OCTOPUS is an OGC-compliant, web-enabled database that allow users to visualise, query, and download geochronological data along with associated geospatial (vector and raster) data layers.
It is based on open source software and allows for various levels of integration. For example, data stored in the database can be visualised via a custom web interface but also via desktop GIS applications that support OGC data-access protocols. OCTOPUS can also directly export data to various formats, including Google Earth KLM and ESRI shapefile.
Access the database here, and the online documentation here.
OCTOPUS was made possible via a grant from the Australian National Data Service, and the project has also received (and continues to receive) substantial in-kind support from the University of Wollongong's Information Technology Services unit. The database was officially launched in March 2018, with an associated discussion paper published in Earth System Science Data (see Reference below for detail). OCTOPUS has also received generous support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, resulting in an upgrade to the web interface, and additional geochronological data collections.
Codilean, AT, Munack, H, Saktura, WM, Cohen, TJ, Jacobs, Z, Ulm, S, Hesse, PP, Heyman, J, Peters, KJ, Williams, AN, Saktura, RBK, Rui, X, Chishiro-Dennelly, K, Panta, A. 2022. OCTOPUS database (v.2). Earth System Science Data 14: 3695-3713
Codilean, AT, Munack, H, Cohen, TJ, Saktura, WM, Gray, A, Mudd, SM. 2018. OCTOPUS: an open cosmogenic isotope and luminescence database. Earth System Science Data 10: 2123–2139
