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| Title | Visual Sample Plan (VSP) Software: Designs and Data Analyses for Sampling Contaminated Buildings |
| Creator/Author | Pulsipher, Brent A. ; Wilson, John E. ; Gilbert, Richard O. ; Nuffer, Lisa L. ; Hassig, Nancy L. |
| Publication Date | 2005 May 11 |
| OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 891436 |
| Report Number(s) | PNNL-SA-44630 |
| DOE Contract Number | AC05-76RL01830 |
| Other Number(s) | TRN: US200621%%796 |
| Resource Type | Conference |
| Resource Relation | Conference: Proceedings of 24th Annual National Conference on Managing Environmental Quality Systems, San Diego April 11-14, 2005, 24-2-2 |
| Research Org | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US) |
| Sponsoring Org | USDOE |
| Subject | 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; CONTAMINATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECONTAMINATION; RADIOISOTOPES; SAMPLING; COMPUTER CODES; BUILDINGS; SABOTAGE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN |
| Related Subject | Visual Sample Plan (VSP); statistics; building contamination |
| Description/Abstract | A new module of the Visual Sample Plan (VSP) software has been developed to provide sampling designs and data analyses for potentially contaminated buildings. An important application is assessing levels of contamination in buildings after a terrorist attack. This new module, funded by DHS through the Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office, Technical Support Working Group, was developed to provide a tailored, user-friendly and visually-orientated buildings module within the existing VSP software toolkit, the latest version of which can be downloaded from http://dqo.pnl.gov/vsp. In case of, or when planning against, a chemical, biological, or radionuclide release within a building, the VSP module can be used to quickly and easily develop and visualize technically defensible sampling schemes for walls, floors, ceilings, and other surfaces to statistically determine if contamination is present, its magnitude and extent throughout the building and if decontamination has been effective. This paper demonstrates the features of this new VSP buildings module, which include: the ability to import building floor plans or to easily draw, manipulate, and view rooms in several ways; being able to insert doors, windows and annotations into a room; 3-D graphic room views with surfaces labeled and floor plans that show building zones that have separate air handing units. The paper will also discuss the statistical design and data analysis options available in the buildings module. Design objectives supported include comparing an average to a threshold when the data distribution is normal or unknown, and comparing measurements to a threshold to detect hotspots or to insure most of the area is uncontaminated when the data distribution is normal or unknown. |
| Publisher | US EPA,Washington,,United States. |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Language | English |
| Format | Medium: X |
| System Entry Date | 2008 Feb 28 |
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