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Learn More About Solar Energy Environmental Mapper
The Solar Energy Environmental Mapper is an interactive web-based mapping tool providing access to information relevant to siting of utility-scale solar projects in the southwestern United States. Users can view map layers that were used to create the maps and conduct some analyses in the Solar Energy Development PEIS as well as map layers showing land use decisions associated with the Bureau of Land Management’s Solar Energy Program. The tool provides the ability to zoom and pan to areas of interest, and display and query data.
Benefits
The Solar Energy Environmental Mapper provides users with fast, easy access to a wide variety of spatial data through a Web browser, requiring only limited and generally quick data and software downloads. The data content and capabilities of the Solar Energy Environmental Mapper will be expanded and improved over time, so it will provide the best access to updated, comprehensive data, and powerful analytical tools in an easy-to-use format.
Planned features include expanded data content and analytical tools that will provide detailed reports of environmental resources present at user-designated potential project sites, based on available data.
System Requirements
The Solar Energy Environmental Mapper requires an active Internet connection while in use. It requires a web browser with Adobe Flash Player (version 10 or higher) installed. It is compatible with leading, current, web browsers.