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In 2006, the Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS) conducted a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Bureau-wide Prospectus to support research in Geospatial Information Science. In response to the Call for Proposals, CEGIS received 71 proposals. A rigorous two-stage review process was conducted with a panel of six groups of reviewers, each group with representation from the USGS disciplines, Biological Resources, Geology, Geography, Geospatial Information, and Water Resources. A CEGIS oversight group managed the review process and ranked the top 20 proposals based on the evaluations of the review groups. Following this ranking, the top 20 proposals were then reviewed by the Chief Scientists for each USGS Discipline. From the Chief Scientists´ review, the Associate Director for Geospatial Information agreed to fund the top seven proposals with fiscal year 2007 funds. Those seven proposals, as submitted, are available on this page as pdf files that may be viewed or downloaded.

Scaling, Extrapolation, and Uncertainty of Vegetation, Topographic, and Ecologic Properties in the Mojave Desert (133 kB pdf file)

A Landscape Indicator Approach to the Identification and Articulation of the Ecological Consequences of Land Cover Change in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1970 – 2000 (348 kB pdf file)

Assessing Local Uncertainty in Non-Stationary Scale-Variant Geospatial Data (188 kB pdf file)

Methods to Quantify Error Propagation and Prediction Uncertainty for USGS Raster Processing (249 kB pdf file)

The Geoscience of Harmful Invasive Species: Integrating LANDFIRE And Invasive Species Data for Dynamic and Seamless Integration of Raster and Vector Data to Meet Management Needs at Multiple Scales. (379 kB pdf file)

Mapping Inundation at USGS Stream Gage Sites: A Proof of Concept Investigation (108 kB pdf file)

GEOLEM: Improving the integration of geographic information in environmental modeling through semantic interoperability (101 kB pdf file)