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Track: Information Access and the Internet
Jeffrey Cowen
NOAA Coastal Services Center
2234 S Hobson Avenue
Charleston, SC 29405
Telephone: 803-974-6252
Fax: 803-974-6224
E-mail: jcowen@csc.noaa.gov
Jason Marshall
Bringing the Ecological Characterizations of Otter Island, South Carolina, Prototype to the World Wide Web
Defining Issue: The Ecological Characterizations of Otter Island, South Carolina , prototype seeks to demonstrate an interactive and versatile information tool that introduces ecosystem perspectives and supports coastal resource management. GIS Solution: The NOAA Coastal Services Center produced a CD ROM using technology developed for use on the World Wide Web, incorporated with ArcView Data Publisher. This CD ROM provides easy access to both ecological information in hypertext markup language (html) format and spatial data. This information is useful in the coastal resource manager's decision making process. Through ArcView Data Publisher and Avenue, several management scenarios can be "played out" to allow coastal resource managers to predict the effects of land use change on the habitats of Otter Island, South Carolina. Methodology: To provide the same functionality on the World Wide Web, MapObjects has been used to develop a fully interactive geographic information system (GIS), complete with data
display and query functions. Coastal resource managers throughout the world can access the Center's home page and witness how spatial data incorporated into a GIS can help them with their decision making process. Software: The application was written using Delphi, ArcView, and MapObjects. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the technical challenges encountered when moving the Ecological Characterizations of Otter Island, South Carolina, prototype from a CD ROM based application to a World Wide Web application.
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