Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts

Thursday, December 16, 2010

NBII Data Access Wizard Provides Access to New Data Available for the Mid-Atlantic Region

The USGS-NBII Program's Data Access Wizard was updated with updates to the map services for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, National Wetlands Inventory data in the Mid-Atlantic states from the Natural Lands Trust, new weather data map services, aerial photos for south-central Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania oil/gas locations, illegal dump sites, decadal climate maps through the Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas project, and 2008 National Agriculture Imagery Program for states of the Chesapeake Bay. You can search the Data Access Wizard on the Mid-Atlantic Information Node (MAIN) web site to access these data.

Monday, November 15, 2010

WDIN Releases its Web Application, the Wildlife Health Event Reporter

WDIN, through its partners at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center, the University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, and HealthMap.org (Children’s Hospital Boston), has created an experimental Web application, the Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER), and has added the ability to report wildlife health events to a mobile phone application by HealthMap called Outbreaks Near Me. These tools will enhance public assistance in the surveillance of wildlife disease events. As a result of citizens using WHER and HealthMap’s mobile application, resource agencies will be able to assess the benefits of these tools through an increase in observational power that could potentially lead to a better understanding of both baseline and exceptional wildlife disease events. WHER can be accessed at http://www.wher.org. Individuals can obtain an account and provide feedback by contacting wdin@usgs.gov.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database Offers Interactive Species Maps

NBII Invasive Species Information Node (ISIN) partner, the USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) database, recently made some upgrades to its Web site. NAS now offers point distribution maps. These appear as a separate link from any species search and from the top of any species page. These new maps depict spatial accuracy of the point and species status at each location. The map background can be changed and various other spatial layers can be turned on/off. Additional environmental layers are planned for the future.

Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix)
Northern Snakehead fish (Channa argus)
Nutria (Myocastor coypus)

Also, the site has been converted from classic .ASP to .NET. As a result, all of the Web page addresses have changed.  However, the change is simple: the basic URL remains the same but will contain the letter X after any “ASP within the former URLs (as can be seen in the links above).

(Photo: Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), exotic to United States with map showing points of distribution.  Photo by the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, Alabama.  Photo courtesy of the NAS Web site).

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Plans to Enhance BAMONA Spatially

In addition to ongoing data collection and maintenance this coming year, the Big Sky Institute plans to convert the Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) database into a geospatial database, develop a Web mapping service, and develop a visualization capability for the BAMONA data set that will support WMS, KML, and/or other accepted standards. The mapping service will be interoperable with NBII Web sites and species page mashups, the USGS National Map Viewer, Google Earth, and other NBII partners/projects such as the Cactus Moth Monitoring and Detection Network that is coordinated by the Invasive Species Information Node (ISIN) partner John Madsen with the Mississippi State University GeoSystems Research Institute. This project is being supported by multiple NBII nodes including Mountain Prairie, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Pacific Basin. The outcome will provide content for regional nodes across the NBII network.

For a list of recent updates, visit the BAMONA blog.

(Photo: Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) website screen image)