2004 UC Proceedings Abstract

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Comparing GIS Data Types Within the Arc Hydro Data Model
Track: Water Resources
Author(s): Elisabetta DeGironimo

The advent of an object-oriented GIS data model has facilitated the use of spatiotemporal hydrological event data. This paper presents the results of a master's thesis entitled "Spatiotemporal Queries of Hydrologic Event Data: A Comparison of GIS Data Types." The objective of this thesis study was to determine if there is a computational advantage to using a geodatabase based on the Arc Hydro data model over the coverage or shapefile data types using ArcGIS software. In order to determine if there was a computational advantage to the geodatabase, thirty queries were constructed and programmed in Visual Basic for Applications and run independently of user intervention against the three data types.



Elisabetta DeGironimo
Mohawk Valley Water Authority
Water Quality
1 Kennedy Plaza
Utica , NY 13502
US
Phone: 315 792-0353
E-mail: edegironimo@mvwa.us