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The Role of Decision Support Systems and Other Tools in Watershed Planning

Watershed Planning in the Great Lakes Region: Exploring Future Collaborative Opportunities and Partnerships October 26, 2004 Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center. The Role of Decision Support Systems and Other Tools in Watershed Planning.

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The Role of Decision Support Systems and Other Tools in Watershed Planning

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  1. Watershed Planning in the Great Lakes Region: Exploring Future Collaborative Opportunities and Partnerships October 26, 2004 Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center The Role of Decision Support Systems and Other Tools in Watershed Planning Rick Farnsworth Bernie Engel Jon Bartholic Rich Zdanowicz

  2. Outline 1. e-Decision Support Systems 2. Midwest Partnership Approach 3. New Components 4. Summary

  3. Decision support system (DSS) consists of • Databases • Simulation models • Decision models • User interfaces Role that decision makers use to evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of competing alternatives. What is e-DDS? Information Technology + Decision Support System

  4. e-DSS: Key Elements • Client-based (problem driven) • Internet-based • User-friendly interface • Decisions in a few clicks or screens • GIS-based (thin client) • Science-based

  5. Midwest Partnership Approach • Development and implementation of a standard for other watershed management DSS • Promoting data initiatives • Relating specific tools to planning process phases and learning objectives • Creating systems where outputs of tools can be plugged into other models • Development, promotion, and use of web-based, user-friendly, geo-spatial watershed management data, decision support tools, and systems

  6. Midwest Partnership Approach Organizations Universities EPA diagram

  7. Midwest Partnership: Example Digital Watershed Michigan State L-THIA and support tools Region 5 EPA Purdue Coordination & network

  8. New DSS Components: Optimized L-THIA http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~sedspec/LTHIA7/lthia/arunoff6.htm

  9. Select the land that can change Identify new land use and amount Optimized L-THIA (cont.)

  10. Optimized L-THIA (cont.) Minimum Maximum

  11. Detailed Output Optimized L-THIA (cont.)

  12. New DSS Components: WHAT Web-based Hydrograph Analysis Tool http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~what/

  13. New DSS Components: WHAT

  14. New DSS Components: WHAT Next step: Calibration of models (L-THIA)

  15. New DSS Components: EQIP Environmental Quality Incentives Program http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~what/

  16. New DSS Components: EQIP http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~eqip/DEMO/main_menu

  17. New DSS Components: EQIP Methodology transferable to other programs such as TMDL implementation

  18. New DSS Components: Data Sharing http://watershed.agriculture.purdue.edu/

  19. New DSS Components: Data Sharing Access to all our databases. Our data layers can be added to your data layers.

  20. New DSS Components: Data Sharing

  21. Watershed Decision Support System Data Models System Yes, and we are sharing Several models and we are linking them Building a small system using available tools

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