Spatial Analysis
Most natural resource issues have a significant spatial component, such as the distribution of land use in a watershed, proximity of human populations to a contaminated site or accident, or the degree of habitat fragmentation in an ecosystem. Because of this, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology is used extensively in Argonne's Environmental Science Division (EVS) to visualize, analyze, and model natural resource data for management and problem solving. GIS projects in EVS are involved with many disciplinary areas, including air quality, cultural resources, ecology, emergency planning, hazardous waste management, geology and soils, hydrology and water resources, land use planning and management, noise, public communication, radiological waste management, recreation, risk analysis, socioeconomics and environmental justice, transportation, and visual resources. Experts in these areas work with GIS staff to take advantage of the technology for their projects.
The EVS staff expertise in GIS includes cartographic production, database compilation, file conversion and editing, metadata development, programming of processing algorithms and graphical user interfaces, remote sensing, spatial analysis, spatial modeling and model integration, visualization, and web enabled GIS. Projects providing GIS at EVS are diverse and innovative. Examples include development of turnkey GIS systems, web sites with interactive GIS elements, environmental modeling, visualization, and production of data and maps to support natural resource management and planning projects.
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