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Strategic On-Line Defense Geography Repository (SOLDGR)

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The Strategic On-Line Defense Geography Repository (SOLDGR) is a component of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) The National Map that was designed to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with a tool to visualize and download geospatial data developed by the USGS and its civilian agency partners. The infrastructure supporting The National Map has been established, and partnerships with Federal, state, and local agencies are being developed as an ongoing USGS mission.

SOLDGR uses The National Map's current seamless eight basic data themes as a projection basis for the DoD data layers. DoD geospatial information is directed to SOLDGR by web services held by the USGS. The web service information is contained within an ORACLE georeferenced catalog that powers The National Map. When the end user navigates into a particular geographic location, the web services for data layers in that area are referenced in the right-hand window of the viewer and can be selected for projection.

SOLDGR is designed to serve environmental and engineering GIS data layers to the installation management constituency at the thin-client level. However, its potential utility to serve other efforts, such as homeland security and first response efforts, are quickly being realized and tested. SOLDGR is a prime example of how the The National Map can be exploited for other Federal agency purposes.

Some of the data layers displayed by SOLDGR:

Seamless digital elevation modelsHigh-resolution 1-foot true color imagery
Seamless transportation networksRegional aquifers
Seamless digital orthoimageryUSGS real time stream gage network
Seamless National Hydrography DatasetGeochemical sample locations and data
Seamless LANDSAT 7 imageryHistorical imagery
Seamless digital raster graphicsSurficial and bedrock geology
The National Wetlands InventoryForest Service and National Park Boundaries
DoD lands footprintsHigh resolution satellite imagery
Specific installation data layersGeographic names
Real-time earthquakesNEXRAD weather radar
Global Seismic Network


SOLDGR SOLDGR formerly is a product of the USGS Department of Defense Earth Science Program, but now is managed collaboratively by the National Geospatial Technical Operations Center-Rolla and the Mid-Continent Geographic Science Center.


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