Bottom line: The principal investigator needs to keep in mind that a Grant Proposal is as much a marketing document as an intellectual document. You will benefit by consulting a few key individuals at an early stage in the planning of the proposal. The Sponsorâs Program Officer (PO). Regardless of the funding agency, it is advisable (and sometimes required) to contact the program officer for the purposes of introducing yourself and your work.
spatial data. Spatial data, also known as geospatial data, is information about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values in a geographic coordinate system.
Spatial Data Types Overview. There are two types of spatial data. The geometry data type supports planar, or Euclidean (flat-earth), data. The geometry data type both conforms to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features for SQL Specification version 1.1.0 and is compliant with SQL MM (ISO standard).