Mission

To promote public understanding of environmental problems and natural disasters through data monitoring and visualization, and to disseminate the value-added data as well as information about the best practices which offer potential solutions to these problem.

Objectives

* To promote the public understanding of global environmental problems and natural disasters through visualization of real-time monitoring and historical data.

* To add value to existing and under utilized global, regional and local environmental data resources through the development of networks and Internet/WorldWideWeb tools which can integrate and manipulate multiple data sets.

* To develop, utilize, and demonstrate user-freindly, graphical interfaces that allow visualization of data in a way that is understandable by the population at large

* To identify and disseminate information about the best practices which provide appropriate solutions to environmental problems and natural disaster mitigation.