| This Statement of Work is for the first phase of the Galveston Bay Wetland Inventory Project. The USGS and in particular the USGS's National Wetlands Research Center was identified as being the partner with the best capabilities, expertise, knowledge and experience in developing the Habitat Database. GBEP has a strong relationship with the organization and has worked with the group before in 1993 to produce the first publication of Trends and Status of Wetland and Aquatic Habitats in the Galveston Bay System, Texas.
The principal investigator, Dr. Jimmy Johnston, has strong commitments with our other partners, the Texas Natural Resource Information System (TNRIS), Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD), and the Houston Center for Advanced Research - National Biologic Node II (HARC) to help in the development of a data library to be housed at the Geographic Network at TNRIS.
Phase I will center around four component areas:
- Produce a metadata file for spatial datasets,
- Acquire available spatial datasets,
- Create Data Information Management System (DIMS) - a searchable database of spatial data,
- Develop an Integrated Mapping System (IMS) for the searchable database.
Spacial datasets considered for this project are:
- base maps
- habitat data layers
- GBEP project locations
- photographs
- soil surveys
- satellite imagery
- associated documentation
All metadata generated for the spatial datasets will be compliant with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata standard or the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) biological profile extension.
- Task I: Spacial datasets for the Lower Galveston Bay Watershed are housed for a variety of reasons, at different federal, state and local organizations. This component will survey, with the involvement of GBEP staff and stakeholders, the location, quality, type, methodology, and scale of available datasets to create a Galveston Bay metadata file.
- Task II: The metadata file will be used to organize the effort to acquire spatial datasets from GBEP's stakeholders and to create a centralized time series database collection.
- Task III: Create a DIMS for the acquired spatial datasets to centralize, archive, manage and make available the data to scientists, resource managers, decision makers, and the general public.
- Task IV: Develop an IMS for the database to provide access to spatial datasets pertaining to Galveston Bay. This component will allow viewing, querying, and analysis of geographic information associated with the Lower Galveston Bay Watershed through a web-based platform.
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