IT Initiatives
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Enterprise GIS will provide software applications the ability to overlay map
longitude/latitude data with geographical map information providing users
a geo-referenced view of their information. Geo-referenced views of fisheries,
protected species, and environmental data will enhance fishery management,
policy making and protected species research. With an agency-wide national
focus, GIS will interface with other data collections available in agency
database applications. Agency-wide needs assessment and initial project planning
and staging were complete in FY2002. Essential Fish Habitat application and
Salmon Data Management are currently piloting GIS layering.
Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program (MMHSRP)
The NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources (PR) is the coordinating office
for program and activities of the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response
Program Database (MMHSRP Database). MMHSRP provides twenty years of stranding
events information, in an electronic standardized format, required for conservation
and management decisions. MMHSRP enforces standardized data collection and
management within a centralized national marine mammal database, which includes
content from existing regional databases. Centralized data management will
allow the agency to compare data between regions, to efficiently query and
analyze stranding data for effective conservation management, and to quickly
respond to constituency information requests. MMHSRP was implemented in FY2002
providing regional stranding coordinators Intranet access to stranding information.
Protected Resources Information and Status Management (PRISM/PCTS)
PRISM tracks the status of consultations conducted by the NOAA Fisheries under
section 7 of the Endangered Species Act; as well as, information on consultations
for Essential Fish Habitat under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. PRISM consists
of a NOAA Fisheries Intranet web site, which provides access to and query
of repositories, and password-protected data entry. A portion of the PRISM
data is published to the Public Consultation Tracking System (PCTS) public
web site for querying.
Public Consultation Tracking System (PCTS)
Upon request from the Secretary of Commerce, in response to requests from the
Pacific Northwest Corp or Engineers, PCTS was created to provide secured,
online, password-protected access to those requesting status updates on Federal
Agency consultation actions conducted by NOAA Fisheries. Integration with
the Protected Resources Information and Status Management (PRISM) system
was completed resulting in a single centralized database with portions of
data available through the PCTS web site. Nine additional regional agencies
were made available in FY2002 with expanded ad hoc query capabilities and
downloadable results sets.
NOAA Fisheries Internet Website
This website is the NOAA Fisheries public web presence, consisting of approximately
30 portal pages guiding users to information available at agency sponsored
web sites. Providing users valuable information, links and transactional
capabilities on www.nmfs.noaa.gov reduces administrative burden and improves
customer satisfaction. An initial website face-lift was completed to include
easier subject oriented navigation and more intuitive look and feel.
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