Applied Cooperative Geo-Enabled Business Case
The Applied Cooperative Geo-Enabled Business Case demonstrates integrated, geo-enabled decision-making across agencies, where there is a common goal for a given population. The geo-analytics emphasize the geography of the programs' effects on the constituents, and estimate the role of each agency in one or more appropriate outcomes. The geo-enable business decisions include those that are not readily informed by geospatial techniques.
Business Case
In 2005, the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy to Restore and Protect the Great Lakes was released as a comprehensive management plan to address significant environmental problems affecting the Great Lakes ecosystem. The Strategy recommended a 550,000-acre regional wetlands restoration goal in the Great Lakes region. To coordinate federal actions to achieve this and other near term wetlands commitments in the Great Lakes, the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Wetlands Subcommittee was formed in 2006 with broad federal participation[1]. This committee was created under the auspices of the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force[2]. The Task Force was established by a 2004 Executive Order[3]obligating federal agencies working within the Great Lakes to collaborate on nationally significant Great Lakes environment and natural resource issues, as were subsequently identified in the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy. To implement near-term actions of the recommendations, the Interagency Task Force developed a Work Plan that identifies federal agency commitments. Included in this work plan is a commitment to restore 200,000 acres of wetlands as near-term priority toward the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration goal of restoring 550,000 acres
[1] The Wetlands Subcommittee is comprised of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA-lead), the USFish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), the US Corps of Engineers (COE), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the US Geologic Survey (USGS).
[2] http://www.epa.gov/greatlakes/collaboration/taskforce/index.html
[3] http://epa.gov/greatlakes/collaboration/taskforce/eo.html
Problem
In support of the near-term 200,000-acre restoration goal, the Wetlands Subcommittee has identified the need for a comprehensive, spatially based tracking, monitoring and reporting system to better manage and protect Great Lakes wetland complexes. At present, however, there exists no comprehensive system to track, monitor and report on wetlands loss or degradation in the Great Lakes region. The unavailability of such a geo-enabled system significantly impairs the region's ability to diagnose areas of need and evaluate restoration progress.
Solution:
In response to this information gap, the Great Lakes Commission (GLC), through the 2007 National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Category 4 Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) is creating a web-based Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) utilizing free and open source software (FOSS) and Open Standards to facilitate comprehensive baseline tracking and analysis of wetlands change over time.
Project Timeline
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| GLC - Conduct kick-off meeting (July 6, 2007) |
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| GLC - Project scope of work completed (07/01/2007) |
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| GLC - GLHI Meeting Telecon (8/15/2007) |
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| GLC - Draft business case completed (09/11/2007) |
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| GLC - Project Website Launched (11/1/2007) |
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| GLC - Outreach to Wetlands Subcommittee (11/7/2007) |
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| GLC - GLHI Meeting, Chicago IL (12/11/2007) |
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| Tasks: Ongoing and Todo Items |
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| Second draft business case |
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| Finalize data aggregation/integrationDatabase integration |
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| Finalize tools development |
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| Tools beta testing |
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| GLC seminar (Lansing, MI) |
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| GLC seminar (DC?) |
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| Final draft of business case completedub |
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| Public release of project report, data, and tools |
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