EPA Public Data Access Budget Code: CC9
A wealth of environmental data from diverse sources at multiple scales exists and continues to accumulate each day. Scientists, policy makers, industry and the general public have diverse needs for data access, manipulation, summarization, and interpretation. This research addresses fundamental technology issues associated with a multidiscipline approach to finding, assimilating, and analyzing useful information from large, distributed multi-media environmental databases. Technology areas include intelligent agents for searches among data collections, natural language data navigation techniques, machine learning, rule-based systems, data visualization, object data bases, interoperability over heterogeneous hardware/software platforms, and synthesis of information for scientific and public use.
Budget ($ M)
FY 95 Act 0.30
FY 96 Pres 1.02
FY 96 Est 0.60
FY 97 Rqst 0.60
Program Component Areas
  FY 96 FY 97
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HCS    
HuCS 0.60 0.60
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Agency Ties
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Milestone Changes  
FY 1995 Actual Milestones FY 1996 Estimated Milestones FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones
  Award grant(s) for development of data assimilation, and analysis techniques for multi-scale environmental data including satellite imagery. Continue grant(s) for development of data assimilation and analysis techniques for multi-scale environmental data including satellite imagery.