Data Basin - More Map Export Options

mike — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:07:57 +0000

Centers Page:

Front Page

Once you've created a map in Data Basin, arranged everything so it looks just the way you want, and saved it -- what can you do next? One of the things you can do is export your map. Previously, exporting was restricted to a PDF document or a ZIP file that contained PNG images of the pages of the PDF document.

State of the Coast

tosha — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:36:35 +0000

Guest Blog: Susan Holmes

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Aquatic Center

NOAA's National Ocean Service has recently launched an excellent web tool - known as the State of the Coast - allowing users to explore a variety of connections among coastal communities.

Susan Holmes, with the Special Projects Division at NOAA national Ocean Service, has provided the following description of the State of the Coast tool:

For the love of the mountains

dominique — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:37:46 +0000

PlankersBlog

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Climate Center

We were unlikely friends, Rob fresh from the military and the Gulf war, me anti-arms, anti-war. But we had a big thing in common: our love of the outdoors, our love of the mountains. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees" said Muir. We hiked many trails of Olympic National Park and Rainier National Park together, spent a few new year's eves in the snow watching moon rise over Mt Rainier. We told each other many stories of hikes, rides, climbs, outdoor adventures we so cherished.

Commenting in Data Basin

mike — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:24:22 +0000

Commenting functionality was recently added to Data Basin. The following screencast gives a brief overview of the commenting functionality and how to use it.

Carbon sequestration dreams

dominique — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:15:45 +0000

carbon, fires and climate change

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Climate Center

A few weeks ago I attended a workshop on Climate and Forests in Flagstaff, AZ. The field trip before the start of the workshop took us to areas of aspen decline, pinyon mortality, and other landscapes devastated by recent fires. On the second day, speakers from the forest industry gave interesting presentations about what they saw was the future of their trade: Carbon credits for growing young trees and revenue from wood sold as a renewable source of energy.

Data Basin Goes Temporal

Nik — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:23:20 +0000

Time and Animation are Coming to Data Basin

The Data Basin developers are currently working to allow the import and visualization of time-enabled datasets. This screencast gives a short preview of how users will be able to interact with time-enabled data in the live map viewer. In addition to viewing animations in the map, users will also be able to save animated data as a movie to easily share with others.

Importing Datasets to Data Basin

brendan — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:37:28 +0000

Centers Page:

Front Page

The following screencast gives a quick tour of the new import process.

Improved dataset importer, new search page, and other updates

brendan — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:33:45 +0000

Centers Page:

Front Page

New importer: We completely rebuilt the dataset import process to make it much easier to upload datasets, fill out lots of descriptive information, and find out something useful when the process fails. You can now also upload multiple layer datasets, which allow multiple related GIS files (shapefiles or ArcGRIDs) to be bundled together into a single dataset. This allows you to view all individual GIS files together in the map page, download them all at once, and more.

Sustainability

Wendy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:04:45 +0000

Looking deeper into lessons of Easter Island

"Sustainability." That word gets thrown around so much today. What does it really even mean? According to Wikipedia, sustainability is "1) The capacity to endure. 2) The ability of biological systems to remain diverse and productive over time. 3) The potential of long-term maintenance of [human] well-being in environmental, economic and social dimensions."

This month's CSA news from the Crop and Soil Science societies of America is entitled "Sustainability: Learning the lessons of past civilizations." There is a drawing of the iconic Easter island statues on the cover. Easter Island has become the poster child of unsustainable human activity - deforestation, soil degradation, over population. UCLA geography professor Jared Diamond has written a book called "Collapse: How Societies Fail or Succeed." At the 2010 tri-societies meeting in Long Beach, he used the Easter Islanders as an example of the kind of damage we are doing to our planet with massive deforestation, over population and un-sustainable agricultural practices. He issued the warning that once we destroy this planet, we will have no where else to go.

The Forest Park Conservancy's All Trails Challenge 2011

jbergquist — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:47:30 +0000

Map your miles in Data Basin

As I’ve said so many times, the Data Basin users and community continue to show us how this great tool can be used.