| Issue-Title | Description |
|---|---|
January 2004 - What's So Special About Spatial Data? |
A look into the Oracle Spatial, Locator, MapViewer, and Oracle 10g geospatial capabilities. |
| December 2003 - The World Wide Web - Beneath the Surf | What needs to happen under the covers to make GIS web-accessible. |
| October 2003 - Geospatial Asset Management Solutoins | Benefits can be achieved by integrating GIS with enterprise asset management systems. |
| Aug/Sept 2003 - Back to the (Raster) Future | Exploring modern high-resolution satellite imaging. |
Title
|
Subtitle/Brief Description
|
|
Environmental
Data Management and Analysis |
A
GIS provides the framework for integrating a wide diversity of environmental
data layers |
Environmental Modeling
|
Significant
potential exists for GIS to be used for analysis and modeling in those
sciences dealing with spatially distributed phenomena |
More Environmental Modeling
|
A
GIS-based approach to surface modeling has distinct advantages over
traditional methods |
See SPOT Run...
|
Post-processing
of SPOT satellite imagery for change detection can be enhanced using a GIS |
Analyzing the Fate and Transport of Subsurface
Contaminants
|
Uncertainty
is associated with any interpretation of the subsurface |
Developing a GIS Database for Comprehensive
Planning
|
Providing
an integrated framework for effective decision-making |
Abstractions of Reality
|
Representing
and displaying GIS data |
Estimating Soil Volumes
|
GIS-based
methods can be used to map discontinuous surfaces |
Risk Assessment, Uncertainty Analysis, and
Other Fancy Lies
|
Beware
the Four Horsemen of the Environmental Apocalypse |
|
Map Design: Effective Portrayal of Geographic Information
|
A
picture may be worth 1000 words, but a map can be worth 1000 pieces of
information |
|
Defense Military Operations: AM/FM/GIS Meets the Challenge
|
Modern
challenges require modern tools |
Managing and Mapping Biodiversity
|
"Biodiversity
is good, and should be preserved." |
Implementing a GIS
|
The purpose of this month's column is to summarize
some of my personal experiences with implementing GIS and related systems |
Database Management and GIS - What’s the
Connection?
|
A
GIS is a DBMS |
Ensuring Quality Control in a GIS Production
Environment
|
This month’s column presents some ideas on designing a
quality control system for products generated using a GIS for environmental
programs |
Looking towards the future from Space
|
Pros
and Cons of Space-based Imaging |
Mapping the World
|
The Vector Product Format (VPF) is defined by a
Department of Defense Military Standard (MIL-STD-2407, July, 1993), and
represents a new data model for digital vector products to be built,
maintained, archived, and distributed by DMA |
GIS Capabilities for Strategic Environmental
Management
|
Newly
evolving sets of international environmental management system (EMS)
standards, such as ISO 14000, are driving some firms to more closely examine
their existing information management systems to determine how well they are
addressing environmental concerns |