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Title: Information integration for environmental monitoring and assessment: An annotated bibliography. Professional paper

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7007314

Annual federal and state investments in the collection, storage, and maintenance of resource and environmental data are enormous (estimated in the range of a few to tens of billions of dollars). Despite these investments, the use of information from these databases for societal endpoints has been limited. Further research to evaluate the utility of large environmental databases in the analysis of selected scientific and regulatory questions therefore would be timely. The primary purpose of the paper is to provide an annotated review of selected literature on the topic of information integration in the context of environmental monitoring and assessment. Based on a review of this literature, significant scholarly contributions to this field have been identified as falling into the following four issue areas: institutional, resource/ecological, design, and technological. The publications are grouped, indexed, associated with keywords and organized under these four major issue areas.

Research Organization:
Iowa Univ., Iowa City, IA (United States). Dept. of Geography
OSTI ID:
7007314
Report Number(s):
PB-92-227461/XAB
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Pub. in Environmental Professional, v14 p151-177 1992. See also PB91-155242. Sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English