Use of GIS and 3D visualisation to investigate radon problem in groundwater

Urška Demšar; Kirlna Skeppström

Use of GIS and 3D visualisation to investigate radon problem in groundwater

Urška Demšar^*, Kirlna Skeppström

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Abstract

Radon is radioactive and its origin in groundwater is principally linked to the content of its parent element, uranium or radium in bedrocks. However, an on-going research at the Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering shows that a number of factors other than bedrock may potentially influence the radon concentration in groundwater. These factors include: steepness of the terrain, soil type, distribution of uranium and the effect of fracture zone. This article presents an application of GIS and 3D visualisation to explore the radon problem in groundwater. After a GIS pre-processing, 3D visualisations of the thematic data were produced in order to see if the visual approach would be useful to preliminary identify possible relationships between the high concentration of radon and other parameters.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ScanGIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences
Pages	39-51
Number of pages	13
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences, ScanGIS 2005 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 13 Jun 2005 → 16 Jun 2005

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Name	ScanGIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences

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Conference	10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences, ScanGIS 2005
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	13/06/05 → 16/06/05

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Demšar, U & Skeppström, K 2005, Use of GIS and 3D visualisation to investigate radon problem in groundwater. in ScanGIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences. ScanGIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences, pp. 39-51, 10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences, ScanGIS 2005, Stockholm, Sweden, 13/06/05.

Use of GIS and 3D visualisation to investigate radon problem in groundwater. / Demšar, Urška; Skeppström, Kirlna.
ScanGIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences. 2005. p. 39-51 (ScanGIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 10th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Sciences).

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