11/17/2010:

Look at general structure of current version prototype at: Master Sample website:

Not all of what is listed below is contained on the current version. The list is presented as possibilities for the NW wide version; we’ll have to spend some time with both the current prototype and what we want the NW wide one to look like.

There are several versions of master samples, listed as follows with approximate record length:

NW Region wide, based on NHD+ 1:100 digital hydrography (covers OR, WA, ID): 551047 records; 41 attributes.

WA based on a DNR digital coverage that combines 1:24K and 1:12.5 K digital coverages: 387237 records; 15 attributes.

OR Regional master samples for the coastal and Lower Columbia monitoring areas based on 1:24 K digital coverages with some corrections for obvious errors. The prototype uses the ODFW Lower Columbia master sample. Each of the six monitoring areas contains 10240 records and roughly 40 attributes. Note that this is not a statewide master sample, but sets of separate master samples created for each of the regions based on some of ODFW’s specific needs.

Home page to contain brief introduction plus buttons (what’s in bold; clicking on a particular button will bring up a general description, plus additional buttons indicated by the bullets…etc…) for the following (italics indicate that documents are available, but not necessarily on the current prototype; expectation is that many of these could be .pdf documents retrievable from the website):

Background: clicking on this button reveals the following options (The following bullets come from the guidance I wrote up (and that you have; Don is currently commenting on the document)):

  • Introduction and overview
  • Definitions and concepts
  • What is a master sample?
  • Examples (we might want a different set of examples; up for discussion)
  • Lewis River, WA
  • Wenatchee RiverWA
  • GooseLake watershed, OR
  • Some examples for Lower Columbia
  • Structure for Design Documentation
  • References
  • Master Sample Guidance_draft_6_18_2010.doc

Illustrating how the website works:

  • Login Info: ISTMcollab website login info2.doc
  • Illustrating how the website works.doc
  • A tutorial illustrating how the website works is under development

Sample selection tool (The current site management system provides some ideas about how this could work; but note that the below differs somewhat from what exists on the current version)

  • WA master sample (first level search)
  • Master sample documentation
  • List of attributes and their definition
  • First level search options
  • County
  • Salmon Recovery Region
  • USGS hydrologic unit
  • Level 4 Ecoregion
  • WRIA
  • OR master sample
  • Master sample documentation
  • List of attributes and their definition
  • First level search options
  • County
  • Salmon population
  • USGS hydrologic unit
  • Level 4 Ecoregion
  • OR.WA.Lower Columbia attriutes.xls
  • Download entire OR/WA sample
  • Refine your selection
  • Don’s canned selection routines—link to GRTS function in R?
  • E.g., stratification, variable probability selection, panels etc. (Don Stevens is working on this capability using WA via Dan Rawding’s objectives as an example)

Upload Evaluation Results

  • Oregon example: ODFW Habitat - LC Status 2008.xls
  • Point to ISEMP evaluation tracking tool (Steve Rentmeester)?

Retrieve site history

  • Retrieval desired content: User return info.doc
  • History example, ODFW spawner survey: LCspawnsites08_metadata.doc
  • We haven’t spent nearly enough time working out the structure of a site history retrieval. The current website sets this up site by site. I think we need a capability that will retrieve the history of a set of sites

Analytical tools (These would be based on R functions currently available as part of the epa.gov/nheerl/are website and through an R library called spsurvey)

  • Adjusting weights
  • Estimating totals
  • Generating cdfs
  • Estimating means, medians, variances, %tiles
  • Comparing cdf

Mapping Tools

  • Prototype uses Google mapping tools to locate site selected on topo maps.