Using the NGDS Data Explorer

The NGDS Data Explorer is accessible via a web browser of your choice. To access the NGDS Data Explorer, open your web browser and connect to the following URL:

http://data.geothermaldatasystem.org/

The application should appear in your web browsers as it does in Figure 1:

The USGIN WFS Client Interface

Figure 1: The USGIN WFS Client interface

From this interface, the following operations are possible:

  • Load a web feature service (WFS) and display said web service as a layer on the map; multiple web services may be loaded simultaneously
  • Select features from web services that have been loaded
  • To export attributes describing selected features to an HTML table (only one layer can be exported at any given time)

To learn more about these operations, click the links below to continue the tutorial.