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Layer: GRP Staging Areas (ID: 2)

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Description: Staging and Response Locations collected by GPS for Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle prior to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The locations for the Peninsular portion of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands have been compiled from numerous sources into this database schema and will at some later date (after Nov. 2010) be verified and validated by GPS. Staging and response locations were identified first by defining the types of locations that fit these descriptions. The broad categories were defined as Boat Ramp, Marina, Staging Area, or any combination of these. A marina may contain a boat ramp as well as a large parking lot with a seawall suitable for deploying equipment into the water. A staging area may contain just a waterfront park with access to the water, but no boat ramp or marina, but perhaps a dock or pier. These categories and attributes were used to design a specific database schema to collect information on these geographic features that could be used on a GPS-enabled field data collection device. Once the categories of information to be collected and the specifics of what types of information to be collected within each category were determined (the database schema), mobile devices were programmed to accomplish this task and area committee volunteers were used to conduct the field surveys. Field crews were given training on the devices. Guided by base maps identifying potential locations, they then traveled into the field to validate and collect specific GPS and attribute data on those locations. This was a cooperative effort between many federal, state, and local entities guided by FWC-FWRI that resulted in detailed and location-specific information on 366 staging area locations within Sector Mobile and a comprehensive GIS data set that is available on the DVD ROM and website as well a being used in the Geographic Response Plan Map Atlas production. Cyber-Tracker was the software used for this field data collection. Cyber-Tracker is a "shareware" software package developed as a data-capture tool designed for use in Environmental Conservation, Wildlife Biology and Disaster Relief. The software runs on numerous types of mobile devices and designing custom data capture processes for these devices requires no programming experience. Funded in large part by the European Commission and patroned by Harvard University, Cyber-Tracker Software has been a very valuable tool in the data collection efforts of this project. Cyber-Tracker Software can be found on the Internet at: <http://www.cybertracker.co.za/>.

Copyright Text: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute

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