The GDSPDS is an Internet-based system. The site is mounted on a web server at the University of Aberdeen. The specifications of the server are:

Pentium III, 550 MHz, 256Mb RAM
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0

Other software includes:

ER Mapper Image Web Server (IWS) 1.6
ESRI ArcIMS (Internet Map Server) 3.0
LizardTech Content Server (Enterprise Edition)

Use the GDSPDS Quick Links to take a short tour of some of the main features of the system

A generalised schema of the site