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... should expand its research activities. We also believe that NMD research should span the spectrum from applied to fundamental; from improved methods for determining user data product requirements to advanced visu~li~tion and modeling of spatial and temporal land-cover changes; from advanced hardware and software for acquiring, extracting, storing, managing, processing, analyzing, and outputting spatially referenced digital data to standards for the electronic transfer of spatial data.
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... 2. The committee recommends that the National Mapping Division establish an external grants program to use the expertise of the academic and industrial sectors in addressing portions of its research agenda.
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... A robust national mapping infrastructure is vital to achieving this goal. Establishing and sustaining this infrastructure, however, requires an expanded NMD research commitment—to both fundamental and applied research.
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