Case
Digital Conversion Tool for Soil Surveys
December 2023
“Digitalizing time-consuming manual activities turned out to be less complicated than we initially thought. Thanks to Horizon Internet Technologies, we now have a conversion tool that saves us a lot of time. In addition, the tool provides accurate data we can rely on for decision-making.”
Client:
Joost van Schijndel
Senior Soil Consultant, Stepforward
This project demonstrates the application of data conversion.
Why Stepforward approached us
Processing large XML files into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) required a significant amount of time for Stepforward. Horizon Internet Technologies was approached to analyse whether this process could be automated. The results greatly satisfied this client.
Client challenge
When conducting soil surveys, all collected field data, including chemical analyses of soil and groundwater samples and their evaluation against standards, are stored as XML data. The interpretation and assessment of this data in a spatial context is always project-specific and carried out within GIS. However, translating XML-stored data into GIS has only been possible manually, making it time-consuming and costly. This puts pressure on scarce resources, and the data accuracy is not optimal.
Our solution
Horizon Internet Technologies proposed building a conversion tool to make the provided XML data directly available within Stepforward’s GIS environment, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
With this tool, obtaining new information is reduced from several days to just a few minutes.
Result
The conversion tool developed by Horizon Internet Technologies offers functionality for the automated loading, processing, and analysis of XML-based soil investigation results. It automates the data processing workflow and extracts the required relationships to create a single comprehensive overview. The supported data model for this solution is a variation of the structure defined by SIKB (Foundation for Infrastructure Quality Assurance in Soil Management).
The output of the processing is a CSV file, which can be directly visualised geographically within a GIS application.
About Stepforward
Stepforward provides contaminated sites with sustainable futures by innovatively transforming negative situations into positive outcomes, in collaboration with their partners.
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