WAIS through the Web - Discovering Environmental Information

Test Facilities

Current implementations of Directory systems that use Wide Area Information Servers and have some sort of spatial searching capability include ...

• ERIN Distributed Spatial Data Library

• USGS Spatial Data Discovery System

• The NOAA Data Set Catalog

• Map Viewer II

• Community/Tourist Information Metadatabase

• Experimental Services Related to GeoWeb

There are some other innovative services that are helping to indicate future trends ...

• On-line identification of Eucalyptus species using natural language processing - at University of New South Wales and linking back to Flora of Australia at ERIN.

• Interactive species distribution reporting, mapping and modelling using the World Wide Web - at ERIN

• US Geographic Name Server - patching together several different services starting at University of Buffalo, linking to the Geographic Name Server at University of Michigan, and then to the Map Server at Xerox PARC.

• ARC/INFO Atlas Application - this runs an ARC/INFO Geographic Information System script to generate a map from a continually updated database.