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Images of nearshore
habitat are currently available for four areas of Hood Canal: Northeast
Hood Canal, Southeast Hood Canal, Northwest Hood Canal and Port Townsend. A
technical report describing how the imagery was collected and analyzed is
also available. We anticipate making more nearshore habitat images
available in the future within lower Hood Canal (the “Hook”) and in
Southwest Hood Canal.
These images have been developed as part of a larger
study that includes a survey of shoreline development in Hood Canal and the
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca (see "Shoreline Alterations..." report also
available at this website), and an assessment of nearshore eelgrass habitat
relative to nearshore development (report to come later). The images,
collected in the early summer of 2000, are here made available as a
"snapshot" in time, detailed description of the nearshore habitat.
To access the
technical report, “Assessment of Estuarine and Nearshore Habitats for
Threatened Salmon Stocks in the Hood Canal and Eastern Strait of Juan de
Fuca, Washington State, Focal Areas 1-4” by R.J. Garono and R. Robinson
in cooperation with Charles Simenstad, Click Here
à
Technical Report.
Instructions for the downloading and use of the nearshore habitat imagery data are as follows:
(1)
If you have access to the ESRI software, ArcGIS, ArcInfo, or ArcView
with Spatial Analyst, download the following zipped folder:
"CASI_vegetation_grids". The folder contains grid format data and metadata
for all the focal areas.
(2)
If you do not have access to any of these ESRI software products you
will need to download and install ESRI's free data viewer, ArcExplorer.
This free software will allow you to view the nearshore habitat imagery as
described below. To download ArcExplorer and instructions for its use go
to:
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html.
Once you have downloaded and installed ArcExplorer, the next steps are to:
(a)
Download the following zipped folder to a directory on your computer
where you want to store the data: "CASI_vegetation_shapefiles" This
folder includes an ArcExplorer “project” entitled Casiveg.AEP along with
shapefiles for all the focal areas, streams, shorelines and places. An
AreExplorer “project” is used to access the images. You can use the
“project” included in the folder or create your own ArcExplorer “project”.
(b)
To use the included “project”, double click on the file Casiveg.AEP
and it will automatically start ArcExplorer and load the “project”. After
the “project” loads we recommend expanding it to full screen on your
monitor. These are large files so it may take some time to load and redraw
the shapefiles, so be patient.
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