UTILIZATION GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR MODELLING OF GEOLOGICAL DEPOSIT BODIES

11th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2011, www.sgem.org, SGEM2011 Conference Proceedings/ ISSN 1314-2704, June 20-25, 2011, Vol. 1, 321-327 pp

ABSTRACT

Geographical information systems (GIS) are commonly understood as information
systems serving for effective saving, actualizing, manipulating, analyzing, modelling
and presenting geographically oriented data. Treatment of geological information
through GIS comes together with several problems. Right and effective analysis of
complex system of surface and undersurface objects requires whole specific data gamut,
which are typical for geological sphere. It is possible to solve questions connected with
qualitative and quantitative modelling characteristics of natural phenomena as well as
classical tasks of geological research with classic GIS systems. Product ArcGIS from
ESRI company belongs to efficient GIS systems used in geological sphere and mining.
The most frequent and also the hardest task in analyzing and data treatment sphere –
solved in this system’s entourage – is terrain modelling, morphology of geological
solids and three-dimensional distribution modelling of useful component in deposit.

Keywords: modelling, data processing, geology, mineral deposit, geographic information systems, ArcGIS.