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A GIS integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.
A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.
GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.
-Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
All of DEQ’s GIS data are in the
Oregon Lambert Coordinate System.
Map Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
Grid Coordinate System: Oregon Lambert Projection
Parameters:
43 00 00.000 /* 1st standard parallel
45 30 00.000 /* 2nd standard parallel
-120 30 0.000 /* central meridian
41 45 0.000 /* latitude of projection's origin
400000.00000 /* false easting (meters), (1,312,335.958 feet)
0.00000 /* false northing (meters)
Horizontal Units: International Feet (.3048 meters or 3.280839895 feet / meter)
Horizontal Datum: North American Datum of 1983
Vertical Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988
Spheroid: GRS 1980
Oregon Lambert is recognized by the
European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) which maintains
and publishes an international coordinate reference system
database. The EPSG spatial reference ID for Oregon Lambert
is 2992. (GEO)
Other GIS Data
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) GIS data
ESRI--ArcGIS 10
EPA in Oregon
Geospatial Enterprise Office’s (GEO) Spatial Data Library
METRO--RLIS Data
National Hydrography Dataset
Northwest Habitat Institute GIS data
Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA) Salmon Recovery GIS Data and Maps
Oregon Explorer
Oregon GIS Data Standards
Pacific Hydrography Framework
USGS Seamless Data Warehouse
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