The KINDRED Project Knowledge-based Integration and Navigation of Distributed Regional Environmental Data Information Technology Research in Support of Integrated Regional Planning. Proposal Submitted to the National Science Foundation, February 6, 2002 by Ilya Zaslavsky, Keith Pezzoli and Richard Marciano

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Long-term integrated planning in cross-border metropolitan areas is an increasingly complex task. There is now a pressing need for innovative information technologies and new planning methods that can reconcile and integrate the activities of regional data providers, planners, managers, politicians and community groups in support of integrated decision-making. This is especially true for large binational metropolitan areas such as the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan region and other fast growing twin cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. This project aims to create and explore a new framework for Knowledge-based Integration and Navigation of Distributed Regional Environmental Data (KINDRED), to support integrated decision-making in metropolitan planning. The KINDRED "SPIRIT" (SPatially Integrated Regional Information Testbed) system, focusing on the semantic integration of land use databases across the border, will be developed.