Toward a Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Nation

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.National Research Council Staff is the author of 'Toward a Coordinated Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Nation', published 1993 under ISBN 9780309048996 and ISBN 0309048990.