TIPS Success Stories
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OSM and Virginia Share Technology on Mobile Applications. Over the past year, the State of Virginia’s Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy (DMME) has been working to finish development of a new field application which allows their staff the ability to view permit information outside the office. This application is called the MMEGIS and programmers used ESRI ArcObjects for development. |
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TIPS Featured in 2008 Publication “Designing the Reclaimed Landscape.” In the “Designing the Reclaimed Landscape”, editor Alan Berger brings together representatives of the mining industry, academia, and the Federal coal-mine regulatory community, along with among others, poets, philosophers, historians, and landscape architects, the purpose of this convergence being to investigate in what ways the sciences of “reclamation, design, and the environment” might mutually benefit one another. |
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State Collaboration, a Win for Everyone! In March of 2008, the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS) presented their AML-Brasscap application and the National Geospatial conference in Atlanta. |
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Virtual Classroom is a Real-Time Hit! In an effort to save time, resources, and money, thirteen Virginia state employees recently attended a TIPS sponsored ESRI virtual course "Working with CAD Data in ArcGIS Desktop". |
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Navajo AML Employee Excels through TIPS / NTTP Navajo AML utilizes both TIPS and NTTP trainings for our workforce development. The trainings have benefited our staff in technical development, and resulted in 5 OSM reclamation awards. |
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Successful reclamation of the Log Creek Church Site Successful reclamation of the Log Creek Church Site 900 in Pike County of southern Indiana. Carlson’s Natural Regrade was used to reclaim highwall. |
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Coal Mining Geospatial Data for the Nation Spatial coal mining data is available to the regulatory agencies and to the mining industry, but is not easily accessible to other government agencies or the public. |
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TIPS Saves the Day TIPS Saves the day providing GPS-aided survey technology that enables the Kansas AML to access a reclamation site with minimal environmental disturbance. |
