1. To design and develop a user friendly and intuitive web site, which will meet the criteria identified by the sponsor

2. Define and document the logical procedures and graphical elements which will allow for image processing and function analysis through a web interface.

3. Customize the ArcIMS and data warehousing user interface

4. Develop a functional web site prototype within the project timeline

The applet developed by Java enables users and developers of geospatial data to easily make their archives available for network-based searchers and distribution. This software queries multiple, distributed databases with a new customized image map-based visual search, which provides intuitive, user-friendly Internet access to numerous sources of geospatial information. The on-line image browsing includes a large set of data, using progressive data transmission down to any level of zoom and compressed to various level of compression.