SLAMM-View


SLAMM-View is a web browser-based application that provides advanced tools for improving our understanding of results from research projects that employ the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM).

Version 2.0 of SLAMM-View was designed for a user-friendly, workflow-based approach to assess impacts of sea-level rise (SLR) on wetlands of coastal areas with both visualization and analysis functionality. SLAMM-View provides simultaneous comparison between both current and future conditions out to the year 2100, and among different SLR scenarios (e.g., 0.4 meter vs. 1 meter), using interactive maps and tabular reporting capabilities.

Features

SLAMM-View 2.0 was designed to build upon the best innovations of the initial version, and to improve user-friendliness by employing a guided workflow approach, to direct the user through the necessary choices to arrive at the desired visualization and analysis result. In addition to the guided workflow, two other primary features were added:
  1. Multi-Map view that provides the simultaneous comparison of SLAMM simulation results through time and between output from different scenarios.
  2. Analysis tools that provide a summary Report that provides absolute and percentagewise changes for each SLAMM cover class through time for each scenario. The Report is both printable and downloadable in spreadsheet (e.g., Excel) compatible format.

SLAMM-View – SaaS in the Cloud

The SLAMM-View Portal (www.slammview.org), maintained by the Chesapeake Bay Field Office of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), is an outstanding example of cooperation between the Washington Office and a Field Office in managing a tool of national significance. The SLAMM application is the first and only USFWS application that operates in the "Cloud", utilizing the Amazon EC2 virtual computing environment. SLAMM-View was operational in the cloud environment prior to Office of Management and Budget requirements.

To develop SLAMM-View rapidly – a prototype was developed in 3 days – Image Matters leveraged its userSmartsR software technologies. userSmarts is an extensible Web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that adds geo-social intelligence to business environments. It is used for rapid development and deployment of context-sensitive Web applications, with an extensible standards-based framework for efficient integration of distributed Web resources. Applications range from simple services to advanced Web dissemination and analysis systems with geospatial workflows.