Co-laboratory
The goal of the virtual co-laboratory is the use of the available cyberinfrastructure and geographic information system (GIS) technologies to support and revolutionize computational economic models for public policy decision making. This co-laboratory is designed to facilitate collaboration of researchers and decision makers with different backgrounds located in different places, including economists, planning professionals, and environmental analysts. A web mapping interface is provided for data browsing and data download (Figure 1). In the graphical user interface (GUI), users are allowed to interact with the online data catalog, to select data of interest, and to upload and share their own data. It is an online GIS that supports data organization, data sharing, and data visualization. The GUI is not a sophisticated GIS, so it does not provide complex editing or analysis functions, such as cartography tools or spatial analysis tools.
User's guide to GUI