GIS-4: ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING

Order No:

GIS-4

Total Length:

300 minutes



Using Vector-Based GIS Technology to Facilitate Nonpoint Sediment Delivery Modeling

Reference No:

GIS 4-1

Describes an automated process for identifying surfacewater flow linkages between individual farm fields in a watershed using a TIN-based digital elevation model. Research is part of an effort to automate data collection procedures for the Wisconsin Nonpoint Model (WIN), an agricultural water quality model used by the State Department of Natural Resources to access soil erosion and sediment delivery from rural lands to streams and lakes and to evaluate sediment reduction from critical areas by installation of best management practices. Presents an alternative to traditional raster (grid-cell) approaches to agriculture nonpoint modeling.

Lecturer:

  • Peter G. Thum, Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

35 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-6-1, GIS-6-2, GIS-24-4, GIS-24-5

 

Land Use Policy Analysis with GIS- San Francisco Bay Estuary

Reference No:

GIS 4-2

Combining existing Land Use Maps and a Digital version of General/Area Plans with Census-Based Population Growth, Topographic Position, Parcelization and Urbanization Trends to produce a Growth Scenario Map.

Lecturer:

  • Kenneth D. Gardels, Spatial Information Systems Laboratory, Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

41 minutes

Year of
entation:

1990

 

Integrating GIS With Predictive Models

Reference No:

GIS 4-3

Analysis of USAF Project to Assess Aircraft Noise Impact through a Raster-Based GIS, a Relational Database, a Collection of Environmental Models and an Interface oriented to the needs of Air Force Personnel.

Lecturer:

  • Nicolaas H. Reddingius, Acentech Inc., Canoga Park, CA

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

26 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

 

Utilization of GIS in Selection of a Hazardous Waste Disposal Site in New Jersey Piedmont Province

Reference No:

GIS 4-4

Using ERDAS/AT, a Raster-Based GIS and Image Processing System, to study the interrelationship of Complex Surface Data Parameters.

Lecturer:

  • Sima Bagheri, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

24 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-7

 

Simulating Future Land Use Patterns in the Sierran Foothills Using GIS

Reference No:

GIS 4-5

Two main objectives of study: (1) to project settlement patterns and land use change patterns in the central Sierras and, (2) estimate impacts of settlement on a variety of natural resources. In the study, incrementalism will be addressed, as well as the cumulative impact of development over a period of time for all resources, using a multi-county approach.

Lecturer:

  • Robin Marose, GIS Manager and Analyst,
    (FRRAP) Forest and Rangeland Resources Assessment Program

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

25 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-7

 

The Integration of Soil and Water Resource Models with the Grass GIS for Resource Analysis and Planning

Reference No:

GIS 4-6

USDA-ASCS, the current national leader in digitizing soil surveys, has decided at a national level that GRASS (Unix-based) would be the GIS of choice throughout the country. Descriptions of models and limitations of DOS-based systems.

Lecturer:

  • Paul Fukuhara, Computer Systems Analyst, National Cartographic Center USDA Soil Conservation Service, Ft. Worth, TX

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

27 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

 

Sampling the Countryside: GIS for the Detection and Prediction of Rural Change

Reference No:

GIS 4-7

In 1990, the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology completed a survey of the land use and vegetation of Great Britain, repeating and extending the earlier surveys of 1978 and 1984.

The surveys, which were structured using the ITE Land Classification, were funded by government departments and the information collected is being used to assist in central decision making.

GIS is being used at several different levels: checking information recorded in the field; incorporating remotely sensed imagery; comparing individual survey sites; linking other census and surveyed information; and presenting the results.

The scale selected has proven successful for use at both regional and national levels.

Lecturer:

  • David C. Howard, Natural Environment Research Council,
    Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

19 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-6-6

 

Oil and Gas Well Drill Site Location Analysis in the Targhee National Forest, Idaho

Reference No:

GIS 4-8

A vector-based GIS for a portion of Bonneville county, Idaho, is being used to develop and demonstrate the use of GIS techniques in the selection of oil and gas well drilling sites. The analysis capabilities of the GIS model created here allows the user to ask a complex environmental question, such as "Locate all areas that are within 500 feet of the normal high waterline of any and all streams, lakes, ponds and reservoirs." Such a GIS is central to the development of environmental policies concerning oil and gas drilling. Applicable to sites for power plants, landfills and sub-divisions.

Lecturer:

  • Thomas Tracey, Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

20 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

 

The Application of a GIS System for Optimizing Multiple Land Use: The Problems of Forestry in an Urban Region

Reference No:

GIS 4-9

At the University of Agriculture in Vienna, a GIS application is being developed using ARC/INFO software, which uses different layers of environmental information in order to optimize land use according to a user-defined system of preferences.

By applying a ranking system of preferences, each part of the evaluated areas can be assigned those types of land use which are without negative impacts on higher-ranked types.

Lecturer:

  • Andreas Ottisch, University of Agriculture, Vienna, Austria

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Duration:

28 minutes

Year of
Presentation:

1990

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-42

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