2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Aquatic Weed Control Using Mobile, Enterprise, and Web-Based GIS Track: Environmental Management Author(s): Dorenne Smith, John Jarnagin The State of California's Department of Boating and Waterways (DBW) is the lead agency responsible for controlling the invasive Egeria Densa and Water Hyacinth plant species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, its tributaries, and Suisun Marsh. For two years, DBW has been collecting paper-based information on the environmental effects of various weed treatments. Realizing the inefficiency of this paper-based system, DBW initiated a project to develop an automated method using geospatial technologies for field data collection, centralized data storage, distribution and analysis. The selected solution integrates mobile GIS (ArcPad), desktop GIS (ArcInfo and ArcView), enterprise data management (SQL Server with ArcSDE), and web-based map viewers (ArcIMS). DBW contracted with VESTRA Resources, Inc., an Esri business partner, to assist with this 'enterprise' GIS implementation. The enterprise GIS deployment has improved DBW's workflow process, from field data collection to environmental reporting and has improved the efficiency of data collection and management. Dorenne Smith California Department of Boating and Waterways (DBW) GIS 2000 Evergreen St Suite 100 Sacramento , CA 95815 US Phone: 916-263-6703 Fax: 916-263-0357 E-mail: dsmith@dbw.ca.gov John Jarnagin VESTRA Resources, Inc. 962 Maraglia Street Redding , CA 96002 US Phone: 530-223-2585 Fax: 530-223-1145 E-mail: johnj@vestra.com |
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