Datasets / National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS)

National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS)

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Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The U.S. Geological Survey Energy Resources Program has developed coal databases to monitor the location, quantity, and physical and chemical characteristics of U.S. coal and coal-related deposits. The National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) database is an integrated system utilizing commercial software to produce maps, resource calculations, and coal quality location maps. NCRDS correlates and standardizes coal data from Federal and State agencies, universities, the private sector, and foreign countries. NCRDS is comprised of three major components, of which two are available online:

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