Mapping Tools for Coastal Management in Virginia

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Mapping Tools for Coastal Management in Virginia

• Marcia Berman
• Director, Comprehensive Coastal Inventory Program
• Center for Coastal Resources Management
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science
• College of William and Mary

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What is an Atlas?
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What is an atlas?

• A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes
  with supplementary illustrations and graphic
  analyses
• A volume of tables, charts, or plates that
  systematically illustrates a particular subject
  an anatomical atlas
• The top or first cervical vertebra of the neck
• A person who supports a great burden
• Source Dictionary.com

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DO WE HAVE AN ATLAS?
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Coastal Management Tools

• Chesapeake Bay Shoreline Inventory
• VA Shoreline Managers Assessment Kit
• Wetlands Data Viewer

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Chesapeake Bay Shoreline Inventory

• Inventory of shoreline condition inclusive of
• land use, bank stability, natural buffers,
  anthropogenic modifications
• Purpose
• promote informed shoreline management decision
  making at state and local levels
• Audience
• Federal, state and local regulatory and planning
  programs
• Private citizens and consultants
• Regional environmental planners and managers
• Geographic Coverage
• Tidal shoreline in Virginia (16,000 km)
• Tidal shoreline in Maryland (6,440 km)

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Data collection uses mapping grade GPS

• Insitu measurements
• geo-referenced digital attributes

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Data Processing Combines GPS and GIS Technology
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Chesapeake Bay Shoreline Inventory .. is it
an atlas?

• Maps
• Tables
• GIS Data
• Reports
• Imagery

I think so
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Coastal Management Tools

• Chesapeake Bay Shoreline Inventory
• VA Shoreline Managers Assessment Kit
• Wetlands Data Viewer

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Shoreline Managers Assessment Kit (SMAK)

• ArcIMS Interactive map application inclusive of
• Shoreline inventory
• Marine managed areas
• Aquatic habitat delineations
• State and federal jurisdictional boundaries
• 37 different data layers
• VA Tidal Waters
• Intended audience
• VA Marine Resources Commission
• Local wetlands boards

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Similar Applications

• Blue Infrastructure (29 layers)
• OSCAR (Oil Spill Clean-up and Response Tool (28
  layers)
• Elizabeth River Atlas (28 layers)

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Shoreline Managers Assessment Kit .. is it an
atlas?

• map information
• attribute information
• reference material
• no summary statistics
• .. I think
  so

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Coastal Management Tools

• Chesapeake Bay Shoreline Inventory
• VA Shoreline Managers Assessment Kit
• Wetlands Data Viewer

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Wetlands Data Viewer

• An ArcIMS interface developed to illustrate
  model output from a nontidal wetlands
  assessment technique developed by Havens et al.
  2005
• Assessment methodology evaluates stressors as
  indicators of water quality services or habitat
  function for every non-tidal emergent wetland in
  Virginia (n205,915)
• Intended Audience
• Va DEQ, Non-tidal Wetlands Regulatory Program
• State agency review panel

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Wetlands Data Viewer
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Previous Permits
Wetlands Impacts and Wetland Condition
Modification due to previous permit
activity Acres impacted 3.2 Condition
modification 2002 0.83 2003 0.79 2004 0.65
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Similar Applications

• Wetlands Mitigation Targeting Tool
• Marina Site Suitability Tool
• Tidal Wetlands Data Viewer

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Wetlands Data Viewer .. is it an atlas?

• maps
• tables
• report status and trends
• imagery

I dont think so
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What is an atlas?

• A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes
  with supplementary illustrations and graphic
  analyses
• A volume of tables, charts, or plates that
  systematically illustrates a particular subject
  an anatomical atlas
• The top or first cervical vertebra of the neck
• A person who supports a great burden
• Source Dictionary.com

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Future Actions

• Merge
• Combine SMAK, Blue Infrastructure, and the
  Elizabeth River Atlas into one ArcIMS
  application
• Combine Wetlands Mitigation Targeting Tool and
  the Wetlands Data Viewer into one application
• Challenge
• maintain original project identities to satisfy
  funding agencies
• create scalable links to specific geographic
  areas (Elizabeth River)

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Future Actions

• Drill down reports into short messages accessed
  through hot links

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Future Actions

• Provide links to resource materials and reports
• Links to VA Code
• Links to Permit Database
• Links to digital imagery
• Links to classic literature

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Future Actions

• Find Funding ..

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