Mapping and GIS capacity building in American Samoa
Wright D. Mapping and GIS capacity building in American Samoa. In Author unknown: 22nd Annual ESRI User Conference. San Diego, CA. 2002
"This paper presents an overview of ongoing GIS initiatives on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, as well as recent challenges encountered in building local GIS infrastructure for a territory-wide GIS, including maintenance and update of GIS data layers, software, and action items for project initiatives. Reviewed also are the results of recent multibeam bathymetric surveys in 2001 and 2002, to obtain complete topographic coverage of several sites around Tutuila; and the integration of these and other baseline data into GIS to facilitate research directions and future management decisions within the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary."