RAPID: Seamless Marine-wetlands-coastal Soils Database to Support Urgent Decision-making Against the Deepwater Horizon Coastal Oiling

几年来，pi一直在开发一个数据系统，可以代表沿海边缘的土壤“基质，沉积物”。在过去的几年里，他们一直在设计解决这些问题的方法：(a)将大型海洋土壤数据库扩展到澳大利亚内陆的陆上景观，(b)研究密西西比三角洲地区的地质/生态变化，(c)在使数字和语言数据可共同映射（异构数据问题）方面进行创新。沿海地区人口密集，投资遍布全球。该项目将为更好地描述和理解该地区大片地区的地质物质和环境模式开辟道路。特别是，更好的数据可用性将基于改进的输入和扩展的验证机会来改进规划和数值模型的性能。关于深水地平线灾难，该项目将立即提供更好的信息，重点关注和支持清理和补救工作。该项目将加强清理决策支持系统和数值模型，并将为与相关研究方面的科学制图和实验工作一起工作提供新的数据来源。

For several years, the PIs have been developing a data system which can represent the soils "substrates, sediments" of the coastal fringe. They have been devising solutions to these problems over the last several years by: (a) extending a large marine soils database to onshore landscapes in the Australian outback, (b) researching the geologic/ecologic changes in the Mississippi delta region, (c) innovating in making numerical and linguistic data co-mappable (the heterogenous data problem). The coastal zone is heavily populated and invested in worldwide. This project will open the way to a better depiction and understanding of the geomaterial and environmental patterns over large expanses of the zone. In particular, better availability of data will improve planning and numerical model performance based on improved inputs and extended opportunities for validations. In regard to the Deepwater Horizon disaster this project will immediately provide better information focussed on and supporting the cleanup and remediation efforts. The project will strengthen the cleanup decision support systems and numerical models, and will provide a new source of data to work with the associated research-side scientific mapping and experimental work.