• GIS System design and development
• Mapping\Cartography
• Site Selection
• Mitigation Pattern Analysis
• Cultural and Social Factor Analysis
• Emergency Preparedness Planning

The implementation of a Geographic Information System (GIS) facilitates the compilation and analysis of many feature data sources involved in environmental planning, monitoring, and remediation. The use of a GIS is preemptive; allowing factors that influence the quality of a site to be acknowledged and evaluated before investment is made in its development. The use of a GIS also allows an assessment of the potential impacts to neighboring areas, providing notification to regulatory and emergency response agencies that may need to revise infrastructure and policies to address potential new scenarios.

Amtec's technical staff is well versed in a variety of raster and vector GIS packages including ESRI's Arc Info and Arcview software and ERDAS's IMAGINE. Amtec has experience in project design, database development, and analysis techniques. Also, Amtec possesses a detailed knowledge of currently existing data sources (governmental, academic, and proprietary), important since the use or integration of previously developed data layers allows greater resources to be directed to site-specific data acquisition. We have the capability to capture spatial data through scanning, digitizing, and field collection with GPS. Amtec staff is familiar with coordinate systems, conversion and projection techniques, and image geo-referencing. We have worked with public (e.g. SDTS and TIGER) and proprietary (e.g. ESRI and DXF) data formats and converted data between these mediums.

Amtec staff have applied GIS technologies to many environmental and military applications, including:

• Digital Terrain Modeling
• Hydrologic Modeling
• Atmospheric Analysis
• Soil Sampling and Analysis
• Modeling and Simulation
• Contaminant Transport Modeling
• Radiometric Signature Modeling
• Meteorological Analysis
• Remote Sensing

Amtec has capability that includes the following operational activities:

Mapping\Cartography: Our ESRI and ERDAS software will allow us to produce detailed, production quality, maps and reports to disseminate data internally and to required external monitoring agencies.

Site Selection: GIS technology has great utility when selecting appropriate sites for environmentally sensitive activities. Buffering and overlay analysis allow factors such as zoning, noise ordinances, proximity to required infrastructure, and minimizing potential hazards to population centers to be addressed. Areas such as wetlands, protected habitats, and Indian lands can be identified and excluded from potential sites.

Mitigation Pattern Analysis: Coverages with information such as the permeability of local soils, the porosity of the substrate, the locations of faults, and the extents of aquifers provide an awareness of avenues of contaminant transport. The potential paths of airborne contaminants, including radiation and particulates, can be modeled and incorporated into a sites suitability analysis.

Cultural and Social Factors: An analysis of the population characteristics in areas surrounding a site can ensure that potential impacts to groups with greater vulnerability (children, the elderly) are minimized.

Emergency Preparedness Planning: GIS analysis may be used to tailor emergency response plans to revised risks that environmentally sensitive activities may impose on a community.