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transmitter only becomes active for a short
period of time every two to four days. During the
active period it collects as many locations as
possible within the pre-programmed time frame.
CAST worked with ARGOS and AFGC to
develop a geospatial IT architecture to extract
this position information from the ARGOS
database and display them in near real time in a
web-map environment against a land-cover
background.
Mississippi fly-way and beyond – have
registered on the system.
Research Goals
1) Track movements and distribution of
migrating female mallards in spring. Describe
habitat characteristics of principle spring staging
areas, nesting areas and post-nesting areas of
adult female mallards migrating from Arkansas.
2) Track movements and distribution of
migrating female mallards in fall. Determine
proportionate use of fall migration corridors,
staging areas and dispersal relative to habitat
conditions.
3) Track movements and determine distribution
and habitat use within Arkansas.
4) Determine use of spring migration corridors
(e.g. Mississippi Flyway or Central Flyway),
spring staging areas, nesting areas and postnesting
dispersal relative to habitat conditions.
Screen shots of Satellite Mallard Tracking webpage.
5) Estimate efficiency of May survey to account
for mallards migrating from Arkansas
(Mississippi Alluvial Valley) by estimating
distribution of marked adult female mallards
between surveyed and un-surveyed regions
during the May surveys.
Establishing Framework Data Services Using
the OGC Web Feature Service
08/20/04 – 09/30/05
Department of Interior – US Geological Survey
$74,966.
In addition, to tracking the mallards, the
integration of tracking information with other
geographic information such as climate and land
use/land cover data will help researchers
understand the reasons for changing migration
patterns. Since the web-site was made publicly
available, over 3000 users – including hunters,
biologists and environmentalists throughout the
The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
represents a broad consortium of government
agencies and non-government organizations
that work together to promote more costeffective
production, ready availability, and
greater utilization of geospatial data across a
wide range of disciplines. The NSDI Cooperative
Agreements Program (CAP) was established by
the Federal Geographic Data Committee
(FGDC) to help form partnerships among
organizations to implement the NSDI. As a
participant in the 2004 NSDI CAP Category 5,
CAST is implementing the ANSI/INCITS L1
standard for framework geospatial data using
the Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) Web
Feature Service (WFS) specification. The
ANSI/INCITS L1 standard for framework
geospatial data provides standard data models
or encoding framework data themes (Digital
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