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Stennis Space Center Environmental Geographic Information SystemAs NASA's lead center for rocket propulsion testing, the John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) monitors and assesses the off-site impacts of such testing through its Environmental Office (SSC-EO) using acoustical models and ancillary data. The SSC-EO has developed a geographical database, called the SSC Environmental Geographic Information System (SSC-EGIS), that covers an eight-county area bordering the NASA facility. Through the SSC-EGIS, the Enivronmental Office inventories, assesses, and manages the nearly 139,000 acres that comprise Stennis Space Center and its surrounding acoustical buffer zone. The SSC-EGIS contains in-house data as well as a wide range of data obtained from outside sources, including private agencies and local, county, state, and U.S. government agencies. The database comprises cadastral/geodetic, hydrology, infrastructure, geo-political, physical geography, and socio-economic vector and raster layers. The imagery contained in the database is varied, including low-resolution imagery, such as Landsat TM and SPOT; high-resolution imagery, such as IKONOS and AVIRIS; and aerial photographs. The SSC-EGIS has been an integral part of several major projects and the model upon which similar EGIS's will be developed for other NASA facilities. The Corps of Engineers utilized the SSC-EGIS in a plan to establish wetland mitigation sites within the SSC buffer zone. Mississippi State University employed the SSC-EGIS in a preliminary study to evaluate public access points within the buffer zone. The SSC-EO has also expressly used the SSC-EGIS to assess noise pollution modeling, land management/wetland mitigation assessment, environmental hazards mapping, and protected areas mapping for archaeological sites and for threatened and endangered species habitats. The SSC-EO has several active and planned projects that will also make use of the SSC-EGIS during this and the coming fiscal year.
Document ID
20040013459
Acquisition Source
Stennis Space Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Lovely, Janette
(Lockheed Martin Space Operations Bay Saint Louis, MS, United States)
Cohan, Tyrus
(Lockheed Martin Space Operations Bay Saint Louis, MS, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
June 13, 2000
Subject Category
Documentation And Information Science
Report/Patent Number
SE-2000-06-00005-SSC
Meeting Information
Meeting: Second Stennis Technology Millennium Update
Location: Bay Saint Louis, MS
Country: United States
Start Date: September 6, 2000
End Date: September 7, 2000
Sponsors: NASA Stennis Space Center
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: 4500-0007-00
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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