Case Western Reserve University

Microscope to Macroscope- Using GIS to Understand Environmental Complexity in Disease Causation by Charles H. King, MD/ April 3, 2008 Kelvin Smith Library

Google Earth für Anspruchsvolle

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there -Free Download-.

…ask a Geographer to find out why.

The Give Geography its Place Campaign begun after a post on the SLN Geography Forum by Val Vannet. Following this Dan Raven-Ellison made the now legendary post on the same forum titled “Getting the media to label Geography” and the GGIP campaign was born, co-founded by Dan and David Rayner on the 21st May 2006.

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

Aufgaben und Ziele
Kompetenznetzwerke gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Sie bündeln fachlich-regionale Ressourcen und erhöhen die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit am Markt. Im Kompetenznetzwerk für Geoinformatik agieren regionale Akteure aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft um hochwertige Innovationen und marktfähige Produkte für den Geoinformatinsmarkt in Niedersachsen hervorzubringen.

Agricultural Aircraft

Sometimes the solution to a problem is in one’s own backyard. For agricultural engineer Steven J. Thomson, readily available agricultural airplanes provided a solution to the need for high-resolution images as part of remote sensing techniques for the Mississippi Delta.

Produced by: the U.S. Army Environmental Center (USAEC) and the Topographic Engineering Center (TEC)

1. Objective
This guide provides an organized tool to help land managers take advantage of existing remote sensing technology.
2. Included in this guide
· what remote sensing can do
· keys to help users select appropriate imagery
· Sensor Fact Sheets - details on sensors and samples of imagery
· Statements of Work (SOW) samples & procurement assistance information

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Civilian Satellite Remote Sensing

0ver the next two decades, Earth observations from space promise to become increasingly important for predicting the weather, studying global change, and managing global resources. How the U.S. government responds to the political, economic, and technical challenges posed by the growing interest in satellite remote sensing could have a major impact on the use and management of global resources.

Standards Working Group Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

The FGDC is composed of representatives from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, State, and Transportation; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Federal Emergency Management Agency; the Library of Congress; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the National Archives and Records Administration; and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Additional Federal agencies participate on FGDC subcommittees and working groups. The Department of the Interior chairs the committee.

GRASS GIS Seminar
GRASS: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
Scope: Learn the use of Free Software GIS
PART I: Introduction to GRASS and QGIS
PART II: Practical examples

Application of Remote Sensing and GIS
Prof. S. Ramachandran, Vice‐Chancellor, Madras University
Coastal areas, the place where the waters of the seas meet the land are indeed unique places in our global geography.

Autodesk GIS Workshop
CAD is about building models of real-world objects inside the computer. I believe that in the fullness of time, every object in the world, manufacturing or not, will be modeled inside a computer.

GIS Best Practices
What Is GIS?
Making decisions based on geography is basic to human thinking. Where shall we go, what will it be like, and what shall we do when we get there are applied to the simple event of going to the store or to the major event of launching a bathysphere into the ocean’s depths. By understanding geography and people’s relationship to location, we can make informed decisions about the way we live on our planet. A geographic information system (GIS) is a technological tool for comprehending geography and making intelligent decisions.

Workshop freies Desktop GIS
Agenda
● Einführung Desktop GIS
● Ziele und Kriterien
● Vorstellung Desktop GIS (uDig, Quantum GIS, gvSIG)
● Unterstützte Formate
● Praktische Beispiele
● Fazit

Department of Hydrogeology and Bureau of Applied Geoscientific Remote Sensing (BAGF)
ABSTRACT
Based on LANDSAT ETM and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data derived by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM, 2000) of the coastal areas of Northern Venezuela were investigated in order to detect traces of earlier tsunami events. Digital image processing methods used to enhance LANDSAT ETM imageries and to produce morphometric maps (such as hillshade, slope, minimum and maximum curvature maps) based on the SRTM DEM data contribute to the detection of morphologic traces that might be related to catastrophic tsunami events. These maps combined with various geodata such as seismotectonic data in a GIS environment allow the delineation of coastal regions with potential tsunami risk. The LANDSAT ETM imageries merged with digitally processed and enhanced SRTM data clearly indicate areas that might be prone by flooding in case of catastrophic tsunami events.

Ein Portal der Bernhard Harzer Verlag GmbH Karlsruhe

Einsatz von GIS und formaler Begriffsanalyse in Altlasten-Informationssystemen
Abstract
Das vorrangige Ziel von Altlasten-Informationssystemen besteht in der Bereitstellung aktueller Information über Altflächen, Verdachtsflächen und Altlasten für alle an einem Sanierungsverfahren beteiligten Parteien, z.B. Sanierungspflichtige, Rechtsanwälte, Planer, Behörden, Ingenieurbüros, Investoren oder Banken.

ArcGis Explorer Workshop

ArcExplorer ist ein kostenfreier Geodaten Viewer von ESRI, mit welchem Sie Ihre Geodaten auf einfache Weise darstellen, abfragen und auswerten können. Nutzen Sie ArcExplorer, um Ihre Daten zu visualisieren und zu analysieren, Karten auszugeben und um Geodaten aus dem Internet zu laden. ArcExplorer bietet auch Neueinsteigern einen einfachen und schnellen Zugang in die GIS-Welt. Die Publikation Ihrer Geodaten und Projekte ist mit ArcExplorer auf einfache Weise möglich.

By Shinichi Habata, Mitsuo Yokokawa and Shigemune Kitawaki
Architecture and Hardware for HPC
Abstract: The Earth Simulator, developed by the Japanese government’s…

The Earth Simulator Center
The letter by ESC researchers was published in Nature.
The letter “Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere” by Shoshiro Minobe et al. was published in Nature (13 March 2008).