SOFIA Environmental Database Development and Maintenance

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The long-term goal of the SOFIA program is to provide a central archive of data and products for all Department of Interior products related to the south Florida Ecosystem restoration program.The primary objectives of this project were to 1) provide a central location for the archive of all products and data collected as part of the USGS PES program and related work for the restoration of the South Florida Ecosystem; and 2) provide a means for customers to obtain the archived information. The database was been developed using PostgreSQL, an open source relational database management system. PostgreSQL was selected because it is freely available, widely used, actively maintained and supported, and runs on all modern UNIX-like and Windows based computer systems. As projects were completed or data sets were made available to the public, the data was to be loaded into the database.
Citation
Title SOFIA Environmental Database Development and Maintenance
publication  Date  
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Roy Sonenshein
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/sofia/
Topic Category:  environment,
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
information management
database
thesaurus name >
Title None
Location keywords:
United States
US
thesaurus name >
Title Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Theme keywords (theme):
USGS
thesaurus name >
Title Organization > GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES
publication  Date   2016-11-14
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Nov 14 05:38:22 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
PostgreSQL
thesaurus name >
Title Resource Type > Software
publication  Date   2016-11-14
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Nov 14 05:38:22 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
U.S. Geological Survey
thesaurus name >
Title Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Corporate Names
publication  Date   2016-11-14
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Nov 14 05:38:22 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
SOFIA
thesaurus name >
Title Equipment > Instrument
publication  Date   2016-11-14
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Nov 14 05:38:22 UTC 2016
purpose:
The South Florida restoration effort requires multidisciplinary information relating to present and historical conditions for use in responsible decision-making. The South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) database is the cornerstone of information management for the South Florida place-based science program.Responsible resource management requires a firm scientific basis for decision making. The SOFIA database will provide hydrologic, cartographic, geologic, and biologic data and metadata to aid in the decision process. Ecosystem restoration and sound resource management will benefit south Florida by allowing a balance of uses and interests. The data are available to Federal, State, and local agencies through a web interface and can be retrieved from the SOFIA database. The database has been redesigned to provide storage and access to a greater variety of data types. A new web-based interface will be developed to provide access to the database. The interaction between the database, the other SOFIA products, and other available web-based databases is being evaluated. The database will be updated to provide greater interoperability between the database, other SOFIA products and other web-based databases.
Browse image (thumbnail):
thumbnail file name:  ...
file type: GIF
thumbnail file description:  map showing the location of the study area
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: None
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: The database is no longer available and further development has been halted
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -82.375
eastBoundLongitude  -80
northBoundLatitude  28.5
southBoundLatitude  24.5
Temporal Extent
2001-10-01 2005-01-01
Credits:
Project personnel included Bruce Irvin, Cortney Mills, Tarla Toomer, Tim Boozer, Joann Dixon, and Sandy Womble.
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Roy Sonenshein
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 954 377-5924
Address
3110 SW 9th Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 33315 Country USA
electronic Mail Address sunshine@usgs.gov
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  not available
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  not available
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  not applicable

Metadata data stamp:  2007-03-09
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Heather Henkel
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 727 803-8747 ext 3028
Fax 727 803-2030
Address
600 Fourth Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, 33701 Country USA
electronic Mail Address sofia-metadata@usgs.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  dfac4e1a-9eae-4106-b69b-4d62e9d8bcc3

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)