Geospatial Science and Technology: Focus Areas
Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment
We use geospatial tools to collect, integrate, and analyze the wide variety of data necessary to properly characterize and assess the potential impacts of environmental and human health stressors. To accommodate the multimedia nature of risk assessments, we use geospatial data and analysis techniques for land, air, and water impacts and for population-based risk impacts.
Geospatial data and analysis techniques are integral to several of the multimedia models we develop, including the Multimedia, Multipathway, Multireceptor Risk Assessment (3MRA) model and the Data for Environmental Modeling (D4EM) tool. We apply geospatial science to define the underlying data and analysis needs and the user interface requirements to build robust geospatial tools for conducting and evaluating environmental and health risks.
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