Advancing Strategic Science A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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The 2007 USGS Science Strategy outlines the immediate and future science directions at the Survey, and any future SDI will need to be designed to serve these strategies. There are several technical challenges to developing a coherent SDI for any institution, but some of the largest challenges may be organizational.
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is the USGS's primary need with regard to an SDI. Although it is neither appropriate nor feasible for the committee to recommend changes in the 2Executive Order 12906, published in 1994 and amended in 2003, initiated the development of a coordinated National Spatial Data Infrastructure and National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse and called for the establishment of spatial data standards, partnerships for data acquisition, and a National Digital Geospatial Data Framework.
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Chapter 2 provides background on the Science Strategy and its dependence on geospatial data and identifies the challenges for a successful SDI. Chapter 3 addresses Task 1, lessons learned from SDI implementation in other organizations that the committee felt were pertinent to the USGS situation.
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NRC, 2007. A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science at the United States Geological Survey, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 156p.
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