Mapping and GIS Forum in the Texas Coastal Bend and Mission-Aransas NERR

University of Texas Marine Science Institute Auditorium
Port Aransas, Texas
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
10:00 am - 2:30 pm

The Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) and the Harte Research Institute hosted a mapping and GIS forum at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute on January 23, 2007. The purpose of the forum was to gather and disseminate knowledge to colleagues in the mapping community about projects occurring in the Texas Coastal Bend and the Mission-Aransas NERR.

Agenda

10:00 - 10:15   Introduction (Sally Morehead and Wes Tunnell)

10:15 - 12:00   Presentations

Ken Dunton

Assessment of Propeller Scarring and Off-Road Vehicle Scarring in Seagrass Beds and Wind-Tidal Flats of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico

Tom Tremblay

Status and Trends of Wetlands and Aquatic Habitats in the CBBEP Area

John Wood

Mapping Texas Benthic Habitats: an Update

Jim Simons

The merging of high resolution geophysics and GIS to map habitat and environments in an estuary- Copano Bay, Texas

Dennis Pridgen

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Seagrass Project

12:00 - 12:15   Break (working lunch)

12:15 - 2:00     Presentations

Michael Ouimet

Update on the Texas Geographic Information Council

Mike Rasser

Mapping of the Nueces River Delta Salt Marsh Vegetation Utilizing Digital Aerial Imagery

John Schalles / Don Rundquist

The AISA-Eagle Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging System

John Schalles

Habitat mapping at NERR sites with AISA hyperspectral imagery

Liz Smith and Wes Tunnell

Land Use/Land Cover Assessment in MANERR Watershed

Sally Morehead

MANERR Human Dimension Project

Forum Links:

• Meeting Summary
• Attendee List
• GIS projects in the MANERR area
• Survey results of GIS Forum

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