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Publications covered in this issue
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- SOMETHING TO COUNT ON
A year on from their release, James Nolan examines how key statistics from the 2001 UK census can be applied in geographical analysis - DANGLING SEGMENT
Decision Time? Bob Barr argues that until we know who's in charge of Britain's SDI issues, more time and resources will be wasted as the nation drifts in leader-less limbo
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In Harm's Way: Population and Volcanic Risk
John W. Ewert and Christopher J. Harpel
Approximately 2.7 million people in Central America live in the shadow of an active volcano. A new measure of that population risk could help save lives during a volcanic disaster. -
Paths of Destruction: The Hidden Threat at Mount Rainier
Lisa M. Pinsker
The community surrounding Mount Rainier in Washington is taking action to better prepare for giant mudflows that could sweep off the volcano, with or without advance warning.
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U.S. Route GIS--A Consensus Method Finds Preferred Routing
Jesse Glasgow, Steve French, Paul Zwick, Liz Kramer, Steve Richardson and Joseph K. Berry -
Oracle 10g-- A Brave New (Spatial) World
W. Fredrick Limp
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Digital Japan is vital for success of NSDI
Watanabe Shigeki
Geographical Survey Institute -
RS is changing from research to practical phase
Hiroyuki Osawa
RESTEC
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Off the Shelf, Onto the Beach
Stephanie Edwards, Marlin Gendron, Maura Lohrenz, Richard Mang
U.S. Navy field trials showed that a commercial moving map system using a commercial DGPS receiver produced better accuracy and faster times in navigating test courses than the standard military system. -
Position via Internet
Félix Torán , Javier Ventura, ESA , Emilio González , Manuel Toledo, GMV S.A. , Alfredo Catalina , Carlos Barredo, GMV Sistemas S.A. , Antonio Salonico, Telespazio SpA
A prototype receiver combines EGNOS corrections with pseudorange measurements improved accuracy and availability.
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Great Plains
John G. Mitchell
After generations of trying to bully America's heartland into producing, many farmers are giving up. But others are changing their ways, working with the land on its own terms. -
Cuba, Kansas
Jim Richardson
Native son Jim Richardson has been creating an intimate portrait of this Great Plains town for 30 years—and counting.
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Shoreline Success
Tim Cawood
Pilot tests on a North Carolina coastline prove that RTK GPS is a sound method for coastal monitoring surveys. -
Eye of the Firestorm
Michael Binge
Emergency efforts meld surveying, mapping and GIS in response to Southern California fires.
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GPS on Wheels
Philip Collier, Neil Brown and Tom Campion
The building of bigger and bolder aircraft necessitated a high-accuracy survey of Melbourne airport's main runway. -
True Believers and Their Sceptical Foes
Allan Barnes
Enterprise-wide data integration is the holy grail of the spatial information community. Can it be found?
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Feature: Orthometric Elevations Among the Alligators: A Successful Methodology for Bringing GPS-Derived Elevations into Remote Areas of Florida
Tom Jennings, PLS
GPS surveys to obtain vertical data for water management studies. -
Feature: Replacing a Piece of History on the Mason-Dixon Line
David Landrecht
In November 2003, a volunteer project was conducted to replace some lost monuments along the Mason-Dixon Line.
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OS MasterMap – the vision
How Ordnance Survey led the world in the creation of a new type of national geospatial dataset, by Dr Robert Barr. Will the launch of Ordnance Survey’s OS MasterMap product in November 2001 be seen by future generations as a key moment in the history of cartography and geographic information management?. -
Seminar programme, customer consultation...
Ordnance Survey has been running a nationwide programme of OS MasterMap technical seminars. They have allowed delegates to share ideas and work together to develop best practice.
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Location-enabled Platform Technology
Integration of LIS and Core Enterprise Information -
Online Master Degree Programme
Remote Sensing and GIS Education in Turkey
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Programming with Microsoft MapPoint Location Server, Version 1.0
Chandu Thota takes a first look at Microsoft MapPoint Location Server and demonstrates how to develop powerful location-based applications and services using MapPoint Location Server and MapPoint Web Service -
MapPoint Location Server FAQ
This document aims to answer frequently asked questions regarding the MapPoint Location Server such as system requirements, privacy issues, and the licensing model
- GML-Based Interoperable Geographical Databases Cartography
C Zhang C., Li W., Day M. J., Peng Z-R. -
Integration of Generalisation Operators for Vegetation Maps Based on Bio-Geographical Principles , Cartography
Pun-Cheng L. C. S., Li Z., Gao W., Z Li W. Gao
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A global kinetic spatial data structure for a marine simulation
Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi and Christopher Gold -
Comparing geospatial entity classes: an asymmetric and context-dependent similarity measure
M. Andrea Rodríguez and Max J. Egenhofer
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Walter Isard’s influence on analytical human geographic research
Sergio J. Rey
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Channels of synthesis forty years on: integrated analysis of spatial economic systems
Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Suahasil Nazara, Chokri Dridi
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An Accurate and Automated Approach to Georectification of HDF-EOS Swath Data
Wenli Yang and Liping Di
An accurate and fully automated georectification algorithm, which is especially suitable for wide viewing angle Earth observing satellite data in NASA’s standard data format, is described and implemented. -
Assessing the Accuracy of National Land Cover Dataset Area Estimates at Multiple Spatial Extents
Jeffrey W. Hollister, M. Liliana Gonzalez, John F. Paul,Peter V. August, and Jane L. Copeland
Accuracy of area estimates for different land-use/land-cover classes is shown to vary with the spatial extent of the sampling unit upon which the area measurement is determined, and relatively poor accuracy is found more often in smaller sampling units.