2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 USS Arizona Drawings and Underwater GPS Surveys Linked by ArcIMS Track: Archaeology Author(s): Tim Smith, Matt Brown The USS Arizona, a National Historic Landmark (NHL)--the highest level of national historic significance--is among the most recognized and visited war memorials in the nation. Currently more than 1.5 million people annually visit the USS Arizona Memorial, tomb of more than 900 U.S. sailors and the most visible warship lost in World War II. The National Park Service needs baseline data for understanding the complex corrosion processes affecting Arizona's hull, both internally and externally, and modeling and predicting the nature and rate of structural changes. The primary project focus was to develop an attributed Geodatabase of the eight layers of the ship from as-built engineering drawings. These data layers were georeferenced with control points taken by an NPS team of researchers. The geodatabase layers, related photographs, and results from archaeological fieldwork were displayed in a Web interface using ArcIMS and a SQL Server database. Tim Smith National Park Service WASO GIS Program Office 12795 W. Alameda Pwky Lakewood , CO 80228 US Phone: 303.969.2086 E-mail: tim_smith@nps.gov Matt Brown Northrop Grumman Information Technology 200 Union Blvd, Ste 100 Lakewood 80228 US Phone: 720.963.6943 Fax: 720.963.6950 E-mail: matt.brown@ngc.com |
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