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DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED, RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM
FOR GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
MIETZ, STEVEN 1 and Chris Flaccus 2
1 Grand Canyon National Park, Science and Resource Management Division,
823 N. San Francisco Street, Suite B, Flagstaff, AZ 86001;
[email protected]
2 Grand Canyon National Park, Science and Resource Management Division,
823 N. San Francisco Street, Suite B, Flagstaff, AZ 86001;
[email protected]
Grand Canyon National Park has accumulated valuable data sets, from many
different sources, in the day to day management of Park resources during its
history. It will continue to do so in the future, and as time progresses these data
sets will become larger, more varied in character, and come from more and more
individual programs within the Park and from outside sources. Together these
data form the bases of information critical to the management of the Park. The
need for a park-wide database that integrates existing natural, social, cultural,
and other resource databases has become apparent.
In FY07, the Grand Canyon began development a centralized, park-wide
Resource Information System (RIS) that will consolidate and integrate data from
disparate sources with the Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA), and extend the
GIS (Geographic Information System) Pilot Project developed by the Park’s GIS
coordinator in 2005.
The Park’s RIS will have four primary components.
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A centralized SQL Server relational database management system
(RDBMS)
A file based Digital Archive of individual data sets, photographs, and
documents
An Application Interface that will provide easy access for all users at the
Park
A Geographic Information System (GIS) that is tightly coupled with the
application interface and tabular database
The poster will describe these primary components, summarize the datasets to
be included in the database, and provide examples of the application interfaces
being designed to allow easy data entry and reporting.