ABSTRACT:
The environmental science domain provides new challenges for cartography. Obtaining
accurate scientific conclusions, forecasting or validating models requires widespread
temporal and spatial environmental monitoring as well as an appropriate visualization of the
acquired information. A GIS Platform has been created in the frame of the COGEAR and
Swiss Experiment projects that is able to integrate the available sensor information and to
manage additional large topographic datasets needed for environmental research in one
coherent platform. Such large datasets are for example the geological maps, the digital
terrain model (DTM), satellite imagery or seismic events covering the entire Switzerland.
The proposed paper presents the architecture and functionalities required for creating a
flexible GIS platform for interdisciplinary environmental research