The mission at NCRI Chesapeake is to build collaborative geographic information-based, decision making frameworks for all levels of public and private policy making.
Water provides the primary tie among the ecosystem components.
Information technology and information systems as they relate to appropriate agriculture and precision farming techniques are important components of this hierarchical system. The objective is to optimize production while maintaining sustainability of food producing resources at national and on-farm levels while minimizing negative impacts on water resources and larger ecosystems. These analysis include source loadings for nutrient budgets from farms as livestock and commercial fertilizer inputs and non-farm sources as nitrogen loadings from septic fields. Natural resource conversion due to expanding human settlement patterns is another study area. NCRI CHesapeake, Inc. is an information system synthesizer, based on federal and other data sources.