Automating online reef report cards: linking land management practices to water quality and coral reef ecosystem health

摘要: This paper describes an online information management system (AORRA) that we are developing for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation (GBRF), in collaboration with State and Federal agencies Australia, to automate production publication of annual Plan Report Cards. The Water Quality Protection is a collaborative program designed improve quality water through improved land practices reef catchments. sets ambitious but achievable targets improvements, identities actions entering reef. success plan measured Paddock Marine Monitoring Programs Cards integrate report on practices, catchment indicators, loads health Reef. technical challenges faced AORRA (Automated Online Reporting Application) including integration heterogeneous monitoring datasets, derivation meaningful indicators generation card products data about complex spatio-temporal environmental processes non-technical audience. (C) 2013 Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.