VAMLIS Mission The Virginia Association for Mapping and Land Information Systems is a professional association in Virginia designed to provide educational and networking opportunities for professionals who have an interest in the mapping sciences in Virginia.
Rising water levels present a severe threat to the cities of the Chesapeake Bay. Instead of a hasty retreat, there's an assertive alternative: drain the bay, gain rich lands.
This presentation explores the possibilities of GIS use in the field of water management, using the fictional new land of Chesapeake Polders as a point of departure. It's inspired by current practices in a country already below sea level - The Netherlands. The presentation includes a short introduction to water management, and data gathering, analysis, and modeling.
Willem Janssen was one of the first programmers of 3Di, a dynamic flood modeling and simulation software. He lives in Virginia Beach and is the owner of Toledan LLC, a startup GIS consulting company and developer of a suite of GIS data management software.
