Documentation
This page contains links to pdf files that describe different features of SADA.
SADA Version 5
At the moment the majority of support is found in the SADA Help File. This comes with the installation of SADA
or can be downloaded . The help file has been greatly improved
over Version 4 help. We are in the process of writing the user's guide and are making draft chapters available on-line (see below).
The first few chapters cover the early introductory knowledge about the software and should get you going.
User's Guide
The user's guide is currently under construction and the ordering, addition, and
deletion of chapters is still a fluid process.
Here are the chapters we've written so far in draft form.
If a chapter does not have a link it is not currently available. We are adding about
chapters so tune back in if a chapter of interest is not posted.
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Users Guide Data Files
You will need to first download this set of files and unzip them. The user guide refers to them.
As chapters are added, you may need to re-download this file from time to time as new things are added to it.
User guide files -zipped (6/17/09)
PART I: Data
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Quick Tour
Chapter 3: Understanding SADA Files
Chapter 4: Setting Up a SADA File
Chapter 5: Importing Sampled Data
Chapter 6: Importing New Data Over Existing Data
Chapter 7: Importing Modeled or Gridded Data
Chapter 8: Elevation Data
Chapter 9: Managing Your Data Sets
Chapter 10: Automatically Importing Information Into SADA From Your Database Management System
Chapter 11: Visualizing and Exploring Your Data
Chapter 12: Statistics
PART II: Risk Assessment and Regulatory Criteria
Chapter 13: How to Perform a Quick Spatial Data Screen
Chapter 14: Importing Custom Screening and Remediation Criteria (Custom Analysis)
Chapter 15: Screening Your Data Against Custom Criteria
Chapter 16: Creating Ratio and Sum of Fraction Maps Using Custom Criteria
Chapter 17: Human Health Risk: An Overview
Chapter 18: Human Health Risk: Preparing For Assessment
Chapter 19: Human Health Risk: Calibrating the model.
Chapter 20: Human Health Risk: Tabular PRG Calculations, Screens, and Forward Risk.
Chapter 21: Human Health Risk: Spatial Risk tools - Spatial Screens and Point Risk
Chapter 22: Overview of Ecological Risk Assessment
Chapter 23: Ecological Risk: Preparing for Assessment
Chapter 24: Ecological Risk: Calibrating the model
Chapter 25: Ecological Risk: Benchmark Screens/Ratios
Chapter 26: Ecological Risk: Terrestrial Dose Modeling
Chapter 27: Ecological Risk: Spatial Risk
PART III: Geospatial Analysis
Chapter 28: Overview of Geospatial Methods (revised 4/7/09)
Chapter 29: Basic Geospatial Methods
Chapter 30: Advanced Geospatial Methods Part I: Overview and Correlation Modeling
Chapter 31: Advanced Geospatial Methods Part II: Interpolation, Uncertainty, and Simulation
Chapter 32: Working With Model Results
Chapter 33(to be inserted): User Models (editable models)(updated 6/9/2009)
Chapter 33: Drawing Risk Maps
PART IV: Decision Analysis
Chapter 34: Determining the Area of Concern Including Remedial Volume and Associated Uncertainty
Chapter 35: Area of Concern Cost/Benefit Analysis
PART V: Sample Design
Chapter 36: Overview of Sampling Designs
Chapter 37: Secondary Sampling Designs
Chapter 38: Standard Initial Sample Designs
Chapter 39: MARSSIM Design and Assessment
Chapter 40: Targeted/Informed Initial Sample Designs
PART VI: Miscellaneous Topics
Chapter 41: Local Index of Spatial Association Tools
Chapter 42: Graphical Tools
Chapter 43: The 3D Viewer
Past Versions
A list of sites, uses, and documents use or refer to SADA:
DOD
USACE
Wiley InterScience - cookie error
Innovative Technology Advocate, USACE - Triad Mechanics
US Army Corps of Engineers - Elements of Successful Project Planning Initiatives
Navy
Navy Guidance for Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments
Naval Installation Restoration Information Solution
DOE
RESRAD Connection for Facilitating MARSSIM Analysis
Oak Ridge Associated Universities - listed SADA as one of industry’s most useful resources
Brookhaven National Laboratory evaluation of SADA
The Life Cycle Analysis Toolbox - U.S. Department of Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Human Health Assessment
EPA
Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment with SADA
Superfund Risk Assessment: Ecological: Risk Characterization
The Brownfields and Land Revitalization Technology Support Center
Using the Triad Approach to Streamline Brownfields Site Assessment and Cleanup
FIELDS Group - Data Analysis
2009 Guide for Development of Sample Collection Plans for Radiochemical Analytes in Environmental Matrices Following Homeland Security Events
Managing Site Heterogeneity with Triad Sampling Programs
International Conference and Training - Triad Investigations - New Approaches and Innovative Strategies
Management and Interpretation of Data Under a Triad Approach
Resources for Strategic Site Investigation and Monitoring I
Experiences and Case Studies Analysis on Risk
NAS Lemoore - Site 14 Triad Investigation
Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information
Case Study: Use of a Decision Support Tool
Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information - Characterization and Monitoring
The Environmental Technology Verification Program - Joint Verification Statement
Resources for Strategic Site Investigation and Monitoring II
Case Study for the Use of a Decision Support Tool
Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information - In the Spotlight
Science Inventory - Publications
EPA FIELDS
Download FIELDS
EPA Superfund Decision Support Software
EPA Environmental Technology Verification Program
Statement
Report
EPA Technology Innovation Office: Site Characterization
EPA CLU-IN: Site Characterization and Monitoring
EPA CLU-IN: Statistics Sampling Design
EPA Field Analytic Technologies Encyclopedia: Sampling
http://www.brownfieldstsc.org/pdfs/Triadprimer.pdf
http://www.umass.edu/tei/conferences/courses_description.html
http://www.epa.gov/tio/download/char/epa542f07001.pdf
http://www.clu-in.org/products/newsltrs/tnandt/view.cfm?issue=0704.cfm
http://www.triadcentral.org/user/profile/dsp_SrchAbout.cfm
http://www.brownfieldstsc.org/pdfs/factsheet.pdf
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/109859959/references
Federal Round Table
Development of a Screening Matrix
Decision Support Tools Matrix Status Update
States
The Triad Approach
SITE UNAVAILABLE
Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites in New Zealand - Document Resources
The Michigan Environmental Professional
Europe
EUGRIS - Portal for Soil and Water Management in Europe
National Center for Biotechnology Information - A multi-stage sampling strategy for the delineation of soil pollution in a contaminated brownfield.
12th SRA Europe Annual Meeting, Berlin
Quantitative Risk Assessment - Session: Fate and Behavior Data Acquisition
EUGRIS - Site Investigation: Conceptual Site Model
Building Enviromental Assessment Consensus - A Sourcebook on Strategic Environmental Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Plans and Programmes
Education
Manolessou - Human Health Risk Assessment and Management
TRAINEX - Use of SADA for Risk Assessment
WS2: Online Tools for Risk-based Decisionmaking.
Hopland GIS LAB - University GIS Resources
UCSC GIS: Technology Lab - GIS Related Links
Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation Research Centre
Other
Environmental News and Information
Risk World - Risk Related Software
MARSSIM
Phil Rutherford - Radiation Software
Cost Benefit Analysis Models and Use of Artifical Intelligence for Public Policies
Risk Assessment for Contaminated Sites in New Zealand - Description of Models
O-NET Online - Analytical/Scientific Software
Risk Assessment Information System
Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Software Directory
Choices World GIS
ERA for Contaminanted Sites, NZ
TenLinks Ultimate GIS Directory
RiskWorld
Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit
Cost Benefit Analysis Models and Use of Artificial Intelligence for Public Policies
E-Chem
ORNL Chemical & Analytical Sciences Division
Risk Assessment at ORNL
ORNL Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section
GISVet Spatial Software
AIMTech
AI-Geostats
Pacific Northwest Lab DQO Site
University of Kassel, Germany- Register of Ecological Models
UT- Office of research and Technology
UT- Research Good News
NATO/CCMS Pilot Study- Evaluation of Demonstrated and Emerging Technologies
Techknow.org New Remediation Technologies
SpatialHydrology.com
Education:
Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche Eau Ville Environnement (CEREVE) in France
Other languages:
Collegi d'Aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Barcelona
Université de Liége
Università degli Studi di Siena
SADA in the classroom:
University of Illinois, Chicago
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