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UCSD leads team to build GIS to assess toxic
hazards from Katrina
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded $760,000
from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to build a GIS.
This system will link to the NIEHS Hurricane Katrina Information Website, providing
workers in the field and researchers with up-to-date information regarding toxicant
exposure and human health.
GIS supports disaster relief efforts
Two weeks before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, Mississippi's
Department of Human Services was wrapping up training classes for an application
that promised to detect food stamp fraud. Once the hurricane hit, state officials
moved quickly to use the software, which combines business intelligence tools
and GIS to help ensure that aid money wasn’t wasted or stolen in the 15 coastal
counties targeted for additional food stamp benefits.
Change of leadership at Leica Geosystems
Following the takeover by Hexagon, the current Board of Directors of Leica
Geosystems will step down at a specially scheduled Extraordinary General Meeting
on 18 November 2005, when Hexagon will appoint its own representatives to the
Board of Directors.
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Flood Hazard Assessment for the Construction
of Flood Hazard Map
 Md. Monirul Islam, Kimiteru Sado
Department of Civil Engineering
Kitami Institute of Technology
Japan
Bangladesh suffered damage on account of the most catastrophic floods of 1987,
1988 and 1998, resulting in untold suffering of the people. This paper demonstrates
the technique to develop a flood hazard map and a land development priority map
for countermeasure against flood damage.
Forest Fire Management Using Geospatial Information
System
F. Hoseinali, M.A. Rajabi
Department of Geomatics Engineering
University of Tehran
Tehran, Iran
Nowadays application of GIS in disaster management has extended considerably
and in some cases it is even unavoidable. Forest fire happens from time to time
and this has given human a chance to observe and develop different models for
forest fire behavior. GIS as a powerful tool for management of spatial information,
has also proved its potential in forest fire management.
Read More Articles on DISASTER
MANAGEMENT
SDI for Disaster Management to support sustainable development
Geomatics in Earthquake Mitigation
Earthquake loss estimation using high resolution satellite imagery
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BOOK REVIEW
Hydrogeomorphology: Fundamentals, Applications and Techniques
Md. Babar
Dnyanopasak College, Parbhani (M.S.)
First Edition, 2005
This book on Hydrogeomorphology is one of the few books published on the subject
in India. It is a boon for every student who wants to pursue interest in Hydrogeomorphology.
Even it is useful for every teacher who conducts a course in either hydrology
or geomorphology.
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EVENTS
ESRI Mid-Atlantic User Group GIS Conference
Sheraton Reston Hotel
2 - 4 November 2005
ESRI-MUG,Reston
USA
ACRS 2005
7 - 11 November 2005
Asian Association on Remote Sensing
Vietnam Association of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing and Association
of Vietnamese Geographers
Department of Environmental Information Study and Analysis (EISA)
Institute of Geography, VAST
Hanoi, Vietnam
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ANNOUNCEMENT
GIS Institute, a division of GIS Development Pvt Ltd has launched 2 months full-time
training programme " Diploma in Geo-informatics"(GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing).
Fresh batch will start from 7th November 2005.To register logon: http://www.gisinstitute.net
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