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