APA Digital Coast Needs Assessment Survey

Needs: Tools

Great Lakes Region

TABLE 5g.

a. Not Applicable

b. Responses to Question #15 (What other coastal decision support tools (including models) would improve your planning practice/analysis/research?) are provided in the Raw Survey Response Matrix.

Table 5g lists 36 tools for which Great Lakes coastal region respondents were asked to rate importance for planning practice, analysis, and research. The five tools with the highest percentage of very high or high importance ratings from respondents are:

1. Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (71%);
2. Nonpoint-Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (62%);
3. Landscape Fragmentation Tool (58%);
4. C-CAP Land Cover Atlas¹ (57%); and
5. Coastal County Snapshots (53%).

The five tools with the highest percentage of low or very low importance ratings from respondents are:

1. Nautical Chart Viewer (40%);
2. MarineMap (39%);
3. Multi-Purpose Marine Cadastre (38%);
4. Electronic Navigational Chart Handler (36%); and
5. Practitioner's Toolkit for Marine Conservation Agreements (33%).

The five tools with the highest percentage of respondents rating the tool as "Not Applicable" are:

1. Historical Hurricane Tracks IMS (53%);
2. Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model² (37%);
3. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer³ (35%);
4. Practitioner's Toolkit for Marine Conservation Agreements (32%); and
5. Wave Exposure Model⁴ (32%).

Endnotes

1. Enables users to view regional Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) land cover data and explore land cover changes and trends.

2. Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model simulates potential impacts of long-term sea level rise on wetlands and shorelines.

3. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer Creates maps of potential impacts of sea level rise along the coast and provides related information and data for community officials.

4. Wave Exposure Model Estimates wave energy and its effects on ecosystem function (extension to ArcGIS).