Information System for Environmental Technologies

• Main Author: Gomez Hernandez, Maria del Carmen
• Format: Others
• Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2005
• Subjects: GIS; Web Maps; Environmental Systems
• Online Access: http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/235; http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1239&context=td

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) play an important role in environmental management solutions, and they are being used with increasing frequency in environmental studies. The use of GIS technology in environmental studies provides a better way to manage, analyze, display and share the information. In this thesis, I automated a process for constructing GIS maps of odor complaints and inspections that have been used to study odor complaints in the vicinity of three landfills in Jefferson Parish. I provided an application that integrates daily environmental observation and monitoring data into a GIS and publishes the resulting maps through the Internet. The user's interaction with the web-based maps does not require any GIS expertise. A Webapplication was also implemented for managing the list of the constructed maps. The maps are deleted or updated through the manager application, a friendly interface application that does not require users to have any GIS technology knowledge.