Carrie Stokes

USAID

Charles Hernick

The Cadmus Group, Inc.

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Who Else Cares About Environmental Information?

Identifying More Stakeholders by Enhancing Environmental Impact Assessment with Geospatial Technology

Presented at the International Association for Impact Assessment

Session 40 Collecting/Visually Communicating Data

22 April 2015

Geospatial technology includes tools to

gather, analyze, & present spatial information…

…related to the scale of the project

Gathering Different Data Relevant to the Project

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Geo-coded Household Survey Data

Satellite Data

Mobile Data Collection

Gathering Data

Mapping Land Use: South Sudan

Conducting Analysis

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Identifying Affected Households: Nepal

Conducting Analysis

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Comparing protected areas, elephant range, & oil concessions: South Sudan

Presenting Results

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Map of Affected Areas: Arizona

Interactive Web Map: Armenia

Presenting Results

Community Reaction & Input to Land Use Map: Bangladesh

Local Ag Practices

Impact Assessment

GIS

Quantitative A

Qualitative B

Quantitative C

Qualitative D

Other projects in area of influence

Proposed Project

Other projects with different development objectives

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Geographic Data Visualization Enhances:

• understanding of relationships between people & their environment

• communication quality of impact assessment results