Presentation on the Wisconsin Coastal Atlas at the Wisconsin Land Information Association 2001 annual conference in Madison, WI

1. The Wisconsin Coastal Atlas
Building the Coastal Spatial Data Infrastructure
to Promote Sustainable Management
of the Great Lakes
Wisconsin Land Information Association Annual Conference
Madison, WI
Thursday, February 17, 2011

2. Presentation Outline
• Transitions in Coastal GIS
• About the Wisconsin Coastal Atlas Project
• The Research Agenda of the Wisconsin Coastal Atlas
• The Structure of the Wisconsin Coastal Atlas Geoportal
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• Towards a Great Lakes Coastal Atlas
• Discussion/Feedback

3. Wisconsin Coastal GIS Phases: 1994-2009
PHASE 1
Shoreland Coastal Water Other
GIS TEACHING
Management Erosion Quality Coastal Issues
MODELS
PHASE 2
Data Data Data Spatial
COMPREHENSIVE
Discovery Acquisition Integration Analysis
COASTAL GIS
PHASE 3
Web Geospatial Catalog Services Open
DYNAMIC AND
Mapping Interoperability for the Web Archives
DISTRIBUTED GIS
PHASE 4
3D Data Information
VISUALIZATION Animation
Visualization Visualization Dashboard

4. The Rationale for a Coastal Web Atlas
• In recent years, it became clear that it was time to move
beyond a collection of campus research and outreach
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projects and build a broader platform for collaboration with
numerous stakeholders to discover, access, integrate,
and utilize coastal geospatial data in Wisconsin
Wisconsin.
• International Coastal Atlas Network panel at Coastal Zone
’07 in Portland, OR.
– A coastal web atlas could integrate many of the projects we
have worked on since 1994.
– The ICAN coastal erosion use case was relevant to issues
faced by the Wisconsin Coastal Hazards Work Group.

5. What is a Coastal Web Atlas?
• A Coastal Web Atlas is a collection of digital maps and
datasets with supplementary tables, illustrations, and
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information that systematically illustrate the coast,
oftentimes with cartographic and decision-support tools,
and all of which are accessible via the Internet
Internet.
-- O’Dea et al., 2007
More simply stated, a CWA is a
geoportal designed to promote
data sharing and decision support
for coastal management.

6. The Oregon Coastal Atlas as a Model
• The Oregon Coastal
Atlas has been a
resounding success
success.
• It served more than
3,500 data sets and
received about 2.5
million hits in 2008.
• The map interface has
become a common
framework for
discussing coastal
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Oregon Coastal Atlas
management issues.
http://www.coastalatlas.net/

7. The Wisconsin Coastal Atlas Project
• UW Sea Grant funding for two years starting in Feb. 2010
• Partners:
– UW Sea Grant, LICGF, State Cartographers Office, Robinson Map
Library, UW Cartography Lab, Oregon State University, Oregon
Coastal Management Program
• Letters of Support:
– City of Manitowoc, Bayfield County, Brown County, Manitowoc
County, Northwest Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission,
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Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Office of Great
Lakes, Wisconsin Coastal Management Program, State
Geographic Information Officer at the Wisconsin Department of
Administration, NOAA Coastal Services Center, National Park
Service, Association of State Floodplain Managers

8. Atlas Design Objective
• Objective 1 – Design and evaluate the WCA using a
formalized development process
LOGIC Model:
• Resources
• Activities
• Outputs
• Outcomes (short, mid,
and long-term)
The WCA LOGIC Model
serves as a template to
aid design and
evaluation of other
CWAs.

9. Geoportal Objective
• Objective 2 – Develop the web portal interface for the WCA
Collaborate with Oregon
State University and the
Oregon Coastal Management
Program (learn from their
experience, share code…)

10. Web Cartography Objective
• Objective 3 – Design, develop, and evaluate web
mapping interfaces for the WCA
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– Explore and evaluate the range of web mapping technologies,
including geospatial mapping APIs, virtual globes, and internet
map servers.
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– Work with the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office and the
Cartography Lab at UW-Madison to ensure that the mapping
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Guidebooks on web mapping technology choices and web cartography
will be useful for CWA developers and the GIS community.

11. Coastal SDI Objective
• Objective 4 – Develop and implement a CWA geospatial
data catalog with concurrent archiving capabilities.
– geospatial data catalog developed specifically for Great Lakes
coastal issues
– document technical and institutional barriers to the development
of a spatial data catalog of current and historic coastal data
– robust data archiving procedures to manage data sets over time
– work with coastal hazards stakeholders to promote the use of
geocatalogs and data archiving procedures
• Advance the development of domain spatial data infrastructures.
infrastructures
• Development of effective methods for archive of digital geospatial
data will help resolve a critical problem facing data custodians.

12. Ontology Objective
• Objective 5 – Develop an ontology of coastal hazards in
Wisconsin to promote semantic integration
• Conduct spatial queries to test semantic interoperability for
the entire Wisconsin coasts using data from custodians as
it resides in geospatial catalogs
– dynamically calculate the assessed value of land and
improvements of coastal parcels
– dynamically calculate current land use by general zoning
categories within the 1000 foot shoreland zoning jurisdiction for the
Great Lakes
• Add the WCA as a node of the International Coastal Atlas
Network

13. Wisconsin Coastal Atlas Geoportal
Developed sing
De eloped using the
DotNetNuke content
management system http://wicoastalatlas.net/

14. WCA Map Module
• Initial Mapping Interfaces
– Coastal Overview (Google Maps Javascript API V3)
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– Coastal Heritage Tourism (from the Wisconsin Coastal Guide)
– Lake Michigan Bluff Erosion (ArcGIS Server 10)
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Map Gallery
– Web mapping interfaces for a variety of coastal issues
• Demonstrate the range o web mapping technologies
e o s a e e a ge of eb app g ec o og es
– ms4w (GeoMoose, OpenLayers, Chameleon), ArcGIS Server 10,
Google Maps API, Virtual Globes, etc…
• Links to other web mapping applications relevant to
coastal management issues on the Great Lakes

15. WCA Map Module

16. Designed to show how the
Great Lakes relate to
Wisconsin at four scales:
• Great Lakes watershed
• State
• Coastal counties
• Coastal municipalities

17. Reuses
Re ses a Google Maps API
iFrame developed for the
Wisconsin Coastal Guide

18. Lake Michigan Bluff Erosion
1956
1999

19. WCA Catalog Module
• Testing GeoCatalog software
– GeoNetwork (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN)
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– GeoPortal Server (ESRI)
• Discover geospatial data through queries of linked
OpenGIS Catalog Services (CSW)
O GIS C t l S i
• Promote simple approaches to geospatial catalogs, such
as those developed by the ope da a e us as s
ose de e oped e open data enthusiasts
WCA GeoNetwork site
http://maps.aqua.wisc.edu:8080/geonetwork/

20. WCA Catalog Module

21. GeoNetwork

22. Open Data Catalog
Based on Vancouver’s
Open Data Catalogue
http://data.vancouver.ca/
htt //d t /
http://www.wisconsincoastalguide.org/

23. WCA Tools Module
• The WCA project is synchronized with the two year term
of Wisconsin’s first NOAA Coastal Management Fellow
– Kathy Johnson started in August 2010 and is helping to build a
Great Lakes Spatial Decision Support Toolbox that will be
incorporated into the tools module of the WCA.
– Kathy is also working on a framework to evaluate coastal spatial
decision support tools.
• Build spatial decision support tools that leverage the
WCA web mapping i t f
b i interfaces and catalog
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– Coastal Hazards Resilience (partnering with ASFPM)
– Comprehensive Plan Implementation

24. Oregon Coastal Atlas Tools Module
Categorizes decision
support tools by
audience and provides
context for tool use
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Other DS Toolboxes:
• Computer Tools for
Planning, Conservation,
and Environmental
Protection (WDNR)
• Midwest Spatial
Decision Support
Partnership (EPA)
• Ecosystem-Based
Management Tools
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Network (NatureServe)

25. WCA Learn Module
• Learn about coastal issues and places
• A repository for place-based games developed as part of
a joint Wisconsin/Minnesota Sea Grant funded project on
“Spatial Narratives for the St. Louis River Estuary”
• Training on web mapping technology and geocatalogs

26. Next Steps
• Expand the footprint of the WCA from the coastline to
the Great Lakes watershed and into the open water
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– Incorporate satellite imagery and open water observations into
WCA web mapping applications, geocatalog, and tools
• Expand WCA data partners
– State agencies, federal agencies, tribal governments, NPOs, etc.
• Expand decision support tools
– Water safety, ecosystem restoration, coastal and marine spatial
planning
• Advocate for the WCA as a node in a Great Lakes
Coastal Atlas Network

27. Great Lakes Coastal GIS/Coastal Atlases
MN Coastal GIS
ON Conservation
Authorities GIS
WI Coastal Atlas
NY Coastal Atlas
IN Lake Rim GIS OH Coastal Atlas

28. Towards a Great Lakes Coastal Atlas
• Enhance existing Great Lakes web mapping sites based
on principles embraced by ICAN
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• Promote a “bottom-up” approach to Great Lakes GIS
that strengthens existing efforts
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Great Lakes Information Network GIS, GLIN Labs
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– Great Lakes Regional Data Exchange (RDX)
– Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)
• Rethink the existing Great Lakes Environmental Atlas
(website last updated in 1995)

29. Promote a Regional Coastal Atlas Network
ICAN-Great Lakes meeting
– Pyle Center – Madison, WI – September 13-15, 2010
• Showcase the impacts of mature CWAs
• Explore emerging use cases for networked CWAs
– marine spatial planning, climate adaptation, water quality, and
evaluating Great Lakes restoration
• Describe how CWAs relate to broader initiatives
– Digital Coast, the Integrated Ocean Observing System, and the
Open Geospatial Consortium-Interoperability Program
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• Hands-on Training: Creating Robust Web Services and
Catalogs for Coastal Web Atlases
http://www.aqua.wisc.edu/ican/

30. Wisconsin Coastal Atlas Project Team
Principal Investigator: Steve Ventura
Co-Investigators: David Hart, Nancy Wiegand
Project Assistants: Robbie Greene, Tim Wallace
NOAA Coastal Management Fellow: Kathy Johnson
UW Sea Grant: Tom Dellinger, Rich Dellinger, James Grandt, Tina Yao
Cartography Lab: Tanya Buckingham
State Cartographer’s Office: AJ Wortley
Robinson Map Library: Jaime Stoltenberg
Oregon State University: Dawn Wright
Oregon Coastal Management Program: Tanya Haddad
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime
and our children's lifetime.
The h lth f
Th health of our waters is the principal measure
t i th i i l
of how we live on the land.
-Luna Leopold