Web-Based Data and Tools for Coastal Management

Gretchen ChiquésThe Baldwin Group on contract with the

NOAA Office for Coastal Management – Pacific Islands

October 16, 2015

Digital Coast: More Than Just Data

Agenda

• Digital Coast websiteDataToolsTrainingStoriesTopics

• Questions

Digital Coastwww.coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast

Approach: Bring the geospatial and coastal management communities together

Outcome: A constituent-driven, integrated, enabling platform supporting coastal resource management

Digital Coast PartnershipAmerican Planning Association

Association of State Floodplain Managers

Coastal States Organization

National Association of Counties

National Estuarine Research Reserve Association

National States Geographic Information Council

The Nature Conservancy

Urban Land Institute

Digital Coastwww.coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast

Digital Coast: Data

• Lidar• High-resolution land cover data (through the

Coastal Change Analysis Program C-CAP)• Historical aerial imagery• Miscellaneous (the Data Registry)

High-resolution imagery• Hawaii Ocean Uses (Oct 15, 2015)

Data – Lidar

Available for Oah‘u, Hawai‘i, and American Samoa

2010 Mobile Lidar American Samoa

2012 Airborne Lidar American Samoa

Data – Coastal Change Analysis Program

Available for American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for 2005, Guam, and Hawai‘i

High-resolution land cover map

Updated every five years

Mapping classes include forest, wetlands, development, and other natural and man-made features

Data – Coastal Change Analysis Program

19861972 1990 1995 2000

Data – Historical Aerial Imagery

Available for American Samoa, CNMI, Guam, and Hawai‘i

Data – Historical Aerial Imagery

Koko Bay, Oah‘u

1954 1965

Data – Historical Aerial Imagery

Ardensen Air Force Base and Naval Base Pati Point , Yigo, Guam

1944 1967

Data – Historical Aerial Imagery

1947

1992

2006

Data – Miscellaneous

Available for American Samoa, CNMI, Guam, and Hawai‘i

High- Resolution Color Imagery

Data – Hawai’i Ocean Uses

The Pacific Regional Ocean Uses Atlas Project (PROUA) is an interagency collaboration between NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) designed to document where coastal communities use the ocean across a full range of typical human activities and sectors.

Data – Hawai’i Ocean Uses

Data – Hawai’i Ocean Uses

Heat map showing the number of all overlapping dominant use areas. Dominant use areas are defined as ocean areas routinely used by most users most of the time

Digital Coast: Tools

• Tsunami Information Tool• Land Cover Atlas• Historical Hurricane Tracks• Coastal County Snapshots and Economics: National Ocean Watch • Sea Level Rise Viewer• CanVis• OpenNSPECT• Habitat Priority Planner

Tools – Tsunami Information Tool

Available in Guam and Hawai‘i

Website and Smartphones

Tools – Land Cover Atlas

Available in American Samoa, Guam, and Hawai‘i

Tools – Sea Level Rise Viewer

Available in American Samoa, CNMI, Guam, and Hawaii

Online data viewer simulates various sea level rise scenarios (from one to six feet above the average highest tides) and the corresponding areas that would be impacted by flooding.

Tools – Sea Level Rise Viewer

Tools – OpenNSPECT

Tools – OpenNSPECT

The Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (OpenNSPECT) investigates potential water quality impacts from development, other land uses, and climate change.

The tool simulates erosion, pollution, and their accumulation from overland flow.

Tools – CanVis

Model and visualize environmental impacts

Tools – CanVis

Tools – Hurricane Tracker

Available in America Samoa, CNMI, Guam, and Hawai‘i

Tools – Hurricane Tracker

Tools – Economics: National Ocean WatchENOW

Available for Hawai‘i

Tools – Economics: National Ocean WatchTime-series data on the ocean and Great Lakes economy, which includes six economic sectors dependent on the oceans Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Tools – Economics: National Ocean Watch

Tools – Habitat Priority Planner

Helps to identify priority locations for conservation and restoration planning

• Inventory habitat conditions• Identify, rank, and prioritize

restoration or conservation sites• Provide spatial planning support to

natural resource managers• Analyze proposed changes in land

use or land cover• Create maps, reports, and queries

Digital Coast: Training

Courses Emphasize• Technical Skills • Effective Projects • Working with People • Coastal Issues

Delivery Methods• Classroom, Instructor-Led • Online, Instructor-led • Online, Self-Guided

Wide Variety of Focus Areas

Digital Coast: Stories

Digital Coast: Topics

Questions?Gretchen Chiqués

Gretchen.Chiques@noaa.gov

Digital.Coast@noaa.gov

www.facebook.com/NOAADigitalCoast

@NOAADigCoast

www.csc.noaa.gov/DigitalCoast