# Presentation: 145447

## Strategic Plan Implementation

**Advances in Providing Digital Wetlands Data**
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Division of Habitat and Resource Conservation
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Office of Water Information

## Strategic Planning

**2002 Strategic Plan**
**New program goals**
**Increase program responsiveness**
**Develop new technologies for resource management**

## Strategic Plan Elements

**Provide science-based applications for wetlands and water resource data**
**Expand capabilities to integrate digital map data with other resource information**

## Wetlands Master Geodatabase

- Steps down Project Strategy Document...
- Improve the editing, storage and distribution of the digital data by applying new technology
- Develop relevant management tools by enhancing the capability to integrate map data with other resource information

## Wetlands Mapping – Pre MGD

- Data inconsistency: different map projections and datums; inconsistent data fields.
- Static system (data archive).
- Inefficient storage and distribution.
- Insufficient documentation.
- File based access.
- Technology outdated.

## Wetlands Master Geodatabase 

- The development of the MGD is in direct response to the need to upgrade digital information and improve data access and enhance analytical capability.

## Partnership Arrangement

- Emerging technologies
- Geographic information science
- Database management and support

## MGD Plan

**Resource Map Information**

**MGD**

**Agency – Program Objectives**

**Mandates and Performance Measures**

**Public Web**** **

**Assessment **
**and Monitoring**

## What does the MGD Provide?

- The MGD provides seamless layers of digital data in geodatabase format.
- Provides technologically advanced mechanisms to store, edit, distribute and archive resource inventory data.

## Database Supports:

- Standardized data storage
- Improved quality of mapping process
- Integration of supporting information
- Improved geographic analyses: faster, more efficient, larger data extent
- Improved public interface
- Improved data distribution
- Standardized data updates and additions
- Seamless storage of data improves reliability, backup, and archiving

## MGD Status 

- Approaching 28,000 maps in seamless ArcSDE
- 	Over 15 million features
- Fuels ArcIMS Internet “Wetlands Mapper”
- Provides Wetlands Geodatabase access to ***“The National Map”***

## MGD Status - CONUS

## New Wetlands Mapperhttp://wetlandsfws.er.usgs.gov

- Wetlands of the Oliver Lake region, Lagrange County, IN

## The National Maphttp://nationalmap.usgs.gov

- Estuarine wetlands of San Diego, CA

## Connecting the Components

- Integrated base data – *The National Map*
- Coordination, standards, policy – Federal Geographic Data Committee
- Discovery and access – Geospatial One Stop

**Coordination**** ****&**
**Standards**

**Data Discovery**
**& Access**

**Consistent &**
**Current Content**

## The National Map Vision 

- Seamless, continuously maintained, nationally consistent set of base geographic data
- Developed and maintained through partnerships
- National framework for science, land and resource management, recreation, policy making, and homeland security
- Available over the Internet
- Source for revised topographic maps

## MGD Facilitates

- Analysis
- State Reports (example -NH and ME)
- Ecoregion or Watershed
- Information updates
- Incorporation of OMO data
- Hard copy to digital
- 56 % lower 48

## MGD Future Actions

- Serve increased digital coverage from MGD
- Enhance Viewer technology and usability
- Improve speed of Viewer
- Provide improved user tools
- Complex data model implementation

## Summary

- Strong technical partnership between FWS -- USGS
- MGD developed, tested, implemented
- Provides tremendous advantages
- Benefits agencies as well as public
- Fulfills key elements of Strategic Plan
- http://wetlandsfws.er.usgs.gov