Geoff Competition Entry
The prototype uses Cesium to represent species records from CSIRO's Atlas of Living Australia in three dimensions (latitude, longitude and through time). The distribution of sightings is represented along with local government area boundaries obtained from the FSDF, hosted at NICTA to identify those local governments most affected by changes in the seasonal migration changes of various species.
The prototype uses Atlas of Living Australia web services to download the 16000+ records on pied currawong sightings for the Blue Mountains and greater Sydney region. Cesium allows users to review the pattern of sightings by local government area, in each year, from the 1930s, where sighting numbers are limited, through to the current time.
The working prototype currently only runs in an unsecure browser by loading the following URL.
http://chris-cooper.github.io/fsdf-hackfest-gaia/
the shell command to run this in Linux with an insecure browser is:
chromium-browser --disable-web-security http://chris-cooper.github.io/fsdf-hackfest-gaia/
Note that it will take some time for the data itself to appear in this live demo. Please be patient.
The security issue arises because the records data is being loaded live from the Atlas of Living Australia server.
PROTOTYPE VIDEO IS TOO LARGE
The records data has also been bucketed into local government areas, using the FSDF. This bucketing work is done but is not yet visual.
Evidence is that seasonal migration patterns for pied currawongs from the blue mountains down to the Sydney area and back have changed over time but not drastically. Inferences are impacted by some data quality issues in the Atlas of Living Australia record-set. Static analysis of the changes in behaviour are shown below.
