Gulf of Maine Data Explorer
The Gulf of Maine Data Explorer is an online tool designed for display and exploration of spatial data. The Data Explorer incorporates both raster and vector data from multiple file formats, which are displayed using mapserver technology. The Data Explorer serves as a prototype for a major IT fusion effort between map-serving software, visualization, and queryable database management software and falls under the Collaborative's Northeast Regional Ecosystem Assessment Application Theme Area
Time series of images can be viewed as an animation; currently the Data Explorer is displaying daily forcast data and output from the PnET terrestrial ecosystem model. In addition to data display, users are able to select a specific geographic extent and activate a Data Calculator tool, allowing for further analysis of the data layers.
