The Challenge:
To provide a user-driven platform for scientists to store and share geoscientific and biological sensor data from anywhere in the world.
The Solution:
The Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Sensing (GeoCENS) project is an interactive web-based portal that allows scientists to monitor both landscape and climate changes, and map out how those changes are impacting local ecosystems. The portal enables researchers to remotely access, exchange, visualize, analyze and download biological and geoscientific data sets sourced from international sensors and satellite imagery.
How GeoCENS Affects You:
Cybera sees value in this project because it enables data from the field to be quickly and comprehensively shared with the geoscientific research community to promote better understandings. For example, GeoCENS hosts the Improved Processes and Parameterization for Prediction in Cold Regions research network, which focused on surface-water and weather systems in Canada's Rocky Mountains and Western Arctic. By studying this, scientists may reach new conclusions on the effects of climate change on northern water flows.
Anyone with an interest in biogeoscience, from industry to researchers to conservationists, are able to log into the portal and use the 3D virtual globe system (similar to Google Earth) to browse geographic areas of interest.
Investment:
This nearly $1.1 million project is funded by CANARIE through its Network-Enabled Platform (NEP) Program.
Collaborators:
- California Biodiversity Centre, University of California, Berkeley
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO
- Open Geospatial Consortium
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