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EM: A technical guide to the integrated land-sea planning toolkit (EM-1007)
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EM Identification
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EM ID
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EM-1007 |
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EM Short Name
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N-SPECT land-sea planning submodel |
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EM Full Name
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A technical guide to the integrated land-sea planning toolkit |
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EM Source or Collection
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None |
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EM Source Document ID
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473 |
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Document Author
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Crist, P., Madden, K., Varley, I., Eslinger, D., Walker, D., Anderson, A., Morehead, S. and Dunton, K., |
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Document Year
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2009 |
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Document Title
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Integrated Land-Sea Planning: A Technical Guide to the Integrated Land-Sea Planning Toolkit. |
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Document Status
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Peer reviewed and published |
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Comments on Status
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Published report |
Software and Access
| https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstreams/3dee92a8-9373-4bcc-be25-eda74e81fabf/download | |
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Contact Name
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Patrick Crist ?Comment:No contact information provided |
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Contact Address
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None provided |
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Contact Email
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patrick@planitfwd.com |
EM Description
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Summary Description
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The Nonpoint-Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (N-SPECT) is a screening tool developed to help land use planners and mangers understand the potential impacts of land use change decisions on erosion and water quality. The tool runs as an extension within the ESRI ArcGIS software package. It utilizes digital elevation maps, soils and precipitation information from data sets that are available nationally. However, it also lets users take advantage of local higher resolution and/or more accurate data sets when available. For example, the N-SPECT pollution coefficients used are similar to those in the EPA’s BASINS suite of tools and provide a good starting point for quick comparisons between management scenarios, but the coefficients can still be easily customized as users develop more localized data. The real utility of N-SPECT does not lie in the user’s ability to examine the accuracy of any particular run’s results, but in the comparison of runs between different development (or restoration) scenarios. By allowing users to modify multiple land uses and providing the results of those changes in a GIS environment, N-SPECT enables managers to quickly understand the overall consequences of different land use scenarios. The primary role of N-SPECT in this toolkit is to predict sedimentation and pollution changes from different land use scenarios and identify areas that are key contributors of these inputs. |
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Specific Policy or Decision Context Cited
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None provided |
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Biophysical Context
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Not applicable |
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EM Scenario Drivers
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No scenarios presented |
EM Relationship to Other EMs or Applications
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Method Only, Application of Method or Model Run
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Method Only |
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New or Pre-existing EM?
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New or revised model |
Related EMs (for example, other versions or derivations of this EM) described in ESML
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Document ID for related EM
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Doc-473 |
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EM ID for related EM
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EM-1003 | EM-1005 | EM-1006 | EM-1008 | EM-1017 |
EM Modeling Approach
EM Relationship to Time
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EM Temporal Extent
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Not applicable |
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EM Time Dependence
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time-dependent |
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EM Time Reference (Future/Past)
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Not applicable |
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EM Time Continuity
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other or unclear (comment) |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Value
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Not applicable |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Unit
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Not applicable |
EM Spatial Extent
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Bounding Type
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Not applicable |
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Spatial Extent Name
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Not applicable |
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Spatial Extent Area (Magnitude)
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Not applicable |
Spatial Distribution of Computations
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EM Spatial Distribution
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other or unclear (comment) |
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Spatial Grain Type
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Not applicable |
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Spatial Grain Size
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Not applicable |
EM Structure and Computation Approach
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EM Computational Approach
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Analytic |
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EM Determinism
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deterministic |
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Statistical Estimation of EM
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Model Checking Procedures Used
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Model Calibration Reported?
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Not applicable |
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Model Goodness of Fit Reported?
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Not applicable |
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Goodness of Fit (metric| value | unit)
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None |
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Model Operational Validation Reported?
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Not applicable |
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Model Uncertainty Analysis Reported?
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Not applicable |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Reported?
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Not applicable |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Include Interactions?
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Not applicable |
EM Locations, Environments, Ecology
Location of EM Application
Terrestrial location (Classification hierarchy: Continent > Country > U.S. State [United States only])
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| None |
Marine location (Classification hierarchy: Realm > Region > Province > Ecoregion)
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| None |
Centroid Lat/Long (Decimal Degree)
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Centroid Latitude
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Not applicable |
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Centroid Longitude
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Not applicable |
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Centroid Datum
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Not applicable |
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Centroid Coordinates Status
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Not applicable |
Environments and Scales Modeled
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EM Environmental Sub-Class
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Not applicable |
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Specific Environment Type
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None |
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EM Ecological Scale
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Ecological scale corresponds to the Environmental Sub-class |
Scale and taxa of organisms modeled
Scale of differentiation of organisms modeled
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EM Organismal Scale
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Community |
Taxonomic level and name of organisms or groups identified
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EnviroAtlas URL
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| Average Annual Precipitation |
EM Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) potentially modeled, by classification system
CICES v 4.3 - Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (Section > Division > Group > Class)
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(Environmental Subclass > Ecological End-Product (EEP) > EEP Subclass > EEP Modifier)
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EM Variable Names (and Units)
Predictor
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Driving Variables (and Units)
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Constant or Factor Variables (and Units)
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Intermediate
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Intermediate (Computed) Variables (and Units)
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None |
Response
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Observed Response Variables (and Units)
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None |
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Computed Response Variables (and Units)
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