Author(s): Thad C. Pratt; Daryl S. Cook
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Keywords: DCP; Acoustic doppler current profiler; Grain size data; Sediment samples; Gis; Geographical information system; Hypas; Hydraulic processanalysis system
Abstract: Modern electronic instrumentation produces large amounts of data. Often, this abundance of data is not fully utilized because the engineer or scientist does not have an effective way to visualize and analyze it within a projects time schedule. This problem can be minimized by a set of tools that provides ready capability to visualize, analyze, reduce, and efficiently plot data obtained from such instrumentation. Additionally, such a tool can take advantage of geographically referenced data of high spatial accuracy. HyPAS is designed to be a Geographic Information System (GIS) for hydraulic data, capable of managing, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced data. A mapping system alone lacks database management capabilities. GIS software provides both applications with a robust set of tools capable of manipulating large amounts of data with high spatial accuracy; however, typically a substantial learning investment is required to become proficient with GIS software. HyPAS is designed to lessen the learning curve and provide analysis tools to facilitate processing field data.
Year: 2001