Friday, August 5th, 2011
With decades of experience in developing country-scale geographic information system (GIS) databases and in performing major geologic mapping and resource assessment programs within the Middle East, Eurasia, Asia and South America, the USGS is working to develop...
Monday, June 13th, 2011
The research has been helping China’s disaster management authorities better understand the full impact of the catastrophic flooding that would occur if one of China’s, and the world’s, biggest dams collapsed. The work could also be applied in...
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Land surveys provide the means to initiate administrative actions that support growth and development. Different countries approach the construction of national land datasets in different ways. In Korea, a national land survey was initiated and it included...
