What is LSDS

What is LSDS?

The Lake Superior Decision Support Project is an effort to develop GIS-based decision support applications focused on the Lake Superior Basin.

These applications are designed for use by a wide audience, including:

	Local governments
	Regional planning agencies
	Resource management groups
	Educational and interpretive organizations
	Advocacy groups
	Individual citizens

The primary goal of the project is to provide users with practical tools they can apply to local land and resource decisions in a context of basin-wide objectives for long-term sustainability and stewardship.

The second goal is to provide tools to interpretive and educational institutions to foster public awareness and support of GIS-based land use decision support.

Together, the GIS applications and databases will provide for

	analysis, assessment and policy development at local and regional scales
	simultaneous consideration of ecological, economic, resource and other phenomena
	prediction of future conditions, based on computer models and extrapolation of current trends. This last capability will be key in focusing efforts on critical locales and situations where the decision support mechanisms developed in this project can be most effectively applied.

The Lake Superior Decision Support project is coordinated through the Center for Water and the Environment at the Natural Resources Research Institute. The project is funded by the USEPA Region 5 Coastal Environmental Management Grant Program through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. For comments on this project or this home page, contact George Host. Last updated: Friday, September 8, 2006
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