OneGeology-Making Geological Map Data for the Earth Accessible
Contrary to the thinking of many in positions of power and influence in the political and regrettably, environmental, domain, the environment isnt just restricted to that bit of our world above the ground (the bugs, bunnies and blossom as an old geologist friend of mine used to say), the sub-surface is pretty important too. Think earthquakes and landslides, minerals and mining, groundwater and pollution. Like most things environmental, few of these issues respect national frontiers and if, as seems wise, we want to assess and address global environmental problems at a global scale then we need access to global environmental data. In the topographic domain that often tends to be dominant in GI, and in one or two of the environmental domains above ground, (e.g. meteorology) we have, comparatively speaking at least, extensive and relatively, consistent data. Not so in the geoscience domain (geoscience is, at least amongst geoscientists, the accepted collective term for geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrogeology, geotechnics etc.). Unfortunately, for geoscientists (and the rest of society), digital geoscience spatial data across the globe even at small scales are either unavailable, out of date, of variable quality or inconsistent.
Ian Jackson
British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK
国际会议
The 12th Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geology(第12届国际数学地质大会)
北京
英文
10-11
2007-08-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）