{"id":25338,"date":"2023-05-31T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/?p=25338"},"modified":"2023-12-22T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T18:18:14","slug":"monmouth-students-developing-mobile-version-of-mid-atlantic-ocean-data-portal-map-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2023\/05\/31\/monmouth-students-developing-mobile-version-of-mid-atlantic-ocean-data-portal-map-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Monmouth Students Developing Mobile Version of Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal Map Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: MACO Forum Poster Presentation: Beagell, Spencer &amp;amp; Taylor\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 281px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bKvdw9ee9CU?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of Monmouth University computer science students has created a mobile app version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.midatlanticocean.org\/\">Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal<\/a> that will allow Android and iPhone users to quickly search and view thousands of maps showing natural features and human activities at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group unveiled a beta version of the app and invited attendees to test it during a poster session at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midatlanticocean.org\/mid-atlantic-ocean-forum\/2023-mid-atlantic-ocean-forum\/\">Mid-Atlantic Ocean Forum<\/a>, held May 18 at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City. (Watch the video above for a demonstration.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 2023 graduates Nolan Beagell, Chelsea Spencer and Ava Taylor developed the iOS and Android apps as their capstone project as part of the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department\u2019s CS-492 Senior Project course taught by Specialist Professor Raman Lakshmanan. The student team spent the fall semester gathering the requirements and defining a detailed design. This included researching the web Portal, gathering information from Portal Project Manager and Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Communications Director Karl Vilacoba, and the Portal&#8217;s developer, Ecotrust Senior Software Developer Ryan Hodges. In the spring the group\u2019s attention turned toward implementation and testing of the apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" style=\"object-position: 46.1825% 34.4025%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"From l-r: Monmouth University Specialist Professor Dr. Raman Lakshmanan, Ecotrust Senior Software Developer Ryan Hodges, student Nolan Beagell, UCI Communications Director Karl Vilacoba, and students Chelsea Spencer and Ava Taylor at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Forum in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-25339\" style=\"width:1024px;height:683px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/DSC07043.jpg 6000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>From l-r: Monmouth University Specialist Professor Raman Lakshmanan, Ecotrust Senior Software Developer Ryan Hodges, student Nolan Beagell, UCI Communications Director Karl Vilacoba, and students Chelsea Spencer and Ava Taylor at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Forum.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portal is a free and publicly accessible GIS mapping and information site focused on ocean areas from New York through Virginia. It contains over 6,000 interactive maps showing shipping traffic patterns, marine life habitats, offshore wind infrastructure, fishing grounds, military training zones, shipwreck locations and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portal has been used for a broad range of purposes, such as siting offshore wind projects, designing undersea telecom cable routes, Coast Guard studies on shipping lanes and anchorage areas, and marine science education. It is maintained by a technical team consisting of researchers from the UCI, Rutgers University, Duke University, the New York Department of State, and Ecotrust, under the guidance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midatlanticocean.org\/\">Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean<\/a> (MARCO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/AIS-monmouth-1024x692.png\" alt=\"A Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal map showing 2022 vessel traffic patterns off the Monmouth County coast. \" class=\"wp-image-25342\" style=\"width:512px;height:346px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/AIS-monmouth-1024x692.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/AIS-monmouth-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/AIS-monmouth-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/AIS-monmouth-150x101.png 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2023\/05\/AIS-monmouth.png 1293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal map showing 2022 vessel traffic patterns off the Monmouth County coast.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The team\u2019s mission was to create a scaled-down version of the Portal\u2019s mapping application (Marine Planner) that would be more compatible with mobile devices. The group\u2019s design does away with some Portal tools that are more appropriate for desktop environments and focuses on making it simple for a user to view its map layers on a phone screen or tablet. As a replacement for the desktop version\u2019s Bookmarks tool, the team created a \u201cFavorites\u201d function which allows users to save maps they\u2019re interested in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019d like to add a map layer to your Favorites, which saves all your data so you can have easy access to a layer that you\u2019d like to use [in the future], you can hit the heart and it will add it,\u201d Beagell explains in the video demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students designed the app so it would automatically present newly added maps on the Portal. As a result, the app\u2019s maps would be in sync with the Portal presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were floored by what an on-brand, easy-to-use product the team put together,\u201d Vilacoba said. \u201cWe believe it could open up the Portal\u2019s trove of ocean data to totally new user groups and use cases. For example, an angler at sea could use their phone to scan for nearby artificial reefs or shipwrecks, which wouldn\u2019t have been possible before unless the boat had a computer aboard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProjects like these help our students gain valuable real-world experiences in developing software solutions from start to finish and also to present at an event like Mid Atlantic Ocean Forum,\u201d Lakshmanan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vilacoba, Hodges and MARCO will continue to work with Professor Lakshmanan and Monmouth students to test and fine-tune the app, with public releases in the Apple\u2019s app and Android\u2019s Google Play stores in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Monmouth University computer science students has created a mobile app version of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal that will allow Android and iPhone users to quickly search and view thousands of maps showing natural features and human activities at sea. 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