SCORP and GIS

 

Bristow, R., & Warnick, R. (2011). Updating State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plans, an Application of Geographic Information Systems and Census Data. Proceedings of the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/nerr/2011/Papers/20/.

Recreating the Massasoit Spring House with 3Dimensional Modelling

For more information about cultural resource management on parks and protected areas, how about this. 

Abstract:

 The history of cultural landmarks has abundant examples for educational awareness and enlightenment. Yet hundreds, if not thousands, of sites have yet to achieve this notoriety, often given the lack of funding to restore the site to its previous condition.  For the sites found within our parks and protected areas, both nationally and within Massachusetts, one challenge for park managers, or property owners, is to preserve its cultural heritage, often with limited funding. It is this challenge that we attempt to propose a process for recreating our historical landscape based on archived materials and using computer animation. Three-dimensional computer modelling software provides one such tool to recreate these historic treasures, and adds to our knowledge of sites for historic preservation and educational opportunities. In this exploration, we recreate the setting of the nineteenth-century Massasoit Spring Water Company in West Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.  Protected watershed lands previously managed for no visitation are now open for tourism and passive recreation. With this analysis, we establish baseline data for educational and interpretive opportunities to aid in the evolving management concerns as the property shifts from a drinking water supply to lands supporting passive recreation, while also noting the significance of local landmarks that are a relic of the past.

 Keywords: historic springs, parks and protected areas, virtual archaeology, 3D modeling, nineteenth-century small industries

Citation?

Bristow, R. S., & Taylor, J. (2021).  Recreating the history of cultural heritage sites with 3Dimensional Modeling. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. 22:199-214  https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2021.1980265

  An image, not found in the journal article, looks like this:

 

Here is the page for the current issue of CMAS.

Fall and Winter 1974-75

 I am back home in Maryland now, so I won't be reliving my AT hike until the spring.  In the meantime, I am pleased to report this paper is now out, and I have 50 copies to distribute free.

Recreating the Massasoit Spring House with 3Dimensional Modelling

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/96NFIB7SH4WKPCR45WDS/full?target=10.1080/13505033.2021.1980265

If interested check it out.  Abstract follows:

The history of cultural landmarks has abundant examples for educational enlightenment. Yet hundreds, if not thousands, of sites have yet to achieve this notoriety, often given the lack of funding to restore the site. For those found within our parks and protected areas one challenge for managers is to preserve its cultural heritage, often with limited funding. It is this challenge that we illustrate a process for recreating our historical landscape based on archived materials and using computer animation. Three-dimensional computer modelling software provides one such tool to recreate these sites, and adds to our knowledge for historic preservation and educational prospects. Here we recreate the setting of the nineteenth-century Massasoit Spring water business in West Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Protected watershed lands previously managed for no visitation are now opened up for tourism and this baseline data serves educational and interpretive opportunities.

My student and co-author, Justin Taylor, prepared this 3D animation.

Story Maps and parks

Story Maps is a great way to link a narrative with a map.  Check out this one for parks and protected areas in America.

Mass GIS

We have seen tremendous improvements with interactive mapping sites.  My own "river.wsc.ma.edu" served maps a decade ago and you can see some of the features on this link (thanks to Archive.org and the "wayback machine").

More contemporary ones are wide spread and may be general, like Google Earth, or specialized like the Oliver one at Mass GIS or one for Iceland.

Where do Americans watch Movies

ESRI has this cool interactive map showing movie interest.

ESRI and GIS

Goit an email from ESRI to check out a new website.  Considering the world is going wireless now, it might be a good site to check out.

See http://pro.arcgis.com/ for details.

Another view of Irene

One of my colleagues, a physical geographer and GIS faculty member shared this link yesterday as another way to track Hurricane Irene.

It is wonderful to see mainstream press using GIS applications to note physical or human events.

To see the link at the NY Times, click here.

UPDATING STATE COMPREHENSIVE OUTDOOR RECREATION PLANS

UPDATING STATE COMPREHENSIVE OUTDOOR RECREATION PLANS, AN APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND CENSUS DATA

that is the full name. This is the paper Rod Warnick and I have submitted for publication in the Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium Proceedings. The abstract:

Modeling supply and demand data is useful for regional outdoor recreation planning. At the statewide level, a State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) is prepared to satisfy the requirements of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). In Massachusetts, the most recent SCORP was prepared in 2006. One of the primary tasks in the preparation for this document was the updating of recreation resource inventory statewide and the development of an extensive GIS data base. For the demand side, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts utilized data collected in 1995 that emphasized usage patterns, tested satisfaction of outdoor recreation areas and evaluated unmet needs. This paper presents an example of updating SCORPS using current demographic data (US Census) and geographic supply data (MassGIS).

NRPA and GIS

Next month at the NERR conference (http://www.esf.edu/nerr/), John Confer is going to give a talk about the National Recreation and Parks Association GIS program. See:

http://www.nrpagisdata.org/

According to the website "The GIS Model allows you to make a list (inventory) of all the lands and facilities (assets) that you own, plan, manage, operate, and maintain. By providing standard attributes and values, the GIS Model makes it possible for better local, regional, and statewide management and planning of park and recreation resources."

Sounds pretty useful.

Earl update

You can download GIS data for Earl from http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at2.shtml?5-daynl

For us in the New England, (as opposed to Old England) we are expecting three more days of hot 90 degree F days. Then by the weekend, it will drop twenty degrees after Earl passes on the way to the North Atlantic.

Urban Heat Islands part tres?

Working with one of my students to replicate our UHI study in Westfield. Since the town is all torn up and being reconstructed from the benefit of federal stimulus $, what better time to check out the old urban temperatures.

We will present this research at NESTVAL 2010 at UCONN later this semester, but in the meantime check out this isothermal map.

OK, please note that the temperature scale is identical for both 1993 and 2009. This means that the overall temperature was warmer last year (and that the temps in 1993 were cooler ... duhhh). We figured a way to standardize this with some fancy GIS work. I'll show that in a later post.