Illinois geographic information system : applications to environmental management PDF
Preview Illinois geographic information system : applications to environmental management
LIBRARY. JUN 1 2 1997 ocul ourtVEY IL Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/illinoisgeograph140krum s Sx^o^m QjlJ. £6N WO GEOGRAPHIC ILLINOIS INFORMATION SYSTEM Applications to Environmental Management Robert J. Krumm and Anne L. Erdmann Illinois State Geological Survey Mark G. Joselyn Illinois Natural History Survey 1991 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY 140 Department of Energy and Natural Resources ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LIBRARY. IffjNO'SSTATEGEOLOGICALSURVEY 3 3051 00005 4522 GEOGRAPHIC ILLINOIS INFORMATION SYSTEM Applications to Environmental Management Robert J. Krumm and Anne L. Erdmann Illinois State Geological Survey Mark G. Joselyn Illinois Natural History Survey suit #**? 1991 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY 140 ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Morris W. Leighton, Chief Natural Resources Building 615 East Peabody Drive Champaign, Illinois 61820 1 CONTENTS ABSTRACT 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY 3 Managing Map Data in a GIS 3 GIS Compared with CAD/CAM 4 GIS Usefulness 5 ILLINOIS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM 7 Hardware 7 Software 9 IGIS Databases 10 Staff 14 OPERATIONS OF THE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM 15 Data Input 15 Data Quality 17 Data Manipulation 17 Data Output 22 EXAMPLES OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATIONS 24 At the State Level: Earthquake Intensity Mapping 24 At the County Level: Siting a Landfill In Champaign County, Illinois 24 At the Local Level: Siting the Superconducting Super Collider in Northeastern Illinois 27 SUMMARY 31 — FURTHER INFORMATION ENR AGENCIES 32 REFERENCES 32 TABLE 1 Statewide data sets on the Illinois Geographic Information System 12 FIGURES 1 Three common GIS data formats 3 2 Example showing how topology establishes relationships between polygon and line features 4 3 Network of hardware linking users of the Illinois Geographic Information System 8 4 Link between ARC and INFO 10 5 Extent of coal-area database mapping 13 6 Steps in producing a GIS map 16 7 (a) Rantoul quadrangle, Champaign County, Illinois, (b) Clipping procedure. (c) Reselection procedure, (d) Buffering procedure. 18 8 Land use and soil parent materials in part of the Rantoul quadrangle 20 9 Perry County with mine buffers, land use, and townships 23 10 Modified Mercalli Intensity Zone map developed by overlaying unconsolidated Quaternary deposits on calculated intensities 25 1 Relate table used with the dissolve function to create a new map from existing data 26 12 Slice-unit map for Champaign County showing the lithology of the glacial deposits from 60 to 75 feet below ground surface 27 13 Options for siting the west campus of the Superconducting Super Collider 29 Note: The use ofspecific hardware and softwareproduct names is forinformationalpurposes only and does notconstitute an endorsementby either the Illinois State Geological Survey or the Illinois Department ofEnergy and Natural Resources. Printedby the authority of the State of Illinois 1991/1000.
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