Abstract
The volcanic island of Nisyros (Greece) is here presented as it presents unique characteristics being a Quaternary volcano in the eastern Aegean Sea, composed of volcanic rocks, and featuring a central caldera that is surrounded by volcanic domes and thick lavas. Its history is strongly connected to the volcano impressing the visitors with steaming hydrothermal craters, intensive smell of sulfur and fumarolic gases, and hot springs. Due to its morphology and geographical position, its cultural and historical heritage has been unchanged in time, bequeath to the island plenty of churches, monasteries with hagiographic frescoes, castles, caves, and spas. To present the geodiversity, the cultural environment, and the biodiversity of this geosite, a relatively new geographic approach was used, ESRI Story Maps. Being web-based applications, they are widespread as an interactive responsive tool used for spatial data communication and dissemination, by combining thematic 2D and 3D webmaps, narrative text, and multimedia content. Such applications can be an ideal way for presenting the available information of places characterized as geosites or protected areas worldwide, providing quick access to the available information to a broader, non-technical audience, developing the interest, and possibly motivating the public to learn more or visit them.
Highlights
Geosciences 2021, 11, 132. https://Throughout the history of the Earth, the processes that shaped the surface of the planet left behind numerous geological formations that allowed for their understanding and for their admiration by humanity
The purpose of this paper is to present the implementation of Story Mapping technology in the development of an interactive, user-friendly platform regarding the volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece, aiming to provide the user with multi-media information regarding the geography and biodiversity of the island, the main volcano-tectonic events that have shaped it over the last thousands of years, and the impact of different human civilizations through time leading to the contemporary cultural conditions existed today
Paper, effortto was made to a web application created using a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tool, tool, Story Maps, provided by ESRI’s online platform, to present the geo-cultural environStory Maps, provided by ESRI’s online platform, to present the geo-cultural environment ment of Nisyros
Summary
Geosciences 2021, 11, 132. https://Throughout the history of the Earth, the processes that shaped the surface of the planet left behind numerous geological formations that allowed for their understanding and for their admiration by humanity. The term geodiversity engulfs all the variety of evidence of the Earth’s past, including landforms, rocks, and minerals, volcanoes, sediments and soils, water, and fossils, along with the dynamic processes that led to their formation and preservation on the surface of the planet Out of those elements, geoheritage accounts for the ones considered to have noteworthy scientific, educational, cultural, and aesthetic value [1] incarnating the link between natural phenomena and their human understanding [2,3].
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