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Topic pages summarize knowledge and resources within a subject area

• Anthropogenic Topics
  • Climate Change
  • Infrastructure
    • Aquaculture
    • Energy
    • Flood Management
    • Shoreline Management
    • Transportation
    • Water Management
  • Land Use
    • Agriculture
    • Conservation Lands
    • Forestry
    • Industrial
    • Rural
    • Urban
  • Socioeconomics
• Ecosystem Topics
  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Geophysics
  • Landform

Salish Sea References

• Watershed Characterization Mapper
• The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
• PRISM Project Search
• Washington Coastal Atlas
• WDFW's Salmonscape Map

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The following open source or freeware may be useful for investigating ecosystems (at your own risk).

Geographic Information Systems

Marble

Marble Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article. Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations or watch the current cloud cover. Marble offers different thematic maps: A classroom-style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms. For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change.

Marble is a light weight generic geographical map component for use in your own Qt 4.x / C++ application. The MarbleWidget provides a ready-made solution for displaying maps and locations. This includes support for GPS tracking and importing KML/GPX files.

• Marble is cross platform and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
• Marble runs decently even without hardware acceleration. It just uses Qt's Arthur API as a painting backend. Optional OpenGL support is being worked on.
• Marble uses vector as well as bitmap data. Marble pulls much of its data from internet servers but can also be used offline.
• Marble provides a plugin architecture and can easily be extended for lots of use cases.
• Marble has got support for several 3rd party data sources like OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, KML, GPX etc.
• Marble can use several projections: Globe, Flat ("Plate Carree") and Mercator.
• Marble starts up very quickly

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