Abstract
Turning Data into Information at Wolf Creek Dam
Track: Database Design, Automation, and Management
Author(s): Mark Elson, Laura Benneyworth
AMEC and the USACE, Nashville District have used some of the latest data technologies to provide an integrated project database to assist the USACE in analyzing the vast amount of historical and current data associated with design, construction, investigations and rehabilitation of the dam. AMEC developed a GIS personal geodatabase that includes links to spatial features, CADD drawings, image files, data reports, hand-written boring logs, spreadsheets and historical photos. The resulting information is made available through a ArcGIS Server-based search engine and interactive map viewer, and well as in a 3D site model. The end result provides USACE with ready access to integrated data, in a comprehensive, easy to understand, visual format. This integrated database management system provides 'real time' access to data to an unlimited number of users, with no special software or expertise required. The tools developed for the project will provide the USACE a means to quickly evaluate site data, effectively perform analyses, and communicate results.
Mark Elson
USACE
PO Box 1070
Nashville , Tennessee 37202
United States
Phone: 615-736-7897
E-mail: Mark.S.Elson@usace.army.mil
Laura Benneyworth
AMEC
3800 Ezell Rd
Siute 100
Nashville , Tennessee 37211
United States
Phone: 615-333-0630
E-mail: laura.benneyworth@amec.com