The Dallas Wetland Project

The Dallas Wetlands Project grew out of a project for Dr. Margaret Brown, who required a quick way for students to process data in her labs for the University of Dallas Environmental Science class. The initial project was for a small inference engine which processed student field data to determine if a field location constituted a wetland or not. The conclusions were displayed using Gistix.

This has become a seed for a much bigger project, to produce wetland education materials for K-12 through to undergraduate education.

Phase 1: Completed

This phase was to write a simple inference engine to process student field data, to determine whether different locations were wetlands or not. The inference engine encoded a sub-set of the Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual (Technical Report Y-87-1), using Visual C++ and MFC.

The resulting data was in a simple text format which could be imported into a spreadsheet, eg. Microsoft Excel. An GIS viewing tool based on the Gistix Toolkit was also supplied to view the resulting data on an aerial photograph.

An interactive SVG map has been produced of the results.