Abstract
Illuminating the Benefits of Agricultural Best Management Practices Using GIS Track: Agriculture Author(s): Garry Durden This paper will describe the development of an interactive, Web-based application to track landowner enrollment in Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMP) programs. BMPs are aimed at protecting Florida's water resources from adverse impact associated with non-point source storm water runoff. The application features a wizard-like interface to assist the landowner in enrolling in BMP programs online and a heads-up digitizing interface to allow the landowner the capability to digitize spatial boundaries and key features which define their operations. The implementation of a workflow allows staff and management to closely track and monitor BMP implementation for all phases of processing. The integration with a watershed assessment model ranks BMPs according to water pollution reduction and cost savings. The model improves environmental decision making by providing for analysis of "what-if" land use, water quality, and BMP use scenarios. Remote data collection on tablet PCs allow field staff to perform field QA inspections on implemented practices. Garry Durden Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 1203 Governors Square Blvd. Suite 200 Tallahassee , FL 32301 US Phone: (850) 921-0646 E-mail: durdeng@doacs.state.fl.us |
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