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Estuarineand Coastal Management- Toots of <strong>the</strong><br />

Trade. Proceedings of<strong>the</strong> Tenth <strong>National</strong> Conference<br />

ofThe Coastal Society. October 12-15,19<strong>86</strong>. New<br />

Orleans,LA. Copyrightby TheCoastal Society<br />

1987.<br />

COASTALWETLANDS - USES OF A<br />

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM<br />

Lawrence R. Handley<br />

US. Fish and Wildlife Service<br />

NASA • SlidellComputerComplex<br />

1010 Cause Blvd.<br />

SlideH, LA 70458<br />

Abstract only<br />

Since 1980, <strong>the</strong> <strong>National</strong> Coastal Ecosystems Team (NCET) has implemented a<br />

Geographic Information System(GIS) in coastal resources planning andmanagement projects.<br />

TheGIScomprises three subsystems: <strong>the</strong>Analytical Mapping System (AMS)usedfordata entry,<br />

<strong>the</strong>MapOverlay andStatistical System(MOSS)usedfor data base management andanalysis, and<br />

<strong>the</strong>Cartographic Output System(COS) used forcreating high quality mapproducts. Digital data<br />

bases atNCET generally arecomprised of historical (1950's wetlands habitat maps), 1970's and<br />

1980's wetland data bases, andspecial project data (bathymetry, bottomsediments, andlanduse).<br />

The GIS applications developed atNCET fall intothree categories: 1)resource inventories, 2)<br />

wetland change analyses, and3)cartographic modeling.<br />

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