The application of geographic information systems to water quality monitoring Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4298572, abstract = {Much of the responsibility for reporting on surface water quality in South Africa rests with the Institute for Water Quality Studies (IWQS) of the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. Geographic information systems (GIS) provide a means to summarize large amounts of spatially and temporally distributed data in an intelligible form. GIS developments at IWQS have progressed along two paths, application-specific tools and a general 'data mining' system for querying water quality data. Application-specific tools include utilities for cataloguing monitoring stations, checking monitoring frequency and mapping the water quality in village boreholes. The general system, 'WaterMarque', is a menu-driven front end to a suite of GIS macros and C programs. 'WaterMarque' allows the water quality expert to select monitoring stations interactively and analyse the chemical data. The results are reported symbolically on a map, as box and whisker plots, rose diagrams, ionic diagrams, star symbols, time series graphs or icons.}, author = {Silberbauer, M. J.}, booktitle = {Remote sensing and geographic information systems for design and operation of water resources systems. Proceedings of an International Symposium (5th Scientific Assembly of the IAHS), 23 April to 3 May 1997}, citeulike-article-id = {4298572}, editor = {Baumgartner, M. F. and Schultz, G. A. and Johnson, A. I.}, journal = {IAHS Publication}, keywords = {book, graphics, visualisation, water-chemistry, water-resources}, location = {Rabat, Morocco}, month = {April}, organization = {IAHS}, pages = {189--195}, posted-at = {2009-04-10 17:57:03}, priority = {0}, title = {The application of geographic information systems to water quality monitoring}, volume = {242}, year = {1997} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4298572 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4298572 N2 - Much of the responsibility for reporting on surface water quality in South Africa rests with the Institute for Water Quality Studies (IWQS) of the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. Geographic information systems (GIS) provide a means to summarize large amounts of spatially and temporally distributed data in an intelligible form. GIS developments at IWQS have progressed along two paths, application-specific tools and a general 'data mining' system for querying water quality data. Application-specific tools include utilities for cataloguing monitoring stations, checking monitoring frequency and mapping the water quality in village boreholes. The general system, 'WaterMarque', is a menu-driven front end to a suite of GIS macros and C programs. 'WaterMarque' allows the water quality expert to select monitoring stations interactively and analyse the chemical data. The results are reported symbolically on a map, as box and whisker plots, rose diagrams, ionic diagrams, star symbols, time series graphs or icons. CY - Rabat, Morocco JF - IAHS Publication OR - IAHS EP - 195 TI - The application of geographic information systems to water quality monitoring VL - 242 T2 - Remote sensing and geographic information systems for design and operation of water resources systems. Proceedings of an International Symposium (5th Scientific Assembly of the IAHS), 23 April to 3 May 1997 SP - 189 KW - book KW - graphics KW - visualisation KW - water-chemistry KW - water-resources AU - Silberbauer, MJ A2 - Baumgartner, MF A2 - Schultz, GA A2 - Johnson, AI PY - 1997/04// ER -