Toward A Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure For The Nation

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309048990
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Nation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is the means to assemble geographic information that describes the arrangement and attributes of features and phenomena on the Earth. This book advocates the need to make the NSDI more robust. The infrastructure includes the materials, technology, and people necessary to acquire, process, store, and distribute such information to meet a wide variety of needs. The NSDI is more than hardware, software, and data; it is the public foundation on which a marketplace for spatial products will evolve.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030905141X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Through Partnerships written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperation and partnerships for spatial data activities among the federal government, state and local governments, and the private sector will be essential for the development of a robust National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). This book addresses the nature of these partnerships and examines factors that could optimize their success.

Author : Ian Masser
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429000235
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographic Information Systems to Spatial Data Infrastructures written by Ian Masser and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on author’s wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries. It provides a clear overview of the development of the SDI concept and SDI worldwide implementation and brings a logical chronological approach to the linkage of GIS technology with SDI enabling data. The theory and practice approach help understand that SDI development and implementation is very much a social process of learning by doing. The author masterfully selects main historical developments and updates them with an analytical perspective promoting informed and responsible use of geographic information and geospatial technologies for the benefit of society from local to global scales. Features Subject matter spans thirty years of the development of GIS and SDI. Brings a social science perspective into GIS and SDI debates that have been largely dominated by technical considerations. Based on a world-wide perspective as a result of the author's experience and research in the USA, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Peru, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, and Japan as well as most European countries. Draws upon professional and academic experience relating to pioneering UK and European GIS research initiatives. Includes updated historical material with an analytical perspective explaining what was done right, and what didn't work.

Author : Wade Bishop
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319227890
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographic Information written by Wade Bishop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and future of geographic information (GI) in the context of big data creates new avenues of concern over its organization, access and use. In this book the authors explore both the background and present challenges facing the preservation of GI, focusing on the roles of librarians, archivists, data scientists, and other information professionals in the creation of GI records for its organization, access, and use.

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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strategy for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309076455
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was envisioned as a way of enhancing the accessibility, communication, and use of geospatial data to support a wide variety of decisions at all levels of society. The goals of the NSDI are to reduce redundancy in geospatial data creation and maintenance, reduce the costs of geospatial data creation and maintenance, improve access to geospatial data, and improve the accuracy of geospatial data used by the broader community. At the core of the NSDI is the concept of partnerships, or collaborations, between different agencies, corporations, institutions, and levels of government. In a previous report, the Mapping Science Committee (MSC) defined a partnership as "...a joint activity of federal and state agencies, involving one or more agencies as joint principals focusing on geographic information." The concept of partnerships was built on the foundation of shared responsibilities, shared costs, shared benefits, and shared control. Partnerships are designed to share the costs of creation and maintenance of geospatial data, seeking to avoid unnecessary duplication, and to make it possible for data collected by one agency at a high level of spatial detail to be used by another agency in more generalized form. Over the past seven years, a series of funding programs administered by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has stimulated the creation of such partnerships, and thereby promoted the objectives of the NSDI, by raising awareness of the need for a coordinated national approach to geospatial data creation, maintenance, and use. They include the NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program, the Framework Demonstration Projects Program, the Community Demonstration Projects, and the Community-Federal Information Partnerships proposal. This report assesses the success of the FGDC partnership programs that have been established between the federal government and state and local government, industry, and academic communities in promoting the objectives of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Author : Timothy Nyerges
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446209628
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society written by Timothy Nyerges and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process." - Paul Longley, University College London "This is truly a handbook - a book you will want to keep on hand for frequent reference and to which GIS professors should direct students entering our field... Selection of a few of the chapters for individual attention is difficult because each one contributes meaningfully to the overall message of this volume. An important collection of articles that will set the tone for the next two decades of discourse and research about GIS and society." - Journal of Geographical Analysis Over the past twenty years research on the evolving relationship between GIS and Society has been expanding into a wide variety of topical areas, becoming in the process an increasingly challenging and multifaceted endeavour. The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society is a retrospective and prospective overview of GIS and Society research that provides an expansive and critical assessment of work in that field. Emphasizing the theoretical, methodological and substantive diversity within GIS and Society research, the book highlights the distinctiveness and intellectual coherence of the subject as a field of study, while also examining its resonances with and between key themes, and among disciplines ranging from geography and computer science to sociology, anthropology, and the health and environmental sciences. Comprising 27 chapters, often with an international focus, the book is organized into six sections: Foundations of Geographic Information and Society Geographical Information and Modern Life Alternative Representations of Geographic Information and Society Organizations and Institutions Participation and Community Issues Value, Fairness, and Privacy Aimed at academics, researchers, postgraduates, and GIS practitioners, this Handbook will be the basic reference for any inquiry applying GIS to societal issues.

Author : Stephen Wise
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420008234
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making written by Stephen Wise and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-12-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written on evidence-based policy making, this is the first volume to address the potential of GIS in this arena. GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making covers the development of new methodological approaches, emphasizing the identification of spatial patterns in social phenomena. It examines organizational issues, including the

Author : Harlan Joseph Onsrud
Publisher : ESRI, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1589481623
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research and Theory in Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts written by Harlan Joseph Onsrud and published by ESRI, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have come a long way in the last two decades.

Author : Ian P. Williamson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203485777
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures written by Ian P. Williamson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert perspectives on SDI theory and practice The spatial data infrastructure (SDI) concept continues to evolve and become an increasingly important element of the infrastructure that supports economic development, environmental management, and social stability. Because of its dynamic and complex nature, however, it remains a fuzzy concept