BOREAS and Boreal Forest Informational CD-ROM’s

Summary:

The Canadian Secretariat and personnel from the Canada Center for Remote Sensing 
(CCRS) and Parks Canada created two CD-ROM’s that contain information about the 
BOReal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) and the boreal forest in general.  At 
the time of release in early 1995, the Compact Disk-Read Only Media (CD-ROM) 
about BOREAS was available for both Intel-based and Macintosh personal computers 
(PC).  The CD-ROM contains background information about the boreal forest and 
the BOREAS activities.  Information on the CD-ROM is organized into various 
categories and is presented through audio dialogue and series of still pictures.  
Since the interface program was designed for a touch screen system, the cursor 
may not appear at start-up, but the mouse is still active. Once the program or 
screen saver is running, drive the "invisible" cursor to the top of the screen 
and then click. The cursor hand should appear and allow you to make the desired 
selections.  If at any time the cursor disappears, it can be restored in the 
same manner.

The CD-ROM about the boreal forest was produced for Intel-based PC’s running 
Microsoft Windows 3.1.  Many of the individual QuickTime and text files can be 
read and viewed with software on Macintosh systems, but to see the overall 
publication and get the full perspective of the information, an Intel-based PC 
is required.

The BOREAS Information System (BORIS) personnel logged the CD-ROM’s and briefly 
reviewed their contents.  The BORIS identifier for the CD-ROM and descriptive 
information known to BORIS staff are:

CDRBOR001-3 INTERACTIVE CD ROM ON THE BOREAS PROJECT. MAC VERSION.
BILINGUAL. 3 HOURS LONG'

DRBOR002-3  CD-ROM ON THE BOREAS PROJECT CREATED BY CCRS AND                         
NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA

Contact Information:

Jeffrey A. Newcomer
Raytheon ITSS
NASA GSFC
Greenbelt, MD 
(301) 286-7858
(301) 286-0239 (fax)
Jeffrey.Newcomer@gsfc.nasa.gov

Parks Canada
Prince Albert National Park
Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan
Canada                  
(306) 663-5322

Josef Cihlar                    
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Ottawa, Ontario                 
Canada                  
(613) 947-1265            
Josef.Cihlar@geocan.emr.ca

Data Access:

Contact for Data Center/Data Access Information

These BOREAS data are available from the Earth Observing System Data and 
Information System (EOS-DIS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed 
Active Archive Center (DAAC). The BOREAS contact at ORNL is:

ORNL DAAC User Services
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(865) 241-3952
ornldaac@ornl.gov
ornl@eos.nasa.gov

Procedures for Obtaining Data

BOREAS data may be obtained through the ORNL DAAC World Wide Web site at 
http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/ or users may place requests for data by telephone, electronic mail, or fax.

Output Products and Availability

Requested data can be provided electronically on the ORNL DAAC's anonymous FTP 
site or on various media including, CD-ROMs, 8-MM tapes, or diskettes.

The complete set of BOREAS data CD-ROMs, entitled "Collected Data of the Boreal 
Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study", edited by Newcomer, J., et al., NASA, 1999, are 
also available.

Document Information
     Written: 10-November-1999
     Revised: 16-November-1999
     BORIS Review: 10-November-1999

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