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Track: Federal Systems
David Paige
DataLOGIC, Inc.
1720 Peachtree Road NW Suite 999 South
Atlanta, GA 30367
Telephone: 404-347-4814
Fax: 404-347-7528
E-mail: dpaige@r8.fs.fed.us
Chris Frye, John Steffenson, Lawrence Batten
Integrating SDE Technology into an Established GIS Enterprise: A Pilot Application Road Map
As managers and users of geographic data, we have long recognized that people throughout the organization must be able to easily share spatial information and engage in collaborative problem solving. However, it has only been recently that we've had all the necessary technologies such as: Spatial Database Engine (SDE) technology, coupled with client/server computing and relational database management technologies to realize our goal: having data entered once and used by many. But how do you approach the integration of SDE technology into an established GIS enterprise? This paper is directed toward providing answers to this important question. In this paper, we discuss some ways that the Southern Region of the Forest Service has begun to apply SDE technology. The paper presents the lessons learned from the three primary objectives of the pilot project (1) to technically evaluate SDE technology to determine how it should be integrated into our established GIS enterprise to best serve the user communities
throughout the region, (2) to demonstrate how SDE technology would support spatial and tabular queries built from standard Southern Region databases, and (3) to demonstrate how SDE technology could help us provide regional ecosystem data such as the Southern Appalachian Assessment to the public, other agencies, and throughout the Forest Service via the Web.
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