WIT Press


GIS Multicriterion's Analysis Of The Police Sedimentary Basin Vulnerability (Czech Republic)

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

23

Pages

8

Published

1998

Size

792 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/CMWR980181

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Zbynek Hrkal

Abstract

The Police basin belongs among the most important hydrogeological structures in the Czech Republic. The basic objective of the present paper is to assess the degree of contamination hazard and also consider the vulnerability of the environment. The results of this study should provide data for optimization of local industrial and agricultural activities when simultaneously considering the protection of groundwater resources. The GIS MAPINFO has been applied as the major method which, when interconnected with the ACCESS database, allowed to design various scenarios for the next activities. 1 Geological setting and natural conditions The Police basin is located in NE Bohemia along the state boundary between Czech Republic and Poland (Fig

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