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Track: Environmental Management
Terry Jackson
Georgia Department of Community Affairs
60 Executive Park South NE
Atlanta, GA 30329-2231
Telephone: 404-679-4946
Fax: 404-679-0572
E-mail: redeagle@mindspring.com
Frank Schnell
Desktop GIS for Regional Cultural Resource Management of Archaeological Sites
Defining Issue: Integrate a large legacy database of cultural resource information into a state-wide and regional environmental database for desktop GIS applications to support the resource management decision making processes. GIS Solution: The legacy database of cultural resource site information was loaded into Microsoft Access RDBMS and then linked to the map database via ArcView's open data base connectivity (ODBC) functionality. Methodology: Over 7,000 archaeological sites in over sixty Georgia and Alabama counties were mapped using ArcView's software event theme tools. A USGS-developed 1:24,000-scale flood extent model of the Flint and Ocmulgee river systems during the 1994 tropical storm Alberto was overlaid to identify over 1,500 flood-impacted sites. Cultural resource managers are using these models to focus their research on the erosion of sites within the large reservoirs. Site investigations will provide additional ground truth information to refine the USGS flood extent models. ArcView
software's standard suite of visualization and spatial analysis tools help managers map sites on digital orthophoto quadrangle images and to identify and summarize flood impact by hydrological unit code (HUC) regions, county or other regions in the GIS database. Software: The software systems included Microsoft Access RDBMS, Microsoft ODBC driver pack, and ArcView Versions 2.1 and 3.0.
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