New program maps geoscience data sets interactively

During the last decade many new and improved global geoscience data sets have been evaluated by researchers around the world. While new techniques such as satellite altimetry were developed to compute the geoid and marine gravity field to high resolution, existing data sets such as earthquake catalogs and hotspot location lists were enhanced. These data sets contain invaluable information for every Earth scientist whether the focus is global or regional. With the advent of high-speed Internet connections, global access to these immense resources is now easy, but actual processing still poses some obstacles.