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WEB GIS-ILA WEB GIS for Italian Logistics in
Antarctica
L. Rossi, F. Giordano L. Testa, R. Cervellati,
M.C. Ramorino A.B. Della Rocca, P. Auer, R.
Marinozzi
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• Final Target
• The GIS ILA on Internet

Presentation of WEB GIS ILA
DEMO ON LINE
CONCLUSIONS
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GIS GIS ILA WEB GIS
GIS (Geographic Information System) The GIS is a
set of hardware, software, human and intellective
tools, used to acquire, process, analyze, store
and visualize, in a graphical and alfanumerical
form, data referred to a defined territory.
GIS ILA (GIS for Italian Logistics in Antarctica)
The Logistic GIS for the Grande Servizio Paese
Antartide (GSP-A), thinked and developed to
facilitate the management of Logistics in
Antarctica.
WEB GIS Tool for spreading in a easily way and
to all the world the information and functions of
a GIS.
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GIS ILA COVERAGE AREA
The antarctic territories where the main logistic
and scientific Italian activities take place
covers a triangular area. The base is the east
cost of the Ross Sea (more than 700 km), having
at the centre the Italian Base of Terra Nova Bay
(TNB). The vertex is on the ice plateau, at Dome
C station (73S - 130E). The sea in front of
the coasts is included in the logistic GIS.
Geographical Coverage Area 430.000 Km2
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DETAIL OF THE TWO COVERAGE AREAS

• Zona1000k (scale 11,000,000).
• Continental area behind the Ross and Pacific
  coasts (Transantarctic Mountains and Plateau).
• The geographical data are from BAS (British
  Antarctic Survey).

• Zona250k (scale 1250,000). Coastal Ross Bay and
  Pacific areas (Transantarctic Mountains). The
  geographical data are from 22 USGS (United States
  Geological Survey) sheets.

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CARTOGRAPHY OF THE 250KZONA

• The Zona250k cartographic area, where the Italian
  Terra Nova Bay base is located, is subdivided
  into the following three sectors
• ZonaSR (North Sector)
• ZonaSS (Central Sector )
• ZonaST (South Sector )

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Basic Cartographical Elements (ZONA250K)

• CARTOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS
• The main territorial aspects acquired from the
  USGS sheets are
• Contour lines
• Rock outcrops
• Lakes
• Crevassed areas
• Glacier margins

• ASSOCIATED ALFANUMERICAL DATA
• Some associated data are
• Description
• Date of the compiled USGS sheet
• Name of the USGS sheet

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Thematic Cartographical Elements (ZONA250K)

• CARTOGRAFICAL ELEMENTS
• Main information, having geographical content,
  present into the Italian Expedition Reports in
  Antarctica
• Remote Fields
• Landing Sites
• Sampling sites
• Geodetic network
• Faunistic and vegetational Sites

• ASSOCIATED ALFANUMERICAL DATA
• Latitude and Longitude
• On site activity description
• Location in the Expedition Report (Report
  number, page, etc.)
• Different info (equipment, kind of sample, etc.)

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ALTRE CARTOGRAFIE DISPONIBILI

• Northern Foothills - (area surrounding the
  Italian TNB base, scale 110,000)
• Gondwana Station - (area surrounding the German
  Gondwana base, scale 110,000)
• Northern Foothills - (area of Northern Foothills)

• Ground Control Points (scale 1250,000)
• Aerial photographs flight paths (scale
  1250,000)
• Satellite images (scale 1250,000)

• Bathimetric maps (area della base italiana,
  scale 150,000 e 1100,000)

• Terra Nova Bay base map

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Expedition Reports Data

• GEODESY (Geodetic network, Tides)
• GEOLOGY (Cartografy, Radiometry, etc.)
• GEOFISICS (Seismics, Gravimetry, Magnetometry,
  Clinometry)
• GLACIOLOGY (Ice/snow, Meteorites, Poles, ITASE,
  ecc.)
• OCEANOGRAFY (Mooring, Water, Sea Bottom,
  Plancton, etc.)
• TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM (Fauna and flora, Sweet
  water, etc.)
• ATMOSPHERE (Turbolence, Meteorology, Particolate,
  etc.)
• LOGISTICS (Landing sites, Remote fields, Fuel
  deposits, etc.)

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The main Functions of the WEB-GIS ILA
Geographical navigation (zoom, pan, scale)
Visualizing the alfanumerical informations, the
immages and the documents associated to the
single cartographic elements
QUERY on the data base
Range measuring (in km)
Toponomastic researches
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THE QUERY
It is a Tool that permits to select attributes on
the basis of certain logical criteria.
QUERY EXAMPLE Selection of the meteorite
sampling sites held in 1997 Tema
Glaciologia Feature Point TipoMeteoriti
AND Anno1997
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LINK to the EXPEDITION REPORTS
ClicKing onto the point element of the thematic
cartography it is possible to visualize, in .PDF
format, the chapter of the expedition report from
which it has been extracted.
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Why we need the WEB GIS ILA ? Some examples
Where Wood Mount is ? Toponomastic Research
Where has been done the grabs starting from 1995
? Query
Would uou like to visualize documents, immages
and expedition reports related to a certain point
? Link
How log is the distance, in km, from a defined
remote field to a fuel deposit ? range
measurement
Would you like to show someone a particular study
area and send him, via e-mail, it and yuor
comments ? Send e-mail
http//gis-tn.casaccia.enea.it/gisila/Geoweb.asp?M
appaSS(Z3)QuadroUnioneQU_SS(Z3)
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WEB GIS ILA Demo on line
http//gis-tn.casaccia.enea.it/gisila/default.htm
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Conclusion and future development

• Database Updating
• The data base contains information from the first
  expeditio (1985-1986)
• to the last (2001-2002)
• Data from new expedition will be inserted as
  soon as done

At the moment only the ZonaSS and its database
is at disposal on the web. The Zona1000k is
present only for geographical aspects. The
sectors maps (ZonaSR and ZonaST) and all the
other map will sonn be at disposal.
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FUTURE NEEDS

• Gis-ILA ENGLISH VERSION

• Aerial fotography flight paths

• Acquisition and storage of the data related to
  the DOME C station

• Insertion of the historical sites and faunistic
  sites (BAS request)

• insert of new documents in a digital format and
  link to the cartographical
• elements (Expedition reports, landing site, GCP,
  etc.)

• Insertion of more functions requested by the
  user

• Metadata database

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FIRST GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW
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TOPONOMASTIC RESEARCH
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IDENTIFICATION OF A GEOGRAPHICAL ELEMENT
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DATABASE QUERY
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LINK TO THE EXPEDITION REPORTS