Natural Resource Analysis Center

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Natural Resource Analysis Center
Agency Roll Call Presentation May 12, 2004 West
Virginia GIS Conference Workshops
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Mission and Geospatial Context
Mission statement The Natural Resource Analysis
Center (NRAC) provides research, teaching, and
public service in environmental and natural
resource issues with a geospatial context for the
state of West Virginia and the surrounding
Mid-Atlantic Highlands region.
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NRAC Geospatial Datasets

• Primary Steward
• West Virginia GAP Analysis datasets
• Various aerial photography datasets
• Stream segment-level watersheds
• Supplementary Steward
• National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) data and
  associated value-added products

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Statewide Participation with NRAC

• NRAC welcomes cooperative projects with
  interested members of the geospatial community.
  Fields of interest include
• Economic development
• Remote sensing
• Landscape analysis
• Decision support
• Watershed modeling
• NRAC also offers ArcGIS training by an ESRI
  Authorized ArcGIS Instructor and is an ESRI
  Authorized Learning Center. For more
  information, please refer to www.nrac.wvu.edu.

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Recent NRAC Accomplishments

• Completion of several statewide map layers
• National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) surface water
  features
• Stream segment-level watershed delineation
• Current coal mining permits for WVDEP
• Adaptation of NRAC water quality modeling tools
  to ArcGIS 8.3
• Watershed Modeling and Characterization System
  (WCMS)
• Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Analysis (CHIA)
  tools
• Significant progress in water quality model
  development
• HSPF coefficient development
• Acid Mine Drainage component for HSPF 12
• Cacapon Land Trust Decision Support System
  development

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Upcoming NRAC Goals

• Continued improvement in water quality mapping
  tool development for West Virginia.
• Expanded availability of Internet mapping
  services through the NRAC web server.
• Use of hyperspectral and high resolution aerial
  imagery for mapping and detection of invasive
  plant species.