GIS applications in hazardous waste remediation
- Black and Veatch, Overland Park, KS (United States)
The environmental consulting and remediation market was an estimated $12.5 billion in 1994. A key project activity that impacts remediation decisions, cost recovery, and cleanup confirmation is data collection, analysis and reporting. Hardware and software improvements in the personal computing industry have enabled more people to utilize powerful data analysis and display tools such as geographic information systems (GIS), 2-dimensional geostatistics (contouring), and 3-dimensional presentations of contaminant dispersion. Visualization and modeling tools help portray site characteristics and are used to predict future conditions. Multiple data types are combined to provide full featured images including aerial photographs, utilities, parcel tracts, contaminant contours, land use and zoning, soil types, and digital elevations. Successful use of environmental software depends on ready access to accurate data in digital form. An electronic information management system (EIMS) is an efficient tool to manage environmental data and significantly reduce project costs. Black and Veatch has developed an EIMS, EnviroEDGE, to load and store data from laboratory electronic submittals, perform various data manipulations and maintenance, generate tabular data summaries, and provide data to environmental analysis software.
- OSTI ID:
- 585753
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9705104-; TRN: IM9810%%16
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 12. Annual conference on hazardous waste remediation, Kansas City, MO (United States), 20-22 May 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 12. annual conference on hazardous waste research. Building partnerships for innovative technologies; Erickson, L.E.; Rankin, M.M.; Grant, S.C.; McDonald, J.P. [eds.]; PB: 586 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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