Proceedings of the 1997 UCGIS Annual Assembly and Summer Retreat
Acknowledgement:
The travel of graduate students to attend this conference was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9617695. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
(Note: Most links in the proceedings are broken currently and will be reestablished during the summer of 2003. HJO)
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MONDAY
9:00-10:00 (A1)
McMaster, Robert B.
"Professional Education in Geographic Information Science"
Rowan, Andrew T., Scott L.H. Madry, and Lyna Wiggins
"Professional Certificate Program in Geomatics at Rutgers University: First Year Experiences and Future Directions"
Overmyer, Scott P.
"GIS in Business"
9:00-10:00 (A2)
Ryznar, Rhonda, and John D. Nystuen
"The Greening of Detroit: The Social and Demographic Correlates"
Tomlin, Charles Dana, and Thomas William Pederson
"GIS and Urban Information Systems: The Development of an Early Warning System for Building Abandonment for New York City"
Hornsby, Kathleen, and Max J. Egenhofer
"On Developing a Framework to Support Reasoning about Change"
10:15-11:15 (B1)
Murphy, Sean, and Steven A. Sader
"Training in Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies: The Example of the Maine Space Grant Program"
Xia, Zong-Guo
"A Multi-Disciplinary and Cooperative Program in Geographic Information Science at the University of Massachusetts - Boston"
Privalsky, Marsha, and Derek Thompson
"The Potential Use of a Metadata Contents Standard for Geographic Information Systems Courses"
10:15-11:15 (B2)
Stevens, Jennifer L.
"Using GIS, Satellite Imagery and other Remote Sensor Data to Classify Coastal Marsh Health"
Sutton, Paul
"A Preliminary Investigation of Low-Gain DMSP OLS Nighttime Satellite Imagery for Modeling Population Density"
Maheshwari, Sudha
"A Review of the Current Literature on the use of GIS and Remote Sensing in Disaster Management"
11:15-12:15 (C1)
Savitsky, Basil George
"Hands-on and collaborative learning: results from a class on field sampling methods"
Coleman, David
"Applied and Academic Geomatics into the Twenty-First Century"
Thompson, Derek
"Learning with Geographic Information Systems: Towards an Effective Pedagogic Environment Based on a GIS Toolbox"
11:15-12:15 (C2)
Todorov, Nikolay, and Gary Jeffress
"GIS Modeling of Nursing Workforce and Health-Risk Profiles"
Yankow, Jeffery
"Job Mobility and Migration of Young Workers"
Friedman-Torres, Alissa
"Adapting GIS Tools to the Interpretation and Decision Making Process: Studying Hazardous Waste and Spatial Relations in Michigan"
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TUESDAY
9:00-10:00 (D1)
MacDonald, Marianne L.
"Benchmarking the Economic and Institutional Impacts of GIS"
Hartung, Valerie L.
An Economic Perspective of the GIS Industry
Stevenson, Paula J.
"An Ad-Hoc Review of Research Needs of Select Federal Mapping Agencies"
9:00-10:00 (D2)
Spies, Therese E. and David L. Lee
"GPS for Integrated Crop Management/Integrated Pest Management in New Jersey"
Rosenboom, Paul
"Bridging the Gap Between GPS and GIS"
Penman, Shawn L.
"Modern Technology Breathes Life into Dusty Archaeological Maps"
9:00-10:00 (D3)
Gyftakis, Sotiris
"Scale and Accuracy Issues in the Use of Orthoimagery within NSDI"
Chen, DongMei
"Scale Effects on Image Classification"
Hepinstall, Jeffrey A., and S.A. Sader
"Using Bayesian Statistics, Satellite Imagery and Breeding Bird Survey Data to Model Bird Occurrence in Maine"
10:15-11:15 (E1)
Macklin, Sharron J.
"GIS in Education: Inclusion of Geographic Information Science in Secondary, Technical and Higher Education Curricula"
Davis, Paul, and Derek Thompson
"The Design and Use of a Cartographic Portfolio for Fostering Visualization Skills Development and Assessment"
10:15-11:15 (E2)
Carswell, James D.
"Digital Image Retrieval Using Queries on Shape Information"
Moreno, Rafael
"Selecting Multimedia Authoring Tools to Facilitate an Incremented Modular Approach to the Development of a Multimedia GIS"
DenOuden, Bob
"Utilizing GIS in Stream Classification and Assessment"
10:15-12:15 (E3) - Special FGDC session (2 hours)
Sewash, Joe, and Barbara Poore
"Integration of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure with GIS Curriculum"
Domaratz, Michael A.
"Building Framework Data"
Nebert, Douglas D.
"Access to Geographic Data--Clearinghouses and Digital Libraries"
11:15-12:15 (F1)
DiBiase, David
"A Strategy for Computer-Assisted Learning in a Large-enrollment Course on Geographic Information"
Mankoff, Christopher Allen
"Integrating HTML into the GIS Classroom"
11:15-12:15 (F3) - see session E3
Special FGDC Session Continued
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 18
9:00-10:00 (G1)
Agouris, Peggy
"Modern data collection methods for GIS generation and updating"
Gopal, Sucharita
"Fuzzy ARTMAP Classification of Global Land Cover from AVHRR Data Set"
9:00-10:00 (G2)
Tulloch, David L., Earl F. Epstein, Bernard J. Niemann Jr., and Stephen J. Ventura
"Institutionalizing the Study of GIS Institutions"
Mark, David M.
"The GIS History Project"
10:15-11:15 (H1)
Song, Jieyuan, and Joseph V. Depinto
"Development of a GIS-based Spatial Data Query System"
Goyal, Roop Kishor, and Max J. Egenhofer
"The Direction-Relation Matrix: A Representation of Direction Relations for Extended Spatial Objects"
Aggarwala, Rajendra K., and John D. Nystuen
"Digital Map Database Accuracy Evaluation Issues for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Applications"
10:15-11:15 (H2)
Schmitt, Brian
"Community Organizations and GIS: From Experience to Theory"
Elwood, Sarah A.
"The Minneapolis Community GIS Project: A Report on the Challenges and Opportunities of Community-based GIS education"
Schroeder, Paul C.
"GIS in Public Participation Settings"
11:15-12:15 (I1)
Bidoshi, Kosta, and Raul Ramirez
"Quality Control of Road Datasets Using a Hybrid Data Structure"
Cova, Thomas J., and Richard L. Church
"An Algorithm for Locating Nodal Clusters in a Transportation Network"
Zhang, Ming
"Land Use Activities in Rail Transit Station Areas - A Boston Case Study"
11:15-12:15 (I2)
Chrisman, Nick
"GIS as Social Practice: or Why Standards Efforts are Doomed to Failure"
Bassett, Scott D.
"Modeling Biodiversity for Policy Makers: Wilderness Designation in Utah"
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THURSDAY JUNE 19
9:00-10:00 (J1)
Lopez, Xavier
"The Network as Organization: Digital Libraries for Spatial Information"
Baxmann, Matthias
"An Online Planning and Consenus-building Model: Access to GIS as a tool to facilitate dialogue in mining site redevelopment south of Leipzig, Germany."
9:00-10:00 (J2)
Brehme, Chris
"A GIS Landscape Analysis and Model of Suitable Gray Wolf Habitat in Central Idaho"
Ahearn, Sean, and Dave Smith
"Modeling the Survival and Proliferation of Tigers in the Ecosystems of Nepal using an Object - Oriented Geographic Information System"
Agung, Anak
"Representing Spatial Objects in an Object-Relational Database Model for Large Scale Mapping"
9:00-10:00 (J3)
Schill, Steven R., and John R. Jensen
"Water Quality Modeling in the Okatie River Basin, South Carolina, Using a Remote Sensing/GIS Approach"
DeLiberty, Tracy L., and John Callahan
"A Hydrologic Investigation of the Amazon Basin using a GIS"
Siegel, Jeff L.
"Transportation GIS for the Indianapolis Region"
10:15-11:15 (K1)
Patterson, Mark William
"GIS and (Dis)empowerment Issues: An Examination of GIS Discourse Session"
Stonich, Susan C.
"Spatial Technologies, Social Movements, and Environmental Justice: The Case of Global Resistance to the Shrimp Mariculture Industry"
Sieber, Renee
"GIS in Grassroots Groups: The Role for Universities"
10:15-11:15 (K2)
Trice, Theodore Mark and Ling Bian
"Comparison of spatial interpolators for mapping optical plankton counter data collected in Lake Ontario"
Scott, Michael S.
The Extension of Cartographic Modeling to Three-Dimensional
Geographic Analysis"
11:15-12:15 (L1)
Guan, Falan
"Multimedia Tourist Information systems for an Ancient Chinese City: Move from PC Arcview to Arcview Internet Map Server"
Shiffer, Michael J.
"Spatial Multimedia for Public Discourse"
11:15-12:15 (L2)
Ontkush, Mark
"Encrypting Data and Protecting Software in the GIS World : How to Thwart the Hackers"
Hodson, Tim
"A Prediction of the Internet's Affect on Land Records in the United States"
Pluijmers, Yvette
"Protecting intellectual property in private sector spatial datasets"
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FRIDAY JUNE 20
9:00-10:00 (M1 - Gates Auditorium)
Rodriguez, Andrea, and Max J. Egenhofer
"Spatial Relations Based on Image Schemata: A Case Study Approach"
Thill, Jean-Claude, and Aaron Wheeler
"Spatial Reasoning, Spatial Behavior, and Decision Tree Induction"
Mitchell, Philip, and Michael Frachetti, and Patrick Daly
"Modeling Prehistoric Settlement in an area of Isostatic Upheaval with ARC/INFO"
9:00-10:00 (M2 - McCormack Lecture Hall)
Scott, Lauren M.
"Spatial Analysis in a GIS Environment: Employment Patterns in Greater Los Angeles, 1980-1990"
Garriga, Holly Morehouse, and Samuel J. Ratick
"Planning for Continuity and Compactness in Land Use Allocation Decisions: Using Cellular Automata and Integer Programming within a GIS"
Knight, Jeffrey
"Performing Fractal Analysis of Congressional District Boundaries as an Alternative Measure of Compactness"
10:15-11:15 (N1 - Gates Auditorium)
Singh, Raj R.
"Sketch Planning with GIS"
Gartrell, Bryce and Tim Hodson
"Drawing Lines in the Sand: Representing Property Data Qualitatively in a GIS"
Couclelis, Helen
"Worlds of Information: The Geographic Metaphor in the Visualization of Complex Information"
10:15-11:15 (N2 - McCormack Lecture Hall)
Snell, Seth, Sucharita Gopal, Robert Kaufmann, and Lou Scuderi
"Artificial Neural Networks for Spatial Interpolation of GCM forecasts"
Mulcahy, Karen A.
"Map Projections and Spatial Referencing for Global Data Sets"
Callahan and DeLiberty
"Climatological Study of Modeled Solar Radiation: A Case Study Using GIS"
11:15-12:15 (O1 - Gates Auditorium)
Van Zuyle, Paul
"A Cognitive Model for Data Reduction in Navigational Map Displays"
Albert, William S.
"Sex-related differences in the use of GIS: The map overlay operation"
Charpentier, Mary
"The Dasymetric Method with Comments on its Use in GIS"
11:15-12:15 (O2 - McCormack Lecture Hall)
Kurt Buehler
"Open GIS: An Overview and a Discussion of Research and Educational Issues"
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L.2
11:15-12:15
Ontkush, Mark
"Encrypting Data and Protecting Software in the GIS World : How to
Thwart the Hackers"
Hodson, Tim
"A Prediction of the Internet's Effect on Land Records in the
United States"
Pluijmers, Yvette
"Protecting intellectual property in private sector spatial
datasets"
FRIDAY JUNE 20
8:00-9:00
PLENARY SESSION
"Establishing National Geographic Information Science Education Priorities: An Action Plan for the Future"
Presentation of GIS Education White Papers by UCGIS Working Groups
M.1
9:00-10:00
Rodriguez, Andrea, and Max J. Egenhofer
"Spatial Relations Based on Image Schemata: A Case Study Approach"
Thill, Jean-Claude, and Aaron Wheeler
"Spatial Reasoning, Spatial Behavior, and Decision Tree Induction"
Mitchell, Philip, and Michael Frachetti, and Patrick Daly
"Modeling Prehistoric Settlement in an Area of Isostatic Upheaval
with ARC/INFO"
M.2
9:00-10:00
Scott, Lauren M., and William Lloyd
"Spatial Analysis in a GIS Environment:
Employment Patterns in Greater Los Angeles, 1980-1990"
Garriga, Holly Morehouse, and Samuel J. Ratick
"Planning for Continuity and Compactness in Land Use Allocation
Decisions: Using Cellular Automata and Integer Programming within
a GIS"
Knight, Jeffrey
"GIS Based Compactness Measurement Using Fractal Analysis"
N.1
10:15-11:15
Singh, Raj R.
"Sketch Planning with GIS"
Gartrell, Bryce and Tim Hodson
"Drawing Lines in the Sand: Representing Property Data
Qualitatively in a GIS"
Couclelis, Helen
"Worlds of Information: The Geographic Metaphor in the
Visualization of Complex Information"
N.2
10:15-11:15
Snell, Seth, Sucharita Gopal, Robert Kaufmann, and Lou Scuderi
"Artificial Neural Networks for Spatial Interpolation of GCM
Forecasts"
Mulcahy, Karen A.
"Map Projections and Spatial Referencing for Global Data Sets"
Callahan and DeLiberty
"Climatological Study of Modeled Solar Radiation: A Case Study Using GIS"
O.1
11:15-12:15
Van Zuyle, Paul
"A Cognitive Model for Data Reduction in Navigational Map
Displays"
Albert, William S.
"Sex-Related Differences in the Use of GIS: The Map Overlay
Operation"
Charpentier, Mary
"The Dasymetric Method with Comments on its Use in GIS"
O.2
11:15-12:15
"Open GIS: An Overview and a Discussion of Research and Educational Issues"
Kurt Buehler