information pertinent to specific resource management topics or decisions.
The stakeholder’s toolkit should provide the capability to query or evaluate data or results of models at several levels from general inquiries to
detailed examinations.
12.4.2 Web-Based Visualization
Tools that provide information-rich, visual summaries of complex data,
model results, statistical relationships and decision making should be
among the first additions to the stakeholder’s toolkit. Such tools could
be conveniently and rapidly accessed via the Web and might reasonably
include
• Two- and three-dimensional color graphic displays
• Animated displays of model results and remotely sensed data
• Complex pattern analysis and recognition algorithms
• Audio/video summaries of issues pertinent to the topic of concern
• Interactive analyses and visualization of model results and remotely
sensed data
The use of Web-based visualization tools will depend upon the development of general guidelines for presenting data and the results of models.
12.4.3 Tools for Multiuser Interactions
The toolkit should also facilitate collaborative efforts among various stakeholders or among stakeholders, the technical assessment community, and
decision makers in examining the information basis for specific topic areas
or evaluating decisions regarding particular environmental resources. Such
collaboration might take the form of real-time data sharing, simultaneous
visualization and analysis of data or model results, and the interactive
review and evaluation of decision alternatives and their associated information bases.
Use of this collaborative functionality will increase the transparency of
the technical and policy basis underlying specific resource management
decisions.
12.5 Decision Maker’s Toolkit
Decision makers have multiple requirements for technology to support the
decision-making process that are equally applicable to government agencies, private corporations, individuals, and a host of international organizations. These same requirements are also of an ever-increasing importance
to state and local government decision makers for issues ranging from total
maximum daily loadings to recreation to urban development.
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The stakeholder’s toolkit should provide the capability to query or evaluate data or results of models at several levels from general inquiries to
detailed examinations.
12.4.2 Web-Based Visualization
Tools that provide information-rich, visual summaries of complex data,
model results, statistical relationships and decision making should be
among the first additions to the stakeholder’s toolkit. Such tools could
be conveniently and rapidly accessed via the Web and might reasonably
include
• Two- and three-dimensional color graphic displays
• Animated displays of model results and remotely sensed data
• Complex pattern analysis and recognition algorithms
• Audio/video summaries of issues pertinent to the topic of concern
• Interactive analyses and visualization of model results and remotely
sensed data
The use of Web-based visualization tools will depend upon the development of general guidelines for presenting data and the results of models.
12.4.3 Tools for Multiuser Interactions
The toolkit should also facilitate collaborative efforts among various stakeholders or among stakeholders, the technical assessment community, and
decision makers in examining the information basis for specific topic areas
or evaluating decisions regarding particular environmental resources. Such
collaboration might take the form of real-time data sharing, simultaneous
visualization and analysis of data or model results, and the interactive
review and evaluation of decision alternatives and their associated information bases.
Use of this collaborative functionality will increase the transparency of
the technical and policy basis underlying specific resource management
decisions.
12.5 Decision Maker’s Toolkit
Decision makers have multiple requirements for technology to support the
decision-making process that are equally applicable to government agencies, private corporations, individuals, and a host of international organizations. These same requirements are also of an ever-increasing importance
to state and local government decision makers for issues ranging from total
maximum daily loadings to recreation to urban development.
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