Bonnet Carre’ Spillway ViewerBonnet Carre’ Spillway Viewer

June 13 2008June 13 2008

Scott Wilson, PhDScott Wilson, PhDSpatial Analysis Branch ChiefSpatial Analysis Branch Chief

National Wetlands Research CenterNational Wetlands Research Center

Bonnet Carre’ Spillway ViewerBonnet Carre’ Spillway Viewer

Spillway opened April 11, 2008 Multi-agency/organization partnership to

display monitoring location data USGS requested by the USACE to develop

quick-response viewer: http://deltas.usgs.gov/BonnetCarre.aspxhttp://deltas.usgs.gov/BonnetCarre.aspx Call went out to agencies/organizations to

submit their monitoring locations and collection parameters for display on the Viewer

Phase 1: Quick ResponsePhase 1: Quick Response

Linked on the MVN-USACE District homepage: http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/

LCA Science and Technology LCA Science and Technology Program Data Management Program Data Management

Viewer went up within days of request from USACE

Location data posted as it is received

Tabular data with site coordinates processed into GIS format

Multi-Agency/Organization EffortMulti-Agency/Organization Effort

Contributing partners:

Viewer FunctionalityViewer Functionality

Zoom in and click on a point for details about a site

Site ParametersSite Parameters

Site details include: Coordinate information Site name and/or ID Lead agency or organization Type of information being collected (i.e. water quality) Collection frequency

Sample

Other Site InformationOther Site Information

Example: USGS NWIS Station

Click on an NWIS site Click on link for “More

Site Info”

Viewer FunctionalityViewer Functionality

Choose a different display category: Data Data TypeType

Viewer FunctionalityViewer Functionality

Choose a different display category: FrequencyFrequency

Viewer FunctionalityViewer Functionality

Download site data in tabular format with project description and methods

Links of InterestLinks of Interest

Links of InterestLinks of Interest

Phase 2: LCAST ViewerPhase 2: LCAST Viewer

Long-term data repository: http://lcast.sam.ushttp://lcast.sam.usace.army.mil/ace.army.mil/

Can import Bonnet Carre’ web mapping service (wms)

LCAST Web Mapping ServiceLCAST Web Mapping Service

Click on the link at the top, “Servers Edit”, type in the WMS URL

Click “Retrieve Layers from Server” to view list of layers

LCAST Web Mapping ServiceLCAST Web Mapping Service

Click on layer “sites” to show all

Click “Submit Layers for Processing”

Click “Update Map to view sites on the LCAST Viewer

Next StepsNext Steps

Agencies are collecting/checking monitoring data for quality assurance

Plans for making monitoring data public? USGS NWISUSGS NWIS, USGS LAWSCUSGS LAWSC, LDNRLDNR, and CRMSCRMS – have

websites with public access to data LDEQLDEQ – compiling reports and will put them on their website LSULSU - publishing their NSF funded monitoring efforts and data

can be available upon request LDWFLDWF - do not yet have set plans for making monitoring data

publicly available, but would like to ERDCERDC – will compile tech notes and publish sturgeon monitoring

data in a journal

Project FutureProject Future

Bonnet Carre’ Viewer will continue throughout the summer

LCAST will be long-term repository for the location data

LCAST can also be repository for collected monitoring data if agencies want to make their data publicly available there

Future Data CollectionFuture Data Collection

Didn’t see your data on the Viewer? This is an on-going effort Monitoring location data will continue to be

added to the Viewer Please send your data to:

Richard Boe at Richard.E.Boe@usace.army.mil and/or Richard Boe at Richard.E.Boe@usace.army.mil and/or Molly Reif at reifm@usgs.govMolly Reif at reifm@usgs.gov