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    The document discusses the development of an Integrated Environmental Impact Visualization Tool (IEIVT-CoRE) for coral reef environments. It notes that while coastal development and populations have increased, understanding of coral reef environments and data to inform management decisions have not kept pace. The tool was created to integrate available data on factors impacting coral reef health and allow visualization of multiple scenarios to inform policymakers and stakeholders. It enhances existing GIS software by enabling dynamic updating of maps, databases, and trend/chart analysis to better satisfy research needs.

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    The document discusses the development of an Integrated Environmental Impact Visualization Tool (IEIVT-CoRE) for coral reef environments. It notes that while coastal development and populations have increased, understanding of coral reef environments and data to inform management decisions have not kept pace. The tool was created to integrate available data on factors impacting coral reef health and allow visualization of multiple scenarios to inform policymakers and stakeholders. It enhances existing GIS software by enabling dynamic updating of maps, databases, and trend/chart analysis to better satisfy research needs.

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    The document discusses the development of an Integrated Environmental Impact Visualization Tool (IEIVT-CoRE) for coral reef environments. It notes that while coastal development and populations have increased, understanding of coral reef environments and data to inform management decisions have not kept pace. The tool was created to integrate available data on factors impacting coral reef health and allow visualization of multiple scenarios to inform policymakers and stakeholders. It enhances existing GIS software by enabling dynamic updating of maps, databases, and trend/chart analysis to better satisfy research needs.

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    The document discusses the development of an Integrated Environmental Impact Visualization Tool (IEIVT-CoRE) for coral reef environments. It notes that while coastal development and populations have increased, understanding of coral reef environments and data to inform management decisions have not kept pace. The tool was created to integrate available data on factors impacting coral reef health and allow visualization of multiple scenarios to inform policymakers and stakeholders. It enhances existing GIS software by enabling dynamic updating of maps, databases, and trend/chart analysis to better satisfy research needs.

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    INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT VISUALIZATION TOOL

    FOR CORAL REEF ENVIRONMENT

    During the past few decades, the level of development and size of the
    population has increased dramatically. However the level of understanding of our
    coral reef environment and other key resources for management criteria has not
    increased much. Currently, there is little data related to coral reef environments.
    In many cases, the data used to make decisions regarding the placement of coastal
    developments and the protection of endangered species and habitats is outdated or
    inaccurate. Further, available data and information need to be pooled in a manner
    to understand the changes that occur in the habitats to take appropriate
    management initiatives. Which are very difficult and involve considerable time
    and man power.

    Identification of the natural and human factors that cause problems is


    the first step towards management of coastal resources. A thorough understanding
    of the structure and functioning of the environment is necessary to identify the
    problems and the factors that cause problems. Accurate scientific data and
    information should be collected about the listed factors that cause adverse
    changes. Analysis of these data and information forms the vital input for
    management action plans and their implementation.

    The data and information collected about the processes that govern the
    health of the coral reef habitat are vital for management. Since the collected data
    and information (tables, maps) could not be visualized in a comprehensible
    manner for the end users such as policy makers, stake holders, etc., with multiple
    scenarios, a computerized system of presentation equipped with minimum
    analytical tools and enhanced visualisation possibilities is the need of the hour. To
    cater this need, an Integrated Environmental Impact Visualization Tool for Coral
    Reef Environment has been developed using the Arc objects and Map objects of
    Arc GIS in Visual Basic Environment.

    Various GIS software are available to map and monitor the coastal
    resources, but the results from GIS software will not entirely satisfy all the
    research requirements such as, “’dynamic updating”’ the maps or database
    features, trends and dynamic chart analysis, etc. IEIVT-CoRE tool has been
    developed to enhance the capabilities of existing GIS Software and to get the
    desired outputs. The IEIVT-CoRE tool is developed using the Visual
    Basic 6.0 software as front end, Microsoft Access Database as backend. Later the
    programme was integrated with the Arc Object modules of Arc GIS software.

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