Interactive Map Services
To start an interactive map, click on the Map column label. A new browser window will open with a visual display of data appropriate to the selected service. Users can zoom, pan, identify, search and even download data from these maps. JavaScript must be enabled and popup blocking must be disabled for these maps to function properly. For more information on the data included on any particular map, click on the Info column label.
The web-based interactive maps use a commercial package produced by ESRI called ArcIMS. The data are housed in a relational database using a commercial package produced by Oracle. The communication between the map interface and the database interface is achieved via a package produced by ESRI called ArcSDE.
| Coastal Habitats & Ecosystems | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Info | WMS | Central California Marine Habitat |
| Map | Info | WMS | Coastal Ecosystems Program - Gulf of Mexico |
| Map | Info | WMS | Regional Ecosystem Portal - Gulf of Mexico |
| Map | Info | WMS | Species Relative Abundance - Galveston Bay, Texas |
| Map | Info | WMS | Trawl and Environmental Data from SEAMAP - Gulf of Mexico |
| Coastal Risk Atlas | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Info | WMS | Alabama |
| Map | Info | WMS | Florida |
| Map | Info | WMS | Georgia |
| Map | Info | WMS | Louisiana |
| Map | Info | WMS | Mississippi |
| Map | Info | WMS | Texas |
| Map | Info | WMS | Vulnerability - National |
| Commerce and Transportation - Emergency Response | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Info | WMS | Gulf of Mexico - Marine Debris Project |
| Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Info | WMS | Harmful Algal Blooms – (1996, 1997, 2000) - Gulf of Mexico |
| Map | Info | WMS |
Harmful Algal Blooms – Near Real-Time - Gulf of Mexico
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| Map | Info | WMS |
Hypoxia - Gulf of Mexico
|
| Map | Info | WMS | Integrated Coastal Observing System |
| Map | Info | WMS | Mississippi Dept. of Marine Resources |
| Map | Info | WMS | National Observations |
| Map | Info | WMS | SIMoN Water Quality – Monterey Bay, California |
| Map | Info | WMS |
Southeast Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
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| Map | Info | WMS | West Coast Observations |
| Katrina Impact Assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Info | WMS | Hancock County, Mississippi |
| Map | Info | WMS | Harrison County, Mississippi |
| Map | Info | WMS | Jackson County, Mississippi |
| Ocean Exploration – Digital Atlases | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Map | Info | WMS | Arctic |
| Map | Info | WMS | Gulf of Mexico |
| Map | Info | WMS | North Atlantic |
| Map | Info | WMS | South Atlantic Bight |
What does WMS mean?
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) protocol defines a simple interface for web-based mapping applications. The WMS protocol is based on a simple query syntax for posting a request for the desired layers and region to the server, which returns a map as a standard image (GIF, PNG, JPG). The capabilities of a Web Map Service are described in an XML (Extensible Markup Language) document. Click on the WMS column label to access this document.
With the information provided by the capabilities documents, here is an example of how to generate maps using NCDDC's WMS connector.
Example 1: Map of Mobile area containing cities and combined hazard data
http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?BBOX=-88.4,29.74,-87.54,31.14&WIDTH=500&HEIGHT=400&SRS=EPSG:4326&LAYERS=states_high,totrisk,major_cities,&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&FORMAT=JPEG&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&REQUEST=GETMAP&ServiceName=CRA_Alabama
