Biodiversity data exchange and application

Windsor is currently building a Biodiversity Data Exchange (BioDX) for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). This project will increase the effectiveness of the New York State Natural Heritage Program (NYNHP), which has the responsibility for collecting, managing, and disseminating information about rare plants, rare animals, and significant ecological communities. The BioDX project will help solve the critical business need to make natural resource data more readily available and accessible to the public and partners, particularly online by providing a Web-based application to provide enhanced access to natural resource data. The Web application combines the power of GIS in conjunction with an easy-to-use tabular search and result set. The integration of spatial and tabular datasets provides the ability for users to answer critical natural resource questions in order to make determinations from a single application. Additionally, the BioDX project will automate the biodiversity data exchange using DEC's Exchange Network Node and NatureServe's Exchange Network Node.

CLIENT: New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation

DISCIPLINES: Natural Resources

SERVICES: Electronic Reporting, Exchange Network, System Re-engineering

TECHNOLOGIES: Java / J2EE, SOAP / XML