Marianne August, Rose L. Medina, Ann M. Dunivan, Lorri A. Peltz
WATER-RELATED SPATIAL-DATA APPLICATIONS
BY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, NEVADA, 1995
ABSTRACT. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cooperates with other Federal, State,
and local water-management agencies to collect hydrologic data for scientific studies in
Nevada. USGS specialists digitize, analyze, and display spatial data to support studies
and activities that improve the knowledge and understanding of Nevada's water
resources. These applications use geographic information systems, remote-sensing data
analysis, near-real-time data transmission, comprehensive relational data bases, and
multidimensional digital models. The following USGS studies and activities in Nevada
have involved spatial-data applications in 1995:
Effects of mining, Humboldt River Basin
Evapotranspiration, Railroad Valley
Geographic information system, Lake Tahoe Basin
Geomorphology, Virgin River area
Ground-water budget, Dayton Valley
Ground-water conditions, Carson Desert and Desert Valley
Ground-water discharge, Ash Meadows
Hydrologic assessment, Walker River Basin
Intermittent recharge, Eagle Valley
Irrigation drainage, Western United States
National Water-Quality Assessment, Nevada Basin and Range study areas
River-basin modeling and hydrologic monitoring, Truckee and Carson Rivers
Spatial data base (geographic information system) of water-rights information, upper Carson River Basin
Water-resources data summary, Nevada, water year 1994
Water-resources evaluation, Spanish Springs Valley.
Marianne August, Physical Scientist, maugust@usgs.gov
Rose L. Medina, Physical Scientist, rlmedina@usgs.gov
Ann M. Dunivan, Physical Scientist
Lorri A. Peltz, Physical Scientist, lapeltz@usgs.gov
U.S. Geological Survey
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Carson City, NV 89706
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