Environmental Support
Key Benefits
- Field engineering data are easily integrated and visualized with other GIS and image processing products
- Use of spatial data and visualizations can reduce hours spent in the field.
- Spatially presented data facilitates assessment, planning, and analysis
- Spatial data is easily retrieved and processed for change detection and analysis
Capabilities
I. Environmental Analysis/Assessment
GIS and Image processing have become the tools of choice for scientists and engineers who perform environmental analysis and assessments. These tools play a key role in defining the areas and parameters to be studied. For example, in a planning level wetland delineation study, GIS layers and imagery can be analyzed to provide a preliminary wetland, and an associated boundary, which is then field verified and refined. The data collected is partnered with the associated GPS points to create GIS layers for analysis and visualization. This results in a more complete analysis of the study area. JAYA Corporation, with its staff of biologists/environmental managers and GIS/image processing specialists, is currently providing such support and ready to meet your requirements
Reference Projects
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (USAERDC)JAYA Corporation personnel support the Environmental Laboratory, USAERDC in performing wetland planning level surveys for various U.S. Army National Guard training sites throughout the United States. JAYA's biologists and GIS technicians were key in the acquisition and analysis of data, preparing GIS base maps and in the field verification and data collection.
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (USAERDC)JAYA Corporation's field biologists identify riparian areas within Southern California watersheds and collect data to assess the integrity or value of these areas. Data collected is entered in a a database that is linked to a GIS project.
II. GROUNDWATER MONITORING SYSTEM DESIGN
The major obstacle to progress in investigations and analysis has been a capability to assimilate large volumes of hydrologic data. GIS offers the best means of improving productivity, reducing costs, and ultimately gaining insight to the nature of the problems. GIS based hydrologic analyses can help to answer the following questions:
- Where should we monitor for ground water pollution.
- What is the source of pollution in this water supply well?
- Where should we look for a new water supply well?
- What are the potential sources of pollution for this sensitive ecosystem?
- What part of the groundwater aquifer potentially pollutes the environment?
The integration of imagery into a GIS provides the hydrologist/environmentalist with a very powerful analytical tool. JAYA Corporation integrates aerial/satellite imagery and georeferenced data into a Hydro Geographic Information System. The system will combine in a single analytical tool the imagery data processed for feature identification and extraction with digitized and field collected geo-referenced data.
Reference Projects
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) - Environmental Engineering DepartmentJAYA Corporation demonstrated the application of GIS and sensor technologies to groundwater resource development, assessment and monitoring (Click HERE for more information). Provided services in image processing of thermography data acquired from an aerial platform. The thermography was processed for enhanced and water bodies and springs were identified and extracted. Once identified and field verified, these springs were used to characterize groundwater within the MSFC site.
CH2MHill Inc, in support of the U.S. Air Forces Arnold Air Force BaseProcessed high-resolution thermal imagery data and integrated additional data so that ground features such as springs and seeps could be delineated. Ground features were identified with a high degree of confidence. JAYA Corporation’s senior groundwater hydrologist and field engineer physically located the identified springs and collected required data.
