Abstract
The Mississippi Watershed Characterization and Ranking Tool Track: Water Resources Author(s): Zoffee Dahmash, John Storelli, Daryl Cook The Mississippi Watershed Characterization and Ranking Tool (MWCRT) provides the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and its partners with a GIS tool to help manage the state's surface water resources. The tool helps users determine which watersheds are of higher value based on the presence of important natural resource features. These features are described by land use and surface water use of the state. Each spatial layer is placed into a category to determine its resource value on the environment, its impact on human welfare and to assess the stressors placed on each watershed. This information is used to generate values that are normalized and weighted to produce a final score for each watershed. These scores serve as a measuring system by which watersheds are ranked. The results of the tool are distributed to team members using ArcGIS Publisher. Zoffee Dahmash State of Mississippi Environmental Quality 2380 Highway 80 W Jackson , MS 39204 US Phone: 601-961-5137 E-mail: john_storelli@deq.state.ms.us John Storelli Information Management Systems, Inc. GIS 1012 Ryan Street, Suite A Vicksburg 39180 US Phone: 601 961 5375 E-mail: jstorelli@ims4gis.com Daryl Cook State of Mississippi MDEQ-OPC-WMB 2380 Hwy 80 W Jackson , MS 39204 US Phone: 601-961-5321 E-mail: daryl_cook@deq.state.ms.us |
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