Putting the user first: implications for subsurface characterisation

Turner, A. Keith

doi:10.1007/3-540-48019-6_5

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“…also suggested that the requirements of users of digital models in urban environments were likely to be rather different from users of geological data in the past who were 'resource' orientated. Urban users were likely to be less able to interpret geological information, requiring it in different forms that were more understandable and related specifically to the problems for which they required solutions (Turner 2003). These differences are summarised in Figure 6a and b.…”

Section: Multi-dimensional Urban Geologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The 2010 Hans Cloos lecture

Culshaw

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2011

Bull Eng Geol Environ

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Urban geology began to develop in the 1950s, particularly in California in relation to landuse planning, and led to Robert Legget publishing his seminal book "Cities and geology" in 1973. Urban geology has now become an important part of engineering geology. Research and practice has seen the evolution from single theme spatial datasets to multi-theme and multi-dimensional outputs for a wide range of users. In parallel to the development of these new outputs to aid urban development, regeneration and conservation, has been the growing recognition that city authorities need access to extensive databases of geoinformation that are maintained in the long-term and renewed regularly. A further key advance has been the recognition that, in the urban environment, knowledge and understanding of the geology need to be integrated with those of other environmental topics (for example, biodiversity) and, increasingly, with the research of social scientists, economists and others.Despite these advances, it is suggested that the value of urban geology is not fully recognised by those charged with the management and improvement of the world's cities. This may be because engineering geologists have failed to adequately demonstrate the benefits of urban geological applications in terms of cost and environmental improvement, have not communicated these benefits well enough and have not clearly shown the longterm contribution of geo-information to urban sustainability. Within this context future actions to improve the situation are proposed.

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Section: Multi-dimensional Urban Geologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The 2010 Hans Cloos lecture

Culshaw

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2011

Bull Eng Geol Environ

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“…This has necessitated changes in data management practice (Turner 2003, such as the requirement for data to be spatially registered in nationally recognised coordinate and elevation systems and the move towards corporate databases which have nationally agreed data standards and validation procedures .…”

Section: Limitations In Use Of the Traditional Geological Map For Gromentioning

confidence: 99%

Property attribution of 3D geological models in the Thames Gateway, London: new ways of visualising geoscientific information

Royse

Rutter

Entwisle

2008

Bull Eng Geol Environ

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Rapid developments in information technology and the increasing collection and digitisation of geological data by the British Geological Survey now allow geoscientists to produce meaningful 3D spatial models of the shallow subsurface in many urban areas. Using this new technology, it is possible to model and predict not only the type of rocks in the shallow subsurface, but also their engineering properties (rock strength, shrink-swell characteristics and compressibility) and hydrogeological properties (permeability, porosity, thickness of the unsaturated zone or the likelihood of perched water tables) by attribution of the 3D model with geological property data. This paper describes the hydrogeological, engineering and confidence (uncertainty) attribution of high resolution models of the Thames Gateway Development Zone (TGDZ) east of London UK and proposes a future in which site investigation sets out to test a pre-existing spatial model based on real data rather than a conceptual model.

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“…However, the final project output has often resulted in the work being presented in a form which does not meet the needs of planners, many of whom do not have a geoscientific background (Marker 1998). Turner (2003) suggested that most geoscientific information systems fail, not because they were inadequate scientifically or technologically, but because the system did not meet the needs of the user community it was designed to serve.…”

Section: Requirements For Digital Geoscientific Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, if geoscience data is going to be used widely within the land-use planning sector, geoscientists need to rethink, radically, the way geoscientific data is presented and visualised. Turner (2003) indicated that generic products are often insufficient to meet the needs of a specific user group such as planners, suggesting instead that geoscientists should concentrate on producing customised products. Therefore, before the geoscientist can produce such outputs three questions must be considered:…”

Section: Requirements For Digital Geoscientific Datamentioning

confidence: 99%