California's Department of Food and Agriculture developed an integrated system to coordinate noxious weed management. The NWIS combines a public forum for land managers with a GIS-enabled database for field biologists to map infestations and track eradication. This metadata originates from a 1997 USGS workshop report.
Use Cases
- Map weed infestation locations using GPS positional information stored in the MapInfo GIS system.
- Track eradication effort progress over time via the database system for field biologists.
- Identify similar control projects and collaborators through the public forum database for land managers.
- Analyze weed biology and control methods from the information source within the public system.
Strengths
- Integrates two distinct database systems for public collaboration and field biologist tracking.
- Includes geospatial mapping capabilities via a MapInfo GIS system accepting GPS data.
Limitations
- Dataset size, row count, and specific column schema are unknown.
- Metadata and system description date from 1997, indicating potentially outdated technology or coverage.
Provenance
- Source
- California Department of Food and Agriculture, developed with the Information Center for the Environment at UC Davis.
- Collection Method
- Integrated central data clearinghouse anchored by two database systems, with field data coordinated via FTP exchanges and GPS input.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- California, United States.