Northeast Consortium Fisheries and Ocean Data OGC Interface Directions and Tutorial

Welcome to the Northeast Consortium Fisheries and Ocean Data OGC Mapserver Interface. Detailed instructions will be available soon. Until then, please review the tutorial below.

Tutorial

The following tutorial will present time-series graphs of density vs. pressure from three cruises.
  1. Open the main Northeast Consortium Fisheries and Ocean Data OGC Mapserver Interface website.
    Your brower must be Javascript and frames enabled.





  2. Select a scientist whose project has data you want to see. Just click on the name. Say Lewis Incze.

  3. Click the button.

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  4. At this point, the map will update, and the selected stations or tracks will be displayed. Now we want to get more detailed information. To do that, click the button that is below the 'Time Window' section.

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  5. The Get Info Results selection below the map will spring to life. It contains all the information for the project that we selected that are also visible in the current map.














    Click on the green link "Inshore/offshore patterns..." and a blue box appears with links to project data.
    In this case, there are both CTD data and lobster larvae data from this project.
    Abundance data are often available with different units of measure. The pull-down box shows you how these lobster larvae data are organized.

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  6. At this point you have two choices. The data can be mapped or scaled. Not both. Mapping shows you where it is and scaling gives you a first look at the magnitude of the data. Remember, either will give you access to the data itself. Click 'map-it' for the CTD data. Red dots appear on the map. Click 'map-it' for the lobster larvae and purple dots appear on the map. Click the CTD data box and the CTD data disappear and all you have is the lobster larvae (purple) dots.





    You can check and uncheck each box to show and hide each project's point observations. The colors of the dots are randomly unique to help distinguish one kind of data from another. They are of no real data consequence.



  7. Mouseover any point observation dot to see what data types are available. For this example we moused-over one in the middle. The information in the box is the number of lobster larvae per 1000m2 of water. Many times we are limited by the area available when we try to label points or dataset. Beware: Titles are truncated, labels are truncated.













  8. If you click the blue 'on-line' link in the purple box, you get into the datasystem itself and can access the data and download, look more, plot more, etc.



  9. If you click on the (?), you enter the land of documentation and can find out all about the data.





    Congratulations! You have successfully drilled into the NEC Fisheries and Oceans dataset. We hope you will visit often.