A Wetlands-Focused Spatial Decision Support System for the Great Lakes

Great Lakes Commission2007 NSDI CAP-Category 4

Pete Gienckepgiencke@glc.org

Background

• Wetlands play a critical role in the GL ecosystem

• Loss of over half of original wetlands in GL basin and significant decrease in quality of wetland quality

• Overlapping jurisdictions and authorities limiting comprehensive basin-wide wetlands management

• 100,000-acre Federal commitment to wetlands restoration in the Great Lakes

• NO (accurate) measure of basin-wide wetlands gains/losses possible

• Identified need for interagency, basin-wide wetlands management system

Great Lakes Wetlands SDSS Overview

• Aggregate and integrate disparate wetlands and wetlands-related datasets

•Leverage existing projects and inventories (i.e. GLHI) to facilitate tracking and reporting of wetlands owned by federal agencies in the GL basin

• Create a web-based (GLIN) toolkit to support visualization, analysis, and dissemination of wetlands data in the GL basin

• Demonstrate, through open source and open standards technologies, the value of incorporating geospatial approaches into Federal business processes.

Wetlands Data Integration

National Datasets:

• National Wetlands Inventory (NWI)• Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)• Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database• National Land Cover Database (NLCD)

State/Province Datasets:

• Ontario• Michigan DEQ• New York DNR• Ohio DNR• WISCLAND (WI)• Great Lakes Habitat Initiative (GLHI)

Wetlands Capture and Tracking Functionality

Capture of Wetlands Data Tracking of Wetlands Change

Web-Based Tools for Wetlands Data Management

AnalysisDissemination

Visualization

Open Source Built

PostgreSQL

PostGIS

GDAL

Tomcat

Perl

PHP

GeoServer

MapServer

Project Timeline and Milestones

• 06/07/2007 – Project kick-off meeting• 07/01/2007 – Project scope of work completed• 09/11/2007 – Draft business case completed• 10/10/2007 – Launch of project website• 10/2007 – Outreach to Wetlands Subcommittee

• 02/2008 – Second draft business case completed• 02/2008 – Data aggregation/integration completed• 03/2008 – Tools development complete, beta testing begins• 04/2007 - GLC seminar on Applied Business Cases Across Government Entities (Lansing, MI)• 04/2007 - GLC seminar on Applied Business Cases Across Government Entities (DC?)• 04/2007 – Final draft of business case completed• 05/2007 – Public release of project report, data, and tools