GIS technology applications in environmental and earth sciences /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tian, Bai (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business, [2017]
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.