Map the living world and the ground beneath it.
BGSR is an open-source, map-first scientific platform for exploring biodiversity and geoscience in the same spatial context. It brings together fauna, flora, soil, and geological information in a single interface built for regional analysis, field-oriented research, and environmental interpretation.
Most spatial tools separate biological records from environmental and geological context. BGSR is designed to connect them.
With BGSR, a single region can be explored through:
- biodiversity occurrences
- fauna and flora differentiation
- soil property layers
- geological unit overlays
- contextual inspection panels
- exportable, enriched spatial results
This makes the application useful not only for seeing what exists in a place, but also for understanding the ecological and geological setting around those records.
BGSR is centered on an interactive map experience where different scientific sources can be queried, visualized, and compared together.
BGSR can query occurrence data for a selected area and display biological records directly on the map. Results can be separated into fauna and flora, inspected individually, and reviewed in a dedicated side panel.
Bounding box selection can be used to query a region and immediately populate the map with fauna and flora occurrences in their original spatial context.
When source records include richer media, BGSR can surface additional detail such as images and taxonomic context to make inspection more informative and visually useful.
Individual records can be opened in the inspector, where the scientific name, media, and occurrence metadata are presented as a focused inspection workflow rather than a raw attribute dump.
BGSR integrates soil data through environmental layers that can be turned on, compared, and inspected spatially. This allows users to move beyond biological presence alone and understand the soil conditions associated with a region or observation area.
The result is a workflow where biodiversity and environmental context can be read together instead of in isolation.
Environmental layers remain useful not only for local inspection but also for broader regional interpretation. Large-scale views can be used to examine spatial gradients such as SoilGrids pH(H2O) across southern Brazil and neighboring areas.
BGSR also adds geological context to the same workspace, allowing users to see regional geology overlays alongside biological and soil information.
This makes it possible to evaluate how geological structure, mapped units, and environmental patterns relate to biodiversity records in the same area of interest.
Geological units from Macrostrat can be rendered directly in the map workspace. This allows mapped deposits, lithologic context, and regional structure to be compared with biodiversity and soil layers in the same visual frame.
The main value of BGSR is not just access to multiple sources, but the ability to work with them simultaneously.
Users can:
- query a region once and compare multiple source types
- inspect occurrences and contextual layers without leaving the map
- combine biological, soil, and geological views in the same session
- export enriched results that preserve cross-source spatial context
BGSR currently works as a connector-driven spatial platform built around open scientific data sources.
| Source | Role in BGSR |
|---|---|
| GBIF | Biodiversity occurrences, occurrence detail, and biological inspection workflows |
| ISRIC SoilGrids | Soil property layers, contextual environmental analysis, and point-based sampling |
| Macrostrat | Geological units and regional geoscience context |
Some sources are visible directly in the map workflow, while others support enriched inspection and export behavior behind the scenes.
BGSR uses boulder-ui as the design system foundation for its interface layer, helping keep the platform visually consistent, operationally clear, and reusable as the workspace grows.
BGSR is currently focused on:
- biodiversity occurrence exploration
- soil layer visualization
- regional geology overlays
- multi-source map inspection
- enriched data export
The broader direction is to evolve this into a stronger spatial research and fieldwork platform where biological, environmental, and geological evidence can be interpreted together.
This repository contains the frontend application for BGSR.
It represents the map experience, interaction model, connector-facing workflows, and scientific inspection interface of the platform.