Waterway Harmonization

— This project streamlines precise communication between maritime agencies as well as facilitate communications between the government and the public.

Task

Harmonize waterway place-names across federal agencies, allowing for clear and rapid communication across the federal government.

Customer

Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

User Community: USACE, NOAA, academics studying weather or the environment, local recreational boaters, corporations looking at vessel movement, etc.

Technologies Used

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Built a high resolution, national waterways dataset that included ATONIS name attribution and inland river segment numbers.
Used our custom base geometry to spatially join other federal agencies’ waterway name data to the ATONIS name data.
Fed the spatially joined name attribution into a custom SQL relational database, which allows the data to be queried, exported in tabular form, and displayed in web maps.
The data is the first of its kind to include unique Maritime Resource Numbers, and has a set the standard on the creation of MRNs for waterway management.
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