The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey

Welcome to the public information site for the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey! The CGPS is an international effort to map the interstellar matter in a large swath of our own Milky Way Galaxy at high resolution.

Details on various aspects of the project are available below.

• Introduction - an overview of project parameters, goals, observations, and data
• Location of the survey region on the sky, showing the Milky Way and constellations
• Status of DRAO data acquisition at 408 and 1420 MHz
• Image Gallery and Press Releases for our survey
• CGPS Data Products , including derived data from scientific papers
• Scientific Publications - CGPS-related journal articles, with web links
• People and Institutions participating in the CGPS
• Visualization Software we are developing to explore our 3-D, multi wavelength data
• Other Survey Sites - related surveys and databases on the web