Abstract

GeoMine: Synthesizing Data from Disparate Sources into a Homogenous Geodatabase
Track: Federal Applications and Enterprise Management
Authors: Josh Montroy, Gregory Morlock

The US Office of Surface Mining in conjunction with several other federal and state agencies has embarked on a pilot project to ascertain the feasibility of synthesizing coalmining related permitting and environmental data from many sources into a homogenous geodatabase. We have obtained data from many sources. The extraction, transformation and loading of these data are accomplished using Feature Manipulation Engine – the full version of ESRI's Data Interoperability Extension. The target geodatabase for coalmining features was designed following the ASTM Standard: "Geospatial Data for Representing Coal Mining Features that was developed by OSM, states and industry. We are refreshing our 170,000 coalmining features data daily. In addition to the challenges faced with synthesizing the data, GeoMine is piloting the use of the cloud computing environment of Amazon Web Services to support this project. GeoMine is using the preconfigured virtual machines for ArcGIS Server and ArcSDE developed by ESRI.