Svalbard Science Forum in cooperation with the Norwegian Polar Institute has launched a service that enables you to view all projects registered in the RiS database on Google Earth.

This is a first version of our new mapping function and will currently be updated once a month. It has functions as an advanced time slider and direct links to the project descriptions in the RiS database. It is highly recommended to update Google Earth to the most recent version in order to fully make use of the time slider function.

So far RiS does not have spatial capabilities (we plan to introduce this in the next version). Therefore, only the place names connected to the projects are available and projects are visualized as dots as the spatial extend of the projects is unknown. Each dot has an info balloon with basic information about the project and a link to the full project description in the RiS database.

3 steps towards RiS projects on Google Earth

1. The program Google Earth needs to be installed on your computer. You can download it for free from: www.earth.google.com (make sure to have the most recent version!)

2. Click on: http://umberto.npolar.no/ris15/ssfprojects.kml and open it with Google Earth. The folder 'ssfprojects' will open under 'Tempory Places'.

3. Move the folder to 'My Places' and Google Earth will remember the link in the future.

In the future, it is planned to expand this service in order to improve functionality both for viewing the content as well as during project registration. Our aim is to provide a visual interface where researchers can mark their study site on the map. In addition, there will be an interactive menue to enable the users to choose projects eg. within research topics or from certain institutions.

Kml service for RiS: http://umberto.npolar.no/ris15/ssfprojects.kml 
Google Earth: www.earth.google.com
RiS database: www.svalbardscienceforum.no/pages/database.htm

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