Client
Southwest Florida Water Management District
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Location
Central Florida
(Hillsborough, Polk, Manatee, and Hardee Counties)
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Project Costs
$20,000
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Start Date
May 2006
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Completion Date
Ongoing As-Needed

Scope

 Since May 2006, the BCI GIS staff has been using ESRI ArcObjects, Microsoft VisualBasic, and C++ to automate repetitive GIS tasks associated with watershed modeling and watershed management planning. In some cases, tasks that consumed more than eight hours, such as connecting pollutant loading spreadsheets to GIS databases, have been reduced by over 1,000 percent!  Other simple, repetitive tasks such as producing Adobe .PDF files no longer requires opening multiple ESRI map document files.

The GIS team constructed the “Flood Analysis Tool” to automate the process of construction and ESRI floodplain shapefile from  hydrologic model results.  This tool incorporates cross sections, watershed boundaries, digital elevation models, and ICPR model results to construct the floodplain polygon. It gives the end user control over several aspects of the calculations and insures that all calculations are performed correctly.