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The National Geospatial Development Center (NGDC) supports the natural resource business needs of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service through the innovative use of GIS and other technology tools. We are responsible for the use, application, and integration of geo-technology tools to support and expand the efficient delivery of NRCS programs, with an emphasis on resource inventory and mapping activities. The center works closely with NRCS staff at field, state, and national offices, other federal
agencies, university researchers, and the private sector to achieve these goals.
The NGDC is a collaboration of the NRCS and West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences. We are located in Morgantown, West Virginia. Our personnel include NRCS and WVU staff, contractors, and WVU undergraduate and graduate students.
News
News for May 2009
May 18th, 2009: GlobalSoilMap.net (GSM) Technicial Workshop -North American Node
Dr. Alex McBratney will be at NGDC on May 18 to present a workshop on the GlobalSoilMap.net project and methodologies to produce soil property information from legacy soil survey data (soil maps and point data). Agenda:
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May 26th, 2009: Presentation on the National Atlas for Ecosystems Services Project by Anne Neale
There will be a presentation by Anne Neale, Physical Scientist with the US EPA Landscape Ecology section at the National Research Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009. It will be a presentation on the National Atlas for Ecosystem Services project who’s overarching objective is to provide easily accessible nationwide maps of ecosystem services that can be used to inform and influence environmental decision-making in the conterminous US.