A Database of Environmental Documents about an Urban Estuary, with a WWW-based, Geographic Interface

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1999
The Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission (HMDC) oversees the Hackensack Meadowlands District, a heavily impacted but ecologically valuable estuary in northeastern New Jersey. The HMDC has hundreds of papers and reports by government agencies, consultants, professors and students on environmental issues within the estuary, collected over many years. Researchers, regulators, consultants and the general public are interested in these documents, but, formerly, there was no systematic way
more » ... look up a document. This paper describes the creation of a database of metadata on these documents and a WWW-based, geographic interface to the database.
doi:10.7282/t3n58kcq fatcat:ng4byzgdyrgm5f7cclnkxkbeha