FPAC-NRCS-Natural Resources Information and Delivery (NRID)
Investment ID: 005-000002383
Overview
Program Title
FPAC-NRCS-Natural Resources Information and Delivery (NRID)
Description
Facilitates development, documentation, and distribution of a wide array of natural resources products (i.e., LiDAR and other GIS products,) for use in resource assessment, conservation planning, and installation and evaluation of conservation systems.
Type of Program
Non-major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Associated Websites
http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/, http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/HomePage.htm, http://plants.usda.gov/java/, http://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov/
Investment Detail
The NRID investment is expected to yield both quantitative and qualitative benefits. Many of the NRID enhancements address an improvement in the ability of NRCS to deliver natural resource assessment products through standard Web services.
Qualitative benefits of NRID includes:
Focuses on business needs, rather than technical solutions
-Reduces IT environmental complexity through cloud platforms
-Efficient access for public parties and congress interested in accessing soils, plants, and ecological site data and information via the internet.
-Provides a way to get customized Soil, Geospatial, Water and Plants reports.
-Deliver Natural resource assessment products through standard web service.
-Ease of access of data via Geospatial tools.
- Congress uses natural resource assessment information to better understand the resource concerns for their constituents.
Quantitative Benefit of NRID include:
-Reduces redundancy, eliminates and consolidates duplicate systems.
- Reduces cost by use of more modular cloud platforms
Allows movement of cloud-ready applications to IaaS providers for reduced support costs
Cost savings by reducing redundancy, eliminating and consolidating duplicate systems.
- Time savings to customers looking for natural resource information via websites.
Qualitative benefits of NRID includes:
Focuses on business needs, rather than technical solutions
-Reduces IT environmental complexity through cloud platforms
-Efficient access for public parties and congress interested in accessing soils, plants, and ecological site data and information via the internet.
-Provides a way to get customized Soil, Geospatial, Water and Plants reports.
-Deliver Natural resource assessment products through standard web service.
-Ease of access of data via Geospatial tools.
- Congress uses natural resource assessment information to better understand the resource concerns for their constituents.
Quantitative Benefit of NRID include:
-Reduces redundancy, eliminates and consolidates duplicate systems.
- Reduces cost by use of more modular cloud platforms
Allows movement of cloud-ready applications to IaaS providers for reduced support costs
Cost savings by reducing redundancy, eliminating and consolidating duplicate systems.
- Time savings to customers looking for natural resource information via websites.