Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey

by National Research Council, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030926457X
• ISBN13: 9780309264570
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"