Interim results from a two-year study at Sandia National Laboratories concerningopen source geospatial data and open source software are now available. Aneasily trainable, interoperable toolset has been designed to systematically extractand store geospatial data from the Internet. Testing is underway to measure theutility of this integrated suite of open-source tools for geospatial data collection,analysis, and visualization. Test subjects have been initially surveyed, trained onthe use of the software suite, and follow-up interviews are being conducted.Because special care was taken to integrate the system into the analyst‘sexisting workflow, initial reports point toward frequent acceptance. Variability inreported user experience is associated with several key attributes among testsubjects. Based on this, we have created a profile of the user/analysts that willmost benefit from this software system.
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