INDICES, A TECHNIQUE FOR USING LARGE SPATIAL DATA BASES

摘要

This report attempts to bridge the gap between the large geographical data bases being compiled by states and other institutions and the resource management questions that will eventually be answered by means of such data. Computerized techniques for isolating factors or indices relevant to manage¬ment questions and for expressing these indices in elements of a data base are presented in the context of five indices of potential use to resource managers developed for the land-use models of the Regional Environmental Systems Analysis program (RESA) of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.