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SPATIALLY ENABLING

NRM

Athina Pascoe-Bell – Manager Spatial Data and Mapping


Ian Lancaster – Director Water Resources - NRETAS
Some Other NRETAS
online systems
• Web accessible, Oracle Spatial based
Systems
– MPDS (Map Product Delivery System)
– Holtze (Herbarium Specimen Collection)
– Vegetation Site DB (available soon)
– SALI (Soil and Land Information)
– Heritage Register
– Archaeology
– Crocodile Capture
– NT Wreck (Ship wrecks)
Analysing our
current systems…
• 2009\2010 Identification of the issues
– Online Oracle Systems handled point data well but not line\polygon
– Missing Link (our Desktop Client software was disjunct from our
dissemination DB)
– Most of our 150 GIS staff had NOT used Geodatabases
– NRETAS needed more services than NTLIS could resource
– Unresolved Legal Issues (third party contributors, Privacy Act)
– There was so much more to do…
• untold no’s of datasets that were not managed appropriately
• Isolated pockets of GIS\RSers squirreling their data away
• More groups in NRETAS are required to participate in National Portals (ALA,
AVH)

• 2010
– NRETAS Purchased ArcGIS Server
– Invested $30,000 in Geodatabase training for 20 specialist GIS staff
across the Department
Moving forward…
• 2011
– some 200 odd individual datasets to be added to ArcSDE\Oracle
– NTG available datasets accessible through Oracle (user
NRDB_VIEWER, password VIEWER)
– Offer several services for NTG and non-NTG clients (WMS, KML) based
on theme (land units, land cover, bores, water, parks & wildlife etc)
– Get keen GIS\RSers working with ArcSDE for Data Management

• Beyond 2011
– Use our ArcSDE\Server as our node for Commonwealth initiatives
• Geofabric (ArcHydro), GDE Atlas,
– Customised applications including NRETAS Maps replacement
– Working with NRETAS Staff to improve workflows and build capability
– Obtaining buy-in from the squirrels
– Sorting out Legal Issues
Water Information Management
System (WIMS)
Management Activities
Priorit
ID Management Activity Region Agency y Score
AHWAP Acacia Hills WAP Darwin NRETAS 5 28
ASWAP Alice Springs WAP Alice Springs NRETAS 2 112
ASWAR Alice Springs Water Acc Alice Springs NRETAS 3 84
BSWAP Berry Springs WAP Darwin NRETAS 3 84
CMGT Contract Management Program NT Wide NRETAS 3 84
DWQMP Daly Region WQMP Daly NRETAS 4 56
FF Flood Forecasting NT Wide NRETAS 1 140
FPM Floodplain Management NT Wide NRETAS 3 84
GABWAP GAB WAP GAB NRETAS 3 84
GWIAP Groundwater Investigation/Assessment Program NT Wide NRETAS 4 56
HEWAP Howard East WAP Darwin NRETAS 4 56
KTWAP Katherine Tindall WAP Daly NRETAS 2 112
MTWAP Mataranka Tindall WAP Roper NRETAS 3 84
OWAP Oolloo WAP Daly NRETAS 4 56
SS Storm Surge Top End Coastal NRETAS 3 84
SWIAP Surface water Investigation/Assessment Program NT Wide NRETAS 4 56
TTWAR Ti Tree Water Acc Ti Tree NRETAS 3 84
TTWRS Ti Tree Resource Strategy Ti Tree NRETAS 5 28
TWRS Tiwi Strategy Tiwi Islands NRETAS 4 56
WDWAP Western Davenport WAP Western Davenport NRETAS 5 28
WHWAP Whites WAP Darwin NRETAS 5 28
WQPP WQ P.P NRETAS 2 112
Water Allocation Planning Areas
(WAPA’s)

Adelaide River
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Nauiyu
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Pine Creek Bulman
Daly Roper Water Control District
!
Katherine
Peppimenarti
Barunga
!
! !
Beswick Ngukurr
!

Mataranka Minyerri
!

Timber Creek Larrimah


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Water Control Districts


Daly Roper
Water Allocation Planning Areas Daly Waters
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Mataranka
Oolloo
Katherine !
Top Springs
0 50 100 km
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Spatially enabling WIMS
Spatially enabling WIMS
Spatially enabling WIMS
Spatially enabling WIMS
Spatially enabling WIMS
Summary

• Like many areas of government Natural Resource


management lends itself to spatial enabilisation very well.
• Spatial enabilisation provides another almost essential
layer to the presentation of NRM information
• Our experience is that the general public are now very
familiar with basic GIS tools and interact in an active way
• Issues into the future include:
•Keeping up with the technology
•File size and more importantly storage costs
•Attraction and retention of skilled staff within NTG
•Capturing and disseminating historical spatial info
Questions?

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