Welcome to the NED Portal Demonstrations & Quickstarts

 
These demonstrations and quickstarts provide introductory overview of key features on the NED Portal.
This section covers common questions such as:

Common Questions Where to find anwers - topics in the menu
Map Viewer Steelhead salmon in the John Day Basin Exploring Puget Sound
How to find Maps Launching Advanced Search by map location NOAA Service Map Layers
How to find information and data Add map service Advanced Search / Browsing Community  
How to explore what information might mean Map Layers   Exploring Markers /
Map Legend
How to find stories   Browsing Community  
Metadata - Catalog Geospatial Metadata
Understanding Metadata   How is Metadata like a Library Catalog? FGDC & ISO Standard / Theme Keywords
Other Tools Add map service How data gets into the Portal? Community/Channel Editor
Help Glossary of Toolbar    
For more information contact: Tom Pansky
Liz Gee
tepansky@bpa.gov
megee@bpa.gov
(503) 230-3969
(503) 230-5486

The light blue navigation menu to the left gives you easy access to the contects of these sections.
These sections include:  

Steelhead salmon in the John Day Basin

This demonstration walks though using Advanced search techniques to research Steelhead salmon in the John Day Basin.
The Advance Search using the map draw bounding box feature demonstrates a search for Steelhead salmon Redd counts.
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Puget Sound Watershed and Conservation Projects

This demonstrations illustrates how one can find Puget Sound on the NED Portal and load in the NOAA Fisheries map service that has information on watershed and conservation projects in the Puget Sound.
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Map Viewer

The Map Viewer tool allows you to interact with map services referenced in the metadata, and to browse through federal baseline datasets. The Map Viewer also allows you to save maps for later use, set transparency levels, query map information, and provides rich functionality to overlay map services.
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What is Metadata?

Metadata is a summary description about a topic in a structured format, similar to a Library Catalog.

You can use the metadata detail and the full metadata view to browse through information to locate what you are looking for. Map data can be viewed in the Map Viewer or with GIS software to display multiple data sources from the GIS Portal Toolkit along with data from local sources.

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ESRI Community / Channel Editor

The ESRI Community / Channel Editor is designed for content developers of the NED Portal.
Content developers must create an account on the NED Portal to become Participating Partners in order to use the Community/Channel Editor.
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