Project Requirements

Requirements

The high level requirements for this project include a query tool that allows users to select different rock types in an array of colors to visualize the landscape of Antarctica. The data acquired in these queries will also be availible to download. This allows the scientists our group is working with to access the data from Antarctica, where there is not any internet access. We are also going to have to create a database with the raster images precompressed to allow for shorter load times of the map.

Envisioned Solution

Our solution will be a web based application that contains a map of one of the largest dry valleys, ice free regions, of Antarctica. The plan for the interactive map is to use Leaflet because it takes advantage of the coordinate plane from google maps and allows for dynamic viewing. We will also have a query tool that allows users to select different rock types and see where they are on the surface of the continent. The website will utilize a backend database created with MySQL and SQLite to store the necessary information. Our database will be constrained based on the 18 lines stored in the original raster images. Since our website allows users to download the data from it, we are going to need an altered version of the raster images. Original images are proprietary information and therefore can not be distributed to the public. The current solution to this problem is to take the confidence intervals for each pixel and create binary data that only shows what type of rock exists there instead of a percent.