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MONITORING FLORIDA'S WATERS
Citation:
Crew, T. AND B J. Rosenbaum. MONITORING FLORIDA'S WATERS. Presented at ESRI Users Conference, San Diego, CA, August 9-13, 2004.
Description:
GIS plays an important role as a management tool for the multi-dimensional Status Monitoring Network (SMN) program to monitor Florida's freshwater resources. By pulling together basin assessments, statistical analysis, surface water and groundwater analytical data, background is provided for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to monitor it's waters. The SMN characterizes environmental conditions of freshwater resources and determines conditional changes over time. The SMN addresses many geographical scales, specific geopolitical regions, and 29 basins statewide. The primary platform for providing the random sampling sites from the US Environmental Protection Agency is the Generalized Random Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) design plan. It provides a statistically based, spatially balanced approach for sampling the entire state within a five year period for each of six water resources per basin. In addition, the SMN data will statistically describe each basin or statewide quality conditions present during the period of sampling.