The following are examples of web-based assessment tools that may be useful in evaluating options for Critical Coastal Areas. Note that many online sites like these can have technical complications and may not work perfectly. Some sites may only work with Internet Explorer (not Mozilla Firefox or Netscape).

None of these sites are necessarily recommended as a model for the Critical Coastal Areas program - they are just examples of how current technology is used.

BASIC DATA VIEWERS

These data viewers allow users to select themes to display and to query information about sites on the map layers.

California Digital Atlas

Central Coast Ambient Monitoring Program

Shasta College Watershed Information Model

Calif. Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection

Sea to Sky Sensitive Habitat Atlas

(part of the Community Mapping Network, a public agency collaborative in British Columbia - requires free Autodesk MapGuide viewer)

ParkInfo - GreenInfo Network access to public parks and recreation (highly customized, simple viewer)

A CD-based data viewing package for rural land planning was created by the University of Oregon, allowing for distribution of a structured GIS database to users with GIS software.

The ABAG earthquake analysis web site allows you to choose your location and then to view various scenarios for damage from major earthquakes.

ADVANCED DATA VIEWERS

These data viewers allow users to do basic operations, plus create buffers, select features,query and print data reports, etc.

San Mateo/Santa Cruz Salmonid Habitat Viewer

Choose the Central California Marine Habitat

NOAA - SIMoN Interactive Map

MarineMap (UCSB, used for Calif. Marine Protection Act process)

These sites also provide similar options:

Washington State Dept. of Ecology - Coastal Atlas

Mattole River Basin Watershed - (uses same mapping engine as California Digital Conservation Atlas)

TEXT-BASED MODELING

These web sites allow users to enter a set of responses to questions and then run a model and return a report of results - these are usually not map-driven.

Michigan State Univ. - Soil Erosion Modeler

Purdue Univ. Local Govt. Env. Asst. Network - Land Use Impacts on Water Model

GIS-BASED MODELING

Users select policy or other options via a map and/or text choices, then run the model and return a map and/or report of results. At this point, we have no available web sites to demonstrate this capacity (there are many models for direct use in GIS, but not freely available on-line).