GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM ANALYSIS

In the past ten years, a growing technology known as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has become popular in many applications, including agricultural, environmental, marketing, water resource development and water/wastewater systems management. The growing popularity with GIS is apparent when massive amounts of spatially distributed data are visualized to interactively solve complex problems and manage real-time situations.

 

 So what is a GIS?

A GIS can be defined as "a computer-based system used to capture, store, edit, display, analyze and plot geographically referenced data at any scale." In other words, a GIS is a computer-based system that stores and holds information about places on the earth’s surface and allows spatial analysis and manipulation of the data. Computer programs such as spreadsheets, statistical packages and Computer Automated Drafting (CAD) packages cannot perform such analyses because they do not allow spatial analyses or queries.

What can GIS do for you?

A few examples:

Case History: Site Remediation, Northern New Jersey

Managing Environmental Data Only a GIS can keep up with the complexities of spatial data management and the requirements for environmental monitoring and reporting (e.g., water quality data, emission points). A GIS streamlines the data management and makes it easier to share. LBG is routinely using GIS to make environmental data easier to work with and more discernible for clients, regulatory agencies and community groups. Water Utilities Nearly all of the information used to develop and manage drinking water, storm-water and wastewater systems has a geographic component. GIS integrates all kinds of information and applications with a geographic component into one manageable system. The system facilitates management by revealing the geographic relationship between data sets.

Case History: Ramapo River Watershed

Watershed Management The initial step in developing a Watershed Management Plan is to determine the natural resources of the watershed and potential or existing uses which impact the natural system. Once the resources and impacts are adequately determined, and the data obtained and compiled into a GIS, analysis can be conducted. The GIS provides a tool which enables the end user to view and analyze data and becomes a repository of information and data on which future decisions will be made.

For additional information about our GIS services, call us at (800) 818-8LBG, or send e-mail to gis@lbgweb.com.