Toward a Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Nation

By National Research Council, Environment and Resources Commission on Geosciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309048990
• ISBN13: 9780309048996
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"