Data center for resources and environmental sciences established
The Data Center for Resources and Environmental Sciences (RESDC) was inaugurated at the CAS Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) on March 21. Its website (www.resdc.cn) is also in service.
The celebrative meeting was attended by CAS Vice President Li Jiayang, Fu Bojie, the Director of the CAS Bureau of Science and Technology for the Resources and the Environment, and other CAS leaders and scientists.
This data pool is based at IGSNRR and has nine branch stations providing data in fields concerned with the environmental and life sciences ranging from the land utility to the biodiversity, instructed by the RESDC director Liu Jiyuan. It patches up 14 CAS research institutes into a data platform featuring the scientific data sharing and integration. Moreover, the RESDC website will further facilitate the information inquiries in a wider touch of the public and the scientific bodies.
At present, as the difficulty in finding shared data is a big problem that encumbers the scientific research, six major S&T platforms will be established under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the RESDC is one of them. It's expected to serve as the main body of the Data-Sharing Network of China Earth System Science, providing data support for the research in this field and contributing to the E-government construction and S&T data integration and sharing.
