DEVELOPMENT OF A CARBON MANAGEMENT GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) FOR THE UNITED STATES

Herzog, Howard J.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)

关键词: Carbon Dioxide;    Carbon Sources;    54 Environmental Sciences;    Geographic Information Systems;    Carbon Sinks;   

DOI  :  10.2172/822870
RP-ID  :  NONE
RP-ID  :  FC26-02NT41622
RP-ID  :  822870

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Lab for Energy and Environment (LFEE) at MIT is developing a Geographic Information System (GIS) for carbon management. The GIS will store, integrate, and manipulate information relating to the components of carbon management systems. Additionally, the GIS can be used to interpret and analyze the effect of developing these systems. In the first year of this three year project, we focused on two tasks: (1) specifying the system design--defining in detail the GIS data requirements, the types of analyses that can be conducted, and the forms of output we will produce, as well as designing the computer architecture of the GIS and (2) creating the ''core'' datasets--identifying data sources and converting them into a form accessible by the GIS.