Mississippi-Alabama Habitat Mapper
Dauphin Island Sea Lab, National Estuary Program, NOAA Coastal Services Center and The Nature Conservancy
Features
- Provides access to data that represent conservation and restoration priority areas in Mobile and Baldwin counties, Alabama
- Adds point locations for current conservation and restoration projects
- Creates reports containing priority habitat descriptions, locations, and criterions
- Creates parcel reports providing a map, parcel information, and associated priority habitat areas
Overview
The Mississippi-Alabama Habitat Mapper is an interactive, online map viewer that allows users to view data that reflects local and regional conservation and restoration priorities determined by a team of organizations in Mobile and Baldwin counties, Alabama. The Mapper displays more than 50 data sets representing habitats analyzed using the NOAA Coastal Services Center’s Habitat Priority Planner, as well as produces reports on priority habitat or parcels of interest. Users can add their organization’s current conservation or restoration projects using the Mississippi-Alabama Habitats Database, directly linked to the map viewer.
Support
Prioritization Guide for Coastal Habitat Protection
Describes the process undertaken to prioritize habitats in the two counties.
GIS Analysis Instructions
Contains information on how the GIS analyses and migration to the data viewer were performed.