The Kansas Geological Survey uses the Internet as an important communication channel. The Internet provides rapid, cost-effective access to natural resource data, informational sources, publications, and technology. Usage of the Survey's web server has grown dramatically. Today, the Survey is weaving the Internet into all of its ongoing and future research and public service operations.
Technology and information transfer processes are moving away from individual consultations, paper publications, and dusty files, and toward high-speed large-volume conduits for digital data and technology that better fit the wide audience of academic organizations, private and public sector entities, and individual citizens. The Internet provides flexible just-in-time accessibility to fundamental geologic and geographic data, to data compilations, and to the latest research and technical studies. Products are available on-line as they are completed, at a fraction of the time and cost of paper publication. Publications with relational links and search engines allow users to modify the scale and focus to their particular requirements, and permit access to data in a compatible format for validation and risk analysis. The Survey is designing research and technical products that go beyond traditional publications and take advantage of the Internet capabilities (examples include the Digital Petroleum Atlas and the Kansas GIS Core Database).
The Survey's virtual resource center provides a flexible and efficient method to disseminate data and technology, and provide geologic research to a geographically dispersed population. The Internet better enables the Survey's information and research results to serve as the framework upon which individual and public policy decisions are built.
Kansas Geological Survey
Updated April 17, 1997
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