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Since May 2006, the AMEC-BCI GIS staff has been using ESRI ArcObjects, Microsoft Visual Basic, 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 require opening multiple ESRI map document files. The GIS team constructed the “Flood Analysis Tool” to automate the process of constructing an 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.
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