GDGMV Borehole Database Interface User Guide

This report is the published product of a collaboration between the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the General Department of Geology and Minerals Vietnam (GDGMV) and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) as part of the Hanoi Urban Geology Project. The project has been ongoing since 2016, funded through the by BGS NC-ODA: Geoscience for Sustainable Futures Programme. The project delivers against three priority themes: 1) Development of Digital Systems and Workflows 2) Urban Geology for Planning Policy and Construction 3) Training, Knowledge Exchange and Stakeholder Engagement These tasks are delivering new digital data technology, new working practices, and increased institutional capacity with respect to urban geoscience. The GDGMV Borehole Database Interface outlined in this document is one of many systems developed and put in place. This report should be used in conjunction with the other reports related to this collaboration, including: OR/21/019 – GDGMV Lexicon Database User Guide OR/20/55 – Considerations for Borehole Coding and Coded Borehole Data Checking There is also a toolbox of documents, data tools, and workflows available

Project progress report 2010-11 : groundwater monitoring in urban areas : a pilot study in Glasgow, UK

The work described in this progress report is part of ongoing efforts to develop a better conceptual understanding of the groundwater system in Glasgow. It is also aimed at developing protocols for improved groundwater monitoring in urban areas, which is a key step in improving hydrogeological understanding. In 2009 BGS started a pilot project to examine the potential for the development of a long-term urban groundwater monitoring network in Glasgow, using existing monitoring boreholes. The project has close links to a number of BGS projects: the Clyde Urban Super Project (CUSP) and the Industrial Legacies project; a project being carried out jointly between Glasgow City Council (GCC) and BGS under the Local Authorities and Research Councils Initiative (LARCI); and wider research into groundwater monitoring and sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) within the BGS Urban Development and Groundwater Systems and Monitoring teams. Project aims Identify and collate existing groundwater monitoring data (groundwater level and chemistry data) for Glasgow Design, develop and populate a dedicated database to store the groundwater monitoring data (and associated borehole data), and make it easily available for analysis and interpretation Interpret the collated data, in conjunction with related datasets (e.g. 3D geological models), and so develop an improved conceptual model of the shallow (superficial deposits) groundwater regime in Glasgow Use the collated data and hydrogeological interpretation to design a pilot groundwater monitoring network in a selected area in Glasgow, using existing monitoring boreholes, and specify a monitoring regime and protocol. Make recommendations for a future longer-term (>10 yrs) and larger scale (Glasgowwide) groundwater monitoring network. Why monitor groundwater in Glasgow? Drivers for long-term groundwater monitoring in Glasgow have been identified in consultation with stakeholders, in particular GCC and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). There is a wide range of groundwater issues, each of which requires slightly different hydrogeological information to properly address. Any one groundwater monitoring network cannot capture data to address all of these issues. It is important, therefore, that monitoring is targeted to one or two key drivers is essential so that the monitoring network can capture data that is both representative of the groundwater system and appropriate to the monitoring need. The two key drivers identified are: the need to address the existing gaps in basic hydrogeological data for Glasgow, which currently limit our understanding of the groundwater system; and the need to understand the effects of urban regeneration and development on the groundwater system, and in particular the effect of sustainable drainage schemes (SuDs). Other related drivers for monitoring groundwater across Glasgow are: the requirement of stakeholders for assistance in regulating impacts on the groundwater system and meeting Water Framework Directive (WFD) and other regulatory requirements the need to better understand the impact of contaminated land on groundwater the need to understand the impact of heat engineering schemes and existing groundwater abstractions on the groundwater system the need to understand the role of groundwater in flooding

Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System (MIDAS). Version 1.0, User Guide

This report serves as a user guide to the Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) otherwise known as the digital field slip, which was developed within the SIGMA (System for Integrated Geospatial Mapping) programme. This document is designed to accompany a two-day training course that introduces staff to the hardware and software

Installation and user guide for the 2010A Open Source release of BGS SIGMAmobile

This report serves as an installation and introductory user guide to BGS·SIGMAmobile, which is an application for digital geoscience field data collection developed within the British Geological Survey’s SIGMA (System for Integrated Geoscience Mapping) programme within the Earth & Planetary Observation & Monitoring Team. This document provides installation instructions, followed by a brief guide to using the application. In BGS we provide our field staff with a two-day training course, and while this guide does not replace that, it is hoped that these instructions will provide a basis for successful use of BGS·SIGMAmobile in your organisation. BGS·SIGMAmobile is designed to run in the field on rugged Tablet PCs, but can also be used on a laptop or a desktop PC. The system is a heavily customised ArcGIS 9.3.1 (service pack 1) and MSAccess application. The user must have a licensed copy of ArcView ArcGIS and MSAccess 2003, BGS does not supply these. The system will run with MSAccess2007 but the database must be stored as a 2002-2003 .mdb file otherwise it will not be compatible with ArcGIS. It is fully tested on the Windows XP operating system; BGS does not currently use the Windows 7 operating system and therefore no testing of the system on Windows 7 has taken place. The BGS uses the application on several models of Tablet PC including Itronix GoBooks, Xplore iX104s and GETAC V100’s. This guide does not provide instructions to its use on specific hardware platforms. BGS staff have used the system for mapping in locations including the UK, Ghana, Madagascar, Tajikistan, the Antarctic and the U.S.A. We use it as part of a workflow of other customised BGS-developed systems that enables us to: 1. automatically collate spatial information from our databases, 2. interpret new data from satellite imagery and digital photogrammetry, 3. take our baseline and interpreted data to the field, 4. populate corporate databases with our field data, 5. build 3D digital models and visualisations, 6. output our data in formats such as maps. Further information on these steps is available from the BGS website at http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/technologies_epo.html. Only the field system has been supplied in this Open Source agreement so you will need to build/define your own methods for integrating BGS·SIGMAmobile into your mapping workflow