URISA Conference Proceedings

The following articles appear in the 1996 URISA conference proceedings.

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'Instant GIS' vs. Enterprise GIS, Bridging The Gap: The Cowlitz County Experience

A Client/Server Approach To 3D Modeling Support System For Coast Change Study

A Comparative Survey Of National Information Policies And Their Impact On Access To Spatial Datasets

A Comparison Between Linear Programming And A Choice Heuristic Approach To Multi-Objective Decision Making Using GIS

A Comparison of GIS-Based Approaches to Environmental Equity Analysis

A Conceptual Framework for Creating DTMS Using Finite Elements and B-Spline Surfaces

A Distributed Parallel Approach To The Computation Of A Spatial Statistic

A General Line-Following Algorithm For Raster Maps

A Geographic Information System to Support the New York City Employee Commute Options Program

A Local National Spatial Data Infrastructure Node In Champaign County, Illinois: Prototyping And Learning

A Model of Multipurpose Land Information Systems Development in Communities: Forces, Factors, Stages, Indicators, and Benefits

A Model Of The Decision Process For GIS Adoption And Diffusion In A Government Environment

A Prototype for Interactive Access to Coastal Management Information

A Set Of Shortest Path Algorithms That Run Fastest On Real Road Networks

A Spatial Decision Support System for Transportation Planning and Investment Decision Analysis

A Spatially Explicit Model To Rank Ownership Parcels For Wetland Wildlife Management

A Student-Friendly System For Learning Raster GIS

A Study Of Land Ownership Fragmentation In The Upper Midwest

A Successful Water Network Facilities Management System

A Successional Pattern Study Of Willows On Sandbar Islands Using GIS

A Tool For Institutional Therapy: GIS Provides The Opportunity For Organizational Change

Agent Mediation Links Between GIS And Spatial Modeling Software Using a Model Definition Language

An Economic Geographic Information System For The Mexico City Metropolis

Analyzing The Relationships Of Spatial Structure In Aggregated Data

Application Of GIS In Environmental Epidemiology: Assessment Of Progress And Future Trends

Approaches to Mass Appraisal of Real Property Through GIS

Architecture For Space And Time Distributed Collaborative Spatial Decision Making

Assessing A Multi-State Shipment Campaign

Assessing Environmental Equity In Massachusetts Using GIS

Assessing Fitness For Use of Spatial Information: Information Usage And Decision Uncertainty

Asset Inventory And Management Utilizing Digital Field Data Collection Techniques

Automated Quality Control For GIS Data Conversion

Automatic Method For Georeferencing Scanned 1:24000 USGS Topographic Maps

Cataloging Geographic Information With A GUI Spatial Meta Data Tool

Clarifying The Value Of The Human Context To GIS Adoption

Common-Sense Geography: Foundations For Intuitive Geographic Information Systems

Comparative Study Of Multipurpose Land Information Systems Development In Arkansas, Ohio, And Wisconsin

Converting GPS Height Into NAVD88 Elevation With The GEOID96 GEOID Height Model

Corporate Education: A Look At NASA's Visiting Investigator Program

Cost Effective Database Design: What Every Manager Should Know

Creating A Composite Indicator Of Vulnearbility In A GIS

Creating An Alley Address Subsystem Within A Street Network Database

Crime Analysis Using GIS At The City Of Orlando, Florida: Implications For Housing Policies

Data Conversion And Update In The Object Paradigm

Data Maintenance And Backlog In AM/FM/GIS Systems

Decision Making Techniques For Vulnerability Analysis: A West Africa Food Security Case Study

Decision Support Methods For Resolving Land-Use Conflicts

Defining The Cadastral Layer Of A Muiciapl GIS Using Registered Land Parcels

Determining Match Probabilities Between Two Mineral Location Databases Using Logistic Regression

Developing A Common Spatial Framework Of Ecological Units For The United States

Developing GIS For Citizen Environmental Monitoring And Hazards Mitigation In Alabama And Sao Paulo, Brazil

Developing Temporal Land Information Systems In Arc/Info

Development Of A Railroad Information System For The Chicago Region

Development Of A Toolkit For Spatial Data Transfer Standard Applications

Distributed Parallelism: Impacts On GIS And Collaborative Spatial Decision-Making

Dwelling Frame Feasibility Study

Emerging Trends Affecting Collectors: Competing Or Complementary Data Sources?

Enterprise GIS: 'You Take The High Road

Enterprise GIS: Desktop Management Power By Integrating Lotus Notes And Arcview

Ethnographic Assessment of Ecological Modelers For Design Of A Collaborative Geographical Modeling System

Evaluating Procedures Of Spatial Logic And Relations In GIS Packages: Criteria And Initial Tests

Evaluation Of Hand-Held GPS For Registration Of Scanned Cadastral Maps

Expert System Shell, Multipurpose Land Information Systems For Rural Government

Facilitating GIS Education In Your Community

Feasible Alternatives Generation In Collaborative Spatial Decision Making

Generalization, Uncertainty, And Error Modeling

Generating An Uncertainty Of Soil Spatial Information

Geodetic Phase of NOS' San Francisco Bay Demonstration Project

Geographic Data Matching: First Investigations For A Generic Tool

Geographic Dimensionality And Spatial Data Accuracy

GIS And Municipal Addressing Advanced Techniques For The Assignment Of Addresses

GIS And Spatial Performances Evaluation: The Health System Case

GIS and UC Berkeley's Multi-Valent Document Architecture

GIS Applications In The San Diego-Tijuana Interface

GIS as an Educational Tool

GIS As Social Practice: Considerations For A Developing Country

GIS Foundation For Advanced Modeling And Decision Support

GIS Makes Environmental Supervision More Efficient

GIS Technologies And Sustainability

GPS Data Collection For Evaluation Of Animal-Ecology Interactions Or Cows In Space

Granite Butte Elk Project

Habitat Fragmentation Dynamics Assessed Through V-I-S in Urban Residential Environments

High And Low Roads To Geographic/Information Systems Development

How Rural Counties And Municipalities Can Get Into The GIS Game

Humanistic Approaches Toward Automatic Road Extraction From Raster Images

Hurrican Evacuation Analysis: A GIS-T Application

Iconizing The GIS Image

Identifying Resource Data Along The U.S./Mexico Border: The Transboundary Resource Inventory Project

Incorporating Decision Preferences Into An Expert Geographic Information System For Industrial Site Selection

Incorporation Of GIS Techniques In A Geology Field Course

Information Technology Applications For Strategic Environmental Management

Integrated Spatial Technologies For Environmental And Natural Resource Management: An Assessment Of Progress And Future Directions

Integrating Space-Based Imagery With GIS Landbase Data Sets

Integrating Utility G.I.S. & Infrastructure Management

Integration of GPS, GIS and Windows Technology for Water Quality Study in North Alabama

Integration Of Remote Sensing And GIS For Urban Storm Water Management: A Report On Work In Progress For The City Of Scottsdale's Local Applications Program

Intelligent Visual Query In A Knowledge-Based Coupling Of Geographic Information And Ecosystem Simulation

ISLA: An Archive Of Los Angeles Materials In Multiple Formats Integrated By Spatial And Temporal Referencing

Issues In Designing Distributed Geographic Information Systems

Landscape History Of Northeastern Colorado Revealed Through GIS Analysis

Liability And Insurance For Use Of Geographic Information

Linking Preference Analysis Techniques And GIS For Fire Fuel Management

Local Government Community Networks: Virtual And Geographic Communities

Maintaining Metadata Through A Common Web And GIS Interface

Making Databases Support Map Generalization

Manual Versus Automated Line Generalization

Map Conflation: Spatial Point Data Merging And Transformation

Mapping Scientist Certification: The ASPRS Program

Monitoring and Assessing Natural Lake Environments for Lake-GIS

Monitoring Global Environmental Resources: The Globe Perspective

Moving Archaeological Databases Into The Information Age

Multisource Remote Sensing Data Image Analysis For Connecticut Statewide Land Cover Mapping

Municipal Reference Model: An Emerging Municipal Government Standard

National Culture And GIS Design: Results From Cross-Cultural Studies

NCGIA Curriculum In Remote Sensing

Network Foundations For Future Technology

Organizational Behaviour Issues In The Implementation Of Municipal GIS

Organizational Structures For GIS Implementation

Palm Beach County Uses Self-Directed Teams To Implement A Countywide GIS

Pedestrain Perspectives On Intersection Performance: A Case Study Report On Channelization

Peopleware: The Third Dimension Making Technolgy Work

Practical Approaches To Implement A Cellular Network Planning System

Procedural And Quality Assessment Measures For Cartographic Generalization

Project Management In The GIS/LIS World

Property Management And Affordable Housing: A GIS Application In Chicago's West Empowerment Zone

Public Works GIS In 2001: The Saint Paul Perspective

Quality Control: Principles And Methods

Real-Time GPS Data Capture With Barcode Interface, GIS Mapping And Database Linkage For A Community Resource Management Program

Real-Time GPS Positioning Using The Canadian Active Control System

Remote Neighborhood Identification

Rhode Island Department Of Transportation Utilizing GIS For Statewide Design, Construction And Traffic Program Planning

Rigorous Uncertainty Models Of Line And Polygon Objects In GIS

Scalability of Spatial Operators

Scale Spaced Image Sequences For GIS Data Capture

Seismic Damage Assessment By Using GIS

Sensitivity Of GIS Analysis To Extent, Grain, and Class Aggregation

Solid Waster Collection Route Design in a G.I.S. Environment-Phase One

Solving Location And Layout Problems Using GIS And Simulated Annealing

Some Elements For Modelling Updates In Topographic Databases

Spatial Metaphors For Visualizing Very Large Data Archives

Spatial Systems Support For A Wireless Video Network

Standards For Spatial Frameworks: GPS Standards For Densifying Statewide High Accuracy Reference Networks

Street Centerlines By A Fully Automated Medial-Axis Transformation

Successfully Building At Multi-Jurisdictional GIS: The Sand Creek Corridor, Denver Colorado

Synthesis Of A Systems Architecture Template For State Transportation Management

The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Distributed Library Services For Spatially Referenced Data

The Corporate Data Dilemma-From Illusion To Practical Solution

The Impact Of Data Quality Displays On Spatial Decision Support

The New On-Line Core Curriculum In Geographic Information Science

The Original NCGIA Core Curriculum In GIS

The Soft Transcope: A Practical Method to Update Natural Resources Databases

The St. Louis Community Information Network: A Case Study

The Use Of GIS Applications On The Internet For Marketing Tourist Destinations

The Waukesha County Greenway Corridor Acquistion, Access Site, And Recreational Trail Delineation Project Using The Geographic Information System (GIS)

Topographic Terrain Mapping Using Scanning Airborne Laser Radar

Tracking Down Map Data-A Prototype Tool For Library Patrons

Using Arc/Info's Grid In Small Allocation Systems

Using GIS To Generate Neighborhood-Level Statistics From The Census

Using GIS To Map Police Records Data

Using Gradient Analysis To Produce Spatially Explicit Ecological Models

Using Multivariate Segmentation Tools To Integrate Social, Economic Agricultural And Environmental Information For Targeting Conservation Programs

Valuation And Economic Analysis Of The Electronic Commerce Resource Program

Visualization Of Environmental Data Using GIS, CADD, and Graphic Software: A Tool Box Approach

Visualization Of Simulated Hydrologic Response