SASSCAL PORTAL: Global Search

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Overview

Global Search: search globally within all data categories (intern/extern)

You can search within the internal data base or within in extern CSW Catalogues.

Internal Search

To search within the SASSCAL Portal data base, please press 'internal search' and choose between the searching methods:

1. Search text: Non-spatial search via text
2. Bounding Box: Create a bounding box in the map to do a spatial search. Use 'navigate' button to naviagte through the map and the 'draw' button to draw a bounding box.
3. Area of Interest: Filter the data for a Catchment/ Country/ Research Site etc. and a Radius to define your Area of Interest. To do so, please select one item of the drop-down menue.

After doing the respective steps, please press 'Submit'.

Your results get listed grouped in categories. If you select a single list entry, you get forwarded to the respective category tab.

//Note: If the resulting categories contain spatial information, a map is provided.

Extern Search via CSW Catalogues

In order to search in Catalog Services for the Web (CSW), please select 'extern'. ....

External Search