Saving the world one application at a time: Atlas of Tuna and Billfish Catches
This blog post covers some work we have done to support the FAO Fishery and Acqualture Department, specifically the FIGIS group with information dissemination about catches of Tuna and Billfish over the last 60 years globally. As stated on their website:"... the Atlas presents the global distribution of catches by gear from 1950 to 2010, at 5° latitude by 5° longitude resolution, of those tuna and tuna-like species for which this distribution is generally well known on the global scale. These species consist of the so-called principal market tunas and some billfishes."Using Geoserver, OpenLayers and Ext-JS, we built for them a simplfied viewer that allow users to access dynamically their statistics and...
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