West Virginia Geological Survey

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West Virginia Geological Survey
www.wvgs.wvnet.edu 304-594-2331

• Coal Bed Mapping Project
• Nick Fedorko
• Kim Hutchinson
• Oil and Gas GIS Projects
• Mary Behling
• Digital Geologic Mapping/Archiving Historical
  Spatial Data
• Mike Hohn
• Sarah Gooding

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Coal Bed Mapping Project

• Mission Create a 124,000 GIS-based inventory
  of coal in West Virginia
• First establish Stratigraphic framework for
  defining the approximately 60 minable coal beds
• For each coal bed map
• Elevation in raster and vector format
• Thickness in raster and polygon format
• Mined-out area polygons
• Extent polygon

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Over 5,000 points were used to model the
Pittsburgh coal bed. WVGES has approximately
100,000 data points including drill holes, mine
map points and more.
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Compiling Underground Mined Areas

• Goal Create as complete and accurate
  compilations of underground mined areas as
  possible
• About 275 active mines annually
• Estimated 100,000 abandoned mines
• Recently expanded CBMP with MSHA funds to
  expedite georeferencing of mine maps

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Maps are scanned, georeferenced, footprint is
digitized and polygon is attributed with
mine/company name and is indexed to the image file
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CBMP Uses and Benefits

• Tax Programs
• Mine safety issues
• Abandoned mined lands programs
• Regulatory programs
• Planning and development
• Updated resource/reserve estimates
• Economic forecasting

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Progress to Date
- Mapping completed for 42 beds in 9.5 counties -
Currently proceeding across SW West Virginia
gt2500 mine polygons for 33 coal beds are
completed for the red counties
- 2100 mine polygons completed in green counties
8 coals are partially mapped in Kanawha and Boone
counties with rest to be completed next year for
these 2 counties
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Accomplishments in Software Development
Significant progress migrating to ArcGIS from WS
ArcInfo
Close to completion of a new Database System
providing

• robust, multi-user environment
• integrated graphics and database forms
• tighter GIS-Database integration
• Tools
• Oracle RDBMS Linux server
• Java database forms and graphics
• Spatial Database Engine (SDE) (Java interface)
• ESRI MapObjects for Java

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