State of Alabama FINAL Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP ...

SPENDING ESTIMATE PER CALENDAR YEAR OF PROJECT DURATION:
AL2-15
Year 1 $ 675,000.00
Year 2 $
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Year 3 $
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Year 4 $
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GOAL: The goal of this project is to facilitate management research of Alabama’s coastal environment
through improved data collection systems, enhanced research infrastructure, and upgrades of
research tools.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this project is to develop four GIS-based applications and associated
digital data to assist in the management of Alabama’s coastal resources including a GISbased
erosion model, shoreline classification model of Mobile Bay, Land Use/Land
Cover analysis of both coastal counties from 1995 to 2005, and a turbidity study of
Mobile Bay.
This project will develop numerous GIS-based applications and associated digital data to assist in
management of Alabama's coastal Resources. Four applications and associated digital data will be
developed as a result of this project.
1. GIS-based Erosion Modeling of Mobile and Baldwin Counties: The purpose of this project is to
create a model to determine the area's potential for erosion resulting from land clearing or
changing land use (clearing, conversion from timber to agriculture, etc.). The output will be
polygon shapefiles with an assigned erodability index that can be used by local planning entities in
land use decision making processes and may also be utilized by regulatory entities to conduct
monitoring activities. This project will result in a geographic database depicting polygons of
susceptibility of erosion.
2. Shoreline Classification of Mobile Bay: The shoreline of Mobile Bay will be classified using highresolution
aerial photographs coupled with groundtruthing. The classifications would include
habitat, erosion, landuse, and shoreline protection. This project will result in a shapefile to be used
by planning and regulatory entities.
3. Land Use/Land Cover Classification: A Land Use/Landcover classification of Mobile and Baldwin
Counties will be developed from year 2005 Landsat 5 data. The project will include classification of
the 2005 scenes as well as change detection comparing the 2005 classification with those of years
2000 and 1995. This project will resulting a geographic database and a report.
4. Turbidity study of Mobile Bay: Sediment data and multitemporal Landsat data will be analyzed to
determine patterns of turbidity on a temporal scale in Mobile Bay. One Landsat image for each
State of Alabama Final Coastal Impact Assistance Program Plan
State of Alabama Tier Two Project Descriptions
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