Added more times to next week’s Office Hours session
March 10, 2010
Due to the popularity of next week’s Office Hours session “ArcGIS Series, Part 1: ArcGIS and EQuIS Professional”, we have added two more times for anyone else who would like to sign up.
Update: The Thursday, 11am ET (-5 GMT) is now full and the Friday, March 19th, at 11am EST (-5 GMT) is nearly full.
If you are unable to attend one of the other sessions, a recording of the session will be available for download after the session.
You can sign up for this session on the Office Hours page or by sending an email to officehours@earthsoft.com.
EQuIS for ArcGIS and C Tech EnterVol – March 2010
March 8, 2010
Download EarthSoft Video: EQuIS for ArcGIS and CTech EnterVol_March 2010
[length 14:40] [86MB]
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This EarthSoft video demos EQuIS for ArcGIS and CTech’s EnterVol. EnterVol offers the power of C Tech’s volumetric modeling inside of ESRI’s ArcGIS® environment. EnterVol ushers in a new world of volumetric analysis, modeling and visualization to the one million ArcGIS users worldwide.
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Table of Contents
Export Pregeology 00:08
Create Geologic Hierarchy 00:59
Visualize Solid Geologic Model 02:45
Export Geology as ESRI ShapeFile 04:54
Export 3D Chemistry 05:24
Visualize Chemistry and Geology 06:26
Export Chemical Plume as ESRI ShapeFile 07:07
Visualize with ArcScene 07:35
CTech’s EnterVol 09:38
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Upcoming Office Hours- ArcGIS Series, Part 1: ArcGIS and EQuIS Professional- March 18, 2010
March 8, 2010
ESRI’s ArcGIS is a complete system for authoring, serving, and using geographic information. It is an integrated collection of GIS software products for building and deploying a complete GIS wherever it is needed
The EQuIS for ArcGIS extension adds powerful geospatial analysis capabilities to this revolutionary platform. This Office Hours session is the first in a 3-part series and will serve to demonstrate several of the features available in the EQuIS for ArcGIS interface.
These sessions will be held at 5am EST (-5 GMT), 11am ET (-5 GMT) and 6pm ET (-5 GMT) on March 18th and another the following day, March 19th, at 11am EST (-5 GMT).
(edited to reflect additional times due to this session’s popularity)
To sign up for a session, please send us an email at officehours@earthsoft.com or register on the Office Hours page and indicate your session of preference. Note that spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
EarthSoft Featured in Lake and Reservoir Managment Case Study
March 4, 2010
Lake and Reservoir Management
Managing the lakes of the Rotorua District, New Zealand
Noel Burns, John McIntosh and Paul Scholes, Lakes Consulting, PE/175 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna, 0622, New Zealand, Environment Bay of Plenty, 5 Quay St., Whakatane, New Zealand
Abstract
Burns N.M., McIntosh J., Scholes P. 2009. Managing the lakes of the Rotorua District, New Zealand. Lake Reserv. Manage. 25:284–296.
In 2005, Burns, McIntosh and Scholes described strategies to manage the Rotorua Lakes using lake monitoring together with designated baseline Trophic Level Index values established for each lake. Continued monitoring has revealed that 9 of the 12 Rotorua Lakes have Trophic Level Index values in excess of their baseline values. Action Plans have been drawn up for the remediation of these damaged lakes that specify the excess nutrient loading to each lake and propose actions for the decrease of these loadings. Nutrient loading to various lakes has been decreased by upgrading waste treatment facilities, dosing tributary streams with alum, diverting an enriched tributary flow directly into the outflow channel of a lake, precipitating in-lake phosphorus with PhoslockTM and zeolite additions, and removal of macrophyte biomass from a lake and planting an artificial wetland at the entry point of a tributary to a lake. Where data are available, the results of these actions are explored. The similarities between the management system for the Rotorua lakes with the management systems used for two American and European lakes are described. Key words: action plans, trophic level criteria, water quality criteria, trophic level indexes
The twelve Rotorua Lakes lie in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand in what is know as the Central Volcanic Plateau (Fig. 1) and vary widely in character. The beauty of the lakes, together with the interesting geothermal features of the region, have resulted in the Rotorua District being one of the most important national tourist and sport fisheries area of New Zealand. The region also supports a significant amount of successful farming and forestry. The sustainable management of the Rotorua Lakes is the legal responsibility of the Environment Bay of Plenty (EnvBOP) Regional Council.Water quality of the Rotorua Lakes began to change in the early 1900s soon after European settlement of their catchments. A program of routine monitoring of the lakes was started in 1990 by EnvBOP and intensified in 1999 when strategies to halt the deterioration of all the lakes were put into place by EnvBOP (described in detail in Burns et al. 2005). Statutory legislation supporting this management strategy is contained in EnvBOP’s Water and Land Plan (W&LP). This article is a sequel to the previous article (Burns et al. 2005) and describes the strategies, their implementation, their refinement with time and some results of the actions that have been taken.
Background
The Rotorua Lakes are considered to be a national resource in NewZealand.Widespread public concern about the degradation of many of these lakes prompted an investigation and report by the New Zealand arliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (2006). His report endorsed the strategy for restoration of the Rotorua Lakes and led to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Crown (New Zealand Government) and the Rotorua Lakes Strategy Group, consisting of the Te Arana Lakes Trust, the Rotorua District Council and EnvBOP (EnvBOP 2007a). The Memorandum endorsed the use of the Trophic Level Index (TLI) system together with the TLI targets included in the W&LP. Subsequent to the signing of this agreement, the New Zealand government agreed to pay NZ$72 million toward the estimated cost of NZ$144 million for the planned remedial work to improve the damaged lakes. In 2006, the Government of New Zealand signed an agreement with the TeArawa Maori Trust Board transferring legal title to the Rotorua lakebeds to the local Maori people, while protecting public access, as a partial redress for past actions against the Maori people. This does not currently change EnvBOP’s management role.
For the complete case study, including Methods, Results and Discussion and References, click here.
EarthSoft featured in MicroSoft’s Case Studies
March 3, 2010
EarthSoft was recently featured in MicroSoft’s case studies due to EQuIS being specifically designed for SQL Server 2008.
“Manage and standardize all your environmental and sampling data — efficiently and cost-effectively.
In our increasingly ecologically conscious society, the demand for environmental data is growing rapidly. Regulatory bodies and government agencies require detailed and comprehensive environmental data, such as water, soils, sediments or air quality data collected from sampling events. However, it’s often time-consuming and costly for companies involved in generating, handling or receiving such large volumes of data. In addition, a lack of standardization means that this data can arrive in a variety of formats or with different valid values — for example, the same chemical may have numerous common names. What’s more, individual laboratories and consultants may report their data in different ways.”
Read the full case study on MicroSoft’s Case Studies site here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000006592
EQuIS for ArcGIS and LogPlot – March 2010
March 2, 2010
Download EarthSoft Video: EQuIS for ArcGIS and LogPlot_March 2010
[length 1:36] [17MB]
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This EarthSoft video briefly demos how EarthSoft EQuIS for ArcGIS users can create a graphic boring log using RockWare LogPlot. RockWare LogPlot software has been used by geoscientists since 1983 to display their geotechnical, environmental, geophysical data as a graphic boring log.
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