SEEDIS: Socioeconomic-Environmental-Demographic, Information System
The LBL Socio-Economic-Environmental-Demographic Information System (SEEDIS) consists of a set of program modules for retrieving, analyzing, and displaying selected portions of a very large database used for environmental impact studies, energy policy analysis, and labor force assessment. The project originated in 1972 with the acquisition and installation of most of the 1970 Census of Population on LBL's 50-billion character, direct-access mass storage system. Manpower Summaries for varying geographic areas and a set of Urban Atlases presenting selected census-tract statistics for sixty-five major SMSA's were early products of the system. The addition of other large databases, including various economic censuses, air quality data, energy data, etc., demonstrated the value of an integrated information system in carrying out these studies. As programs for manipulating and displaying these data were developed for a series of projects, it became evident that the SEEDIS facilities should be made available to a broad spectrum of researchers, analysts, and managers throughout DOE and other federal agencies. In 1977 work began to provide access to SEEDIS on a distributed network of minicomputers, in addition to the large scale facilities available over existing networks (ARPANET, TELENET, TYMNET). The purpose of the distributed system is to provide ready access to a centralized large scale computational and data management facility, and local processing power for integrating local data with SEEDIS data.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6530755
- Report Number(s):
- TID-28877
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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