NASA applies GIS to its inner spaces

Interesante articulo sobre como la NASA aplica los SIG de ESRI en este proyecto en dos grandes fases:

The first step was accomplished by developing an Extensible Markup Language schema to pull in data from numerous sources. Ball said the XML schema reduced the data preparation time for bringing in datasets from as much as two weeks of intensive effort to an automated process that takes approximately 30 minutes.

The second step was accomplished by connecting the data to the visualization tools offered by ESRI's ArcGIS application.
"We could run the optimization algorithms against nothing else other than Excel data if we chose to," Ball said. "The real power of that is getting that in front of a vast array of managers so that they can understand what the possible scenarios are and what the impacts on their organizations can make. The visualization tools that ESRI provides give this incredible power."
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