The Svalbox Digital Model Database (DMDb)

The Svalbox Digital Model Database
The Svalbox Digital Model Database (DMDb) is a regional DOM database geographically constrained to the Norwegian High Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard at 74-81 °N and 10-35 °E. Svalbard offers exceptional quality, vegetation-free outcrops with a wide range of lithologies and tectono-magmatic styles including extension, compression and magmatism. Data and metadata of the systematically digitized outcrops across Svalbard are shared according to FAIR principles through the Svalbox DMDb. Fully open-access and downloadable DOMs include not just the DOM itself but also the input data, processing reports and projects, and other data products such as footprints and orthomosaics. Rich metadata for each DOM comprises both the technical and geological parameters (metadata), enabling visualisation and integration with regional geoscientific data on the Svalbox portal.

Release information
The v2023.3 release of the Svalbox DMDb, documented in this contribution, covers 135 DOMs cumulatively covering 113.946 km2 and offering Proterozoic to Cenozoic stratigraphy.

Release documentation
The Svalbox DMDb v2023.3 is shared in the following formats:

• GeoJSON (.geojson)
• Geopackage (.gpkg)

Documentation of the types and units associated with the data columns is documented through the SvalboxDMDb parameters files, available in:

• Comma-separated values (.csv)
• JSON (.json)

Updated metadata is continuously updated to the Svalbox server and made available through:

• https://www.svalbox.no/map/
• Svalbox ArcGIS REST access point (https://svalbox.unis.no/arcgis/rest/services/)

Citation
In addition to model-specific DOIs, please cite the following papers when using the Svalbox DMDb and its models:

• Betlem, et al. "The Svalbox Digital Model Database: a geoscientific window to the High Arctic." Geosphere (in review).
• Senger, et al. "Using digital outcrops to make the high Arctic more accessible through the Svalbox database." Journal of Geoscience Education 69.2 (2021): 123-137.