Larger GIS Community • Can answer: – Local questions at small extents • Spatial and temporal extents limited – Global questions at low resolution (while ignoring uncertainties) • Need to answer: – Global questions with better uncertainties and higher resolution • Requires: – Uniform data at high resolution across multiple disciplines
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Larger GIS Community Can answer: –Local questions at small extents Spatial and temporal extents limited –Global questions at low resolution (while ignoring.
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Larger GIS Community
• Can answer:– Local questions at small extents
• Spatial and temporal extents limited
– Global questions at low resolution (while ignoring uncertainties)
• Need to answer:– Global questions with better uncertainties
and higher resolution
• Requires:– Uniform data at high resolution across
• “The technology, policies, standards, and human resources necessary to acquire, process, store, distribute, and improve utilization of geospatial data.”
Source: Presidential Executive Order #12906 (1994): “Coordinating Geographic Data Acquisition and Access: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure” W. Clinton.
The distribution of 3,325 ARGO drifters (buoys) in the world’s oceans at 0605 UTC on March 22, 2009—the data from these buoys are updated in almost real time from satellite observations. The ARGO project is a partnership of 44 countries. Viewing of the ARGO data is facilitated by a GIS viewer.
Each drifter collects data on temperature and salinity to 2000 m depth, and their movements indicate the direction and strength of ocean currents—important information for predicting weather.