Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey
English
By (author): Board on Earth Sciences and Resources Committee on Spatial Data Enabling USGS Strategic Science in the 21st Century Division on Earth and Life Studies Mapping Science Committee National Research Council
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 wayknown 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.
Table of Contents- Front Matter
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Key Challenges and Lessons Learned
- 4 A Vision for Optimizing the USGS Spatial Data Infrastructure
- 5 A Roadmap for Spatial Data Infrastructure Implementation
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
- Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee
- Appendix C: On-Line Questionnaire
- Appendix D: Questionnaire Responses