The Risked Species Decision Support System

Covers the commitment part of legislation (Species At RiskAct) that was passed by the government of Canada in 20013 to recover and protect plant wildlife population that is risked to get extinct in Canada. Such SDSS is important because there is no system used currently that covers the storing, retrieving and interpreting of information to on risked species and the habitat that they adopt which is critically important. Such SDSS needs highly desirable to design to create and design networks, infrastructure and an application which has the ability to link scattered data sources into integrated form to manage it and help in forming decision support system. The system will be built with the architecture being defined to meet WildSpacedecision support system. The user interface will have different groups such as the internet, extranet, and intranet. The Risked species decision support system will be complex and requires best practice to design a database which will behave optimum balance among storage and maintenance and the performance of application being used. This will provide timely provided information to the species at risk practitioners for better decision making.

Wong discusses the great threat imposed on certain several biological diversities which provokes the need to call for innovative approach and techniques to determine the risk and the damage caused by anthropogenic activities. The extinction of many species recently calls for an insisting appeal on the concerned stack holders for the protection of risked species and environment. The protection of extinction risked species requires timely, precise and spatially related information to bring into account the computer-based materials to cover the information required to protect the risked species which can include their natural history, distribution, population, and threats imposed. The need for such system is important as there is no such SDSS used currently (2007) which can store information about the risked species that can help protect them and provide a chance for its population growth.

For successful SDSS of this issue, the system should be a multi-viable architecture that tends to receive and accepts protocols. This will be treated as next generation of WILDSPACE DSS and it will be based on web and will have servers spread over the vast area to provide information about Species, their habitat (Spatially related), the threat imposed to them. The next-generation SDSS will have the tractability to collar multispecies and multi-ratio habitat and population queries in order to asses’ likely actions for protection.

The concerned users (both local and remotely) will need access to all the information on servers repeatedly and simultaneously. The users will be able to upload updated information, use the existing information for analysis through permissions. The next generation of this SDSS will have a client-server model designed through web server technology. This system will be able to interact between software processes which are executing concurrently. TheNext Generation system will run database which will follow many to one relationship.

This SDSS (WILDSPACE) will have will be able to support three types of clients (Internet, Intranet, and Extranet). The intranet will be used within the department or within an organization and will not need external connection linking to the globe. The intranet will be able to imply new application, sealing efficacy, easy user interface so that requirement for training will be minimized. Extranet will provide access to users from other departments which will represent agencies that are in partnership. While external stack holders can be provided access through internet which can be protected through the virtual private network. This client network design will be able to carry out certain several processes automatically. The information shared will be highly secured it will have access to stack holders through an extranet.

The collection of the server for this SDSS will consist of web servers, map servers and database servers. The Web Servers will use Hyper Text Mark-upLanguage which will connect to users via web servers. The second part of the server will use a structured query language to develop a database that will provide data requests through SQL to clients. The MapServer will be responsible for publishing maps on the web. The maps published will follow the standards of OGC (open GIS consortium). It will provide maps in the form of the Bitmap image. This next generation of SDSS will have a markup language that will be extensible which will be used prominently.

The web-based application is often easily attacked and WILDSPACE system will have sensitive data which will be protected by following several security mechanisms.

The DBMS design will help understand the need for recovery of species endangered. The WILDSPACE SDSS will consist of layers that will join the data where the incident occurs, the habitat, population, environmental constraints and type of risk with respect to locational values. The DBMS will be linked with maps. Sites, where species are endangered, will be mapped and it will be linked with the data nonspatial data associated with it through queries carried out through SQL. Many to one type of relationship will be built. Life history data, occurrence location, suitability of habitat through time and the monitoring data will be connected to species at risk which will form many to one relationship.