Mapping and GeoScience
Activities at Wormsloe
Tommy Jordan and Marguerite Madden
In Fall
of 2007, early in the project, it was recognized that accurate and complete
mapping of the physical, cultural, environmental and historical resources at
Wormsloe would provide the solid basis for all future research.
For this reason, the Center for Geospatial Research at the University
of Georgia were the first researchers to be invited to come to Wormsloe and
begin the mapping and documentation process.
The research at Wormsloe, orchestrated and managed by
the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History (WIEH), was always designed
to be interdisciplinary in nature: drawing together scientists and students
from Geography, Ecology, History, Environment and Design, Anthropology,
Geology, Forestry – all united by the concepts of time and space and the
continuum of both that is represented at Wormsloe.
We have
been collecting geospatial data using global positioning system (GPS)
surveys, historical and contemporary maps and aerial photographs and aerial
and terrestrial LiDAR data.
These various datasets are cast on a common coordinate system (UTM, Zone 17,
NAD83) and registered using ArcGIS Geographic Information System mapping and
data management software. The
data are organized as a series of layers in a Geodatabase and can be accessed according to
date, data type or topic. A
summary of the data sets is given in the table below.
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GIS Datasets for Wormsloe (as of April
2013)
|
DATE |
DATA
DESCRIPTION |
|
1800 |
Ila of Hope map |
|
1828 |
Plan for original Wormsloe house |
|
1870 |
Hand drawn map of roads, fields and buildings |
|
1871 |
Plan for proposed causeway to Skidaway Island |
|
1890 |
Hand drawn map of roads, fields and buildings
Stereo photo cards |
|
1897 |
Hand drawn and colored map of roads, fields,
fence lines, drainage ditches and buildings;Trees and plantings with
species labeled |
|
1908 |
Crude map of fields and land cover |
|
1928 |
Plan for formal garden Detailed planting plan with species and plant
locations |
|
1930’s |
Photographs of buildings and landscape |
|
1937 |
Blueprint of Wormsloe Fields Many photographs from Library of Congress
Blueprint for remodeling of main house |
|
1940’s |
Undated low oblique aerial photograph showing
house, library, dock, forest and fields |
|
1960 |
Survey plat of Wormsloe property on Isle of
Hope |
|
1971 |
Air photos (0.5 m B&W) Before pine beetle outbreak |
|
1972 |
Aerial photographs (1:24,000 True color) Before pine beetle outbreak |
|
1974 |
Air photos (0.5 m B&W ) After pine beetle damage and clearing |
|
1988 |
Aerial photographs (B&W) |
|
1993 |
USGS DOQQs (1m B&W) |
|
1999 |
USGS DOQQs (1m CIR ) |
|
2003 |
Orthophotos and stereo photos (0.5 m true
color) |
|
2007 |
GPS Surveys of cultural, historical and
environmental features by UGA |
|
2009 |
1 m true color NAIP |
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