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1.
Anthropogenic resource management
Title/Author: PC-Based GIS Manages Municipal Water Systems
by Carmen Urenda
Source: GIS World, Vol. 5, No. 5, June 1992, pp.
43-47.
Description: This article describes how an engineering
firm in Long Beach, California developed a GIS package that
would run on a PC and work with AutoCAD to assist in managing
municipal water systems.
Title/Author: Farming the Winds: Mapping Renewable Energy
Resources With GIS
by D. Simmons and J. Hill
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 4, No. 10, December 1995,
pp. 30-32.
Description: Establishing viable wind farms involves
complex analysis of land classification data and wind speeds.
GIS is being used to evaluate constraints and pinpoint possible
locations for wind farms in the UK, in attempting to eventually
produce enough energy through harnessing winds to power a sizeable
city.
Title/Author: Mexico Supports GIS Efforts
by R.M. Sanchez
Source: GIS World, Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1993, pp.
58-60.
Descriptions: Mexico uses GIS systems for resource planning
and allocation, in urban and rural areas.
2.
Water management
Title/Author: GIS Technology Aids National Estuarine
Study
by Karen Siderelis
Source: GIS World, Vol. 5, No. 6, August 1992,
pp. 62-66.
Description: The work of a North Carolina based company
with GIS and the second largest estuarine study in the US (the
Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Study). This article lists the aspects
of the study and the ever-increasing database used to support
continuing research and resources management activities.
Title/Author: Using GIS To Study Arctic Ice Caps
by A. Diament, W. Rees and J. Dowdeswell
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1993,
pp. 22-25.
Description: Scientists from the Scott Polar Research
Institute Cambridge, UK, used GIS (GRASS-4 software) and remote
sensing techniques together to analyze glaciological problems
on the ice caps of Nordaustlandet, north of Norway.
Title/Author: Ecological And Oceanographic Relationships
In The Southern Ocean(br> by P. Trathan, E. Murphy, C. Symon
and P. Rodhouse
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1993,
pp. 34-36.
Description: The Marine Life Science Division of the
British Antarctic Survey will investigate spatial and temporal
variability in the Southern Ocean ecosystem over a fifteen year
period. Such GIS applications include: examining the effects
of the atmosphere, sea-ice, physical oceanography and bathymetry
on the distribution of different species.
Title/Author: The effects of management on heath and
mire hydrology: a framework for a geographic information system
approach
by A.M.Gurnell, P.J. Edwards and C.T. Hill
Source: In: Landscape Ecology and GIS, London:
Taylor and Francis Inc., 1993, pp. 221-222.
Description: The development of a GIS framework for catchment
vegetation management.
Title/Author: Remote Sensing, GIS Technologies Support
Sea Ice Motion Monitoring
by E.B. Preston
Source: GIS World, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1993,
pp. 36-39.
Description: Satellite imagery, weather pattern and ocean
current modelling are used in a GIS to monitor and predict arctic
ice flow movements.
Title/Author: GIS Enhances Endangered Species Conservation
Efforts
by H. Resit Akcakaya
Source: GIS World, Vol. 7, No. 11, November 1993,
pp. 36-40.
Description: Explains how GIS can, and is, being used
to conserve endangered species using spatial structure in models.
Describes how GIS helps determine species' chance of recovery
and risk of extinction, preference and worthiness of conservation
efforts, etc.
Title/Author: GIS Supports Wetlands Land Use Analysis
by D.B. Michelson
Source: GIS World, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1993,
pp. 52-55.
Description: The Mekong GIS database is being developed
for the Mekong delta of Southeast Asia through Landsat TM interpretation
and field study as a UN project to study existing riparian land
uses and as an aid in regional wetland planning.
Title/Author: Using GIS To Study Arctic Ice Caps
by A. Diament, W. Rees and J. Dowdeswell
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1993,
pp. 22-25.
Description: Scientists from the Scott Polar Research
Institute Cambridge, UK, used GIS (GRASS-4 software) and remote
sensing techniques together to analyze glaciological problems
on the ice caps of Nordaustlandet, north of Norway.
Title/Author: GIS Brings New Outlook to Florida Keys
Marine Resources Environment
by C. Friel and K. Haddad
Source: GIS World, Vol. 5, No. 9, November 1992,
pp. 32-36.
Description: GIS enhancing the prediction, analysis and
management of ecosystem impacts on marine environments. GIS
has been used in the Florida Keys for site selection for explosives
testing; protecting the shorelines underwater photogrammetry;
and for determining boating and diving use patterns.
3.
Land management
Title/Author: The Answer Lies In The Soil: GIS and Soil
Remediation
by J. Okx and E. Henkens
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1993,
pp. 8-9.
Description: A Dutch firm created new GIS software that
monitors the type and degree of soil contamination. It was also
used to determine the method of treatment for the site.
Title/Author: GIS Supports Tax Reporting, Mine Management
in Appalachian Coal Fields
by J.D. Wilson
Source: GIS World, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1993,
pp. 46-51.
Description: GIS is used to assist in classifying coal
seams according to new tax requirements in Kentucky and West
Virginia.
Title/Author: Field-Level Diffusion Eases GIS Implementation
Efforts
by Roy A. Mead and Ray Johnston
Source: GIS World, Vol. 7, No. 11, November 1993,
pp. 50-52.
Description: Discusses how GIS software was implemented
at the U.S. Forest Service Southern Region. (Emphasis is on
the implementation paradigm.)
Title/Author: GIS-Based Program Aids Wildlife Habitat
and Timber Management
by Kang-tsung Chang, David L. Verbyla, Jeffrey J. Yeo and Zhao-xing
Li
Source: GIS World, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1994,
pp. 40-43.
Description: GIS technology was crucial to the study
of Sitka black tailed deer habitat preferences in the logged
regions of Alaska. During the course of the study programs were
written to interface the GIS with other statistical analysis
programs. PC ARC/INFO was used as the main program for "manipulating
spatial and attribute data'. The program is composed of input,
analysis and output. Habitat class, wildlife relocation and
home range were part of the input. Analysis was consolidated
under point, line and area. The program tries to make measures
similar to those that exist in the environment. Under area analysis
it was found that as the size of the clear cut increased the
amount of the clear cut used by deer decreased. It was found
under line analysis that Deer home ranges had higher edge densities
than the program generated. The distance from the relocation
to the old-growth recent clear cut edge was also shorter in
reality.
Title/Author: Resource Management Perspective: GIS and
Decision Models in Forest Management Planning.
by J. Sessions, S. Crim, and K. Johnson
Source: In: Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management,
Washington: Island Press, 1994, pp. 63-76.
Description: The use of GIS in forest management planning
in a hypothetical setting.
Title/Author: GIS Applications Perspective: Using Remote
Sensing and GIS for Modelling Old-Growth Forests
by J. Gonzales
Source: In: Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management,
Washington: Island Press, 1994, pp. 157-177.
Description: This chapter is an analysis of a demonstration
project conducted in the U.S. southwest using digital satellite
data and existing ecological information in a GIS system to
model probable old-growth forest.
Title/Author: A methodology for acquiring information
on vegetation succession from remotely sensed imagery
by D.R. Green, R. Cummins, R. Wright, and J. Miles
Source: In: Landscape Ecology and GIS, London:
Taylor and Francis Inc., 1993, pp. 111-128.
Description: Approaches to examine, understand and map
patterns of natural or semi-natural vegetation using remotely
sensed data.
Title/Author: Integration of geological data sets for
gold exploration in Nova Scotia
by G.F. Bonham-Carter, F.P. Agterberg and D.F. Wright Peuquet,
Donna J. and Duane F. Marble
Source: In: Introductory Readings in Geographic Information
Systems, Pennsylvania: Taylor & Francis. Bristol, pp.
170-182.
Description: The use of GIS to create a map showing areas
favourable for gold mineralization, based on previous data of
known occurrences.
Title/Author: GIS Joins Europe's Hunt For Gold
by C. Fry
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 4, No. 10, December 1995,
pp. 25-27.
Description: Geologists are using GIS to identify areas
for gold exploration. Data variables include the mountain building
periods associated with gold deposits, and where deposits occur
with respect to where rocks of these periods are exposed and
the conditions which predetermine mineral bearing rocks.
Title/Author: Expertise and GIS Converge for
Diamond Exploration
by J.Memmi
Source: GIS World, Vol. 8, No. 2, February 1995,
pp. 54-57.
Description: The Diamond Exploration Geoscientific Information
System is used to generate diamond exploration models and diamond
prone areas. The model is based on data from the north central
USA and southern Canada. Variables measured include physical
geography and economic viability. The article also discusses
other possible mineral applications of the DEGIS.
Title/Author: Forest Health Monitoring Case Study
by C.I. Liff, K.H. Riitters, and K.A. Hermann
Source: In: Environmental Information Management and
Analysis, by W.K. Michner, J.W. Brant, and S.G. Stafford.,
1994, pp. 101-113.
Description: This article discusses the Forest Health
Monitoring (FHM) Programme to determine the ecological status
and trends of the forest condition. GIS is employed within the
planning, logistical, assessment, and reporting areas of FHM
to manage, integrate and analyze spatial information.
Title/Author: Detecting Fine-Scale Disturbance in Forested
Ecosystems as Measured by Large-Scale Landscape Patterns
by G.A. Bradshaw and S.L. Garman
Source: In: Environmental Information Management and
Analysis, by W.K. Michner, J.W. Brant, and S.G. Stafford.,
1994, pp. 534-550.
Description: Article discusses the use of GIS to handle
research from both fine scale sampling of forest ecosystems
to larger, landscape patterns.
4.
Ecosystem management
Title/Author: Conservation Commitment Renewed With Protected
Areas System
by C. Roque
Source: GIS World, Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1993,
pp. 54-57.
Description: In 1990, a consortium of environmental protection
groups, including the World Wildlife Fund, along with the Philippine
Government used ARC/INFO GIS to identify ten sites around the
country that were classified as endangered and formed the basis
for new legislation protecting such areas.
Title/Author: GRID - Arendal Bridges The Gap
by E. Husby
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1993,
pp. 30-33.
Description: GIS was employed as a tool with the Global
Resource Information Database (GRID) to display and analyze
protected areas, sea-ice variability, ozone protection, land
use change, vegetation types, and drainage patterns in Norway.
Title/Author: GIS Improves Visualization, Evaluation
Capabilities in Superfund Cleanup
by J.M. Garcia and L.G. Hecht Jr.
Source: GIS World, Vol. 6, No. 2. Feb. 1993, pp.
36-41.
Description: Use of GIS to provide solutions to complex
data management programs associated with environmental restoration
programs.
Title/Author: Geographic Information Technology Fulfils
Need For Timely Data
by Allan Falconer
Source: GIS World, Vol. 5, No. 6, August 1992,
pp. 37-41.
Description: This article contains many case studies
the African government and the United Nations are involved in
and the types of software used. These case studies all provide
information that would have been difficult to gather any other
way. By using GIS, GPS and remote sensing together, it becomes
possible to generate timely natural resources data for a reasonable
cost and at a useful level of accuracy for planning, managing
and monitoring purposes.
Title/Author: Ecological Perspective: Linking Ecology,
GIS, and Remote Sensing to Ecosystem Management.
by C. Allen
Source: In: Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management,
Washington: Island Press, 1994, pp. 111-139.
Description: This chapter provides an ecological perspective
applied to ecosystem management in a southwestern U.S. landscape.
Title/Author: Forest Planning With Satellite Data
by Anders Persson and Mary Jo Wagner
Source: GIS World, Vol. 3, No. 11, July 1994,
pp. 36-38.
Description: GIS and Remote Sensing are used to prepare
forest inventories and management plans. Delineation of individual
tree species in an orthogonal map is discussed as well as the
analysis of cutting and replanting regimes for the next decade.
Title/Author: GIS Applications Perspective: Multidisciplinary
Modelling and GIS for Landscape Management
by R. Flamm, and M. Turner
Source: In: Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management,
Washington: Island Press, 1994, pp. 201-212.
Description: This chapter presents an approach for integrating
ecological and socioeconomic information for application in
a landscape management program.
Title/Author: Evolution of an Environmental Information
System
by Jose M. Moreira, Fernando Gimenez-Azcarate and Michael Gould
Source: GIS World, Vol. 7, No. 11, November 1993,
pp. 46-49.
Description: Explains how remote sensing and GIS technologies
are being developed and applied to help control environmental
degradation. Case study is Andalucia, Spain. The evolution of
a "mature and productive" environmental GIS, SinambA,
is described.
Title/Author: Multispectral Airborne Videography Evaluates
Environmental Impact
by M. Snider, J. Hayse, I. Hlohowskyj and K.LaGore
Source: GIS World, Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1994. pp.
50-52.
Description: MAV technology was used for classifying
vegetation and water areas along the Green River, a 500 mile
tributary of the Colorado River. The article discusses advantages
of using MAV technology as an effective alternative when analyzing
resources in GIS.
Title/Author: Using cover-type likelihoods and typicalities
in a GIS data structure to map gradually changing environments
by T.F. Wood and G.M. Foody
Source: In: Landscape Ecology and GIS, London:
Taylor and Francis Inc., 1993, pp. 141 -146.
Description: Incorporating probabilities into the GIS
than just the class code derived from a maximum likelihood classification
when environment in question displays gradual change in class
membership.
Title/Author: Effects of beaver and moose on boreal
forest landscapes
by C.A. Johnston, J. Pastor and R.J. Naiman
Source: In: Landscape Ecology and GIS, London:
Taylor and Francis Inc., 1993, pp. 237-254.
Description: This paper examines the effects of two large
mammals, beaver and moose, on boreal forest ecosystems.
Title/Author: The ecological interpretation of satellite
imagery with special reference to bird habitats
by G.H. Griffiths, J.M. Smith, N. Veitch and R. Aspinall
Source: In: Landscape Ecology and GIS, London:
Taylor and Francis Inc., 1993, pp. 255-272.
Description: Preliminary results from two case studies
in which census data of upland bird species have been used in
conjunction with vegetation ground survey and satellite data
to establish and test models of the relationships between land
cover and spatial pattern and selected upland bird species.
Title/Author: The use of remote sensing (SPOT) for the
survey of ecological patterns, applied to two different ecosystems
in Belguim and Zaire
by R. Goossens, T. Ongena, E. D'Haluin and G. Larnae
Source: In: Landscape Ecology and GIS, London:
Taylor and Francis Inc., 1993, pp. 147-160.
Description: This study deals with the transformation
of raw satellite data into processed images which reveal certain
ecological patterns and structure.
Title/Author: Environmental, Technological Efforts Mitigate
Global Change
by Richard D. Schulman
Source: GIS World, Vol. 5, No. 10, December 1992,
pp. 47-51.
Description: The use of GIS to detect, measure, assess
and communicate environmental occurrences.
Title/Author: Technology and Policy Issues Impact Global
Monitoring
by John E. Estes
Source: GIS World, Vol. 5, No. 10, December 1992,
pp. 52-55.
Description: The use of GIS to provide accurate data
on global environmental changes.
Title/Author: GIS Enhances Aquaculture Development
by J.Aguilar-Manjarrez, G.Ross
Source: GIS World, Vol. 8, No. 3, March 1995,
pp. 52-56.
Description: A GIS is used to predict the most suitable
sites for developing land based aquaculture shrimp farms and
regular agricultural lands in Sinaloa, Mexico. Thirty different
criteria were evaluated by a model and overlay analysis was
performed on IDRISI ver 4.1. The article also briefly outlines
other current sources of GIS use in aquaculture.
Title/Author: Development and Refinement of the Konza
Prairie LTER Research and Information Management Program
by J.M. Briggs and H. Su
Source: In: Environmental Information Management and
Analysis, by W.K. Michner, J.W. Brant, and S.G. Stafford.,
1994, pp. 87-100.
Description: The primary goal of the long-term ecological
research program at Konza Prairie is to ascertain how grazing
affects biotic and ecosystem processes. The development of the
program has benefited from areas such as remote sensing and
GIS.
Title/Author: GIS Eases Resource Management Efforts
by R. Troeger
Source: GIS World, Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1993,
pp.50-52.
Description: GIS technology was employed by researchers
in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Borough to display land characteristics,
uses and suggest optimal areas for potential new growth. As
well, environmental disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill
were tracked.
Title/Author: Conservation Commitment Renewed With Protected
Areas System
by C. Roque
Source: GIS World, Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1993,
pp. 54-57.
Description: In 1990, a consortium of environmental protection
groups, including the World Wildlife Fund, along with the Philippine
Government used ARC/INFO GIS to identify ten sites around the
country that were classified as endangered and formed the basis
for new legislation.
Title/Author: Life on Earth: GIS at the Natural History
Museum
by Malcolm Penn
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 4, No. 5, June 1995,
pp. 20-22.
Description: GIS and remote sensing are used by the London
Natural History Museum to link together data and information
about the life sciences with a pre-defined geographic framework.
The multidisciplinary advantages to GIS are discussed with reference
to vegetation type and species composition of a portion of Belizean
rainforest.
Title/Author: Russian Water-Quality Projects Struggle
for Survival
by T.Nawrocki
Source: GIS World, Vol. 8, No. 2, February 1995,
pp. 50-52.
Description: The article outlines a perceived need for
Russians to use GIS technology to solve environmental based
problems. Water quality is particularly critical because of
the dwindling supply of clean drinking water.
Title/Author: Owls, Loggers Share Forest Wealth
by Jeff Specht
Source: GIS World, vol. 8, No. 10, October 1995,
pp. 36-41.
Description: GIS is used to develop a Habitat Conservation
Plan which could enhances habitat for northern spotted owls
and allow for continued harvest.
Title/Author: The View From the Commission: Setting
Environmental Data Standards
by Charles Alverson
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 4, No. 8, October 1995,
pp. 38-40.
Description: GIS is used to bring together and integrate
all the information that the European Environmental Agency (EEA),
formerly the European Commission's Coordination of Information
on the Environment (CORINE), has collected. The Agency plans
to develop the European Environment Information and Observation
Network (EIONET), a network on the World Wide Web which would
provide the EU and member countries with objective, reliable
and comparable information on the environment.
Title/Author: Ecological And Oceanographic Relationships
In The Southern Ocean
by P. Trathan, E. Murphy, C. Symon and P. Rodhouse
Source: GIS Europe, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1993,
pp. 34-36.
Description: The Marine Life Science Division of the
British Antarctic Survey will investigate spatial and temporal
variability in the Southern Ocean ecosystem over a fifteen year
period. Such GIS applications include: examining the effects
of the atmosphere, sea-ice, physical oceanography and bathymetry
on the distribution of different species.
Title/Author: Ecosystem Decline- Can GIS Help Save Florida
Bay?
by C. Friel, W. Sargent and C. Westlake
Source: GIS World, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan. 95, pp.
41-44.
Description: Using GIS to map water discolouring distribution
which helps to identify potential problems.
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