US-Egypt Cooperative Research: A Web-based GIS for Egypt's Geological Datasets

美国-埃及合作研究：埃及地质数据集的基于网络的 GIS

• 批准号: 0455899
• 负责人: Mohamed Sultan
• 金额: $ 1.13万
• 依托单位: Western Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-13 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0455899&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Egypt; Cooperative; Research; Web

0318540SultanDescription: This award is to support a cooperative research project between Dr. Mohamed Sultan, Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York and Dr. Zeinhom El Alfy, Associate Director at the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority (EGSMA), Cairo, Egypt. The investigators plan to develop a web-based GIS relational database for geological datasets for Egypt. It will comprise digital terrain elevation data, digitized geologic maps, remote sensing, seismic, geochronologic, geochemical, and isotopic data. They will compile and organize datasets, develop metadata files, and assemble online tools for visualization. The GIS and web-based technology will provide cost-effective tools for data integration, visualization, and modeling and will promote interdisciplinary research. Scope: Demand for the development of large databases (e.g., GERM, PETDB, Georoc, UNAVCO, PLATES) is increasing, especially to address global-scale geologic problems through spatial-temporal integration of geochemical, geochronologic, geophysical, and remote sensing data. The development of local databases such as the one proposed here for Egypt will serve similar purposes on local and/or regional scales and could potentially be integrated with global data sets. The project is an important step towards the construction of a comprehensive web-based GIS database for the Middle East and North Africa. The US and Egyptian PIs have considerable experience in manipulating raster and vector data as well as in remote sensing and GIS technology and are capable of carrying out this project. The products of this project will be directly applicable in scientific studies as well as practical issues of resource management in Egypt, such as in studies on water and mineral resources in this region. Sharing the data with the scientific community over the Internet is being planned. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.

0318540 Sultan描述：该奖项旨在支持纽约州立大学地质系Mohamed苏丹博士（位于纽约布法罗的布法罗）和埃及地质调查和采矿局（EGSMA）副局长Zeinhom El Alfy博士（位于埃及开罗）之间的合作研究项目。 调查人员计划为埃及的地质数据集开发一个基于网络的地理信息系统关系数据库。 它将包括数字地形高程数据、数字地质图、遥感、地震、地质年代学、地球化学和同位素数据。他们将汇编和组织数据集，开发元数据文件，并组装在线可视化工具。地理信息系统和基于网络的技术将为数据集成、可视化和建模提供具有成本效益的工具，并将促进跨学科研究。范围：开发大型数据库的需求（例如，GERM、PEDB、Georoc、UNAVCO、PLATES）的数据库正在增加，特别是通过地球化学、地质年代学、地球物理和遥感数据的时空整合来解决全球规模的地质问题。开发本地数据库，如在此为埃及提议的数据库，将在本地和/或区域范围内起到类似的作用，并有可能与全球数据集相结合。 该项目是为中东和北非建立一个综合性网上地理信息系统数据库的重要一步。 美国和埃及的项目执行机构在处理光栅和矢量数据以及在遥感和地理信息系统技术方面具有相当丰富的经验，能够执行这一项目。 该项目的成果将直接应用于科学研究以及埃及资源管理的实际问题，例如该区域水和矿物资源的研究。正在计划通过因特网与科学界分享数据。 该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金方案的支持，该方案向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。