Implementing a Geoserver application for FW Conservation.

What is Geoserver?

Geoserver is an innovative, rapidly developing open source project that integrates and powers many of the features in the current open source geospatial software stack. It is one of the first projects undertaken by the Open Planning Project, which describes it as "a key tool to connect legacy spatial databases to open standards, providing an easy way for organizations to share their geospatial information to be visualized and analyzed."

What is Freshwater Conservation?

Freshwater or watershed conservation is an emerging field of conservation science requiring innovative methods of field data collection, conservation planning, and ecological modeling.

Workflow+

Open Source Mapping Technology

• Openlayers
• Spinning Globes:Google Earth (open standards at least) + Worldwind
• QuantumGIS
• uDig
• PostGIS
• Mapserver
  




Geospatial resources

• Flathead Lake Biological Station
• The Nature Conservancy
• The American Museum of Natural History is launching a new Fresh Water Remote Sensing site
  




Latest Projects in Large Scale Conservation Planning

• The Nature Conservancy - Alaska
• Yellowstone 2 Yukon
• The Pacific Salmon Conservation Assessement - Wild Salmon Center
  




Collaborative Design of Conservation Strategies

• Inforain - A project of Ecotrust
• Conserve Online - A pionering Plone site
• NatureServe - integrated information systems for conservation
  




Ideas on Watershed and Large Scale Conservation

• Context Matters: Considerations for Large-Scale Conservation by Reed Noss
  

Testing data respository: Open data share via Webdav





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