# Presentation: 228347

## Coastal Information Management Survey

- 270 distributed — 72% response rate
- Coastal Management Programs, Sea Grants, Fish and Wildlife, Department of Natural Resources
- Distributed Summer 1999
- Final Report Available CSC Web Page July 2000

**Notes:**
Users are moving toward open data base systems that support mainstream business applications and toward seamless integration of spatial data into corporate enterprise data base management systems.  Our place and success in the information revolution will be in large part based upon our ability to integrate and embed our previously disparate technologies of remote sensing, gis, gps and of course the internet into these corporate enterprise systems.

Coastal agencies want to focus on Environmental management and regulation and coastal and ocean resource management NOT raw data acquisition.  They want to focus on the analysis of this information in concert with other social economic and environmental information to meet their stewardship responsibilities.

## Top Coastal Application Priorities

## Remote Sensing and GIS Staff Size

## Expertise of Coastal Community

*Harrisburg airport in Pennsylvania*

## Staff Training

**Staff Training**

## Alternate Technical Resources

**Gulf of Maine**

**South Atlantic Bight**

**Bering Sea and Prince William Sound, Alaska**

## Remote Sensing and GIS Software

## Top Coastal Data Layer Priorities

**Notes:**
Quality is key for these knowledge management solutions

We are moving from a supply push model in the information industry, where we have captured and analyzed the information we could produce and obtain regardless of who needed it or even if it were useful to a demand pull approach in which the needs of the users drive what we collect.  The quality of the information is key for these knowledge management solutions!

## Other Data of Interest

## Other Technical Resources

## Technology Training

**Technology Training**

## Summary of Characteristics of Coastal Remote Sensing Community Needs

**High demand for data derived from remote sensing technologies**
**Reliance on others to provide basic spatial data as input to agency information systems and data process**
**Low investment within the agencies in remote sensing technology and staff**
**Most expertise in aerial photography acquisition and interpretation**
**Very high interest in more remote sensing related training**

## Changing Roles of Government Data Collectors, Providers, and Users

**Federal government is outsourcing collection**
**Mission does not require us to be the collectors**
**Focus on contracting, quality control, and delivery**
**End user support for government operations**
**Mission requires us to help migrate the process from data collection to decision support**

**Notes:**
When the last century ended Marxist economic ideas were in vogue.  But as this Century ends the free market economy is anything but dead and one of the few socialistic ideas that seems to remain is that all information should be free ( of cost) to everyone,  Which is profoundly different notion than the democratic ideal that information should flow freely “ meaning without government restraint”

Our challenge and mission must be to (contract for, build, collect ) quality collections of information that are affordable, easy to use and exactly what the customer wants and needs to conduct their mission of coastal and ocean management.