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Electronic Field Office Technical Guide (E-FOTG)

Electronic Field Office Technical Guide (E-FOTG). July 30, 2001. National FOTG Committee SMARTECH Project. Issues and Opportunities.

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Electronic Field Office Technical Guide (E-FOTG)

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  1. Electronic Field Office Technical Guide (E-FOTG) July 30, 2001 National FOTG Committee SMARTECH Project

  2. Issues and Opportunities • ISSUE: NRCS technical content is distributed among many web sites, not readily accessible to field conservationists, and often hard to find. NRCS state web sites reference only a small percentage of the technical content available in the agency. • OPPORTUNITY: Available technical content should be organized into recognized technical categories and made available through a web site (portal) that can be customized by the user. • ISSUE: The FOTG has always been tailored to field office resource conditions and needs. • OPPORTUNITY: An electronic version of the FOTG should be configurable to the field office level, and perhaps to the individual field conservationist or technician.

  3. Issues and Opportunities (cont’d) • ISSUE: Most web-based resource planning and analysis tools require natural resource data and often the same data. • OPPORTUNITY: Tools should run against data marts fed from a central natural resource data warehouse. • ISSUE: There are common processes among web-based resource planning and analysis tools, for example navigation, map display, map printing. • OPPORTUNITY: Many common processes have already been programmed, they should be made available to web-application developers, and they should be an integral part of a E-FOTG framework.

  4. Issues and Opportunities (cont’d) • ISSUE: An E-FOTG should be built on an infrastructure that ensures good performance. • OPPORTUNITY: E-FOTG should take advantage of the new NRCS Web Farm and Data Center Architecture and planned high bandwidth improvements. • ISSUE: Nearly all state office web sites contain FOTG information and links to technical information. The information primarily is static with limited interactive content. • OPPORTUNITY: An E-FOTG framework enables states to efficiently organize technical content and provide interactive resource analysis and planning capability.

  5. E-FOTG will be built with portal technology, similar to that used in My Yahoo or Microsoft Network (MSN)… …and could look something like the following…

  6. Paola Service Center Miami County, Kansas Navigator & Data Viewer News and Information Resource Information and Data Resource Setting Resource Analysis Tools Conservation Application Conservation Planning Weather Program Delivery FOTG Goals/Performance Management Kansas NRCS • Common Resource Areas • Miami County Resource Summary • Miami County Cooperative Extension • Miami County Economic Data Summary • Census Bureau: Miami County • City of Paola • NEWSFLASH: New Pest Management Standard Published • Agricultural Research Service News • Science and Technology Update Archive • Soil Interpretations • Ecological Sites • Plant Taxonomy • Threatened and Endangered Species • Weeds • AgExplorer • Resource Data Gateway • Pesticide Database • Climate Information • Urban Agriculture (Kstate) • RUSLE2 • NLEAP • ProCosts • Phosphorus Index • Manure Management Planner • Agricultural Waste Management • WEPS • Crop N/P Uptake • National Planning Procedures Handbook • Management of Agricultural Resources with Integrated Assessment • Alternative Planning Systems • Conservation Practice Standards and Specifications • Job Sheets • Vegetative Planting Specifications (VegSpec)

  7. Resource Setting • Common Resource Areas • Miami County Resource Summary • Miami County Cooperative Extension • Miami County Economic Data Summary • Census Bureau: Miami County • City of Paola • Resource Setting • Common Resource Areas • Miami County Resource Summary • Miami County Cooperative Extension • Miami County Economic Data Summary • Census Bureau: Miami County • City of Paola • Resource Setting • Common Resource Areas • Miami County Resource Summary • Miami County Cooperative Extension • Miami County Economic Data Summary • Census Bureau: Miami County • City of Paola Erosion Prediction Data Crop Budget Data Nutrient Mgt Data Conservation Planning Map Service Soil InterpretationData E-FOTG Product Catalog E-FOTG Product Catalog E-FOTG Product Catalog NRCS Web Farm Data Marts and Map Services Generalized E-FOTG Architecture Data Center Natural Resource Data Warehouse FOTG Committees Manage Catalog Content for their domain (e.g. state) Content Providers & Tool Developers Register Products with Catalog User Selects Content for his/her Customized FOTG Portal Page E-FOTG Tools Run Against Data Marts RUSLE2 WEPS AWM NLEAP Plant Taxonomy ProCostrs WebSDV Climate ArcIMS Gateway MMP VegSpec Employee uses Portal to Access Content and Run Tools E-FOTG Tool Repository NRCS Employee Web Portal E-FOTG National Content Repository E-FOTG State / Local Content Repository

  8. Add Local Content My FOTG Layout Partial Example of Catalog Content Items • Resource Setting • Common Resource Areas • Miami County Resource Summary • Miami County Cooperative Extension • Miami County Economic Data Summary • Census Bureau: Miami County • City of Paola • News and Information • Science and Technology Newsflashes • Science and Technology Update Archive • ARS News • Wetland Science Institute • Wetland Technical Articles Wetland Science Institute Insight Newsletter • General Tools/Reports • Navigator/Data Viewer • Weather • Resource Analysis Tools • Ecological Sciences Division • Sheet/Rill Erosion (RUSLE2) • Phosphorus Index • Manure Management Planner (MMP) • Wind Erosion (WEPS) • Crop N/P Uptake • National Water and Climate Center • Nutrient Leaching (NLEAP) • Agricultural Waste Management (AWM) • Irrigation Software • Social Sciences Institute • Crop and Nutrient Stock Budgets (ProCosts) • Wetland Science Institute • Hydrology Tools for Wetland Determination • Watershed Science Institute • Phosphorus Budget (WEND-P) • Riparian-Wetland Corridor Assessment at the Area-Wide Level • Conservation Planning • National Planning Procedures Handbook • Alternative Farming Systems • Wetland Science Institute • Wetland Delineation • Wetland Assessment • Agricultural Research Service • Management of Agricultural Resources with Integrated Assessment • Crop Rotation Environmental and Economic Decision Aid (CREEDA) • Watershed Science Institute • Stream*A*Syst • Resource Information and Data • National Cartographic and Geospatial Center • Resource Data Gateway • National Soil Survey Center • Soil Interpretations (Web Soil Data Viewer) • Grazing Land Technology Institute • Ecological Sites (ESIS) • National Plant Data Center • Plant Taxonomy (PLANTS) • Threatened and Endangered Species (PLANTS) • Plant Guides (PLANTS) • Weeds (PLANTS) • National Water and Climate Center • Climate Information (NWCC) • Pesticide Database • Wetland Science Institute • Wetland Technical Articles (WLI) • Conservation Application • Conservation Practice Standards and Specifications • Wetland Science Institute • Wetland Restoration • Ecological Sciences Division • Vegetative Planting Specifications (VegSpec)

  9. NRCS Web Farm Data Marts and Map Services Crop Budget Data Erosion Prediction Data Nutrient Mgt Data Conservation Planning Map Service Soil Interpretation Data NRCS Web Farm NRCS Data Warehouse and Data Marts Natural Resource Data Warehouse Soils Climate Plant/Crop NRCS Data Warehouse Hosts Certified Data Sets. The Warehouse Feeds Data Marts and Also is the Source of Data Ordered Through the Gateway Orthoimagery Census/Tiger NRCS Data Center Periodic Data Refresh Data Marts and Map Services are Organized and Structured to Optimize the Performance of Tools (e.g RUSLE2) User Runs Web Tools Against Data Marts and Map Services

  10. Service State Center Office Service Center Service Center Proposed USDA High Bandwidth Network Architecture with Web Farms and Data Centers NRCS Data Center SNOTEL &Water Supply Forecasting Internet Commercial Private IP Network DC Portland NRCS DC WF Salt Lake City WF WF Fort Collins FSA Service NRCS Center Kansas City St. Louis FSA RD NRCS Web Farm E-FOTG Web Site E-FOTG Catalog E-FOTG Tools E-FOTG Content E-FOTG Data Marts DC Fort Worth NRCS Data Center Natural Resource Data Warehouse Base Layer Data Marts NRCS

  11. Example of E-FOTG Web Tool: Soil Data Viewer (Soil Interpretations) URL: http://lighthouse.nrcs.usda.gov/lighthouse

  12. Zoom to Area of Interest

  13. Select Soil Interpretation and Processing Method

  14. Soil Interpretation is Generated...

  15. ...And Rendered for the Area of Interest User (Customer or Field Conservationist) May Print the Soil Interpretation

  16. Schedule: • Budget Allocation & Form Development Team (October 2001) • Design & Produce Prototype (January 2002) • Produce Beta Version (June 2002) • E-FOTG On-Line (September 2002) • Dependencies: • Acquisition of Web Farm Server Capacity by CCE • Operational NRCS Data Warehouse • Adding or converting content/tools to E-FOTG catalog

  17. Sponsor: National FOTG Committee Diane Gelburd, ESD Director, Chair E-FOTG Core Team: Arnold King, Carolyn Adams, Larry Butler, Dave McKay, and Jack Carlson

  18. E-FOTG Components and Functionality • Customized E-FOTG Web Page (Portal) • Method to Add Content/Tools to E-FOTG Page from Catalog • Method to Modify Layout/Colors • Repository to Store Individual Customized E-FOTG Settings • E-FOTG Catalog • Method to Add/Modify Categories and Manage Access to Categories • Repository of Catalog Categories • Method to Add National and Regional Content and Tools to Catalog • Repository of Approved National/Regional Content and Tools • Method to Add State and Local Content and Tools to Catalog • Repository of Approved State/Local Content and Tools • Product Registration Tool • Method to Register and Manage List of Content and Tool Providers • Method to Add/Remove Content and Tools to/from Repository • Repository of E-FOTG Content and Tools • Navigator/Data Viewer • Geospatial Navigator Web Service with Interface to Web Tools • Resource Data Viewer • Standard Features Electronic Access Features • Search Function • News and Information • Feedback Extra Slide: Delete this Text Box to Use in Presentation

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