Officials in the Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, were concerned about the aesthetic and natural-resource impacts of an increasing number of docks on Green Pond. They wanted a tool that would allow them to illustrate dock and pier build-out under the existing regulations. They also wanted to show the visual outcome of proposed changes to current dock and pier regulations.
NOAA CSC personnel showed town officials how CanVis can be used to combine dock objects, photography, and Google Earth imagery into simulated illustrations of cumulative impacts, which can then be shown at planning meetings and town meetings.
Bliven, S. and R. Kelty. 2005. Visual Impact Assessment of Small Docks and Piers: Theory and Practice. NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Decision Analysis Series No. 25. National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, MD. 42 pp.
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