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A GIS Development E-zine
Vol #1 - Sept. 2001
Vol #1 - Sept. 2001
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Enterprise Deployment
Geospatial Databases Empower Business Decisions - Industry Interview
Interview with Bret Sewell
- Map Data Controversy in the U.S.
Bill Huber - The Evolution of Modeling Tools in GIS
Dr. Ronald Eastman
- Stardust
Hannah Holmes
The grime on your windowsill and car hood has quite a tale to tell. Scientists believe it contains the remnants of stars that gave birth to our solar system. - Seismic Shift
Dana Mackenzie
In his small laboratory in Arizona, seismologist Terry Wallace eavesdrops on airplane crashes, industrial explosions, and terrorist bombs. His detective work tends to keep politicians honest.
- Creating Bald Earth Models Beneath Dense Vegetation With Synthetic Aperture Radar
Markus Rombach - Using GIS for Flash Flood Hazard Mapping in Oman
Ghazi Al-Rawas, Dr. Magaly Koch, and Dr. Farouk El-Baz
- Mapping the Millennium
Millennium Mapping Company is using the Image Web Server to power their hugely popular website. - ECW - the juciest fruit on the wavelet tree
- DOING IT HIS WAY
GEOEurope goes surfing with Maporama CEO, Laurent Vermot-Gauchy - HIGH OCTANE GEOPORTAL FUELS GO-FASTER APPLICATIONS
KEVIN CORBLEY pulls in to Germany's first online geodata filling station to find out what's on offer and who's priming the pump
- Earth Science Education for Native Americans
Eric M. Riggs and Steven C. Semken
An endogenic-exogenic process is also an Earth-Sky relationship, if you're learning geoscience at the Diné Tribal College in New Mexico. - Monkey Business
David Applegate
The Senate passed an amendment on evolution in a major education bill. Did they know what they were doing?
- GPS and GIS in rural estate management
Boughton Estates Limited uses GPS and FastMAP GIS as a surveying and management tool. This article outlines the Estate’s requirements for GIS and GPS, and some current and future applications for GPS. - Data protection: transferring personal data outside the European Economic Area
In 1995, the European Commission adopted the Data Protection Directive, which harmonises data protection legislation throughout the European Union. Up to that point the laws in each member state varied. Sherree Westell and Sarah Walshaw give an overview.
- Monitoring Public Buses with GPS and GIS: Development of a GPS-based Intelligent Transport System in India
- Geomatics Solutions Not Universal: From a Western to a Central/Eastern European Perspective
- “The synergies between LIDAR and photogrammetry lie primarily in the areas of software and support”
Bruce Wald (President & CEO LH Systems) tells about his organisation, its products and plans in digital photogrammetry and LIDAR
- “I foresee the future of photogrammetry in large scale accurate data collection”
Jacques Coulombe (President & CEO of DVP) shares his views about DVP products, trends, opportunities and challenges before photogrammetry
- Monitoring Hong Kong's Bridges
Modern cable-supported bridges carry enormous loads across great distances, in part due to their designed capability to move, ever so slightly, under varied conditions. In Hong Kong, a real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS monitoring system provides the centimeter-level accuracy, in all weather conditions, to detect bridge movements beyond normal ranges. - GPS Reference Networks' New Role Providing Continuity and Coverage
The Global Positioning System, as its name suggests, enables users to determine their position anywhere on Earth. Or does it? The answer is "yes" if the user's receiver (or, more precisely, its antenna) has a clear view of the sky and receives GPS signals unimpeded.
- Have it Your Way — And on Time!
Advanced methods speed up data customization. - A Giant Puzzle Comes Together
Automated processing aids the seamless blending of nearly 450 Landsat 7 scenes.
- Down on the Farm
- Book Review: The Great Arc
- Conflict on the Connecticut
Alec McEwen
A boundary dispute leads to a new republic
- A Map by Any Other Name
J.B. Post
Cartifacts on display
- Without Borders: Uniting Africa’s Wildlife Reserves
In southern Africa transfrontier reserves hold the promise of restoring ecosystems, bolstering tourism, and creating trust among nations of a war-torn continent. - Egypt’s Hidden Tombs
After 2,600 years a desert oasis yields the long-sought tombs of its legendary governor and his family.
- Running Rings Around Las Vegas, Nevada
Using GPS technology was the most efficient and cost-effective way to approach the Las Vegas Beltway project.
- From the Field: Remembering and honoring a great surveyor.
Patrick Yeager, chief land surveyor for the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) wanted to tell people about a man he honors.
- Using Differential GPS to Map the “Sliding” Rocks of Racetrack Playa
Paula Messina and Phil Stoffer - Putting Vermont on the Cyber Map: The Evolution of Vermont’s Geodetic Information System
Daniel J. Martin