Hydrosphere Resource Consultants

Services / Cross-discipline

Geographic Information Systems

The advent of GIS technologies has enhanced the study of natural resources.  In fact, a majority of Hydrosphere's projects now have a GIS component.  Hydrosphere has a reputation for delivering a clean, consistent product that clients are able to integrate into their larger systems seamlessly. We offer experience with a wide variety of GIS software, utilities and techniques, and hold licenses for ArcINFO, ArcView and MapInfo.  We maintain, in-house, a substantial body of natural resource GIS data, which we supplement with a comprehensive knowledge of the types of data available from public sources.  When public or proprietary data are not available or are not cost-effective, we can capture original spatial data by scanning, digitizing or field collection.   Hydrosphere's GIS staff is familiar with all common coordinate systems, conversion from one coordinate system to another, and geo-referencing.  For several projects, we have collected and converted data from and to a variety of sources and formats; these include common proprietary formats (e.g. ESRI, DWG, DXF) and public formats (e.g. DLG, DEM, SDTS and TIGER).  We have also created web-based GIS data delivery systems for clients, allowing them to efficiently distribute data to study team members. 

    We have applied GIS technologies to all aspects of water resources analysis, including:

  • Watershed delineation and studies
  • River basin modeling
  • Environmental assessments
  • Land use analysis
  • Depletion studies
  • Recharge estimates
  • Groundwater modeling
  • Model input data development
  • Model parameter estimation
  • Model output display
  • Data management
  • Presentation mapping and graphics