Marine Management Organisation with ArcGIS Online
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At Esri UK Annual Conference 2014 In April 2014 the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) made history by publishing the first ever adopted marine plans for England. Alex Coomer, GIS Manager at the MMO, explains how the organisation used ArcGIS Online to create an interactive tool called the Marine Information System (MIS). The MIS presents a combination of over-arching and spatially specific marine plan policies for the East inshore and offshore, including the publication of over 110 spatial datasets via a series of online interactive maps. Alex talks about the process undertaken to develop MIS and the challenges faced.
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Marine Management Organisation with ArcGIS Online
- 1. Publishing marine plans with the Marine Information System (MIS) Alex Coomer, GIS Manager 11th June 2014
- 2. The Marine Management Organisation - a brief history • Established in April 2010 • An executive non-departmental public body (NDPB) established and given powers under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 • Our mission: enabling sustainable growth in our marine area and to promote the UK government’s vision for clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas • What we do (for England): – Marine planning – Marine licensing – Marine nature conservation – Fisheries management – Enforcement
- 3. Today’s presentation • Focus on marine planning • Requirement to publish the first ever marine plan for England via the Marine Information System (MIS) • The use of ArcGIS Online as a simple and effective communication tool • Future improvements to the Marine Information System
- 4. What is marine planning? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFn0buPVU6A
- 5. Just in case that didn’t work... • Defra (2004) ‘Strategic, forward-looking planning for regulating, managing and protecting the marine environment, including through allocation of space, that addresses the multiple, cumulative, and potentially conflicting uses of the sea.’ • The use of marine space and resources is increasing. A marine plan will ensure the area is managed sustainably, considering social, environmental and economic objectives. • Benefits of marine planning: – A strategic approach to managing our seas – Guiding marine users to the most suitable locations for particular activities – Greater certainty for developers – Sustainable use of marine resources – Proactive- allowing for future changes to activities and technologies
- 6. Marine Protected Areas Defence & National Security Renewable energy Carbon capture & Storage Marine dredging & disposal Fisheries The marine plans will provide policy and guidance covering 14 different marine related sectors:
- 7. Marine plan areas • 11 plan areas (10 plans) • Marine planning is an iterative process, moving around each of the marine plan areas in turn. • First marine plans focus on East inshore and East offshore from Flamborough Head to Felixstowe
- 8. Publishing the first ever marine plans • Adopted 2nd April 2014 • Detailed 200 page document including – 38 plan policies across 14 different sectors – 28 static maps referencing over 110 different spatial data layers
- 9. How do we communicate this information to stakeholders and the wider public? • Need to publish a complex, static document in an intuitive and interactive way – publish via the internet – for use by both specialists and the public – adopt corporate MMO branding • Highlight key policy considerations • Provide access to spatial information at different scales (user defined) • Signpost to wide variety of data sources • Solution needs to be flexible with content managed by the organisation • Zero capital funding and a potentially changeable deadline
- 10. Initial challenges • Project had no budget allocation with limited staff resources – no software programming experience – basic web content management system • Technical solution therefore needed to utilise either free/open source solution or software already available to our organisation • Over 110 spatial datasets to be published as interactive maps – Data needed to be managed in-house. – MMO have access to ArcGIS Server, but network security prevented the external publication of GIS services such as WMS , WFS or REST • Tight deadline, approximately 3 months before the launch date
- 11. Identification of the solution… • MMO is a member of the Defra network and part of an Enterprise Licence Agreement (ELA) with ESRI – 3 year agreement – access to a suite of ESRI software products and solutions – access to a number of ESRI consultancy days • ESRI ELA includes access to a Defra network ArcGIS Online account with an allocation of credits. – allows data to be stored in the AGOL cloud and published either as a GIS service or via an interactive webmap – webmaps can be embedded within any web page using simple HTML code, no requirement to write any code yourself
- 12. Data was loaded into the AGOL cloud…
- 13. Create a webmap with the data, configure and share…
- 14. A note of caution for data managers… • If your data is stored in the AGOL cloud, once your webmap is published (i.e. made publically available), the content in the map is also made publicly available and can be downloaded or consumed by other applications. • This can cause issues if you wish to use commercially licensed data, or 3rd party data acquired under licence. • Where necessary MMO sought permission from data owners to ensure there was no breach of conditions. • For a small number of datasets a WMS service from an existing MMO tool was used which prevented data download, although there is a loss in some functionality.
- 15. • This allowed us to embed interactive maps directly into the MMO’s website. • Maps can be positioned and re-sized accordingly. • Allows for the display of spatial data alongside relevant policy text
- 18. Next step - enhance the user experience • Embedded webmaps provide clear links between spatial data and associated policy • Users often want more flexibility, the ability to view and overlay different marine plan policy layers together • We needed a simple GIS application to provide access to over 110 spatial data layers • ArcGIS Online was able to provide a solution
- 22. • The basic viewer application can be downloaded from the GIThub website and configured locally. • MMO used 2 ESRI consultancy days to help with the initial configuration. – Support to download code and set up the application – Tweaks to the styling and branding of the application – HTML, Java, CSS – Put in place the foundations for MMO to continue to customise the application. • Application is hosted on the MMO web server, sources a published webmap from ArcGIS Online
- 24. The result = the Marine Information System (MIS) http://www.marinemanagement.org.uk/marineplanning/mis/index.htm
- 25. What’s next for MIS? • Continue to improve and enhance the tool – Develop a policy check tool; potentially using the forthcoming Java Script API builder • Look at the possibility of hosting spatial data in-house – Improved efficiencies relating to data management – More control over the GIS services, including the ability to prevent data download or access in other applications • Potential links to other MMO systems, to assist in the implementation of plan led marine management. • Including consuming 3rd party data direct from their systems (e.g. from across the Defra network, DECC or The Crown Estate
- 26. Thank you for your time. alex.coomer@marinemanagement.org.uk www.marinemanagement.org.uk www.marinemanagement.org.uk/marineplanning/mis/index.htm