Source: California Invasive Plant Council
URL of this page: http://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/mapping/consortium.php
California Invasive Plant Mapping Data Consortium
Cal-IPC, with support from the USGS National Spatial Data Infrastructure, is coordinating statewide aggregation of invasive plant mapping datasets through the California Invasive Plant Mapping Data Consortium. The Consortium provides a forum for aggregating datasets from diverse mapping efforts across the state. A workshop on June 5, 2006, at the University of California-Davis, engaged state and federal agencies, as well as other organizations, to review and guide plans for the proposed Consortium. Because Cal-IPC is the acknowledged source for invasive plant information in the state, it is a logical starting point for access to spatial and other data.
Overall Goal
Coordinate weed mappers and their datasets to make information available on a landscape scale.
Objectives
- Create a web portal designed for the needs of weed mappers
- Take advantage of existing efforts
- Generate involvement from the weed mapping community
Desired Technical Capabilities
Short term
- Establish metadata catalog of mapping datasets
- Establish and post data-exchange standards
- Generate presence-absence maps by county based on Weed Management Area survey
- Develop communications venue for “alert” species (new or rapidly spreading invasions)
- Develop catalog of useful resources
Long term
- Digital library with content on treatment, biology, projects, links, bibliographic resources, etc., linked in a semantic web
- Community communication structure to build archive of expertise
- Mapping viewer of active datasets
- Observation submission
Download documents and presentations from the Weed Mapping Roundtable, June 2006, University of California-Davis