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  • Print publication year: 2011
  • Online publication date: October 2011

24 - Application of the US Geoscience Information Network to deploying a national geothermal data system

from Part VI - Emerging international and other efforts
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Introduction

The U.S. Department of Energy calls the National Geothermal Data System the “cornerstone” of the Geothermal Technologies Program for the next several years in meeting the leading demand of industry for better and easier access to data. As described in the original Department of Energy Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA):

The National Geothermal Database will store critical geothermal site attribute information such as temperature at depth, seismicity/microseismicity, fracture maps, drilling data, permeability data, well logs, geophysical surveys, etc. The database should be inclusive of all types of geothermal resources such as hydrothermal, geopressured, Enhanced Geothermal Systems, geothermal fluids co-produced with oil and/or gas, etc. It should also utilize information from existing USGS geothermal resource assessments and DOE funded R&D projects. This standardized set of geothermal resource data will be made available to the public and serve to focus geothermal exploration activities, thereby mitigating investment risks.

DOE further elaborated (http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/projects/projects.cfm/ProjectID=27) that:

The NGDS will be able to handle the full range of geoscience and engineering data pertinent to geothermal resources as well as incorporate data from the full suite of geothermal resource types. It will be able to handle data on geothermal site attributes, power plants, environmental factors, policy and procedure data, and institutional barriers. It will provide resource classification and financial risk assessment tools to help encourage the development of more geothermal resources by industry. It will be an easy to use system that meets the needs of the professional and the public for information on geothermal resources.

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  • Online ISBN: 9780511976308
  • Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511976308
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References
Allison, M. L., Dickinson, T. L., and Gundersen, L. C. (2008). Final Report: A Workshop on the Role of State Geological Surveys and U.S. Geological Survey in a Geological Information System for the Nation, submitted to National Science Foundation for Award 0723437 to the Association of American State Geologists, March 1, 2007 to February 29, 2008. Arizona Geological Survey Open-file Report 08-01, 23pp.
Clark, R., Richard, S., and Grunberg, W. (in press). The national Geothermal Data System: The Geoscience Information Network in action. In Digital Mapping Techniques '10 – Workshop Proceedings, ed. Soller, D.. U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report.
Richard, S. M., and Grunberg, W., eds. (2010). Use of ISO19139 XML Schema to Describe Geoscience Information Resources v. 1.1. Arizona Geological Survey Open-file Report OFR-10-02, 134pp.
Richard, S. M., Allison, M. L., Clark, R. J, and Grunberg, W. (2009). US GIN: Interoperable geoscience data services on the Web: How do we get there?Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 41(7): 99.
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