GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Jane Thomas, IAN Image Library (www.ian.umces.edu/imagelibrary/) Andrew Roach ([email protected]) ESRI International Users Conference Assateague Island National Seashore National Parks Track, August 2006 Assateague Island GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia •Three Management GIS Enhances Agencies Restoration of Northern – National Assateague Park Service Island – Maryland Department of Natural Assateague Island Resources National Seashore –US Fish and Maryland Wildlife and Virginia Service •37 miles north/south Assateague Island GIS 1933 Hurricane: Enhances Restoration Creation of Ocean City of Northern Inlet Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Assateague Island 1962 Nor’easter: Island-Wide Devastation GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Natural Processes Interrupted GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Mitigation Efforts GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Jane Thomas, IAN Image Library (www.ian.umces.edu/imagelibrary/) Data GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern • Shorelines Assateague Island • Cross-Island Elevation Profiles •Lidar Assateague Island • Aerial Photography National Seashore •Bathymetry Maryland • Near-shore Profiles and Virginia • Biological Monitoring Shorelines •Ocean GIS Enhances – ATV Mounted Restoration of Northern Trimble ProXR GPS Assateague Island (sub-meter) • Bay (Inlet to KM 9) – Backpack mounted Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Cross-Island Profiles GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern • Perpendicular to Assateague shoreline Island •23 Transects • Total Station: 1993- Assateague Island 2003 National Seashore • Trimble 5700 RTK Maryland GPS: 2004 – and Virginia present Pre-EAARL: and Experimental Post-Storm Flights AdvancedLidar Airborne Research LiDAR 2002-Present GIS Enhances Restoration ATM: Automated of Northern Assateague Topographic Island Mapper 1997-2002 Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Aerial Photography GIS Enhances Restoration •True color of Northern – Collected October 2003 Assateague – 0.25 m resolution Island –Low Tide – Shoreline Delineation – Geomorphic feature mapping Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Aerial Photography (CIR) GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Bathymetry/ Nearshore Profiles GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern • Bathymetry Assateague collected near areas Island of sediment dredging Assateague – Once per dredge Island National session (7 since Seashore 2003) Maryland • Nearshore profiles and Virginia – 2003-present – Once per year •USACE Biological Monitoring GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern • Piping Plover Assateague Island • North End Vegetation •SeabeachAmaranthPercent Sparsely Vegetated Area on the Northend of Assatague Island Assateague 50 2003-2005 Average Number of Island Seabeach Amaranth Wild Recruits National 40 Seashore 25% change threshold 4.5 4 30 Maryland 3.5 Percent and Virginia 3 2.5 20 Amaranth per km 2 1.5 1 10 0.5 0 0 Berm N & S 1996-2002of Berm 2003-2005 Range of years pre- and post- restoration project Application GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern • Ongoing Sediment Assateague Bypassing Island • Berm Alteration • Shoreline Erosion Assateague Island • Data Management/ National Seashore Data Sharing Maryland and Virginia Berm Alteration GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern • Piping Plover Assateague Monitoring Island • Vegetation Monitoring Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Berm Alteration GIS Enhances •Monthly Restoration Survey of Northern Assateague •4 meter Island interval •No significant elevation Assateague Island change National Seashore Maryland and Virginia ElevationDecemberJanuaryPre-notch Change 20052005 Sediment Bypassing GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Sediment Bypassing GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Shoreline Erosion GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia Data Management / Data Sharing GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Northend Restoration Assateague Project Website Island •Introduction •Timeline •Datasets and Contacts Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia www.nps.gov/asis/pphtml/managementdocuments.html Data Management / Data Sharing GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern Assateague Island Assateague Island National Seashore Maryland and Virginia www.science.nature.nps.gov/nrdata North End Restoration Plan Team GIS Enhances Restoration • Assateague Island National Seashore of Northern – Arty Rodriguez, Courtney Schupp, Carl Assateague Zimmerman, Mark Sturm, Jack Kumer Island • US Army Corps of Engineers – Gregory Bass, Nicholas Kraus, Robert Blama, Scott Johnson, Chris Spaur • Maryland Department of Natural Assateague Resources Island – Dave Brinker, Darlene Wells, Jordan National Loran, Cathy Wazniak Seashore • Offshore & Coastal Technologies, Inc. Maryland – William Grosskopf and Virginia • US Fish and Wildlife Service – Andy Moser • Worcester County, Maryland –Sandy Coyman • Town of Ocean City – Terrance McGean Thanks also to… GIS Enhances Restoration of Northern • NASA Wallops Flight Facility Assateague Island – Wayne Wright, Bill Krabel • USGS Center for Coastal Assateague and Watershed Studies Island National – John Brock, Amar Seashore Nayegandhi Maryland and Virginia • Mark Duffy Andrew Roach [email protected] 410-641-1443 x 253.