Global Fungi

Description

Using the Global Fungi fungi NGS dataset, we aim to explore thematic mapping and visualization techniques that help scientists better analyze and visualize this data through a web map or dashboard. The current web interface for Global Fungi has map-related functions only for a geo-search and displaying samples as points on the map. There are no further cartographic techniques applied to the web maps to help visualize the datasets. The current visualizations provided are mainly pie charts and tables.

Outcome

We managed to create a usable web map that has multiple visualization techniques for the point data and also combine other environmental data layers important for fungi. The map is also supplemented with visualizations of general statistics of the database created with D3.

My role

Development of the web page and responsiveness
Development of web map using Leaflet JS (map component, layers, sidebar)
Base map creation using MapTiler
Creation of fungi database using PostGIS
Publishing of database and WMS layers on Geoserver
Generation of statistical charts using D3.js

**Hexbin map layers will not be displayed on the link above because it is locally hosted on Geoserver. You can see these map layers in the screen shot below:

Tools:

HTML, CSS, JavaScript
D3.js
Leaflet.js
qGIS
PostgreSQL
Geoserver WMS
Google Earth Engine

Timeline: 1 month, June 2023