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• Automated calibration tools
• “True layer” finite difference grid visualization
• 2-D and 3-D data interpolation and visualization
• Geostatistical library including
Kriging (ordinary, universal, zonal, and indicator)
Inverse distance weighting
Natural neighbor
Clough–Tocher
AVI video file animation
Conceptual modeling approach
Regional-to-local telescoping model conversion
Coordinate transformation
The GMS is employed to support a “typical” contaminated site
cleanup in the following manner. First, geologists and hydrogeologists
use the GMS’s characterization tools to conceptualize the site
geologic and hydrologic components (see Figure 12.3). This phase of
GMS involves management and manipulation of numerous site data.
The result is the development of a site conceptual model that includes
geologic layering, location of all water bodies, and probable locations
of contaminant source plumes.These features are then illustrated with
fully 3-D visualization tools that are on board GMS.
In the second phase, GMS provides the means to set up, calibrate,
verify, and execute different subsurface models to assess likely contaminant plume migration and the potential for these plumes to interact with human and ecological receptors. Tools to design, simulate,
and optimize (as required) different restoration alternatives are
provided to the modeler and cleanup specialist to facilitate investigating the efficacy of alternative strategies prior to the actual site
implementation.
The GMS also provides a host of visualization and animation tools
to allow decision makers and stakeholders to view the effectiveness
of various alternatives in controlling plume movement and restoring
the subsurface environment. Such visualized modeling results can
be placed on the Internet or in presentation software for display to
stakeholders.
Use of the GMS in site-specific cleanup and restoration activities
has shown its utility in a variety of ways. The multiple technical
disciplines involved in contaminated site cleanup and restoration,
ranging from geologists to environmental engineers to regulators,
employ the GMS toolkit for their discipline-specific requirements.
However, because of the protocols and standards integrated into
GMS, the products developed by one discipline or in one phase of a
cleanup can be directly and seamlessly used by other disciplines and
phases. Site conceptual models can, for example, be directly imported
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• Automated calibration tools
• “True layer” finite difference grid visualization
• 2-D and 3-D data interpolation and visualization
• Geostatistical library including
Kriging (ordinary, universal, zonal, and indicator)
Inverse distance weighting
Natural neighbor
Clough–Tocher
AVI video file animation
Conceptual modeling approach
Regional-to-local telescoping model conversion
Coordinate transformation
The GMS is employed to support a “typical” contaminated site
cleanup in the following manner. First, geologists and hydrogeologists
use the GMS’s characterization tools to conceptualize the site
geologic and hydrologic components (see Figure 12.3). This phase of
GMS involves management and manipulation of numerous site data.
The result is the development of a site conceptual model that includes
geologic layering, location of all water bodies, and probable locations
of contaminant source plumes.These features are then illustrated with
fully 3-D visualization tools that are on board GMS.
In the second phase, GMS provides the means to set up, calibrate,
verify, and execute different subsurface models to assess likely contaminant plume migration and the potential for these plumes to interact with human and ecological receptors. Tools to design, simulate,
and optimize (as required) different restoration alternatives are
provided to the modeler and cleanup specialist to facilitate investigating the efficacy of alternative strategies prior to the actual site
implementation.
The GMS also provides a host of visualization and animation tools
to allow decision makers and stakeholders to view the effectiveness
of various alternatives in controlling plume movement and restoring
the subsurface environment. Such visualized modeling results can
be placed on the Internet or in presentation software for display to
stakeholders.
Use of the GMS in site-specific cleanup and restoration activities
has shown its utility in a variety of ways. The multiple technical
disciplines involved in contaminated site cleanup and restoration,
ranging from geologists to environmental engineers to regulators,
employ the GMS toolkit for their discipline-specific requirements.
However, because of the protocols and standards integrated into
GMS, the products developed by one discipline or in one phase of a
cleanup can be directly and seamlessly used by other disciplines and
phases. Site conceptual models can, for example, be directly imported