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Abstract
GIS for Air Quality Agricultural Burn Management Program
Track: Environment Management
Author(s): Mohan Balagopalan
This paper presents the use of GIS as a tool for managing the Agricultural Burn Management Program administered by the Air Quality Management Districts in California. The administration of the Burn Management Program requires the air quality official to assess the meteorological conditions to allow agricultural burning on certain days, estimate the acreage burned and to limit the amount of acres daily, and to estimate the emissions from the agricultural burn operations. The paper explores the integration of the output from a burn modeling program with ArcView to assist in the administration of the Burn Management Program.
Mohan Balagopalan
South Coast Air Quality Management District
21865 E.Copley Drive
Diamond Bar, CA 91765-4102
USA
Phone: 909-396-2704
Fax: 909-396-2999
E-mail: mbalagopalan@aqmd.gov