Public and Private DSS Initiatives

• Biological Resources (BR)

• Upper Mississippi Ecological Science Center (UMESC)
  http://wwww.umesc.usgs.gov/dss.html
  

• LINK is a set of Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) ArcGIS tools designed to analyze habitat patterns across a landscape. LINK is the latest product from a series of Decision Support Systems (DSS) that uses species habitat matrices to model potential species habitat and habitat diversity. What sets LINK apart from its predecessors is that it uses raster data sources. Raster data sources allow LINK to model habitat over a much larger area than its vector based ancestors.
  http://www.umesc.er.usgs.gov/management/dss/bird_conservation_tools_link.html
  

• Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
  http://swan.msu.montana.edu/soj/keirn7.html

• Florida's Across Trophic Level System Simulation
  www.atlss.org/

• Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)
  http://www.werc.usgs.gov/hcp/planning.html




• Geographic Discipline (formerly National Mapping)

• http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/frontrange/land/groupdecision/gdss.html

  Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program (GAM) scientists conduct geographic assessments to improve the understanding of the rates, causes, and consequences of natural and human-induced processes that shape and change the landscape over time. The National Map, socio-economic, land remote sensing, and other natural science data are used to quantify rates, identify key driving forces, and forecast future trends of landscape change. Studies are conducted within a geographic context and at a range of spatial and temporal scales so that investigations provide comprehensive information needed to understand the environmental, resource, and economic consequences of landscape change.

• Water Resources (WR)

• A Decision Support System for Prioritizing Forested Wetland Restoration in the Yazoo Backwater Area, Mississippi

http://ms.water.usgs.gov/ms_proj/wetlands/restoration_dss/

• Water Resources and Bureau of Reclamation A DATABASE-CENTERED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR WATERSHED AND ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT

  http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/mms/

  http:wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/weasel/




Other U.S.Government DSS Resources

• EMDS USFS -a knowledge base system for ecosystem analysis. EMDS has just been updated 6/2002, version 3.0 as a ESRI ArcInfo 8.x extension, CBI is currently evaluating this software.
  
  http://www.fsl.orst.edu/emds/

  http://www.cecer.army.mil/td/tips/product/details.cfm?ID=488&AREA=12




Other Governments' Initiatives with DSS

• ENVIRONMENT CANADA
  
  RAISON

  RAISON is a powerful environmental information system that incorporates database, spreadsheet, models, GIS and expert systems into an integrated, user-friendly computer system... Designed for both scientists and decision-makers, the RAISON system imports data, text, graphics, etc., and performs advanced environmental analysis, synthesis and prediction. All components are accessed through a graphical interface.

• The state of Colorado DSS Efforts
  
  

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