Tools for Information Processing

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Why is GIS so helpful? It can incorporate all of these components in one framework.

• Maps show
  • geographic features and relationships
  • results of data analysis

• Databases store
  • physical and chemical data
  • geologic and hydrogeologic information

• Spreadsheets can be used for
  • target level calculations
  • concentration data analysis

• Models can be used to develop
  • sophisticated transport simulations