RGIS - Pacific Northwest Site

Central Washington University, Center for Spatial Information

The Center for Spatial Information is one of eight RGIS Sites. Visit us online at:

http://www.cwu.edu/~csi

Or visit the RGIS home page at:

http://www.ruralgis.org

About RGIS - Pacific Northwest

The Center for Spatial Information at Central Washington University is the site of the RGIS-Pacific Northwest Regional Office for the National Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations in America (RGIS). The National Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations (RGIS) assists state, tribal, regional and local governments, and non- and for-profit organizations in implementing advanced geospatial information technologies.

Rural-based agencies and communities in the Pacific Northwest are increasingly faced with environmental and economic problems related to river channels and their associated watersheds. These include water quality, water quantity and availability, salmon habitat conservation and associated conflicts, flood and associated geologic hazards, and the impact on all of these resulting from land-use change. Potential solutions for some of these problems may lie in the emergence of geospatial tools for monitoring and modeling watershed processes. The goal of RGIS-Pacific Northwest is to evaluate these emerging technologies, and to develop methods to use them to solve real problems on the ground.

Fiscal Year 2007 RGIS-PNW Projects

1. Use of Geospatial Techniques for Aesthetic Resource Inventories

2. Establishing GIS Land Use/Land Cover Indicators for Assessment and Monitoring of Marine Ecosystem Health

3. Comparative Assessment of Multiplatform and Multistage Remote Sensing for Rural Habitat Assessment Initiatives

4. Using Geospatial Technologies to Differentiate Between Land Use and Climate Impacts on Washington State Semi-arid Hydrologic Systems

5. Washington State Parks Shoreline Classification and Inventory Process: Using Geospatial Information to Assess Potential Climate Change Impacts

Fiscal Year 2006 RGIS-PNW Projects

1. Development of a Marine Shoreline Assessment Decision Support System

2. Develop and Test Geospatial Technologies and Methods for Cumulative Impact Assessment for Shoreline Management

3. Use of Geospatial Data and Methods to Delineate Floodways

4. Application of NOAA's Non-Point Source Pollution Tool

5. Stakeholder Assessment

6. Enhancing Rural Security Demonstration Project: Wildfire Mapping Analysis

Other Related Information

Contact Information:

Dr. Anthony Gabriel, Director
Professor: Geography
Central Washington University
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA, 98926-7420
ph: 509.963.1166
gabriela@cwu.edu

David Cordner
Research Assistant
cordnerd@cwu.edu

Website: http://www.cwu.edu/~csi