WORKSHOP:INTRODUCING DIVERSITY INTO THE DESIGNED LANDSCAPE — USING GIS
WORKSHOP:INTRODUCING DIVERSITY INTO THE DESIGNED LANDSCAPE — USING GIS |
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May 16, 2001 The instructor for this 1-day workshop is Michael J. Price, Mining Industry Solutions Manager, ESRI, Redlands, California (E-mail: mprice@esri.com). The workshop will address geographic information systems (GIS), a technology that provides essential spatial and database tools to mining engineers and reclamation specialists, allowing them to better plan, manage, and reclaim surface-mining operations. Using GIS tools to compare the premining and postmining surface features (including drainage density, slope, aspect, and relief) can ensure, among other things, positive drainage, stable topography, and reduced sediment yield on mined lands, as well as the appropriate integration and blending of mined lands into the landscape that surrounds them. The workshop will introduce the mining professional to GIS theory and will teach many valuable spatial concepts and procedures now applied in mining to model- reconstructed topography and relief. It will be conducted in a lecture format, with time for student hands-on GIS activities, using individual or shared computers. Workshop materials have been developed from modified data sets describing actual mining operations. Workshop attendees will learn new techniques for managing and analyzing topographic data sets prior to, during, and following surface-mining activities. |