The primary ingredients of a compr...

The primary ingredients of a comprehensive stormwater management program are: establishing a stormwater utility, managing stormwater infrastructure and conducting basin master planning.

Accomplishing these tasks is not always easy, moreover with raster and vector stormwater GIS data as an information management and planning tool, the do job-work can be done.

The city of Portsmouth, Va., lately began combining raster and vector stormwater GIS data to determine impervious areas for commercial and industrial properties. by dint of using the technology, the city has stake stormwater fees for nonresidential parcels.

City and shire governments can use GIS image technology to monitor drains, floodplains and basins to intercept disasters before they happen -- or at least for notification as promptly as overflow begins.

Raster and vector GIS data can be used to identify and calculate impervious areas of non-residential parcels with equal reason that appropriate utility service charges can be assessed.

Airborne digital imagery and spectral analysis --