Abstract

Spatial Photo Management of Coral Disease Data
Track: Ocean, Coastal, and Marine Resources
Authors: Brian Witcher

As part of the National Park Service South Florida/Caribbean Network's Coral Disease monitoring efforts we collect photographic and tabular data documenting the status of the coral reef at each of our sample sites. In an effort to both catalog images and ensure accurate relationships between the original photo and tabular data collected at the time of monitoring, our office has developed a Thumbsplus database that has a direct relationship to a Personal Geodatabase. This combination allows for data relating to each photo to be entered in Thumbsplus, stored and analyzed in MSAccess, and displayed within ArcMap.

Brian Witcher
National Park Service
18001 Old Cutler Rd Suite 419
Miami, Florida 33157
United States
Phone: 305-252-0347
E-mail: brian_witcher@nps.gov