Indiana Space Grant Consortium

The author, Gerry Stahl, has attempted to create a large, broad book on a tremendously complex, multidisciplinary subject. This sense of scope exists on several dimensions. The 21 essays represent ...

The State of Indiana is in the process of creating a set of database tools to allow improved access, sharing, and understanding of information about community-level resources for any location within the state. This paper describes developing efforts to identify the needs of users in local government, community planning, emergency response, and agricultural extension offices to utilize the growing technical capabilities of geospatial information systems to improve environmental quality and local resource utilization for citizens of the state.