GIS related documents: maps, standards, workflows, etcCDFW Data Portal RSS Feed GeneratorSun, 16 Apr 2023 16:37:06 -0700https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=GISCalifornia Department of Fish and Wildlife Data Portal120https://nrm.dfg.ca.govhttps://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/images/ca_dfg/CDFW-Insignia-146x193.png85en-usSearch Documentshttps://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/documents/ContextDocs.aspx?cat=GISsearchGIS Standards - The purpose of this document is to establish and define a set of core attributes that the Coastal Monitoring Plan (CMP) Technical Team’s Sampling-frame working group has determined should be inherent to the CMP Sampling-frame’s GIS layer. The Sampling-frame is the stream sample universe for fisheries surveys; it is the collection of all possible, approximately, one to three kilometer stream segments (also referred to as reaches) in all coastal California streams that contain fish of interest and, in time, the sampling-frame may be expanded to cover all salmonid bearing California Streams both coastal and inland. Although, this document is informational in nature, and intended for a wide-range audiences and stakeholders, it is primarily a tool for facilitating a division of workload and agreement between the Aquatic Surveys Database GIS Data Manager and Tabular Data Manager (See Burch et. al., 1/29/2015, CDFW Document Library, DocumentID = 92766)100933:12https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=100933Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:37:06 -07002015-03-31T00:00:00FieldDataCollectionDatabase Standards - This document describes the progress and accomplishments of the California Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan’s (the plan) Database Management Team, a subgroup of the Technical Team, between May 2011 and September 2014. We provide an overview of the plan and related field data collection efforts. This document also details activities relating to the plan’s data management and the scheme (the current system) being employed also known as the Coastal Monitoring Plan Aquatic Survey Program. It finishes with a discussion of our vision for data management activities and products over the next two to five years. We employ a storyboard method to illustrate our data management elements, concepts, processes, and products for users of tools we developed or propose. User stories have been included to illustrate the activities or experiences of the different individuals (contributors) collectively involved with the data and give examples of the terms they encounter within the current system. The current system is hierarchical, and contributors may be associated with one or more of its elements. For instance field staff members are primarily concerned with the data collection process, and we describe how they use the current system during a typical day, whereas an analyst or primary consumer of processed data, such as a manager, has different needs and thus we use other scenarios to describe their use of these tools. Examples of tools or utilities for which the current system provides are as follows: (1) surveyor interactive data validation is provided in order to prevent errors during both field and desktop data entry; (2) a custom data rule validation utility has been included which provides quality controllers with on/off data rule reporting capability, such as enforcing entry value patterns or identifying when entry values are missing required associations with other data elements; (3) utilities for importing and exporting of data are included in the current system; (4) functionality has been added for easily finding data within the desktop component’s database; (5) capabilities exist which facilitate seamless merging of data from discrete monitoring projects or efforts; and, (6) the current system provides an overall meaningful and logical organizational structure to the data, one which facilitates better data management and ensures that we can derive the values needed for analysis and reporting requirements and works well with our spatial framework and sampling methods or strategy.92766:6https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=92766Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:05:40 -07002015-01-29T00:00:00FieldDataCollectionDatabase Standards - A flow chart of some of the more common options implemented when considering the one directional flow of raw field data to a secure environment where it can be stored and managed most efficiently.92336:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=92336Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:03:02 -07002007-11-12T00:00:00FieldDataCollectionDatabase Standards - This document provides some basic information about the Field Data Collection Database Template concept and explains how it works. This was originally drafted as part of a group effort, combining ideas from the now disbanded CDFG-BDB Field Data Collection Workgroup.92335:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=92335Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:03:01 -07002007-11-12T00:00:00FieldDataCollectionDatabase Standards - This is a synopsis from the Uniform Field Observation Model specification document (available from: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=91757), with updated information, originally prepared for the prepared for the CDFW-BDB Field Data Collection Workgroup92314:5https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=92314Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:02:59 -07002007-11-12T00:00:00FieldDataCollectionDatabase Standards - The Uniform Field Observation Model - Level 1 specification is a set of minimum data requirements for constructing observation datasets by specifying the: who, what, when, where, how, and why of an observation. This information was originally provided for internal, departmental use, i.e., the California Department of Fish and Game. Level 2 extends Level 1 specifications (data object class), and Level 3 extends Levels 1 and 2 (project specific data elements).91757:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=91757Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:02:31 -07002002-11-01T00:00:00Data Guidelines - Map projection and datum guidelines for GIS data.109326:6https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=109326Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:46:39 -07002022-03-01T00:00:00FieldDataCollectionDatabase Standards - The Aquatic Surveys Program (ASP) is a database application developed by the Coastal Monitoring Program (CMP) to assist CDFW Department and non-Department field staff better collect and manage Fisheries monitoring data. This ASP Help document is a manual of sorts that has been adapted from a web page format. It is ad hoc to a large degree and should be considered supplemental to other resources that are available upon request. Resources in this document can best be broken out into three general groupings: first, this document provides information about the ASP database application setup, i.e., getting things configured correctly for new users; second, it provides detailed additional information about the many intricacies of the database and application; third, on a fairly quick turnaround time, it provides users of the ASP with errata, bugs, tips, and workaround solutions (until such time that a new version of the ASP can be made available). In addition to these groupings, there will be information located in this document that falls into a general FYI category, e.g., background information about the database concept, pros and cons of different data management strategies, and basically miscellaneous data management stuff that does not fit well elsewhere; that being said, the intention of this document is not to maintain overall project level documentation, such as reports, data summaries, etc., but rather to provide a user guide with just enough background information to help the user understand the concepts being employed.177622:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=177622Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:25:49 -08002020-03-02T00:00:00Coordinate systems - Interpolating UTM coordinates from a USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle110477:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=110477Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:12:02 -07002002-02-01T00:00:00GPSPosition formats for Garmin GPS receivers - 110476:2https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=110476Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:10:03 -07002002-02-01T00:00:00GIS Standards - This document is an addendum to the Coastal Monitoring Database Management: Metadata and Protocol for the Aquatic Surveys Sampling-frame Attribute Table document (Dixion, Christy, and Burch 2015), and it discusses a possible strategy whereby projects can, at various points during the Sampling-frame development timeline, use different reach location numbers or Sampling-frame draw numbers that are not the eventual Sampling-frame attributes.100934:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=100934Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:30:47 -07002015-03-31T00:00:00GISSuccessBIOS Map Viewer - The BIOS program has provided the Department with a much needed centralized repository for all types of biogeographic data. It has also provided an easy-to-use, yet powerful, internet map viewer application through which all of the collected data can be viewed on a map and visualized and analyzed in many new ways. GIS is at the core of the BIOS program in that all of the data collected is GIS data, and the program staff have aided many DFG and outside contributors in getting their data into a GIS format and ready for use. Much of this data may never have received that last effort to clean it up and make it available if it weren't for the BIOS program. http://bios.dfg.ca.gov/46412:8https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=46412Fri, 11 May 2012 12:31:35 -07002012-04-27T00:00:00GISSuccessFishing Guide - The Fishing Guide is a very popular internet map application that allows the public to view close to 2,000 "recommended" fishing locations throughout the state. These sites are based on stocking history, expert knowledge, and survey efforts like the High Mountain Lakes project. GIS is the foundation that pulls all of this information together and makes it easily available. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fishingpassport/guide.asp46423:4https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=46423Wed, 09 May 2012 12:08:03 -07002012-04-23T00:00:00GISSuccessACE II - Areas of Conservation Emphasis II (ACE-II) is a Department of Fish and Game project that was begun in 2009 to provide data to help guide and inform conservation priorities in California. The project compiled and analyzed the best available statewide, spatial information on California's biological richness, including species diversity, rarity, and sensitive habitats, and then developed an internet map viewer with advanced tools to allow the user to tweak the model which would output variations on areas of conservation or biological richness throughout the state. The data, analysis, models, and the map viewer all relied on GIS as their core framework. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/ace/46415:18https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=46415Wed, 09 May 2012 12:07:10 -07002012-04-26T00:00:00GISSuccessLake Davis Pike Eradication - In September 2007, DFG completed a chemical treatment project to eradicate the invasive northern pike from Lake Davis and its tributary streams. Unlike an eradication effort in 1997, the 2007 project included significant use of GIS and GPS to improve the likelihood of success. GIS and GPS were involved from early project planning through implementation and will also be employed for posttreatment monitoring. GIS and GPS were used for project area boundary definition, grid reference system creation, GPS basemap development, aerial survey registration, interactive map viewing of project data, map atlas creation, field surveys and navigation, bathymetric data analysis, and treatment status maps. See the full writeup on the use of GIS and GPS here: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0408/lakedavis.html The DFG project page is here: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/lakedavis/46425:3https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=46425Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:45:44 -07002012-04-25T00:00:00