27-10-2012, 01:00 PM
Preserving the Finger Lakes for the Future: A Prototype Decision Support System for Water Resource Management, Open Space, and Agricultural Protection
ABSTRACT
This report summarizes the activity conducted under NASA Grant NAG13-02059 entitled ‘Preserving the Finger Lakes
for the Future’ A Prototype Decision Support System for Water Resources Management, Open Space and Agricultural
Protection, for the period of September 26, 2003 to September 25, 2004. The RACNE continues to utilize the services of its
affiliate, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology at Cayuga Community College, Inc. (IAGT), for the
purposes of this project under its permanent operating agreement with IAGT. IAGT is a 501©(3) not-for-profit Corporation
created by the RACNE for the purpose of carrying out its programmatic and administrative mission. The ‘Preserving the
Finger Lakes for the Future’ project has progressed and evolved as planned, with the continuation or initiation of a number
of program facets at programmatic, technical, and inter-agency levels. The project has grown, starting with the well received
core concept of the Virtual Management Operations Center (VMOC), to the functional Watershed Virtual Management
Operations Center (W-VMOC) prototype, to the more advanced Finger Lakes Decision Support System (FLDSS) prototype,
deployed for evaluation and assessment to a wide variety of agencies and organizations in the Finger Lakes region and beyond.
This suite of tools offers the advanced, compelling functionality of interactive 3D visualization interfaced with 2D mapping,
all accessed via Internet or virtually any kind of distributed computer network.