Best Practices for Mission Applications

Using ArcMap as a Tool for Viewing Sediment Sampling Data

—Rose Dopsovic, US Army Corps of Engineers

The Sediment Sampling Toolbar was originally developed under the US Army Corps of Engineers's Charleston District eCoastal implementation project as a means to organize and access all data related to a core boring or sediment testing activity. This ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) toolbar allows users to retrieve detailed Sediment Sample properties (e.g., XY locations, harbor bottom elevation, top of rock elevation, or material characteristics) in correlation with any relevant sediment testing (chemical, biological, or physical) results, and link related document such as Core Boring, Gradation Curves, or Sediment Testing reports.

Through spatial or user-defined attribute queries sample sites can be located in the mapping display. Users can filter locations based on material characteristics found (e.g., shell hash, marl, or clay) at the boring penetration depth or top of rock depth. Detected chemical reports can also be generated from the site samples. User can locate any sample that contains a defined list of chemicals above or below detection limit values. All results are reported as separate data layer in ArcMap's Table of Contents.

This presentation will discuss the underlying supplemental database architecture, required GIS feature classes, and ArcMap tool development and use.