The Carbon Atlas’ new Regional Interactive Map is designed to enable you to visualize, analyze, and access content in our Data Libraries via your web browser.
Use the Interactive Map to:
- Navigate and explore much of our regional characterization data through a user-friendly interface
- Print your map views or publish them as PDFs
- Identify technical references relevant to specific areas of interest
- Calculate straight-line or pipeline-constrained distances from point sources of CO2 to potential geologic sink features
- Download regional data layers, once available *
Launch the Regional Interactive Map
About the Source-to-sink Distance Tools
Due to the high costs per mile of new pipeline construction and limited routes with legal rights-of-way, potential use of existing pipelines is a primary concern when scoping the transfer of CO2 from point sources to current or potential injection sites.
Using either custom source-to-sink analysis tool, users – having identified coordinates for a current or future CO2 point source – can query potential geologic sink features and target data classes within a specified proximity to the point source. Distances in the first tool are measured “as the crow flies”, whereas those in the paired tool are calculated along a linear network, whether that be existing pipelines or legal rights-of-way (i.e. for routing of speculative pipelines) as indicated by electrical transmission networks. Both tools return attributes for within-range sink formations, and map the shortest effective distance from the specified point source to the nearest sink feature.
Note: The network-based source-to-sink analysis tool is dependent on topological connectivity in the pipeline and electrical transmission line layers. There is yet work to be done on verifying this topology against the "real-world" orientation of intersecting pipelines at points of junction. Until this topology can be proven accurate and complete, the tool may on occassion incorrectly identify the shortest source-to-sink route, and the user is therefore cautioned to confirm that the tool's returned results are within reason of a predicted result. Notice will be given here once the topology and this tool are confirmed as consistent.
* The Partnership is in the process of determining a classification protocol for granting levels of data access to different constituencies (e.g., Members, non-member academic entities, etc.); once this policy is finalized, data will be made available through both the interactive map’s download tool and directly via the Data Resources page.
The Regional Interactive Map has been customized using MapWindow 5.0 extensible GIS software.
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