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Leveraging Geospatial Resources - Making the Case for Geo-Enabling Decision Processes in the Great Lakes

Award Number 07HQAG0105, Category 4: Geo-Enabled Federal Businesses Initiative

The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) is creating a web-based Spatial Decision Support System utilizing free and open source software (FOSS) and Open Standards to facilitate comprehensive baseline tracking and analysis of wetlands change over time. Specifically, this system will:

  1. The system will identify and integrate available wetlands data within the Great Lakes, using national, state, and provincial sources. These data are currently inconsistent in scale, resolution, accuracy, temporality, and classification, which makes baseline comparison amongst different wetlands datasets very difficult. The aggregation and normalization of this information across time and space will better support trend assessments and restoration progress reports.
  2. The system will integrate data from the US Army Corps of Engineer's Great Lakes Habitat Initiative (GLHI) database. The GLHI project includes an inventory of site-specific actions to protect and restore wetlands and aquatic habitat across the Great Lakes region. By leveraging this database, efforts to identify and account for areas of wetlands change (i.e. restoration gains) can be better understood and managed throughout the region.
  3. The system will provide a suite of user-friendly query and analysis tools to help users discover and analyze aggregated wetlands datasets. These tools will facilitate comprehensive, inter-agency tracking, reporting, and analysis within the Great Lakes region.
  4. The system will make available value-added wetlands data available through a variety of file formats and as OGC Web services. This breadth of products and services will maximize the accessibility and extensibility of otherwise unconnected wetlands-related datasets.

Interim Report -- PowerPoint Presentation

Great Lakes Commission  ----   Project Web Site

Geo-Enabled Federal Businesses Portfolio

Contacts:

Pete Giencke
pgiencke [at] glc.org

Stuart Eddy
seddy [at] glc.org

Other contacts:

Christine Manninen, manninen [at] glc.org
Devra Polack, devrap [at] glc.org
Rebecca A. Lameka, blameka [at] glc.org