmap for spatial data infrastructure implementation.

Sommario/riassunto

Science is increasingly driven by data, and spatial data underpin the science directions laid out in the 2007 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science Strategy. A robust framework of spatial data, metadata, tools, and a user community that is interactively connected to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way--known as a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) must be available for scientists and managers to find, use, and share spatial data both within and beyond the USGS. Over the last decade, the USGS has conducted breakthrough research that has overcome some of the challenges associated with implementing a large SDI. Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey is intended to ground those efforts by providing a practical roadmap to full implementation of an SDI to enable the USGS to conduct strategic science.