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Web Services hosted by the Kansas Biological Survey for the
Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism
Natural Resource Planner (NRP)
Southern Great Plains Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool (SGP CHAT)
Kansas Aquatic Resource Planner (KARP)
Service summary
All services designed in ArcGIS 10, and hosted on ArcSever 10.02
Running on an Adobe Flex platform 2.4 (2.5)
Manage web applications/tools in Django
Use GeoNetwork (v 2.6.4) for data portal
Sites receive aprox. 200 users per month
Natural Resource Planner
Launched in 2009 to serve natural resource/conservation data Been through several iterations and updates Wide range of statewide data sets available Used by: KDWPT for site assessment and permit review Local wind energy developers Out of state wind developers/consultants
Natural Resource Planner
Created with input from:
Transparent process
The Kansas Natural Resource Planner (NRP) was designed to be:
Well documented
Quantitative
Repeatable
Best available science or professional opinion
Base data State boundary County boundaries PLSS 1-mile grid Major highways Cities Aerial imagery
Industry specific Proposed and current wind farms Existing turbine locations Transmission lines Mean wind speed Oil/gas wells (# per section)
Natural resources Land cover map (2005) Managed areas Sensitive species Prairie chicken range Prairie chicken habitat Whooping crane corridor Playa lakes Untilled landscapes Landscape metrics (by section) % native, warm season grasses % cropland sum of playa area total number of playas
Data layers in the Natural Resource Planner
Infrastructure Transmission lines Power plants Wind farms (current and proposed) Roads (scale dependant)
Quantitative Data
Mean wind speed
Quantitative Data
LPCH lek probability from maximum entropy models
% Native grassland
Summarized by PLSS section
Quantitative Data
% CRP grassland
Summarized by PLSS section
Quantitative Data
Total playa acres
Summarized by PLSS section
Quantitative Data
# oil/gas wells
Summarized by PLSS section
Quantitative Data
Boundaries and Ranges Sensitive species Prairie chicken range Whooping crane corridor
Managed areas Heart of the Flinthills
Landscape Summary tool
Landscape Summary tool
Clip and Ship
Southern Great Plains Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool
An assessment of lesser prairie-chicken habitat suitability across five states.
Category 1 (Irreplaceable) Category 2 (Limiting)
Category 3 (Significant) Category 4 (Unknown) Category 5 (Common)
Lesser Prairie Chicken Crucial Habitat
Category 1 (Irreplaceable) Category 2 (Limiting)
Category 3 (Significant) Category 4 (Unknown) Category 5 (Common)
Lesser Prairie Chicken Crucial Habitat
SGP CHAT web service provides users access to other data layers that may be useful for landscape and habitat assessment
Base data: State boundaries, County boundaries, Highways, Roads Natural Resource data: Lesser prairie- chicken range (current estimated occupied range) Lesser prairie- chicken historic range Managed areas (state parks, wildlife areas…) Vertical structures >= 50 feet (radio towers, wind turbines…) Whooping crane migration corridor Number of unique T/E species per county Land cover (from national GAP) Backgrounds: Aerial imagery, Streets, Topographic map
Final landscape level data summarized to 1-mile hexagons
Hexagons can be selected and a summary report generated
www.kars.ku.edu/maps/sgpchat/
www.kars.ku.edu/maps/naturalresourceplanner/
For additional information, contact: Mike Houts, [email protected]
Access to the internet services
Natural Resource Planner
Southern Great Plains Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool