Janel Tamara Brown

Senior

Winston-Salem State University

Major: Computer Science

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Elva Jones

Program: Research Alliance in Math & Science

Email: 5b8@ornl.gov

Home: jbrow680@wssu.edu

Research Area: Computational Sciences and Engineering

Spatial data is a core component of a GIS (Geographic Information System). Converting information into useable data for a GIS is non trivial. For example, researchers need the data to understand how to characterize population of ports. Researchers need to collect and collate different kinds of data that are ready to use in GIS. The purpose is to demonstrate computational procedures of collecting data from databases to support the estimation of the population for ports and service providers.

The project consist of collecting various databases to determine population estimate for each 362 ports (such as LandScan USA, Transportation Security Administration (TSA),US Census data, land use and transportation data). The internet will be use to locate publicly resources, which obtain facility names and x, y coordinates in describing the geographic location of each site and build an ARCView GIS database from collected data for each port.

Geographic Information Science and Technology Group
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division

Research Mentor:
Budhendra Bhaduri, Ph.D
Phone : (865) 241-9272
Email : bhaduribl@ornl.gov