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Exploration Gap Assessment (FY13 Update)

Published by National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Department of Energy | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2024-05-19T23:53:49Z
This submission contains an update to the previous Exploration Gap Assessment funded in 2012, which identify high potential hydrothermal areas where critical data are needed (gap analysis on exploration data). The uploaded data are contained in two data files for each data category: A shape (SHP) file containing the grid, and a data file (CSV) containing the individual layers that intersected with the grid. This CSV can be joined with the map to retrieve a list of datasets that are available at any given site. A grid of the contiguous U.S. was created with 88,000 10-km by 10-km grid cells, and each cell was populated with the status of data availability corresponding to five data types: 1. well data 2. geologic maps 3. fault maps 4. geochemistry data 5. geophysical data

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description This submission contains an update to the previous Exploration Gap Assessment funded in 2012, which identify high potential hydrothermal areas where critical data are needed (gap analysis on exploration data). The uploaded data are contained in two data files for each data category: A shape (SHP) file containing the grid, and a data file (CSV) containing the individual layers that intersected with the grid. This CSV can be joined with the map to retrieve a list of datasets that are available at any given site. A grid of the contiguous U.S. was created with 88,000 10-km by 10-km grid cells, and each cell was populated with the status of data availability corresponding to five data types: 1. well data 2. geologic maps 3. fault maps 4. geochemistry data 5. geophysical data
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    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Fault Maps CSV of intersected services.csv",
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The attributes in the CSV include:

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4. gap_type: This represents the category of data availability that these data fall within. As the current processing is pulling data from NGDS, this category universally represents data that are available in the NGDS and are ready for acquisition for analytic purposes. 
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4. gap_type: This represents the category of data availability that these data fall within. As the current processing is pulling data from NGDS, this category universally represents data that are available in the NGDS and are ready for acquisition for analytic purposes. 
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    "description": "The raw table of intersected services for the geophysical data gap assessment.  

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2. title: This represents the name of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
3. abstract: This represents the description of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
4. gap_type: This represents the category of data availability that these data fall within. As the current processing is pulling data from NGDS, this category universally represents data that are available in the NGDS and are ready for acquisition for analytic purposes. 
5. proprietary_type: Whether the data are considered proprietary  
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    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Geothermal Mineral Occurrence Maps CSV of intersected services.csv",
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    "mediaType": "text/csv",
    "description": "The raw table of intersected services for the mineral occurance maps gap assessment.  

The attributes in the CSV include:

1. grid_id : The id of the grid cell that the data intersects with
2. title: This represents the name of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
3. abstract: This represents the description of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
4. gap_type: This represents the category of data availability that these data fall within. As the current processing is pulling data from NGDS, this category universally represents data that are available in the NGDS and are ready for acquisition for analytic purposes. 
5. proprietary_type: Whether the data are considered proprietary  
6. service_type: The type of service 
7. base_url: The service URL"
  },
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    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Structural Maps CSV of intersected services.csv",
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    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/263/structural_maps.csv",
    "mediaType": "text/csv",
    "description": "The raw table of intersected services for the structural maps gap assessment.  

The attributes in the CSV include:

1. grid_id : The id of the grid cell that the data intersects with
2. title: This represents the name of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
3. abstract: This represents the description of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
4. gap_type: This represents the category of data availability that these data fall within. As the current processing is pulling data from NGDS, this category universally represents data that are available in the NGDS and are ready for acquisition for analytic purposes. 
5. proprietary_type: Whether the data are considered proprietary  
6. service_type: The type of service 
7. base_url: The service URL"
  },
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    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
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  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Structural Maps Shapefile - Associated FIle.shx",
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    "mediaType": "application/octet-stream",
    "description": "Associated shapefile shape index file."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Well Data CSV of intersected services.csv",
    "format": "csv",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/263/well_data.csv",
    "mediaType": "text/csv",
    "description": "The raw table of intersected services for the wells data gap assessment.  

The attributes in the CSV include:

1. grid_id : The id of the grid cell that the data intersects with
2. title: This represents the name of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
3. abstract: This represents the description of the WFS service that intersected with this grid cell 
4. gap_type: This represents the category of data availability that these data fall within. As the current processing is pulling data from NGDS, this category universally represents data that are available in the NGDS and are ready for acquisition for analytic purposes. 
5. proprietary_type: Whether the data are considered proprietary  
6. service_type: The type of service 
7. base_url: The service URL"
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Well Data Shapefile - Associated FIle.dbf",
    "format": "dbf",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/263/well_data.dbf",
    "mediaType": "application/octet-stream",
    "description": "Associated shapefile dBase attributes file.."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Well Data Shapefile - Associated FIle.prj",
    "format": "prj",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/263/well_data.prj",
    "mediaType": "application/octet-stream",
    "description": "Associated shapefile projection file."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Well Data Shapefile.shp",
    "format": "shp",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/263/well_data.shp",
    "mediaType": "application/octet-stream",
    "description": "Well data shape file, in standard .shp file format."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Exploration Gap Assessment - Well Data Shapefile - Associated FIle.shx",
    "format": "shx",
    "accessURL": "https://gdr.openei.org/files/263/well_data.shx",
    "mediaType": "application/octet-stream",
    "description": "Associated shapefile shape index file."
  },
  {
    "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
    "title": "Gap Assessment FY12 Paper",
    "format": "pdf",
    "accessURL": "https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/pdf/IGAstandard/SGW/2013/Esposito.pdf",
    "mediaType": "application/pdf",
    "description": "Outlines the original process used in the gap assessment"
  }
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DOI 10.15121/1261919
identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/6603
issued 2013-09-30T06:00:00Z
keyword 
                                            [
  "SGW",
  "Stanford Geothermal Workshop",
  "dBase file",
  "data coverage",
  "data gaps",
  "exploration",
  "fault",
  "fault maps",
  "gap",
  "gap assessment",
  "geochemistry",
  "geochemistry data",
  "geologic",
  "geologic maps",
  "geophysical",
  "geospatial data",
  "geothermal",
  "geothermal prospector",
  "index file",
  "mineral",
  "national geothermal data system",
  "ngds",
  "nrel",
  "paper",
  "process",
  "projection file",
  "raw data",
  "shapefile",
  "structural maps",
  "structure",
  "well",
  "well data",
  "western US"
]
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license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
modified 2024-05-19T23:53:49Z
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                                            [
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projectLead Eric Hass
projectNumber FY13 AOP 2.2
projectTitle Exploration Gap Assessment
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title Exploration Gap Assessment (FY13 Update)

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