Netmap
Description
A GIS-based tool for linking field and digital stream data. This tool based on a geographic information system matches stream-survey data to digitally produced stream layers created with NetStream software.NetMap contains models that allow the user to conduct analyses on various parameters that influence aquatic ecosystems such as wood recruitment, erosion sources, and potential habitat. It hosts a climate change component that includes projected changes in seasonal hydrographs, changes in the likely location of snow-to-rain transition zones, and thermal loading. The output is a shapefile of survey reaches with both the survey data and attributes associated with the digitally produced stream layer (e.g., drainage area, gradient, and valley width). It enables users to extrapolate survey results to unsurveyed streams by using GIS to estimate habitat abundance, potential fish abundance, or fish carrying capacity, for example.
NetMap’s unique set of virtual watersheds, analysis tools and online technical help, is designed to provide decision support in forestry, fisheries, restoration, riparian management, conservation, pre- and post-wildfire planning and climate change. TerrainWorks provides comprehensive analyses, ranging in scale from entire landscapes to watersheds to individual stream reaches, and is designed to be collaborative and accessible. NetMap can be built and applied anywhere in the world (Global Opportunity).
TerrainWorks, with its flagship analysis technology “NetMap”, is being used by NOAA, US Forest Service, EPA, BLM, US Fish and Wildfire Service, Conservation NGOs, watershed councils, tribes, private sector, universities and internationally.
Purpose and Scope
NetMap was created to provide off-the-shelf analysis capabilities in resource management, risk mitigation and conservation unavailable in other formats. Our goal at TerrainWorks is to make user-friendly GIS virtual watersheds and smart river networks available to agencies, NGOs, universities and the private sector. NetMap also provides support in the form of (1) online technical help, (2) step-wise guides, (3) online mapping tools and a (4) community based approach to tool development and dissemination. NetMap applications include fish habitat mapping, floodplain delineation, road analyses, slope stability, riparian management and wildfire. Explore our website to learn more.
Compatibility & Fusion with the NHD/NHDplus: NetMap and the NHDplus have compatible goals and each provides value-added facilities to the other. NetMap provides derivation of detailed hydrography extending to the ephemeral and unchanneled portions of landscapes, connectivity and routing analyses, and advanced tools for resource management, risk mitigation and conservation, with transfer of that information to the NHDplus. The NHDplus allows for the communication of NetMap’s attributes and analysis results to the common national hydrography platform used for distributing data and modeling results across large and diverse stakeholder groups.
How to get it
Website: http://www.terrainworks.com