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INFORMATION SYSTEM

National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) is a portfolio of projects designed to meet increasing demands for groundwater information in a rapidly changing water business environment. The system will be distributed among regional offices and will integrate both spatial and non-spatial data and information. It also accommodates increased visualization and analytical functionality.

Portfolio of the NGIS project includes several subprojects. Amongst the most important are REGIS Africa and National Groundwater Archive. The later one is a relational database management system that is to replace the Open-NGDB, mainframe based database of mainly boreholes and data related to them. 

See also information on Primary Data Archive (PRIDA) and Geosite Viewer.

Please mail your queries and orders to Jan Girman.

 

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STANDARD BOREHOLE DESCRIPTORS

Long awaited documentation that is attempting to standardise the way the data related to groundwater, and boreholes in particular is available for general perusal. Substantial amount of work is behind the pages that can now be downloaded for daily reference. The project that generated the document was enabled thanks to generous support of the NORAD, the Norwegian Agency for the Development Cooperation.

 

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