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  2. United States Geological Survey - Wikipedia

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    The USGS also runs or supports several regional monitoring networks in the United States under the umbrella of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS). [12] The USGS informs authorities, emergency responders, the media, and the public, both domestic and worldwide, about significant earthquakes.

  3. United States Geological Survey Library - Wikipedia

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    The USGS headquarters in Reston, VA. Today, the United States Geological Survey Library's users have access to over 1.7 million items: over 980,000 books and journals, over 600,000 maps, over 8,000 electronic media items (DVDs, CDs), and subscribes to over 113,000 electronic journal titles and eBooks.

  4. List of GIS data sources - Wikipedia

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    Mineral Resource Data System: A collection of reports from the USGS describing metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Includes names, location, commodity, description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, and more. World Bank Geodata

  5. Geographic Names Information System - Wikipedia

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    The logo of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; as well as the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

  6. Global Mapper - Wikipedia

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    The development process is described in detail in the USGS paper titled 'A Programming Exercise'. [5] In 1998 the USGS released the source code for dlgv32 v3.7 to the public domain. In 2001, the source code for dlgv32 was further developed by a private individual into the commercial product dlgv32 Pro v4.0 and offered

  7. Geographic information system - Wikipedia

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    Geographic information system (GIS) is a commonly used tool for environmental management, modelling and planning. As simply defined by Michael Goodchild, GIS is as "a computer system for handling geographic information in a digital form". [68] In recent years it has played an integral role in participatory, collaborative and open data philosophies.

  8. Advanced National Seismic System - Wikipedia

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    Logo of the ANSS. The Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) is a collaboration of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and regional, state, and academic partners that collects and analyzes data on significant earthquakes to provide near real-time (generally within 10 to 30 minutes [1]) information to emergency responders and officials, the news media, and the public. [2]

  9. Mercury (metadata search system) - Wikipedia

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    Mercury Metadata Search System. Mercury is a distributed metadata management, data discovery and access system. [1] It is a scientific data search system to capture and manage biogeochemical and ecological data in support of the Earth science programs funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and United States Geological Survey (USGS) - Department of Interior (DOI).