U.K.-based environmental engineering company CERC (
www.cerc.co.uk) started using the TatukGIS Developer Kernel (DK) ActiveX edition in 2007 to develop the GIS mapping module for its
ADMS
air pollution modeling software. ADMS is used by hundreds of people in
over 30 countries for dispersion modeling of urban air pollution and
calculation of air pollution concentrations. Users include regulatory
authorities, government organizations, industrial bodies, environmental
consultancies and academic institutions.
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| Pollutant concentrations output overlaid onto terrain and displayed in 3-D. |
The mapping module developed from the TatukGIS DK, called ADMS Mapper,
is used to visualize and edit input data for the ADMS modeling software.
Before ADMS Mapper became available, users of ADMS had to buy third
party GIS software such as ESRI ArcGIS or MapInfo to visualize their
modeling scenarios.
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| Viewing model inputs in 3-D. |
In 2013 CERC updated its Mapper application to use the TatukGIS DK v10
in order to take full advantage of the new 3-D mapping capabilities the
DK component provides. The new Mapper v2 is now an ActiveX library (DLL)
that is installed as a shared component so that it can be used by
multiple products CERC develops.
The Mapper v2 was released
during October-December 2013 with the latest versions of
ADMS-Urban,
ADMS-Roads and
ADMS-Airport.
The flexibility of developing a plug-in GIS tool in-house using the
TatukGIS SDK has meant CERC can provide stunning GIS capability in many
products quickly and with reduced development costs.
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| The Mapper can render pollutant concentrations output from the ADMS model. |
ADMS is used to model the impact of existing and proposed industrial
installations with respect to air quality standards such as the EU Air
Quality Directive, UK Air Quality Strategy, US National Ambient Air
Quality Standards (NAAQS), Chinese Class I, II and III, and WHO
guidelines. Typical uses include IPPC authorizations, stack height
determination, odor modeling, environmental impact assessments, and
safety and emergency planning. Government customers of ADMS within the
United Kingdom include the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE),
Environment Agency in England, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish
Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Department of the Environment in
Northern Ireland, and Food Standards Agency in the U.K.
More detailed information about ADMS Mapper, including the user guide, is available at:
http://www.cerc.co.uk/software/visualization.htm
