Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative Geospatial Data Portal Extension: Implementing a GNLCC Spatial Toolkit and Phenology Server

The set of data development and presentation tools planned will allow GIS analysts in the GNLCC community to work with multiple themes inside the GNLCC geospatial portal. Users will be able to work with phenology imagery layers, define presentation options, and deliver on-line viewers that can be used by the GNLCC community at large and, ultimately, the public.

Deliverables:

1. Support the GNLCC geospatial data portal, including the versioned project geodatabase and ArcGIS Server cluster
2. Provide a way for GIS Analysts to access phenology imagery data to develop derived products and store these artifacts in the project repository
3. Augment the existing ArcGIS Server cluster to support the generation of multi-theme web services, providing a way for users to develop and store map service definitions on the geospatial data portal;
4. Provide a system to allow GIS Analysts to conveniently define dataset presentation options, including symbology, attribute-based representation, and access restrictions
5. Provide an expert workflow where ArcGIS analysts and modelers can design and deploy their own Web or client application by calling Web Services from the GNLCC repository and catalog
6. Provide a "straight to the mapper" approach, designed to let a user call up and interactively select and display layers on a client tool, like Arc Explorer
7. Develop format, structure, and methodology for documenting map packages as distinct artifacts associated with the project