Development Of A Web-Based Geographic Information System For Arctic Science

• Main Author: Johnson, George Walker
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ScholarWorks@UTEP 2011
• Subjects: Arctic Science; Geographic Information System; Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure; Spatial Data Infrastructure; Virtual Globes; WebGIS; Environmental Sciences; Geographic Information Sciences; Library and Information Science; Arctic; Keyhole
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/2511; https://scholarworks.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3510&context=open_etd

Environmental science is a large field of study that requires the acquisition of data for decision making in solving environmental issues. Leveraging desktop geographic information systems (GIS) and web-based GIS (WebGIS) systems for assisting in the problem solving processes can benefit both the re...