Mobile application to collect national consistent data of fish passage barriers in the United States

This project created a mobile application to collect nationally consistent data of fish passage barriers in the United States to meet needs for hydrologic and ecological assessments and conservation planning decisions.



Principal Investigator : David R Maltby, Andrea Ostroff



Benefits

• Meets high priority need for hydrological and ecological assessments
• Data available to conservation planners
• Expand USGS scientific and technical support to the National Fish Habitat Action Plan

Deliverables

• Presentation given at CDI-hosted Webinar (September 2012)
• Available to both iPhone (iOS6) and Android (3.0 or higher).
• Uses the geo-locational services provides with HTML5 to correlate location with an online data entry form (content no longer available)
• Adds the ability to attach photos acquired in the field of the fish passage structure.
• Secured database back-end for QC and long-term data management.
• USGS report to publish this information targeted for completion at the end of FY13

Note: this information is from the FY12 CDI Annual Review