Green Space has crafted custom scripts to download the most current data and archive it on our servers for future reference and is setting up a GeoServer for spatial access to the data layers.  Further, Green Space is working on ways to enable the project team and other parties to easily access and load data into the own custom maps.  These data and analysis offer an impartial analysis of the state of the spill.

Green Space GIS helped Dr. Beilfuss integrate the wildlife survey data with GIS datasets to produce the maps that will be used by researchers, wildlife and habitat managers, and environmental educators to help make long term decisions about species protection and use.

The audience for these maps was pretty broad – including everyone from wildlife biologists to local villagers.  We decided that it would be really useful if the maps contained more than just the wildlife locations; so we made a series of maps that can serve multiple roles for outreach, education, research and management planning.
- Dorn Moore, Cartographer and Director of Green Space GIS, LLC

Each of the maps contains photos of the species to help laymen get a sense of which animals are being mapped. Further, as these maps may be used in the field with local people, the photographs make it easier to work across language and literacy barriers. The use of a false color satellite image as the background also helps users to identify broad patterns in habitat preference by the species.