Geospatial ’09

Kathie Jewell April 29,2009

National Invasive Species Information Management

System NISIMS

National Invasive Species Information Management System

What is NISIMS?

Development Strategy

Deployment Strategy

What is NISIMS?

NISIMS provides tools for data collection and the generation of bureau-wide analysis and statistics for invasive species infestations and treatments through a centralized geodatabase

Geodatabase

ESRI ArcMap Toolbar

Task Assistant – Table of Contents to the Work and Data flow Download data to ArcPad Upload data to local server Data entry Upload data to National Server Generate reports

ESRI ArcPAD Toolbar

Business Processes that NISIMS Addresses

Survey

Infestation

Treatment

Evaluation

Monitoring

How did we get here ?

‘02 IT Investment Board - Weed Business Case CompletedCompleted Inventory of existing data/capabilities

’03 Business Enterprise Architecture/Business Reengineering Charter established – SME. “as is” “to be”

’04 Rapid Application Design Development (RADD) Conceptual data modelLogical Data ModelPhysical Data Model contracted to ESRI

‘05 Database development

How did we get here ?

’08 Completed “pilot” training in Montana, Colorado, Utah and Nevada

Mosaic of all existing data

Developed training material

The final conversion to a national system (personal geodatabase/access, Oracle Sde/replication and ArcGIS 9.3).

Business Reengineering

“As is” Report Regulations Existed

No consistent reporting methods are implementedNo standard business processes are implementedNational reporting necessitated manual data

consolidationNo consistent data collection method with

definitions are implemented

Survey Area Not Tracked

Program lacked the integration of Spatial Analysis and Modeling

NISIMS provides BLM and the Weed Program:

Standard Business Processes - Bureau-wide

Standard National Data Set available for both internal and external customers

Analytical tool

Definitions and Methods

A tool for Field Collection

Tools for Report Generation

Contracts

ESRI – Application development

Northup – Legacy data transition

BLM

Issuing data standards

Data

Geospatial Components

Survey AreaInfestationTreatmentMonitoring – New geometryWeed Management AreaProposal Location

It requires: national administrative boundaries, gcdb, ownership

Legacy Data

Legacy (internal and external) data submitted by states has been entered.

State/Field Office crosswalks have been generated.

System Architecture

System Architecture

Replicated

Existing Infestations/Treatments

National RepositorySDE

State/Project Geodatabase

Handheld Device

Workflow

Proposals

Survey and Identification/InfestationTreatment of an Infestation

Monitoring of an InfestationEvaluation of Treatment

Business Process

Office Proposal WMA

Field Collection Infestation/Monitoring/Treatment/Evaluation/Survey Area

Office Report Generation

Business Rules - Examples

All Weeds surveys include the number of acres systemically checked for the presence or absence of non-native invasive plants and/or noxious weeds

Survey Boundaries will be collected as polygons Acres surveyed are recorded as BS program element code units of

accomplishments Each infestation will have computer generated identification number once uploaded to the National Database

Infestations will be collected as points, lines or polygons Infestation does not represent the acres surveyed Each infestation represents only one species. If multiple species are

identified then multiple infestation records will be generated. Input will use drop down tables for species (NRCS Plant codes) and common names

Infestations can and will overlap. Although collected as point, line and polygon the feature class for infestations will be stored as polygon.

Infestations have to be 40 yards apart to be an infestation unto itself (system will calculate this distance)

NISIMS’s Task Assistant

NISIMS ArcPad Toolbar

Infestations Point, Line, Polygon

Treatments Point, Line, Polygon

Evaluations

Monitoring

Survey Area

NISIMS’s Field Collection

Hardware Trimble HP Ipaq

Software ESRI ArcPAD NISIMS ArcPad Toolbar

Collections Methods Manual Input GPS

Deployment Strategy

Complete the software testingHosted at the Oregon State OfficeCitrix, Oracle, State databases, National instance

ArcGis 9.3Publish National dataset – ExternalExternal partners interfaceField Test ‘09 field season

Deployment Strategy

Issue data standards, Program element

Incorporate ‘09 field season testing results

Transition ‘08 & ‘09 data collection

Transition application to National Operation Center

Deploy application 1/2010

Make it available to all cooperators