URISA Conference Proceedings
The following articles appear in the 1997 URISA conference proceedings.
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A comparison of data sources used in a GIS database
A GIS-based evaluation of homeless shelters in Minneapolis-St. Paul
A GIS-based model for cross country ski trail planning
A GIS-based model of agricultural drain water quality
A GIS-Based Traffic Analysis Zone Design: Implementation and Evaluation (Part II)
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A New Age for Information Technology in GIS
A Refined Methodological Framework for Measuring Accessibility
A semi-automated mapping system
A Spatial Data Foundation for Environmental Analysis and Assessment
A transportation decision support system for project prioritization and investment
Accelerating the benefits of GIS technology
Accessibility Enhancement -- Understanding the Benefit of Rail Transit Systems
Air Quality Management Through Transportation Control: A GIS Approach
Airborne Integrated Mapping System (AIMS): Recent Results in Applications for Large-Scale Mapping
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Algorithms for topology capturing for ARC/INFO package
Alignment of Programs and Services Resulting From Municipal Amalgamation
An industrial sites analysis and marketing tool for electric utilities
An Integrated System for Managing and Urban River
An object-oriented approach to spatial data connectivity
An object-oriented approach to the analysis of land information system
An Overview of the RADARSAT Program
Analyzing Forest Fragmentation by Linear Features using Spatial Autocorrelation
Applications of GIS for Travel Demand Modeling
Applications of GIS Technology in Recent Household Travel Survey Efforts
Applications of the Municipal Reference Model
Are you ADA ready? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Indianapolis curb ramp project
Are You Ready for the Digital Image Revolution?
Assessing GIS benefits: The methodology dimension
Automated Matching and the Development of the TIGER/MAF System
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Automated name placement for digital nautical charts
Bending GIS to our Will - Integrating GIS with Mainstream IT
Building a Multi-discipline Municipal GIS Project
Building an Intelligent Organization for the 21st Century
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Building GIS Databases Using a Totally Digital Platform
Canadian Data - Acquisition Strategy Within CN
Capacity Expansion Modeling of Stormwater and Wastewater in a Planning Support System
Census 2000 Geographic Products: From Paper to Bytes
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Census 2000 Statistical Areas Programs
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Change Detection Within Graphic Files
Chester County Address Project - Developing an Integrated Address Database
City of Guelph - Business Technology Plan
Clark County GIS Management Office: The Different Things That Work
Client-Focused Assessment, Registry and Mapping Services
Commercializing Government Information Services - Government and Private Sector Perspectives
Component software and internet GIS
Consensus-building in a Multi-Participant Spatial Decision Support System
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Control of Information: Principles, Regimes, Revenues, and Community Impacts
Conversion Contractor Selection, Management & Administration
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Conversion of a Digital Road Map into an ATIS Desired Format and the Establishment of a Location Ref
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Coordinating Development and Use of GIS Databases
Corporate Data Model
Current Status of GIS for IPS Applications: A Canadian Perspective
Data Discovery and Access in the Canadian Spatial Data Infrastructure
Data Dissemination - Its Evolution & Its Future
Data Integration in GeoEngineering
Data Licensing Agreements: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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Data Management Through Application Design
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Data Selling Vs. Data Sharing
Defining Colonia Geography for Census 2000
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Defining Success in GIS: The Municipal Experience
Defining the Temporal and Geographic Limits for an Urban Mapping Study
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Delivering On the Promise of Integrated Enterprise-wide GIS Systems
Descriptive and Predictive Modeling of Settlement Growth
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Developer’s Crystal Ball: A GIS Based Urban-growth Simulation Model
Developing a Metropolitan Spatial Data Infrastructure: A Demonstration of the NSDI Framework in TX
Developing a Nationwide Address List with Local Partners
Developing a sport fish restoration CD-ROM for Florida
Developing Integrated Information Systems from a Business User’s Perspective
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Developing National Standards for Digital Orthoimagery and Digital Elevation Data
Development of an adaptive topology building methodology using spatial access method on WWW
Development of an Integrated Canadian Spatial Data Model and Implementation
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Development of an interactive GIS model for wetlands protection and restoration
Development of an orthophoto coverage plan for Ohio
Development of Value-added Spatial Data Services on the Internet
Digital libraries for spatial information: Institutional strategy and structure
Digital orthophoto production to support GIS
Digital position mapping of vehicles using pattern matching methodology
Digital terrain modeling in archaeological mapping
Discrete Choice Models of Urban Development and Transportation: Model Design and Preliminary Results
Discrete Simulation Experiments in Validation/Verification
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Does your GI$ Implementation Stand the Test of An ROI Analysis
Dwelling Frame Feasibility Study
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Dynamic Maps and Data on the World Wide Web: Public Access to Assessment
Economic Rationalism in Managing Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity: Necessary Benefits for Community MPLIS Justification
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Efficient Tools and Techniques for GIS Project Management
Electronic Registration - Part II : The Challenges
Emerging GIS Technology: Focus on the End User
Environmental Equity Study: Case of Ozone Air Pollution in New Jersey
Environmental justice, analytic justice, and GIS: an environmental equity analysis of Houston, Texas
Establishing an accurate urban digital cadastre in Israel
Estimating Risk in GIS-Supported Decisions
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Extending map algebra concepts for volumetric geographic analysis
Feature-based optimization of flow directions and upslope areas on grid-based digital elevation models
Field Assets & GeoEngineering
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Stormwater Impervious Surface Mapping and Billing System
From Simple Image to Integrated Document Management
Generation of consistent digital geographic data for the State of Ohio: the GISOM Project
Geographic Data Base Updates and Local Input
Geographic Information Systems for Community Policing: A Micro-Analysis of Crime
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Georeferencing a collection of historical photographs
Geospatial Data Standards - International Developments and the Need for Integration
Geospatial Information Framework
GIS & Multi-media for Economic Development in Staten Island, NY
GIS and mapping technology for coastal erosion management
GIS and Terroir: Sites and Grape Growing in Niagara
GIS Applications for Public Works: A Case Study
GIS Applications for Transportation in Brownfiled Areas
GIS graph processing: the Raster Graphic Abacus Project (RGAP)
GIS in the Year 2000
GIS Integration with POSSE, The Road We Traveled
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GIS License/Subscription Agreements -- Large and Small: A Win/Win Opportunity
GIS software for dynamic transportation congestion analysis in time-critical logistics
GIS-T Enterprise Data Model with Suggested Implementation Choices
GIS: A Corporate Approach to Information System Integration
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GISMO: New York City’s GIS User Group Advances Local GIS
Grassroots Applications of GIS; The Human Services Experience
GTANet: Intergovernmental Collaboration to Increase Data Access
How Organizations Learn: The Impacts and Influence of GIS Use in Community Development Corporation
HUD’s Community Connection for Local Empowerment
If the Package Fits - Test It! Managing and Measuring Quality
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Implementation and Data Sharing Strategies in Small Nonprofits
Implementing A GIS/Legacy Database Approach by Design
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Implementing and Integrating GIS: The Business of Watershed Management
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Implementing exploratory spatial data analysis methods for multivariate health statistics
Implementing True Enterprise GIS - The Nassau County Example
Implication of High Performance Computing For Local/Regional/Global Information Management
Information Access and Technology in Support of a Neighborhood Planning Process
Information Management of Data {WWWHWW}
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Infrastructure Management Tools and Strategies
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Initial data capture for Ohio's oil-and-gaswell geographic information system
Integrating Intersection Feature and Performance Data Using the Walking Security Index (WSI) Model
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Interactive Airphoto Ground Control Collection Using GPS and Geometric Modeling
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Internet access to U.S. Geological Survey geospatial data and images
Internet-Based GIS Information Access
Just What is SDTS and What Does It Really Need?
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Land Cover Mapping with RADARSAT
Land Registry and Cadastre Modernization: Techniques and Lessons for Analysis of Land Records
Land Suitability Analysis for Water Preserve Areas in Southern Florida
LandData BC - One Window to Spatial Data Assets
Leading from the Top
Learning based feature extraction for intelligent map understanding
Los Angeles County Census 2000
Low cost geodemographics: Generation and interpretation of lifestyle cluster groups
Management Tactics for GIS Implementation
Managing Technological Change in the Organization: The Scottsdale Model
MdProperty View Desktop Electronic Property Map and Parcel Data Analysis and Display
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Measuring the Benefits of GIS in the Public Sector
MetroGIS: Moving Regional GIS Data Sharing from Concept to Reality
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Modeling mobile objects in three-dimensional aquatic system using object-oriented design
Modeling the spatial economic patterns in P. R. China using GIS
Municipal Application Partnership: Sewer and Water Infrastructure
Municipal GIS: Diversifying the Investment
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Municipal Infrastructure Data Standard Program (MIDS)
Municipal Infrastructure, Planning and Financing System (IPFS)
Municipal Reference Model - An Enterprise Model for Cities, Counties and Regional Governments
Municipal Reference Model - Applications and Uses in Cities, Counties and Regional Governments
Network Oriented GIS : Integrating GIS With the Internet
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New Technology Approach to a Land Records Management Infrastructure
Non-contact, real time capture of three-dimensional rock art data
Obtaining Digital Orthophotos in Highly Urbanized Areas
Off-Site Consequence Analysis Mandated by CAA Risk Management
Open Geospatial Datastore Interface (OGDI)
OpenGIS Specification: Bringing Industry and Users Together
Organizing spatial data for spatial analysis
Painless GIS Parcel Mapping: Making the System Work for You
Palynology, GIS and geostatistics interactions: searching for new avenues in GIS applications
Partnership as the Key to Building Integrated Land Records
Partnerships: A Worldwide View
Population Count Highlights From the 1996 Census
Preliminary Assessment of Urban Land Cover Analysis with RADARSAT Imagery
Principles in Government Sourced Data: Commercial Dissemination and Responsible Information Handling
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Public Investment in Housing and Their Effects in the Neighborhood
Public Participation GIS Within an Urban Neighborhood Environment
RADARSAT Mapping Applications
RADARSAT Products, Planning & Orders
Re-engineering Public Land Administration in British Columbia: A Private/Public Sector Partnership
Reading street names from maps - technical challenges
Realizing the Payback from Integrating Land Records
Recognizing GIS Benefits
Reengineering Land Records System: A Pursuit for Integration in Chester County, Pennsylvania
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Revision of geographic datasets: Development and implementation of a new solution
Roadline Centerline Network Databases : The Canadian Perspective
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Role of the Internet World Wide Web in the Dissemination of USGS Geospatial Data and Information
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SAR Image Processing and Exploitation
Scalability - The Forgotten Dimension
Scoping of issues in environmental impact assessment
Shanghai, P.R.C.: A Corporate Management Solution
Shanghai, P.R.C.: Adapting Canadian Innovation
Spatial object clustering for an object-relational GIS
Spatial relationships between human activity and regional lake water transparency in Minnesota
Statistics Canada Geographic Products and Services from the 1996 Census
Statistics Canada Geography Planning for 2001 Census
Status of System Implementation and Framework Data: Ohio and Wisconsin
Strategic Budgeting: An Objective and Equitable Process for Decision Making
Strategic Planning for Integration of Public Works Systems
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Teaching GIS for Undergraduate Students the Experience of King Abdulaziz University
Team Building - Is a GIS project different from other team building efforts?
Technological Slave or Information Serf: Cultural Implication of the Information Highway
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Temporal Database Models for GIS
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That Was Yesterday, This Is Tomorrow: Practical Accomplishments with
The Acquisition of Digital Orthophotography for the Cayman Islands
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The Census Bureau’s Urban/Rural Classification: Retrospect and Prospect
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The Commercial Data Utility - Roles and Economic Opportunities
The Development of a Land Gazette
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The Elizabethton-Johnson City MPO 'Trailblazer' Transportation
The Future of Planning, GIS, and the Internet
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure - Concept, Issues and Opportunities
The history of geographic information systems: invention and re-invension of triangulated irregular networks (TINs)
The Intergraph Corporation and the Open GIS Consortium
The Landscape Characterization of Colonia Settlements
The MERCATOR Initiative - Universal Access to Geospatial Data
The Multi-Purpose Role of LIS/GIS and Real Property Assessment Parcel Information
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The National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy
The NSGIC Metadata Primer: A WWW-Based 'How-To' Guide to Metadata Implementation
The Regional Municipality of Peel Cost of Development Model
The Role of GIS in Privatization
The Vermont Mapping Program - Lessons Learned from Technology Advancement
The What If? Planning Support System
Total quality work principles applied to a project-based GIS implementation
Towards the Enhancement of the Czech Cadastre: A Public/Private Sector Cooperative Approach
Ukrainian Land Reform: Agricultural Land Records
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Urban Facility Management Using JAVA Based GIS
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Usability of geospatial metadata: Metalevel issues for information retrieval
Use and misuse of weights in map overlays
Using GIS to Evaluate Development Futures for Middlesex County, New Jersey
Using Spatial Multimedia to Characterize Communities
Virtual Services in a Virtual Community
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Visualizing the Tijuana River Watershed for environmental research and education
Where are we heading? Cultural and Planning Implications of Connecting
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Why Digital? Digital Aerial Photography Meets Today’s Evolving GIS Applications
Win-Win Using Qualification Based Selection (QBS) for Mapping and GIS Services
Your Project Records - From Chaos to Control Through 'ISAD'