URISA Conference Proceedings
The following articles appear in the 1992 URISA conference proceedings.
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'Staged' land base precision development strategy
A "Bottom-Up" approach to GIS watershed analysis
A conceptutal framework for setting prices for Local Government information-related products and services
A dynamic work order processing system for an electrical distribution network
A formal approach to the visualization of spatial data quality
A geographic information system foundation, is it necessary?
A GIS correspondence analysis of environmental factors for wildfire management
A GIS-based expert system for land use regulation enforcement
A GIS-based expert system for residential distribution design
A GIS-based prototype for retail potential surface mapping and analysis
A GIS-based prototype for retail potential surface mapping and analysis
A GIS/LIS public land survey corners control point inventory database system
A knowledge-based GIS method for visual impact assessment in transmission line siting
A logic-based approach for GIS error handling
A methodology for integrating visualization, geographic and environmental analysis in site planning and design
A model-based GIS approach for urban development simulation
A multimedia primer for GIS
A National Geographic Data System: A concept
A nonparametric test for pattern detection and its use in GIS
A personal visualization system for visual analysis of area-based spatial data
A practical working approach to distributed processing in geographic information systems
A progress report on public policy objectives achieved through IS/GIS/LIS/
A review of pricing and distribution strategies: local government case studies
A solution for the automatic data capture of land register maps
A survey of state open records laws in relation to recovery of data base development costs: An ends in search of a means
A temporal salt marsh vegetation study: Implementation of a GIS
Accuracy of a GIS-based small-area population projection method used in spatial decision support
Achieving consensus on GIS map accuracy
Adaptive Recursive Tessellations
AM/FM GIS pioneer project: CAMRIS
An emergency services (E-911) dispatching system with integrated mapping on a low cost PC/LAN platform
An evaluation of subcounty population forecasts
An evaluation of the 9-intersection for region-line relations
An experiment to collect GIS location data for highway segments on IH-80 using vehicle-mounted GPS receivers
An improved method for shadow modeling based on digital elevation models
An informal pilot project: exchanging geographic digital data in a coproduction environment
An initial investigation of integrating neural networks with GIS for spatial decision making
An integrated approach to environmental impact analysis and corridor planning using GIS and CADD
An integrated geographic information system, global positioning system, and spatio-statistical approach for analyzing ecological patterns at landscape scales
An object-oriented approach to an integrated GIS system
An object-oriented model of geographic information systems: Integrating maps, data and models for decision support
Animation and geographic information system for evaluation of project performance
Applications for a bathymetric map of Lake Champlain
Applications of IS/GIS: science and education
Applying AM/FM technologies to sewer and storm drain condition assessment
Appraisal data linked to digital maps: Realizing benefits for the appraiser's office and beyond
Approaching quality GIS interface
Assessment of landslide risk in the Oakland firestorm area to support development of a building permit policy
Beyond a demographic information system: Retail and service industry applications of geographic information systems
Beyond method, beyond ethics: Integrating social theory into GIS and GIS into social theory
Beyond the 2-D map: A new metaphor for multi-temporal 4-D GIS
Beyond the traditional vegetation map towards a biodiversity database
Bioclimatic mapping - extracting ecological hypotheses from wildlife distribution data and climatic maps through spatial analysis in GIS
BLM's geographic coordinate data base: Is it a step in the right direction?
Boundary uncertainties in digitized maps I: some possible determination methods
Building and running an airport with AM/FM/GIS
Building the IS/GIS capability to support policies, plans, and programs: The local government perspective
Cadastral measurement management from a field surveyor's viewpoint
Capabilities needed in spatial decision support systems
Certifying GIS professionals: Challenges and alternatives
Combining GIS and a population forecast model to visualize population distribution
Comments on GIS education and training with notes on the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Communications and marketing government data: 'The good corporate citizen'
Comparison of GIS data base development on Unix workstation and PC-DOS hardware platforms
Computerized field GIS activities - current use and future of emerging pen based technology
Conversion and integration - challenges for GIS in electric utilities
Data capture and quality control of digital map databases supporting pathfinding
Data quality and choropleth maps: An experiment with the use of color
Determining most suitable open space selection
Developing a successful information access policy
Developing a third generation engineering accurate GIS using AUTOCAD and ARC/INFO
Developing/utilizing a small-scale database as an initial GIS database development effort
Development of an integrated knowledgebased system for managing spatiotemporal ecological simulations
Digital aerial image-based GIS applications for pipeline and electric transmission rights-of-way
Digital orthoimagery: the map of the future
Digital photogrammetric mapping integration GPS in a acquisition & GIS processing
Digital property mapping in New Brunswick
Digitization and database accuracy
Distributed GIS visualization system
Environmental conditioning for field computing
Environmental modeling with GIS: A strategy for dealing with spatial continuity
Establishing a land development lifecycle tracking system
Ethics for the practitioners of geographic information systems embedded in 'real world' constraints of guilds, professions and institutional sponsorship
Evolution of information systems as essential infrastructure in urban and regional governments
Fractal encoded data bases for simulating terrain surfaces with TIN models
From desktop to boardroom: GIS, the next generation technology that's here today
G-CLIPS: A rule-based language for expert GIS applications
Geographic information systems for modeling bison impact on Konza Prairie, Kansas
GIS and group decision-making: Problems and prospects
GIS and hurricane planning at the town of Hilton Head Island, SC
GIS development process: A proactive approach to the introduction of GIS technology
GIS installation and conversion at Lee County Florida
GIS major data structure vs. applications
GIS project documentation: The Wisconsin TIGER project example
GIS tools for a solid waste generation study: Support for AB939
How to select the best conversion contractor for your project
If a picture paints a thousand words... Wodan's visual approach to spatial aggregation and area selection
Image processing of graphs using GIS functions and procedures
Implementing a computerized public inquiry system
Implementing photographic imaging systems in municipal government
Incorporating a neural network into GIS for agricultural land suitability analysis
Incorporating existing tax maps into a parcel-based GIS
Incorporation of real time environmental data into a GIS for oil spill management and control
Increase graphical data conversion productivity using multi-tolerance data cleaning
Information and knowledge bases for decision-making: A progress report
Information engineering and GIS applications
Information system inputs to policies: 1977 revisited
Information system inputs to programs applications of IS/GIS in government
Information systems technology in planning education: A retrospective on URISA's role
Integrated access to land-related data from heterogeneous sources
Integrating digital photogrammetry and GIS
Integrating soil loss standards and geographic information systems in the management of off-highway vehicle parks
Integration of a county and city GIS over fiber-optic LAN
Integration of a water distribution management system with a geographic information system for Newport, Kentucky
Integration of Ali Shan Forest Recreation Area management and GIS
Integration of GIS and CAMEO for on-site assessment of environmental hazards
Integration of GPS tecnnology and digital image processing to create a wildlife management database
Interfacing GIS with wildlife habitat analysis: A case study of Sitka black-tailed deer in Southeast Alaska
IS/GIS hardware/software/data features and capabilities: what's done, what's on, what's next?
IS/GIS progress in perspective: The rationale and terms of reference for a major bench-marking
IS/GIS, URISA and the private sector
Issues and trends of concern to the URISA membership: A thirty year survey of URISA's literature
Knowledge-based systems: The next generation
Lake study utilizing computer technology in a scientific analysis of a lake
Large scale land suitability analysis using GIS and optimization models as a spatial decision support system: A multijurisdiction/multiregion case
Legalities, benefits, impacts and personal effort in creating a GIS to reapportion the State of Wyoming in four months
Linking economic growth and physical development
Linking GIS to the public: Why, how, when?
Loudoun County soil association map: GIS applications for planners
Louisiana coastal GIS network: Relational database design for a spatially indexed cataloging system
Making connections: Enhancing the city of Calgary's building permit system
Managing the distributed GIS infrastructure - An organizational perspective
Mapsat market review
Methodology and options for establishing a data sales & services business
Misallocations in past population and household forecasts in northeastern Illinois
MN/DOT Geodetic Database development
Modeling environmental impact using an Expert-Geographic Information System
Modeling potential natural vegetation from a topographic gradient in the southern Sierra Nevada, California
Monitoriing seasonal flood events, the integration of remote sensing and geographic information systems for natural resource managers
Multi-agency TIGER file updating
Multi-user, multi-vendor GIS project implementation
Native land to army base to national park: PRESIDIO, San Francisco
New CAD programming language used to provide infinite capacity to a GIS graphic information management system
Object-based user interface structures: Experiences from a software prototyping application
Object-oriented models of spatiotemporal information
On the incorporation of uncertainty into spatial data systems
Opportunites and challenges of parallel processing in spatial data analysis: Initial experiments with data parallel map analysis
Parallel terrain feature extraction
Parcel mapping accuracy - Some Wisconsin experiences
Perspectives on URISA's origin and on the emergence of a theory of urban and regional information systems
POLARIS--a living breathing project-property title data capture and conversion and digital property map development
Practical experiences of using object-orientation to implement a GIS
Reconciling census and tax assessor mapping systems
Referencing extended boundary control surveys to state grid systems using GPS and Least Squares readjustment techniques
Regulation meltdown a decision support prototype in planning Monterey County, California
Rehabilitation decision support for sewer collection and water distribution systems
Role and use of IS/GIS in assessing land use/transportation plans
Role and use of IS/GIS in the planning process
SAGE: A community consensus building system integrating GIS and expert system technologies
Security policy, requirements, and verification
Setting prices - How the private sector does it
Sharing data: Federal-State-Local perspectives from the mapping science committee
So what, who cares about topology?
Spatial decision support system for a Potomac River crossing of I-95 south of Washington DC
Spatial decision support systems
States, events and evidence: The principle entities of a temporal GIS
Techniques for assessing the effect of processing errors in spatial databases
Technology trends for GIS
Testing a segmentation procedure for defining regions in a digital image corresponding to natural vegetation stands
The application of a GIS for stormwater nodes programs
The development of air photo image-based systems: The UK perspective
The effect of policies on implementation and use of information technology
The GIS Multiplier Model
The GIS of Garda Lake community: A case study
The least squares adjustment of a traverse network to different datums
The local government connection in a 'nodal approach' to land information administration: South Australia revisited
The LRIS network gateway: A unique approach to sharing information
The organizational placement of GIS in New Zealand regional councils
The Spatial Data Transfer Standard (FIPS 173): A management overview
The strategic alliance challenge: balancing divergent interests in a multi-participant project
The urban visual form simulator
The value of GIS to the federal government
The Ventura County primary control network: A case study in a multi-disciplinary approach to GPS network design and implementation
The Vermont Center for Geographic Information, Inc.: A non- profit to support GIS applications and education or A wolf in sheep's clothing? APPENDIX: The VCGI Prospectus
Tomorrow's goal: Each a role in an integral whole!
Tool integration: Beyond shared files and macros
Total quality management
Total quality management of AM/FM/GIS data conversion
Toward a feature-based world: Making the transition from DLG to DLG-E
Towards better communication in county government
Towards intelligent spatial decision support: Integrating geographical information systems and expert systems
Traffic control sign GIS
Traffic flow modeling with visualization tools
Upgrading boundary information obtained from digitized tax maps for the purpose of creating a digital cadastral overlay
Urbanization and its impact on white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) habitat: A GIS/remote sensing approach
Using digitally compiled 1:10,000 data for 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 datasets
Using GIS technology for damage assessment
Using GIS to dispatch telephone technicians
Using GIS to support rice policy in Taiwan
Using statistical regression analysis to build three prototype GIS wildlife models
Using TransCAD data to establish an ARC/INFO transportation geographic information system for the Charlotte metro system
Utilizing hypermedia in a MAU model based spatial decision support system (SDSS)
Viewshed simulation and analysis: an interactive approach
Virtual worlds technology as a means for human interaction with spatial problems
Wastewater flow estimating model
What I Z (ZED) is not what you Z (ZEE) or: shared data depends on shared meaning
Where is desktop GIS headed?
Who knows where the municipal boundaries really are? Accurately locating and tracking annexations in Orange County, Florida