GIS technology applications in environmental and earth sciences /
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- General overview of GIS
- What Is GIS?
- GIS data
- Freeware/shareware metadata tools
- Commercial metadata tools
- Coordinate systems and projections
- Spatial data and metadata standards and relevant guidelines
- GIS history
- Major GIS software products
- Major open-source GIS software products
- Major commercial GIS software vendors and products
- GIS technology widely used in environmental and earth sciences
- Collecting field data more efficiently with GIS and GPS technologies
- Trimble GPS Pathfinder Office and TerraSync software packages
- Garmin handheld GPS navigators and GPS utility software
- ESRI ArcPad software
- Field data collecting, processing and mapping for former Camp Sibert
- Data collecting, processing, managing and mapping for three large-scale regional and nationwide MMRP site inspections (SI) related projects (total: 1063 sites)
- FUDS MMRP site inspections (SI), SE and SW regions (total: 625 sites)
- U.S. Army National Guard Bureau NDNODS site inspections (SI), eastern region (247 sites)
- Nationwide chemical warfare materiel (CWM) scoping and security study (total: 91 sites)
- Locating and destroying final two caches of chemical weapons in Libya
- Processing and analyzing data to extract useful and meaningful information
- Statistically analyzing existing geophysical survey data to predict possible anomalies in adjacent unknown areas
- Analyzing recent, historical aerial photos/drawings and LiDAR to identify and delineate environmentally impacted areas
- Recent aerial photo analysis
- (Site 2A of former Camp Sibert) and 3.4 (Tanapag Fuel Farm): Analyzing historical aerial photos and drawings
- Analyzing high-resolution LiDAR data
- Topographic slope analysis
- Geophysical anomaly Density Analysis
- Chemical concentration analysis
- Analyzing groundwater elevations and flow directions with GIS
- Virgin Islands National Park general management plan/environmental Impact Statement
- Alternative A
- Alternative B
- Mapping and analyzing geology data with GIS
- Geologic mapping
- Creating 3D maps and studying them with virtual reality (VR) technology
- Processing and mapping geologic data more efficiently with GIS
- Data modeling and visualization
- EquIS
- Groundwater modeling system (GMS)
- Environmental visualization system (EVS Pro)
- RockWorks
- Modeling and visualizing a contaminated groundwater plume in NASB
- Modeling and visualizing a contaminated groundwater plume at an industrial site in Bloomfield, Connecticut
- Modeling and visualizing the contaminated soil at Site 2A, inside the former Camp Sibert
- Modeling and visualizing the contaminated soil in Bronx Criminal Court Complex, New York City
- Other data displaying and visualizing techniques
- Using tags, pie charts, and color-shaded contours to display chemical and geologic data
- Linking pictures, water well diagrams, geologic cross sections, graphics and other information to spatial features in a GIS map
- Sharing GIS data and maps through the internet
- Examples of some popular geospatial data and mapping websites and FTP sites of the UN, EU, national and local government agencies, industries and institutions
- A GIS web-based application developed for the environmental investigations at the former Camp Sibert.