Online Tools and Applications

Access interactive tools and applications available from CIESIN Web sites.

Database Query

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
ENTRI is a fast, convenient, comprehensive online service for accessing multilateral environmental treaty data. Find status data for environmental treaties, treaty text and other related information easily. Construct custom tables by selecting countries and treaties of interest to you. ENTRI data are accessed through a web-based application, not data downloads.

ENTRI COP-Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicator Conference of Party Decision Search Tool
Powered by a Google appliance, the tool includes controlled “metadata” (coding of each decision document) to enable powerful advanced searches by date, COP number, or title of document. All decision documents are harvested and converted to PDF for consistency, but for reference purposes the original URL is listed. The tool currently includes decision documents from the first to the most recent COPs for ten agreements: Basel (transboundary wastes), CBD, CITES, CMS, FCCC, Kyoto Protocol, Montreal Protocol, Ramsar, UNCCD, and Vienna (ozone). Users may search across all ten agreements or limit the search to subsets.

Online Mapping

Africa Soils Information Service (AfSIS) Map Tool
Displays geo-referenced digital elevation, topographic wetness, specific catchment area data, and other parameters, and supports downloads in GeoTIFF format.

Climate and Health Analysis for Global Education Viewer (CHANGE Viewer)
A mapping tool which uses 3-D NASA World Wind technology to visualize climate change impacts on human health. The tool and related training, for educators, is part of the NASA Climate Change Impacts and Human Health program, and was developed in partnership with the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT).

Hudson River Watershed Mapper
This Web Mapping Service (WMS)-backed application is served via the ESRI ArcServer Java Development Platform. Users may explore a wide array of data holdings specific to the Hudson River Watershed region. A custom hyperlink tool provides a location-specific gateway to environmental observations on water conditions, forecasts, and historical data. Compliance reports for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit holders in the area are also accessible through the application.

Interactive Mapping Tool for HIV/AIDS Care Information Management Systems
An online interactive mapping tool for incorporation into HIV/AIDS care information management systems. Developed by CIESIN with the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

The National Priorities List (NPL) Superfund Footprint: Site, Population, and Environmental Characteristics Mapper
An interactive, online mapping application visualizes demographic and environmental data for communities near U.S. hazardous waste sites.

Population Estimation Service
A Web-based service for estimating population totals and related statistics within a user-defined region. Accessible through three standard protocols—the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web processing service (WPS) standard, a representational state transfer (REST) interface, and a simple object access protocol (SOAP) interface—to enable a wide variety of map clients and tools. The estimates are based on the gridded population data for 2005 from the GPW v3 data set developed by the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center operated by CIESIN.

SEDAC Map Client
SEDAC Map Client An interactive map interface that implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Users may explore different thematic or regional views of SEDAC global data holdings.

This page last modified: May 13, 2013

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