Title GIS technology applications in environmental and earth sciences / Bai Tian

Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 257 pages) : color illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from electronic title page (EbscoHost, viewed August 17, 2018) Subject Environmental sciences -- Remote sensing Environmental sciences -- Remote sensing -- Case studies Earth sciences -- Remote sensing. Earth sciences -- Remote sensing -- Case studies Geographic information systems. Geographic information systems -- Case studies Geographic Information Systems geographic information systems. SCIENCE -- Physics -- Geophysics. SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General. Earth sciences -- Remote sensing Environmental sciences -- Remote sensing Geographic information systems Genre/Form Electronic books geographic information systems. Geographic information systems Case studies Geographic information systems. Systèmes d'information géographique. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781498776059 1498776051 9781315366975 1315366975

Other Titles Geographic information systems echnology applications in environmental and earth sciences

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