Maps & Portals

Web-based Mapping application development has been a key focus of CEON's activities over the past few years. Interactive web-based mapping applications (also called internet map servers) allow users to view a range of thematic map and satellite image layers, query a range of spatially explicit research and site data including sites affiliated with several international or national environmental observing networks or programs. Perhaps most importantly for CEON, users can glean an assortment of information in a single portal and then link to CEON's partnering networks to access more detailed or explicit information.

CEON has built several types of web-based mapping systems including:

• A Circumarctic Internet Map Server (CEON-IMS).
• A 3D Geobrowser allowing Google Earth-like interactivity with CEON's geospatial information.
• We have also worked with colleagues to faciliate the development of several regional web-based mapping applications and several goal-specific circumarctic web-based mapping applications.