Using Google Earth for Site Assessment & Reporting

Generating Site Maps and Reports with Google Earth (downloadable PDF)
These step-by-step instructions offer one method of performing an initial digital site assessment using Google Earth, Google Maps, and other common applications.

Sample Basic Site Report (downloadable PDF)
Additional Site Map 1 (downloadable zipped JPG)
Additional Site Map 2 (downloadable zipped JPG)
These 3 documents were created using the instructions above. The documents are fairly simple, and are intended only as a representation of the techniques described, not as a complete site report.

Water Conservation & Climate Overview Data Sheets

Visit this page to download selected PDFs by city. Each data sheet includes average annual rainfall, annual rainfall extremes, average monthly temperature, temperature extremes, municipal water usage as GPCD, and basic demographics.

Brad Lancaster’s 2009 ARCSA Presentation

Follow this link to download a compressed version (28MB, 34MB, or 50MB) of Brad’s PowerPoint presentation, given at the ARCSA Conference in Decatur, Georgia, on September 16, 2009. On the page that opens, click the down-arrow icon to the right of each file to download the version you want. If you cannot open PowerPoint files, PDF versions can also be made available;  let us know if you would like these to be uploaded to the same location as the PowerPoint files.