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National Park Service (NPS)
Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program (PICRP)
Pacific Islands Network (PACN)
Preliminary Results of the U.S. N.P.S.
Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
Marine Geodatabase Database Efforts
Lisa Wedding, Dr. Larry Basch, Melia Lane-Kamahele, Dr. Gordon Dicus, Sandy Margriter
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Outline
• Introduction & Background
• GIS Goals and Objectives
• Integration of MDM (Marine Data Model) with
NPS database standards
• Examples of how NPS resource managers
can use geodatabase
• Conclusions
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PICRP Mission Statement
• Our Mission is CLEAR: Coral reef Long-term Ecological Assessment
& Research
• The Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program (PICRP) of the Pacific West
Region, National Park Service works with Federal, State & Local
Agencies, Academics, Communities, & Private Organizations in &
outside of Pacific Island National Parks. PICRP provides Marine
Inventory & Monitoring data, Objective Research, Scientific
Advice & Technical Assistance relating to Conservation of Marine
Biological and Geological Environments and Resources within the
Cultural, Sociological, Landscape & Political Contexts of the State of
Hawai'i, & Island Territories of Guam, American Samoa,
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, & others under U.S.
jurisdiction in the Pacific Basin.
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Introduction
• PICRP is in the initial phase of designing a
marine geodatabase to provide decision
support to resource managers at Pacific
Islands parks
• NPS Programs are working together with
partners on joint data mining & management
efforts
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Outline
• Introduction & Background
• GIS Goals and Objectives
• Integration of MDM (Marine Data Model) with
NPS database standards
• Examples of how NPS resource managers
can use geodatabase
• Conclusions
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PICRP-PACN Marine Database Goals
1. Maintain an up-to-date GIS database that serves
the common information needs for marine
management of multiple parks and the unique
needs of individual parks in the Pacific Islands
network
2. Work consistently with (FGDC) Federal
Geographic Data Committee & NPS I & M
(Inventory & Monitoring Program) database
standards to ensure inter-operability
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PICRP-PACN Marine Database Goals
3. Provide NPS staff with a GIS database they
can reference to assist in making timely and
effective decisions
– ahupua’a information on adjacent land-use
practices, subsistence use, terrestrial, landbased, and coastal processes and patterns
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PICRP-PACN Marine Database Objectives
Develop a marine geodatabase
1. Identify past and current marine database efforts
2. Scope database structure and function with users and
database specialists
3. Develop a marine data management plan
4. Build marine relational and spatial database
5. Continue adaptive development and testing of database
functionality and design elements based on evolving
information needs
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PICRP-PACN Marine Database Objectives
1. Identify past and current marine database
efforts
2. Scope database structure and function with
users and specialists
• Presented several database demos at
NPS meetings that helped end users see
how the database would meet their RM
information needs
• Questionnaire sent to follow up meeting
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PICRP-PACN Marine Database Objectives
3. Develop a marine data management
plan
– The data management plan for the PACN
Network was followed to promote data sharing
between PICRP and the PACN I & M staff
– Plan addresses all of the database specifics,
such as standards and procedures for data
acquisition, dissemination and management
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PICRP-PACN Marine Database Objectives
4. Incorporate what we have learned
during the planning and scoping
phase into the marine geodatabase
5. Continue adaptive development of the
database based on future information
needs
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Outline
• Introduction & Background
• GIS Goals and Objectives
• Integration of MDM (Marine Data Model) with
NPS database standards
• Examples of how NPS resource managers
can use geodatabase
• Conclusions
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Why use the ArcGIS Marine Data Model?
• The NPS NR (Natural Resource) GIS Program is
currently developing geodatabase standards and
implementation plans
http://science.nature.nps.gov/nrgis/tools/geodb.cfm
• We decided to combine current NPS relational
database standards with the Marine Data Model
(MDM) to assist our program in the organization
and management of marine data sets
• MDM gives flexibility to personalize and integrate
NPS relational database standards
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I & M NR Database Template
• I & M NR database template and relational
database standards were integrated as the tables,
relationship classes and feature classes were
created in the geodatabase
http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/apps/template/index.htm
• Recommended database structure for “spatially
enabled” natural resource applications
• Promote data sharing among Parks/Networks
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NR Database Template
• NPS Template for MS
Access relational database
• These MS Access
database design standards
were used when applicable
as we personalized the
ArcGIS Marine Data Model
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Optional
GIS Tables
Core
Structure
Protocolspecific Tables
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Creating the PICRP geodatabase from
the MDM template
• The Marine Data Model schema was applied to a
new personal geodatabase
http://dusk2.geo.orst.edu/djl/arcgis/ArcMarine_Tutorial/
• The MDM template did contain feature classes and
tables that did not match our logical model, but
these objects were not deleted
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Creating tables & relationship classes
• Tables were imported from the
MS Access database
• MS Access relationships were
used to help set up the
relationship classes in the
geodatabase according to the I &
M NRDT v.3
• NPS relational database
standards were integrated as
tables were named, the
mandatory fields were created
and relationship classes were set
up in the geodatabase
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Creating feature classes from the MS
Access tables
•
The SurveyPoint feature class within the
MarineFeatures data set was used to import
the tbl_Locations data from the MS Access
database
• All shapefiles were batch imported and
organized within feature data sets according to
the NPS standard file structure for GIS data
sets
• The feature datasets were a collection of
feature classes that shared a park unit or island
– Hawaii Island, KAHO, PUHO and PUHE
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Outline
• Introduction & Background
• GIS Goals and Objectives
• Integration of MDM (Marine Data Model) with
NPS database standards
• Examples of how NPS resource managers
can use geodatabase
• Conclusions
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Example 1: Kaloko-Honokohau
National Historic Park
A resource manager wants to generate a
species list of all marine organisms in the
park unit based on data from several
research sites in the area
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Example 2: Puukohola Heiau National
Historic Site
A resource manager is planning a marine
monitoring program and wants to review the
monitoring protocols used in recent
research projects near the park
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Pacific Islands Coral Reef Program
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Outline
• Introduction & Background
• GIS Goals and Objectives
• Integration of MDM (Marine Data Model) with
NPS database standards
• Examples of how NPS resource managers
can use geodatabase
• Conclusions
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Conclusions
• Advantages:
– The MDM gave us a great framework to start our project and assist
our program in the organization and management of our marine and
coastal data sets
– Using geodatabases will help our program manage and share data
sets more efficiently
– MDM is easy to personalize and integrate NPS program database
standards
• Disadvantages:
– Resource managers who aren’t proficient in GIS are not as likely to
use geodatabase for information needs
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Future marine data sets
• Most of our current data sets are inventory and monitoring data that mainly
utilizes the survey point feature class
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Pacific Islands Parks & Regional Staff
NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program
HINHP MarineGAP
State Hawaii, DLNR/DAR
USGS, Pat Chavez
NOAA PSC, Darcee Killpack & NOAA NODC
Marine Data Model Working Group, ESRI
Hawaii Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem
Studies Unit (CESU)
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