Title
Design methodology for construction of mapping applications
Abstract
Geoscientists and engineers use anomalies which are parts of a profile that is above or below the surrounding average to infer subsurface targets (groundwater, ore and petroleum). Customarily, they are detected by processing field measurements including geological and geophysical data using methods such as stacking (averaging), Fourier analysis and filtering. The issue is these methods often result in partial detection because they perform partial separation of wanted from unwanted anomalies and the error in separation gets propagated into data layers and subsequent analyses, thereby resulting in less accurate spatial predictions. In order to understand and address this issue, we investigate whether the design methodology for construction of mapping applications for characterizing geospatial variables achieves logical consistency of data layers and improve mapping accuracy of groundwater flow. We present a design methodology as an artifact and evaluated it by applying it to hydrogeological and geodetic data acquired from the Santa Clara Valley, CA, USA. The result shows that data parts offer distinctive patterns of geometric features that are signatures of groundwater flow for sustainable groundwater management. The practical implications of the result can be applied by software developers and data modelers, information systems and operations managers to construct logically consistent and well-composed environmental information systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-38827-9_23
DESRIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
mapping application,mapping accuracy,geodetic data,data modeler,information system,sustainable groundwater management,geophysical data,data part,design methodology,data layer,groundwater flow
Geospatial analysis,Information system,Data mining,Groundwater flow,Geodetic datum,Propagation of uncertainty,Hydrogeology,Software,Data access layer,Geography
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7939
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olusola Samuel-Ojo1222.80
Lorne Olfman2922135.82
Linda A. Reinen320.75
Arjuna Flenner4373.78
David D. Oglesby520.75
Gareth Funning6303.71