The Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal, LC MAP, provides a collaborative virtual workspace allowing partners of the Great Northern LCC to securely share, access, and analyze common datasets and information to further coordinated research, management, and resource conservation. LC MAP supports large landscape conservation in several ways. It:
Custom-Designed PlatformLC MAP is custom-designed to provide users with a platform that facilitates data management and analysis through four primary functions. Data Discovery and Management Science Base CatalogThe Catalog feature of LC MAP is built upon ScienceBase, an open source Scientific Data Management system that manages Web Service communications to display and transfer data in a variety of formats. As an open source project, ScienceBase allows the GNLCC to take advantage of data discovery and management features developed for other user groups. ScienceBase encourages developers to contribute features that can be used by either broader audience or very focused research groups. Finally, open source means that the code is open for inspection or improvement: the code and application are freely available to GNLCC partners. Data Analysis and Modeling GIS ShareThe analysis portion of LC MAP, the GIS Share, relies on ESRI's ArcGIS 10 software. This portion of LC MAP is not open source so there are licensing costs associated with its use. However, ArcGIS is used by most partners in the region and it is a powerful, stable, and well-supported GIS. If your organization does not have an ESRI license to use ArcGIS, contact us and allow us to help locate a solution. Spatial analysts using ArcGIS 10 to manipulate or model can use the GIS Share to access data directly through a "cloud" of networked servers (one of which is the Catalog). The Web Service features function automatically and facilitate tracking and versioning the workflow allowing geographically dispersed collaborators to work in a shared, virtual environment. |
Visit LC MAP (limited access until account is established) To request a LC MAP account, email your name, affiliation, title, email address, and work phone number to:
For questions about LC MAP contact:
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