Chapter D National Coal Resource The Colorado Plateau Geographic Assessment Information System (GIS): An Introduction to the ArcView Project and Data Library Click here to return to Disc 1 By Laura R.H. Biewick1 and Tracey J. Mercier2 Volume Table of Contents Chapter D of Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah Edited by M.A. Kirschbaum, L.N.R. Roberts, and L.R.H. Biewick U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625–B* 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225 2 U.S. Geological Survey contract employee, Denver, Colorado 80225 * This report, although in the USGS Professional Paper series, is available only on CD-ROM and is not available separately U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................D1 Purpose ................................................................................................................................................. 1 What is the Colorado Plateau Geographic Information System (GIS)?...................................... 1 How Were the Data Collected and Compiled?................................................................................ 4 The Colorado Plateau ArcView Project .................................................................................................... 8 General Discussion ............................................................................................................................. 8 The ArcView Project Views ............................................................................................................... 9 Software is Provided! ....................................................................................................................... 12 Colorado Plateau ArcView Project Design ................................................................................... 12 System Requirements ....................................................................................................................... 12 Getting Started ................................................................................................................................... 12 The ArcView Project Help File......................................................................................................... 13 Regional Views.......................................................................................................................... 15 Tool Bar (Views) ........................................................................................................................ 16 Hot Links (Regional Views)......................................................................................................17 Assessment Area Views.......................................................................................................... 18 Hard-Copy Prints....................................................................................................................... 19 Tool Bar (Layouts)..................................................................................................................... 20 Glossary of ArcView Terms..................................................................................................... 21 Project Window ............................................................................................................... 21 View Window.................................................................................................................... 21 Themes .............................................................................................................................. 22 Table Window................................................................................................................... 23 Layout Window ................................................................................................................ 23 Use of this Project with ArcView 3.1 .............................................................................................. 24 Data Library ................................................................................................................................................. 25 How to Find Files................................................................................................................................ 25 Data Formats ...................................................................................................................................... 25 Data Structure.................................................................................................................................... 26 Metadata...................................................................................................................................................... 36 ARC/INFO and Unix Platform Considerations ........................................................................................ 37 ARC/INFO: Global Variables ............................................................................................................. 37 Unix System Level: Aliases .............................................................................................................. 37 Acknowledgments...................................................................................................................................... 38 References Cited ........................................................................................................................................ 38 Glossary........................................................................................................................................................ 39 Appendix ...................................................................................................................................................... 40 Executive Order 12906....................................................................................................................... 40 Metadata Tools................................................................................................................................... 40 xtme, cns (Chew and Spit), and mp ....................................................................................... 40 Document.aml 7.0.4 Beta.........................................................................................................42 ArcView 3.0 Metadata Collector Extension.......................................................................... 42 Corpsmet95 ................................................................................................................................ 43 Figures 1. Map showing the Colorado Plateau assessment areas included in the ArcView project...............................................................................................D2 2. Diagram illustrating the concept of spatial integration of layers in GIS ............................. 3 3. Example showing vector data acquired for the Lower White River assessment area, Colorado ........................................................................................................ 5 4. Example portion of a cross section showing coal in the Fruitland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.................................................................................................... 6 5. Example of displaying data layers (themes) in the Wasatch Plateau assessment area by “toggling” the check box on or off ....................................................... 8 6. Example view of oil and gas provinces and plays in the Colorado Plateau, showing methods of choosing an assessment area view................................................... 13 7. Example of an assessment area view selection as seen in the Colorado Plateau ArcView project.......................................................................................... 14 8. The Colorado Plateau GIS data-library structure ................................................................. 24 9. Data library—Colorado Plateau regional files ...................................................................... 28 10. Data library—Danforth Hills assessment area ..................................................................... 29 11. Data library—Kaiparowits Plateau assessment area.......................................................... 30 12. Data library—Lower White River assessment area............................................................. 31 13. Data library—Southern Piceance Basin assessment area ................................................ 32 14. Data library—San Juan Basin assessment area.................................................................. 33 15. Data library—Southern Wasatch Plateau assessment area.............................................. 34 16. Data library—Yampa assessment area.................................................................................. 35 17. An example of the xtme graphical user interface................................................................. 40 18. Metadata preprocessor—cns syntax..................................................................................... 41 19. A compiler for formal metadata—mp syntax ........................................................................ 41 20. Metadata documentation utility—document.aml syntax ...................................................