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SiteGIS - analyze and present environmental data used in groundwater subsurface remedial investigations using MapInfo
SiteGIS Categories: GIS, ground-water database programs, visualization software
SiteGIS Description
Introduction to SiteGIS
SiteGIS Features
SiteGIS Traditional Methods
SiteGIS Design
SiteGIS - MapInfo Application
Flexible Data Structure in SiteGIS
SiteGIS Contours
SiteGIS Line Graphs
SiteGIS Printing
SiteGIS Photographs
SiteGIS Requirements
Introduction to SiteGIS
SiteGIS is a Windows-based software package for analyzing and presenting environmental data for soil and groundwater remedial investigations. Groundwater, soil and geology databases are integrated with facility or site maps to prepare data visualization maps, time series charts and geologic sections. SiteGIS is an application for MapInfo, a leading desktop mapping package from MapInfo Corporation.
SiteGIS Features
- Flexible Data Structures
- Contour Plots
- Line Graphs
- Profile Sections
With minimal hardware requirements (basic laptop is adequate), SiteGIS offers GIS capabilities at a reasonable price. Useful even for occasional
users of GIS software.
SiteGIS Traditional Methods
Professionals typically utilize separate CAD, database, spreadsheet, and contouring software to maintain and
analyze environmental data. With years of experimentation and usage, some PC software packages have gained
significant popularity for environmental applications. Use of many different packages, however, has disadvantages.
The user must learn each package, and also be proficient in importing/exporting text and graphics from other
packages. Integration of map features and database information within commercial GIS software alleviates many of
these disadvantages. Nonetheless, some specialized PC software packages are still technically superior for frequently-used operations such as contouring, line graph generation, and database maintenance.
SiteGIS Design
SiteGIS provides a user-friendly interface for analyzing and displaying environmental data within a GIS framework,
and includes a dynamic interface to popular PC software packages for contours and line graphs. SiteGIS is designed to:
- Preserves your current investment: The underlying database structure of SiteGIS is very flexible so little or
no modification to your current database is required.
- Requires minimal training: SiteGIS is a Microsoft Windows application so if you use any Windows software
packages, you are already familiar with many of the basic operations of SiteGIS.
- Seamlessly interfaces with other software: Users specify input parameters of specialized software within
the SiteGIS dialog windows. SiteGIS takes care of the mundane tasks of loading the software, transferring data, and creating plots/graphs and importing the results.
SiteGIS - MapInfo Application
SiteGIS in an application of MapInfo for Windows, a leading desktop mapping software package from MapInfo
Corporation, Troy, New York. Robust geographical features, presentation tools, enhanced SQL querying language,
geographic search and map edit/display features are some of the benefits the MapInfo package provides to a SiteGIS user.
Map data such as StreetInfo digital maps at city, county or state level may be purchased directly from MapInfo or
from third-party data sources such as American Digital Cartography (ADC) and ETAK. Import and export of DXF, DBF, XLS, and ASCII format data are built into SiteGIS. Options to translate data from ARC/INFO, TIGER and
DLG formats are also available in SiteGIS.
Flexible Data Structure in SiteGIS
SiteGIS allows a flexible database structure that can be defined to suit your project needs. Therefore, the upgrade
path from your current database is simple. (Some high-end GIS packages require following a rigid predefined data
structure.) For new projects, guidelines for creating an efficient database structure for SiteGIS are provided. These
guidelines are based on years of experience with respect to creation and management of environmental databases for RCRA- and CERCLA-related site characterization.
SiteGIS Contours
Contouring of stratigraphic elevations, water-table elevations or concentrations of selected chemical parameters
requires a feature-rich contouring module. SiteGIS provides access to Surfer, the most popular commercial
contour software for PCs today. Chances are that you already have Surfer in your organization. If this is the case,
you may also have invested staff training time on Surfer. SiteGIS has easy-to-use interfaces to both the Grid and
Topo modules of Surfer at your fingertips, eliminating the need to take the maps to Surfer in boundary line (BLN) format. Instead, SiteGIS overlays Surfer contours directly on its map window.
SiteGIS Line Graphs
Time-series and other line graphs are plotted directly within Microsoft Excel. Multiple series (such as chemical
concentrations over time for multiple wells) may be selected for plotting. SiteGIS takes care of running Excel,
transferring data and preparing the chart window. You can save customized chart templates specific to your
project and retrieve them for plotting. Once the chart is prepared by SiteGIS, you can annotate it with Excel's text and line drawing tools, highlight data outliers or modify the axis scale, size, and title.
SiteGIS Printing
Printing from SiteGIS is easy. You can use MapInfo Layout options to custom design figures for A- through E-size
plots, and even 35-mm slides. Custom templates with title blocks specific to your organization also can be easily designed. All installed Windows fonts (such as TrueType) are available in SiteGIS.
SiteGIS Photographs
You can scan aerial photographs on today's scanners (e.g., HP ScanJet) and import them easily into MapInfo.
TIFF, JPG, GIF, SPOT, PCX and many other formats are supported. Field photos (35-mm) may also be instantly accessed in SiteGIS.
SiteGIS Requirements
Pentium with 8 MB RAM, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, MapInfo 3.0/4.0, Surfer and Microsoft Excel 4.0/5.0/7.0.
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