Abstract

Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources Inventory Data Migration
Track: Forestry
Authors: Brian Maki, Jason Stephens

In 2013 the MDNR developed a new inventory collection system for its 4.6+ million acres of state managed land. The challenge was to take two outdated programs (300,000+ records) and mesh the two together, while still being able to access and use the data during development. Model Builder was used to do the spatial analysis and MS Access to do the attribute conversion. Using both Model Builder and MS Access to create a repeatable process was key to developing the new inventory collection system.