Abstract

Contaminated Site Management: Streamlining GIS Workflow from Data to Delivery
Track: Database Design and Management
Authors: Simon Ross, John Lee, Anna Kjellin

Contaminated site management is a major focus of many environmental consultancies, with projects ranging from small sites requiring rapid investigation to long-term monitoring and remediation of large complex facilities. These projects typically involve substantial, frequent sampling of impacted soil and groundwater producing large volumes of laboratory analytical data. Throughout the project lifecycle further background data is typically acquired from various sources and in various formats. GIS provides the framework for efficient data management, analysis and high-quality visualisation and a systematic GIS workflow is crucial to efficient project delivery.
This presentation details our streamlined process implementing ArcGIS where data from multiple sources (eg MasterMap, EQuIS, EVS/MVS) are integrated in an optimised way. This systematic process substantially improves the efficiency of data acquisition, processing and subsequent visualisation. In addition, use of the ArcGIS Desktop and Server environments extends GIS to a wider user base, freeing specialist GIS staff from day-to-day data management.