Data Services
Online Map Viewers
The Alaska Mapped online map allows user to view, search, and download airborne and satellite imagery and digital elevation model data (DEM). Landsat, scanned USGS topographic maps (digital raster graphics - DRG) and NOAA navigational charts are also avialable.
Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services
The protocols that drive all of Alaska Mapped’s web services derive from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service open standards.
We have a web page with detailed information about Alaska Mapped’s OGC web services, including Web Map Services (WMS), Web Coverage Services (WCS), and Web Feature Services (WFS).
WMS - Web Mapping Service - Imagery layers served directly to your GIS client. Available for integration into custom Google Maps, OpenLayers, or ESRI FlexAPI applications: WMS Tile Interfaces.
WFS - Web Feature Service - Information about the data available in the SDMI BDL
WCS - Web Coverage Service - Gridded Datasets
- NED 1/3 ARC second
- NED 2 ARC second
- coming soon - a bathymetry layer
KML - Keyhold Markup - Imagery layers in your Google Earth
- kml.gina.alaska.edu
- BDL, DRGs, MODIS, Firepoints, and others coming shortly.
Tile Services - WMS layers available as tile sets for the following
- ESRI Flex API -
- Google Maps - integrating SDMI WMS layers into your own Google Maps apps
- Google Earth - See KML layers
- Open Layers
- Others? - contact us if you have another tile consuming application that we might be able to support
For direct access to the data that has been put together to make these services, you can browse and download data from the SDMI browse site
