Online GIS Applications for

Easy Access to Waterway

Information

Alexandra Carvalho, Ph.D., GISP

CMar Consulting, LLC

Jacksonville, Florida

Kathy Fitzpatrick P.E.

Martin County Engineering Department

Stuart, Florida

Outline

• Martin County Coastal Geodatabase Project

overview, goals & current status

• Project Management

• Data exchange, sharing, and consolidation

• Accessing Data via the Web

• Considerations

Martin County

Stuart

Ocean Breeze Park

Jupiter Island

Seawall’s point

Atlantic

Ocean

Martin County Coastal Data

Coastal Geodatabase

County coastal programs produce significant

amounts of data annually due to the large data

collection and reporting efforts required by state

and federal permitting agencies

• Data consolidation and easy access to the data

– Track and manage permit and grant requirements and compliance

– Support the planning and management of the County’s coastal

programs

• Information sharing & community outreach

– Scientific and engineering communities

– Federal and State agencies

– public and stakeholders

Martin County Coastal

Geodatabase Project Goals

• Artificial reefs

• Coastal monitoring and beach restoration

• Waterways management and smaller dredge projects

• St. Lucie Inlet

Data stored in the coastal geodatabase spans almost 15 years

Martin County Coastal Geodatabase

Current Status

SDE

Project Data Workflow

SDE

Contractors

Permitting & Grant

Agencies

Data Collection

Community Outreach

Field & Project Data Collection

Data Transfer/Exchange (Email, FTP)

Data Consolidation

QA/QC

Data Sharing via Online GIS

What is preventing the

vision to become reality?

• Funding

• Data sharing between project participants

• Technology

Manatee Pocket Dredging

and Muck Removal

Project

ArcGIS Desktop Software

Data Sources: Martin County, FGDL, NOAA, FWC

SDE

QA/QC

Web Data Sharing

Web Service (historical and current data)

Data Consolidation

Permitting/Grant

Agencies

Contractors

Secure Online GIS

Project Group

Community

Outreach

Spatial Information Sharing

Data Sources: Martin County, FGDL, NOAA, FWC

Google Earth

Data Sources: Martin County, FGDL, NOAA, FWC

Why add spatial data sharing to

project management

• Requires additional staff and time

• Data access and visualization for project team

during the entire project

• Possibility to comment on a group level on any

issue that may rise a flag

• Mobile Access if using ESRI

• Funding

• Project data consolidation

• Access to historical and current data

• QA/Qc Data

• Available for detailed technical studies

• Data Sharing via web services

Role of the Coastal Geodatabase

Easy Assess to Data ?

• Easy to update web data sharing

• Mobile Access (ESRI via Android,

Windows 7, IPad – Downloading Apps)

• Web Viewer (Api)

Examples

Web

• Keep it simple

• Focus on a specific issue or need

• Need more detail ?

X

Data Sources: Martin County, FGDL, NOAA, FRMI, USGS, FWC

2012 St. Lucie Inlet Dredging

Data sharing and use comparison

Requires GIS Skills

Reads Web Services

Group Sharing

View in Mobile

Data Collection

Arc GIS Online

Google Earth

Google My Map

Arc GIS Desktop & Server, Mobile c

Free / Cost

Cost

Easy

Medium

c

Kathy Fitzpatrick P.E.

Martin County Engineering Department

Stuart, Florida

Thank You

Alexandra Carvalho, Ph.D., GISP

CMar Consulting, LLC

info@cmarconsulting.com