Mapping and Geo-Science Activities

UGA and the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History Receive the ESRI Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award!

On July 22nd 2015, UGA and the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History received the ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego, California. The UGA Center for Geospatial Research was honored with this award in 2009 and was thrilled to be recognized again. Pictured below are Tommy Jordan, Jack Dangermond (President of ESRI) and Sarah Ross at the award ceremony.

Tommy Jordan, Jack Dangermond (President of ESRI) and Sarah Ross at the award ceremony

ArcGIS Online Story Maps

Lana Call, Sarah and Tommy developed several ArcGIS Online Apps called Story Maps to present in the exhibit area at the ESRI Users Conference.

Wormsloe Guided Tour

Wormsloe Research

Wormsloe History

Mapping and Geospatial Activity at Wormsloe

by Tommy Jordan and Marguerite Madden

In Fall of 2007, early in the project, it was recognized that accurate and complete mapping of the physical, cultural, environmental and historical resources at Wormsloe would provide the solid basis for all future research. For this reason, the Center for Geospatial Research at the University of Georgia were the first researchers to be invited to come to Wormsloe and begin the mapping and documentation process. Satellite image of Georgia coast

The research at Wormsloe, orchestrated and managed by the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History (WIEH), was always designed to be interdisciplinary in nature: drawing together scientists and students from Geography, Ecology, History, Environment and Design, Anthropology, Geology, Forestry – all united by the concepts of time and space and the continuum of both that is represented at Wormsloe.

We have been collecting geospatial data using global positioning system (GPS) surveys, historical and contemporary maps and aerial photographs and aerial and terrestrial LiDAR data. These various datasets are cast on a common coordinate system (UTM, Zone 17, NAD83) and registered using ArcGIS Geographic Information System mapping and data management software. The data are organized as a series of layers in a Geodatabase and can be accessed according to date, data type or topic. A summary of the data sets is given in the table below.

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GIS Datasets for Wormsloe (as of April 2013)

DATE	DATA DESCRIPTION
1800	Ila of Hope map
1828	Plan for original Wormsloe house
1870	Hand drawn map of roads, fields and buildings
1871	Plan for proposed causeway to Skidaway Island
1890	Hand drawn map of roads, fields and buildings Stereo photo cards
1897	Hand drawn and colored map of roads, fields, fence lines, drainage ditches and buildings;Trees and plantings with species labeled
1908	Crude map of fields and land cover
1928	Plan for formal garden Detailed planting plan with species and plant locations
1930’s	Photographs of buildings and landscape
1937	Blueprint of Wormsloe Fields Many photographs from Library of Congress Blueprint for remodeling of main house
1940’s	Undated low oblique aerial photograph showing house, library, dock, forest and fields
1960	Survey plat of Wormsloe property on Isle of Hope
1971	Air photos (0.5 m B&W) Before pine beetle outbreak
1972	Aerial photographs (1:24,000 True color) Before pine beetle outbreak
1974	Air photos (0.5 m B&W ) After pine beetle damage and clearing
1988	Aerial photographs (B&W)
1993	USGS DOQQs (1m B&W)
1999	USGS DOQQs (1m CIR )
2003	Orthophotos and stereo photos (0.5 m true color)
2007	GPS Surveys of cultural, historical and environmental features by UGA
2009	1 m true color NAIP High resolution LiDAR (Chatham County)

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