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Coastal and Marine Resource Assessment staff use GIS techniques
to create information products used by policy makers, scientists,
and managers. This valuable information is often difficult to
use without special and expensive software. To assist these users,
FWRI produces numerous Internet Map Services (IMS) to publish
map data and information on the World Wide Web. Please follow
the links below to view and learn more about these map services.
The Marine Resources Geographic Information System Internet Map Server (IMS) is an on-line, analytical mapping tool designed to allow users to view spatially-referenced data, create customized queries, design printable maps, and download GIS layers for use within a desktop GIS.
Florida BlueWays is an evolving marine resource management process characterizing the ecology, human use, and management efforts that define the marine landscape. This process uses landscape ecology principles and GIS-based modeling techniques as tools to describe competing opportunities and user conflicts in order to provide resource managers with scientifically based information for comprehensive planning and decision making. The IMS under development will deliver these information products to stakeholders in a unified manner.
The Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
(FWRI) has partnered with the U.S. Coast Guard to make the Coast Guard's
Area Contingency Plan (ACP), an oil spill contingency planning, response,
and Natural Resource Damage Assessment tool, digitally available for
Tampa Bay and South Florida. The Area Contingency Plan, traditionally
considered a single document, has been greatly expanded by conversion
ot a digital format. FWRI's approach to contingnecy planning has integrated
many other supporting documents into a PDF based application that also
includes response maps, ESI atlases', emergency contact information,
and geospatial information available through an Internet Map Service.
The intent of this project is to provide resource managers, researchers, educators, and students with easy access to digital files of current and historic aerial photography of the Tampa Bay area. At this time partial coverage of the bay is available for 1926 and full coverage is available for 1947-52, 1999, and 2002.Images are available as JPG files and georectified MrSID files. Metadata files are available for each set of imagery and vector GIS files.
The Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
(FWRI) is working with the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council
(SAFMC) to develop a Coral and Benthic Habitats Internet Map Server
(IMS) and a South Atlantic EFH/Ecosystem Home Page. This IMS site will
be an effective tool for displaying, sharing and querying information
related to hard bottom and Essential Fish Habitats across the South
Atlantic Coast. The video and still imagery archives served from this
site will provide researchers a unique opportunity to monitor coral
health and abundance.
The Big Cypress Watersheds (BCW) Research Project Web site provides easy access to metadata records describing research projects occurring within the BCW region
The Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI) Land-based Sources of Pollution (LBSP) Integrated Data Management Project provides access to data collected throughout the SEFCRI region and from projects initiated through the LBSP Local Action Strategy (LAS).
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Fish and Wildlife Research
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