THE NEW REAL-TIME VERSION OF THE EUROBIRDPORTAL VIEWER

Abstract

Thanks to the work undertaken in the framework of the LIFE EBP project (2016-2018), the new version of the EuroBirdPortal - EBP (https://www.eurobirdportal.org) viewer is now depicting the spatio-temporal patterns of bird distribution of 105 bird species in near real-time. This unprecedented development has required the creation of a new central database repository and the implementation of an automated data flow system between the local online portals and the EBP central database. Now, the central database repository infrastructure, developed using PostgreSQL on an Amazon instance, collects all the data and automatically updates the tables used by the cloud data visualization platform CARTO so that the EBP viewer maps and graphs are kept updated on a weekly basis.