MapServer

A Real-time, Web-based, GIS Mapping and Data Tool

MapServer is available to everyone aboard, via the ship's internal website.

• Base Layers
  • Bathymetry used: The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean(IBCAO) and TOPEX
  • Gridded multi-beam data is from past Sikuliaq cruises and publicly available data bases.
  • Bathymetric data can be requested for regions not currently covered, if the data is available.
• Display Multiple Layers at the same time.
• Plot Sikuliaq's Underway Data
  • Sea-surface temp/salinity/chlorophyll are available when the uncontaminated seawater system is running.
    • Currents are available when the WH300 ADCP is installed and running
  • Other underway data layers may be requested and considered by the developer.
• Route Planner
• Alaska Coastal Community maritime harvest/activity/resource areas
  • Please read the CECSOP document for more information about this layer.
    

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The layers listed below are not always available. Some need advanced notice. Other layers, not listed below, may be requested during your pre-cruise meeting. The links below are screenshots from MapServer. NOTE: Layer updates are dependent on internet availability/bandwidth.

Sea Surface Layers

• MUR SST
• MW SST
• NASA Ocean color SST
• NASA Ocean color Chlorophyll
• RTOFS SST

Meterological Layers

• GFS Wind Speed
• NOAA WaveWatch
• NASA MODIS
• VIIR, MODIS Visible, IR
  • The MODIS products can be used as sea-ice layers when there is enough daylight and no cloud cover.

Sea-Ice Layers

• The National Ice Center provides ice product support to Sikuliaq. For additional imagery, please contact the Science Operations Manager.
• Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) Sea-Ice Concentration
• ASCAT
• Global Ocean Forecasting System (GOFS) Sea Ice Drift Model
• GOFS Sea Ice Concentration Model
• GOFS Sea Ice Thickness Model
• National Ice Center Marginal Ice Zone(MIZ)
• National Weather Service Sea-ice Analysis
• RADARSAT-2/Sentinel SAR Sea-ice Images
  • View Planned Sentinel and Radar SAT acquisitions

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