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The University of Arkansas’ New Spatial Library (UASL) and its relationship to the Arkansas GeoStor
In the late 1990s the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) developed the GeoStor system and operated it under an agreement with and support from the Arkansas Geographic Information Office. In 2005 the AGIO staff, in cooperation with Safe Software, Oracle, ESRI and the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, began the development of a completely new version and architecture for GeoStor. Effective 17 January 2006 the Arkansas GeoStor system V5, developed by the AGIO, is on-line and operated by that office on servers supported by the Arkansas Department of Information Systems in Little Rock. The operation of the earlier version of GeoStor, managed by CAST and located on the campus of the University of Arkansas, has been terminated. A new system, called the University of Arkansas’ Spatial Library (UASL) has started operation.
Links to the Arkansas Geographic Information Office Geostor version and UASL are provided below.
University of Arkansas Spatial Library
The University of Arkansas Spatial Library is a massive (multi-terabyte) Oracle database holding a wide range of geospatial data sets in an OGC-compliant interoperable form. There are extensive vector (e.g. roads, soils, CAD, etc.) raster (e.g. imagery, elevation) and 3D (e.g. LIDAR, high density survey) data in the system. Information from many areas of the world are in the system -- with major holdings from Arkansas, various locations around the US, Central and South America and the Near East. The system is structured to support the research, development, teaching and outreach efforts of the faculty and students of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Faculty and students across the campus can connect a range of GIS, remote sensing, CAD and surveying desktop clients to the Oracle data. Both limited access and public data sets are stored in the UASL. Depending on your access privileges you may be restricted in the data you can access.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/UASL/
GeoStor, the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI), is a public resource providing storage of and easy access to essential statewide geographically linked information such as maps, boundaries, aerial photography, facilities, and natural resources.
GeoStor eliminates redundancy, lowers cost of collecting information, increases speed and ease of access and provide around-the-clock internet availability.
GeoStor is an essential component in developing next-generation businesses, knowledge-based companies, and high-tech jobs. Ready internet access to this system is positioning Arkansas as a leader by powerfully leveraging existing capacities and expertise across the state.
http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/Portal/index.jsp
