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Internet map services: new portal for global ecological monitoring, or geodata junkyard?

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Systematic data mining of geospatial and other data available on the internet may provide a novel means for early detection and assessment of ecosystem change and impending natural disturbances. Exploring the possibilities and limitations of systematic geodata mining of the internet has just begun. Webcrawlers to locate, assess, and connect to these data are beginning to appear within experimental domains. In this project, we built a geodata webcrawler and post processor and then integrated it within a virtual earth viewer and a web interface to assess current data availability for several key topic areas for wildland ecological assessments. The work is part of a larger project at the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center to build an early warning and monitoring system for specific wildland threats to human and ecological values.

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    1. ArcGIS server
    2. OGC
    3. USDA forest service
    4. WFS
    5. WMS
    6. geodata webcrawler
    7. web mapping service

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