A Study on Building China'''' s Resources and Environment Data Warehouse
建立中国资源环境数据仓库的研究

Resources and environment data warehouse is a data collection that is resources and environment oriented, comprehensive, at different times and stable. By defining, transforming and integrating, data of resources and environment in different departments throughout the country and obtained from different platforms can be built as China's resources and environment data warehouse to provide powerful technical support for resources and environment decision making. Inside the data warehouse, a number of subjects of decision goals can be set up and corresponding data integration is chosen according to different decision goals. To design resources and environment data warehouse, the inner relationship and changing regulation of resources and environment must be well understood. It is thus dynamic and procedure oriented, facilitating source data value added and unified as well as knowledge discovered. Working platform of resources and environment data warehouse must be an open system that can support various platforms and databases along with Internet-based decision making supporting tools and GIS application tools to meet needs of different users.