| Abstract: | Experience in the development of a geographic information system to support the CARETS project has confirmed the considerable advantages that may accrue by paralleling the system development with a rational and balanced system production effort which permits the integration of the education and training of users with interim deliverable products to them. Those advantages include support for a long-term staff plan that recognizes substantial staff changes through system development and implementation, a fiscal plan that provides continuity in resources necessary for total system development, and a feedback system which allows the user to communicate his experiences in using the system. Thus far balance between system development and system production has not been achieved because of continuing large-scale spatial data processing requirements coupled with strong and insistent demands from users for immediately deliverable products from the system. That imbalance has refocussed staffing and fiscal plans from long-term system development to short- and near-term production requirements, continuously extends total system development time, and increases the possibility that later system development may reduce the usefulness of current interim products. |
| Genre: | USGS Unnumbered Series |
| ProdID: | 70039599 |
| Citation Author: | Mitchell, William B.; Fegeas, Robin G.; Fitzpatrick, Katherine A.; Hallam, Cheryl A. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Geography Program |
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| Citation Number Of Pages: | 80 |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | v, 71 p. |
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| Citation Public Comments: | Sponsored jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Publisher: | UlS. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Final Report |
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| Citation Series Number: | Volume 4 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Geographic information system development in the CARETS project; 1977; USGS Unnumbered Series; Volume 4; Mitchell, William B.; Fegeas, Robin G.; Fitzpatrick, Katherine A.; Hallam, Cheryl A. |
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| Citation Year: | 1977 |
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| Text: | Geographic information system development in the CARETS project; 1977; USGS Unnumbered Series; Volume 4; Mitchell, William B.; Fegeas, Robin G.; Fitzpatrick, Katherine A.; Hallam, Cheryl A. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg |
| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:12 -0600 |
| Publisher: | UlS. Geological Survey |
