URISA Conference Proceedings

The following articles appear in the 1994 URISA conference proceedings.

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'Meta-Tools' for enhanced access to global change multiple distributed metadata directories and data collections

A cellular automation modeling for urban heat island mitigation

A conceptual navigable database model for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems

A formal approach to automate thematic accuracy checking for cartographic data sets

A framework for integrating information systems in air quality analysis

A framework for multi-participant/cooperative GIS: process, public records and data products

A framework for query processing in a federated database system: A case study

A geographic information system: Multimedia connection for infrastructure management

A GIS approach to predicting turbidity based on unit stream power theory and principles of dynamic geomorphology

A GIS based approach to delineating variable traffic noise buffer

A GIS method for park trail design

A GIS-based decision support system for wetland permit analysis

A model of DEM and and orthophotograph quality using aerial photography

A National Digital Orthophoto Program

A new paradigm for GIS communications

A quality function deployment framework for AM/FM/GIS system selection

A strategy for assessing organizational GIS adoption success

A topologically integrated field data capture system

Alberta and related information system, A federated database case study

Alternative GIS development strategies

An expert GIS/modeling system for water quality control practices

An integrated information system for urban land use management

An intelligent and direct manipulation digitizing system

An interdisciplinary graduate curricula for GIS in the sciences

Analysis of spatial autocorrelation of U.S.G.S. 1:250,000 digital elevation models

Applying geographic information system to monitor probationers in an urban environment

Automated mapping and GIS in Florida local planning agencies

Automatic adjustment of line maps

Automating the process for creating the transit route guides using Arc/Info

Baccalaureate program in geographic information science

Basemap creation making many small pieces into one

Beaver Island: Bridging geomorphology, ecological processes, and environmental planning and design

Being 'spatial' with spatial information

Better and cheaper: technical innovation builds Palo Alto's high-quality map base

Buffering impacts on forest resources: Nett Lake Reservation, Minnesota

Building linkages for restructuring of rights to land in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR Countries ('Landlink')

Building the national cadastral layer: The BLM's geographic coordinate data base (GCDB) project

CD-ROM as medium for large geographic information files

Centralizing your database

Commercial applications of GPS-assisted photogrammetry

Completing Egypt's agricultural cadaster

Conceptual design of a GIS-T congestion management system

Continuing evolution of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Crime pattern analysis using GIS

Curriculum issues in GIS in K-12

Design and application of a methodology for reporting uncertainty in spatial databases

Designing an interface for a coastal water quality prediction system

Developing a replacement for the National Map Accuracy Standard

Developing, implementing, and maintaining a map-based computer- aided dispatch system for O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois

Development and use of GIS applications in the geo-sciences

Development of an interactive GIS technique for simulating Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB)

Dock impact assessment system

Does residential location matter? An Atlanta case study of change in median values of owner-occupied housing units over time

Effects of changes in classification systems on land use verification

Electronic yellow pages information system

Elevation data to support the National Geospatial Data Framework

Elk habitat analysis in the Kansas prairie

Establishing GIS functionality in the operations of local government

Estimating the population characteristics of areas affected by hazardous materials accidents

Freeway alignment and community residents' receptivity: A GIS distance buffering application

Gap analysis of the montane forests of Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador

Geospatial information access, use and interoperability

GIS and high performance computing

GIS and improvement alternatives process improvement vs reengineering

GIS applications for archaeological assessments: Sanders Rural Community, Arizona

GIS base data for water management on the Rio Grande Delta Plain

GIS based real-time rideshare matching

GIS data from an interactive socioeconomic clearinghouse

GIS education with ArcView 2

GIS for storm water master planning

GIS in social science research and action initiatives: An hypothesis-based progress report

GIS modeling of contaminant pathways and human exposure in the Nogales Region of the Mexico - U.S. border

GIS organization and staffing

GIS to support vehicle routing in public education

GIS-based regionalization of natural landscapes using derived landcover occurrence probabilities

GIS-ready decision support system

GPS technology in an undergraduate research and classroom environment

House numbering systems in Los Angeles

How Lee county integrated GIS and legacy technologies to become Florida's most cost-efficient

Human supervised automated tools for digital photogrammetric systems

Impact analysis of spatial data aggregation on transportation forecasted demand: a GIS approach

Implementing an integrated directory structure system for a multi-departmental countywide GIS

Information systems and 3-D modeling in landscape visualization

Integrating facility, comprehensive planning, and environmental management at a large Air Force base using GIS

Integrating GIS with DSS: A research agenda

Integrating heterogeneous data to develop a large-scale environmental data atlas for multi-platform users

Integrating mathematical model with GIS to evaluate potential of insecticide leaching and runoff

Integrating non-spatial data into a spatial processing system

Integrating standards for cataloging geospatial data

Integration of building/planning codes for decision support in architectural design

Integration of GIS applications across multiple platform environments

Integration of software packages for GIS in BLM's ALMSR/Modernization Project

Interactive modeling of soil erosion within a GIS environment

Key considerations in designing a multi-participant land base

Linking and building institutions for a statewide land cover mapping program

Long range planning for a multidisciplinary GIS environment in an academic setting

Managing spatial components of enterprise data

Manitoba land related information system information utility

Manufacturing and GIS: A proposal for integrating manufacturing and environmental modeling

Mapping a moving target: The use of GIS to support development of a subsidence model in the New Orleans Region

Mapping forest distributions of Central America and Mexico

Mapping severe weather alert systems in Alabama and Georgia

Mapping the spatial patterns of health risks among minority groups in Lincoln, Nebraska

Metcalfe Park neighborhood residents association housing GIS project: Applying geographic information systems to neighborhood planning

Methods for quantifying application development costs

Metropolitan-area evaluation of its investments

Modeling forest habitat types with GIS

Modeling the spatial data requirements for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems

Monitoring the take-up of GIS in British local government

Multi-participant GIS - A participant's view

Multiscale mapping for the NSDI: Data modeling and representation

Municipal systems integration: An evolutionary approach

NPDES stormwater discharge program for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works

Object-oriented GIS in practice

Object-oriented graphical user interface prototyping for an oil spill information management system

Personal computer based demographic analysis: Using census data to map population patterns

Photo CD: Digital aerial photo scanning system

Pittsburgh analytic atlas project

Policy implications of GIS technology for the 1994 Clean Water Act ammendment

Private surveyor terrestrial boundary traverses controlled by GPS

Professional development and multimedia: The development of a GIS 'learning station' for the InterGIS diploma programme

Providing high-tech customer support...the good, the bad, and the ugly

Quantifying GIS benefits: a bottom-up approach that builds management confidence

Re-engineering a land records management infrastructure

Reconstructing the presettlement vegetation of the Current River watershed in Missouri

Registration of ownership: A necessary component of a parcel-based LIS

Remote sensing, GIS, GPS management of hurricane damaged natural areas

Satellite applications in virtual reality

School pre-registration and student allocation

SDTS/TVP - Do you fit the profile?

Selling data to the banking sector the Swedish way

Selling electronic products and services in the city of Winnipeg

Shallow gas well site selection on Fort Peck Reservation, Montana

Sharing geographic information in distributed databases

Spatial analysis in public health administration: A demonstration from WIC

Spatial conflicts in the information age

Spatial data exchange standards harmonization for the Defense Mapping Agency

Spatial pattern analysis of mule deer locations in the San Bernardino Mountains, California

Spatial visualization through cartographic animation: Theory and practice

Spatially distributed navigable databases for intelligent vehicle highway systems

Spectral encoding of soil texture: A new visualization method

Stormwater management and modelling integrating SWMM and GIS

Strategic technology planning as a catalyst for business process reengineering

The bounded kriging based estimates for sensitive spatial analysis

The Cinderella dream or how to win at maintenance roulette

The crash of Avianca Flight 052: GIS would have made a difference!

The development of an optimal path algorithm in three-dimensional raster space

The Energy Intelligence Information System

The Louisiana Coastal Wetlands planning, protection, and restoration act: the importance of spatial data bases and analyses

The Point Dume fire disaster of October, 1998

The Providence plan: Using GIS to guide urban revitalization

The rewards of providing access to land records data

The role of GIS-User Interactive Process in the delineating boundaries of environmental units for land management: An application in Baja California, Mexico

The use of geographic information systems in contaminated-site remediation

The use of geographical information systems at U.S. airports

The use of videography to assess the spatial impact of hurricanes on forest ecosystems

The value of 'real world' GIS project courses in universities

The value of computer methods for hazards vulnerability analysis

Tools for water and wastewater operations

Topological transfer: Evolving linear GIS accuracy

Total quality management applied to repetitious surveying procedures

Toward no net loss: A methodology for identifying potential wetland mitigation sites using a GIS

Towards a common language for IVHS databases

Transportation model network interface with Geographic Index Database system

Uncertainty in spatial data: Defining, visualizing, and managing data errors

Unlocking the corporate data base an agricultural application

Urban terrain zone based GIS for MOUT

Use of GIS in assessing areas of rapid wetland change

Use of GRASS to facilitate red-cockaded woodpecker management at Fort Benning Military Reservation

Using G.I.S. to analyze housing shortage situations

Using GIS and image processing technology to assist wetland planning, protection, and restoration in coastal Louisiana

Using GIS for estimating the spatial distribution of land value in metropolitan Beirut

Using GIS for indexing historical aerial photography

Using GIS for mapping land available for development in metropolitan Beirut saturation index model

Using GIS to analyze agrichemical dealer practices and agrichemical use

Using GIS to support the 'Reverse Urbanization' process: A case study of the Presidio

Vector Product Format Production System (VPF/PS): Developing a capability for digital nautical chart and vector smart map

Verification of taxpayer reported school districts for determining school aid: A multiple method, hierarchical approach

Virtual GIS and ecosystem assessment in the Klamath Province, California-Oregon

Visualizing uncertainty: Succession or misclassification?

Wastewater collection system planning with GIS in a large system

Watershed subbasin population forecasting utilizing parcel level data

What information should convert and what method should you use to do the conversion

When to use parallel processing in GIS?

Whiteriver GIS pilot project

Wildfire conceptual modeling for building GIS space-time models

Winnebago County - floodplain redelineation project



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