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Paper Track Index
1996 ESRI User Conference

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
May 20-24, 1996




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Agriculture


GIS Implementation of Management System of Agricultural Resources

Optimal Management System of Stored Grain in GIS Environment

Precision Agricultural Systems Requirements for GPS/GIS



Application Development


A Discussion of Map Automation Using Layout Scripts

Analysis of Real-time Rain gauge and Stream gauge Flood Data Using ARC/INFO and ArcView Version 2.1

ArcView Application Programming with Multiple Developers

ArcView/Avenue: Coding Styles and Utility Scripts for Efficient Development

Building an ArcView Application Framework

Building an Interface Agent for ARC/INFO

Geocoding in ArcView with Fuzzy Zones. Resolving Ambiguous Addresses Using Variable Zones

Utility Water Usage and Conservation Data Access and Analysis Using ArcView Version 2



Archaeology


GIS and Archaeology: Using ARC/INFO to Increase Our Understanding of Ancient Jordan



Business Services


Spatial Quantification of Historic Landscape Change within Two Study Sites on John F. Kennedy Space Center



Cartography and Map Production


Creating Relief Maps of China

MAPComposer: A Powerful ARCPLOT Add-on for Modular Map Production



Data Publishing


Developing a Soil Survey of the Future



Database Design and Automation


Automated Database Population of Attribute Data

Automated Derivation of High Accuracy Road Centerlines Thiessen Polygons Technique

DATA CONVERSION: The Conversion of MicroStation Cells to ARC/INFO Symbology

Data Integration and Automation in Polk County, Florida: Transportation Applications and Lessons Learned

Digital Elevation Models: Issues of Data Accuracy and Applications

DTED/Topo: A Production Environment for Digital Elevation Database Development

Error Detection and Correction of Hypsography Layers

Implementation of Menu Driven County Map Production

Integrating Dynamic Segmentation into Publication Quality Transportation Maps

Looking for Buried Treasures on Your Geographic Information System: More than Meets the Eye

Measuring the Performance of Ground Slope Generation

Missouri Soil Map Digitization

Product Generation-Enhanced: National Mapping Division's Next Evolution in Graphic Production Systems

Quantifying Scanner Accuracy

Spatial Data Coordinate Quality and the ARC/INFO Data Model

The Dot-Probability Paradigm for the Storage of Spatial Data



Database Management and SDE


BEIDMS and ArcView: An Integrated Solution for Managing Environmental Data

Building Database Gateways with Inter-Application Communication (IAC)

Database Administration Strategies: Tools for Standardizing and Normalizing Lookup Tables

ESRI's Spatial Database Engine-A Seamless GIS Solution

GIS Development Using SDE



Defense and Intelligence


An ArcView Tool for Search Prioritization

ArcView Implementation for Environmental Site Assessment and Monitoring

Creating a Military GIS Database and Using It for Standard Military Topographic Map Production

Hasty Data: Constructing Data for Time Sensitive Operations

Inferring Bridges from Digital Cartographic Sources Using ARC/INFO

Removing Dilbert from GIS-Creating a User-Friendly Management Tool for Military Installations

Seamless Integration of Commercial Off-the-Shelf and Government Off-the-Shelf Software to Meet the Army's Terrain Analysis Requirements

Team Leader: An ArcView-Based Inspection and Data Collection System

The Defense Mapping Agency World Vector Shoreline Revision and Conversion Project

The Use of Geographical Information Systems to Enhance Environmental Decision Making at Point Mugu Naval Air Weapons Station, California

US Army Implementation of GIS for the BRAC Environmental Office at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, A BRAC 91 Base

Using Data Extraction for GIS Database Population and Visualization



Ecology and Conservation


An Expert System for Identifying Plants from Their Visible Features

Enhancing Natural and Cultural Resources Management by Integrating GIS Capabilities with Park Operations

GIS Techniques for Evaluating Wetland Maps Derived from Remotely Sensed Data

Kissimmee River Restoration: Overview of Inventory and Analysis Process and the Conceptual Land Use and Natural Resources Management Report

Land Condition and Vegetation Trend Analysis Using ArcView Version 2.1 and Avenue

Making GIS Work in a Desert Park

Methods of Inventory and Targeting Wetlands Restoration Areas Using Multidate Satellite Imagery and GIS

Using a GIS in Habitat Conservation Planning



Electrical and Gas


A Dynamic Electric Utility GIS Database

On the Integration of GIS within an Electric Vehicle Program for Predictive Analysis

Serving GIS Data to Electrical Distribution Analysis



Emergency Management and Response


Develop an Automation Procedure for FEMA Digital Flooding Insurance Data-Q3 Products (Programming for Data Process Automation, Conversion, and QC/QA)

Monitoring Earthquakes with ArcView and Seisport

Problem Explored: Economically Acceptable Design and Development of Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation Systems with Multiple Secondary Functions

Using GIS in Local Government: Supporting the National Flood Insurance Program



Environmental Management


An Integrated ArcView Expert System for Analyzing Contaminated Sediments in the Great Lakes Basin

Baltimore-Washington GIS Test Bed for Regional to Global Change Research

Data Integration at the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station to Aid in Environmental Management and Decision Making

GIS Development in the Hazardous Waste Geology Section, Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Indiana Department of Environmental Management

How to Integrate ArcView, DLLs, DDE, RPC, and Version Control in a True 3-D Application of ArcView for an Underground Waste Repository

Integrating GIS across the United States-Mexico Border: The Tijuana River Watershed Project

Interaction of ARC/INFO and ArcView Version 2.1 with Oracle in Tracking Hazardous Material Information in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Land Contamination in Katowice Voivodeship, Poland: The Role of GIS

Navy Range GIS: Integrating Range Operations and Environmental Management

PAMS-GIS Permit Application Management System

Resource-Effective Management for Multiagency Projects through GIS: As Implemented in the Downtown Tucson Groundwater Study

Using ArcView Version 2 in Military Base Closure Management



Federal/State Government Systems


GIS Application for Redistricting in the State of Texas

GIS Does the Weather

GISOM: A Digital Map Conversion Project Highlighting Interagency Cooperation

The Southern Appalachian Assessment GIS



Forestry


California Salmonid Habitat Inventory: A Dynamic Segmentation Application

Developing a Data Support System for Ecosystem Management Research

Integrating GIS Data with Digitized Photography to Simulate Change Relationships in a Forested Environment

Practical GIS for Managing Forestry Operations and Planning: A Case Study from Mondi Limited, South Africa

Technological Building Blocks for Deriving Timberland Suitablility Answers

Using GIS and GPS Applications for Rangeland Allotment Analysis



GIS Management and Implementation


BC Environment's Corporate Implementation of GIS

Cost-Benefit Analysis for GIS

Cumberland Island/Kings Bay Environmental Monitoring Project

EAGLE-An Environmental Information and Decision Support System

GIS on a Shoestring

GIS Secrets of Attila the Hun

GIS within Electronic Meetings: The Effective Use of Spatial Data in a Joint Intellectual Effort

Implementing a GIS within a Resource Management Department

Procedures for Implementing a Sensitive GIS Project

The Largest Land Resources Spatial Database in China



Information Access and the Internet (www)


A 'LOJIC-al' Approach to Implementing Local GIS Metadata and Application Documentation

Disseminating ARC/INFO Data Set Documentation in a Distributed Computing Environment

GIS and Related Technology: World Wide Web and GIS LAN and WAN

Information Center for the Environment: Public Access to Natural Resource Data

Meta Data: The Key to Managing GIS Data

Personal Privacy Protection vs. Your Right to Know: How the Use of GIS in this Computer Age Has Overtaken Your Individual Rights

Reporting Metadata for Access in ArcView and across Internet within the ARC/INFO Data Model



K-12 Education and Library Science


District of Columbia Public School System (DCPS) Facilities Master Plan Using GIS

GEODESY: Geography Development-An Educational Series for Youth

Mapping Our City: A Progress Report on GIS as a Tool in Urban Education



Local Government, Cadastral, and Land Records


ArcView Application for Solid Waste Collection Districting, City of Ann Arbor, Michigan

Developing a Land Records System Using ArcStorm and Oracle

Exploiting GIS for Sketch Planning

GIS: Tool for Local Development of Santa Fe de Bogota

Kiosk Oriented Applications: A Gateway to GIS for the Casual User

Kuwait Infrastructure Maintenance Management System

Managing Parcels with ArcStorm

Measuring GIS/LIS Progress in Local Governments: Land Records Modernization and Its Outcomes

Purchase of 1.4 Million Acres of Private Land in Nevada by the Nevada Land and Resource Company: GIS Evaluation of Land and Natural Resource Information

Putting GIS on the Desktop in a Large Planning Agency

Reengineering Land Records Process in Chester County, Pennsylvania

The Highs and Lows of Designing a Parcel Public Access System Using ArcView Version 2

Using GIS in Development Activity Tracking: An Intersystem Effort

Vacant Land Analysis



Mining and GeoSciences


Desktop GIS Solution for Land/Lease Management

Digital Analysis of Changes in Channel Morphology, Lower Virgin River, Arizona, and Nevada

Modeling Glaciated Terrains with ARC/INFO Tools

Physical-Habitat Characteristics of the Platte River, Nebraska -- Assessment Using Surveys and Spatial Analyses



National Initiative for Spatial Data (Super Sessions)


Supporting Search for Spatial Data on the Internet: Status of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse



New Technology and Systems Integration


Geographical Information Systems, Remote Sensing Techniques, and GPS-Based Field Verification Methodologies for Mapping Vegetation Change at Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona

GPS Referenced Aerial Video for Accuracy Assessment of a Small-scale Land Cover Map

Improving Field Data Collection through the Integration of ArcView Version 2.1 and GPS Technology

Integration of GIS and Artificial Neural Networks for Natural Resource Applications

Lockheed-Martin and Implentation of a Pilot Program with the City of Aurora, CO.

Using GPS to Assess the Accuracy of Digital Orthophoto Files and the USGS Public Land Survey System Database for a Kansas County

Using GPS to Assess the Accuracy of Digital Orthophoto Files and the USGS Public Land Survey System Database for a Kansas County



Oceanography, Coastal Zone, Marine Resources


Bottom Characteristics of an Ocean Disposal Site off Honolulu, Hawaii: Time-based Navigational Track line Data Managed by Routes and Events

Integration of Native Databases, GIS Technology, Application-Specific Tools, and Visualization Techniques

Natural Resource Mapping Using GIS: Coastal and Watershed Applications

The Influence of Island Topography on the Nearshore Light Regime and the Distribution of Giant Kelp around Santa Catalina Island



Pipelines


Modeling Riverbed Erosion Hazard for Pipelines



Public/Environmental Health and Safety


Automated Redistricting System for Law Enforcement

Use of GIS in the Murray Smelter Public Health Assessment



Remote Sensing and Image Processing


A New Paradigm for GIS Basemapping Data Acquisition

Digital Photogrammetry and ARC/INFO Link to the 'Hidden' Third Dimension

Updating of Topographic Maps 1:35000 Using Remote Sensing Techniques (Area of Proposed Site - Novo Virje Power Plant)



System Implementation for GIS


Configuring a PC to Run ArcView Version 2.1

Implementation of Oracle in an ARC/INFO-ArcView GIS Environment

PC to UNIX Connectivity Issues



Telecommunications


SDTS-Based Korea GIS Transfer Standard

The TELCO Work Order Process: Using GIS

Use of the RASPUTIN Cellular Network Planning Tool in a GIS Environment



Transportation


A GIS Analysis of Geographic Variations in Travel Characteristics

ARC/INFO-Based Geographical Information System for Road Safety Analyses and Improvement

Comprehensive Pavement Management in Georgia Utilizing the Route System Data Model

GIS for Identification of High Accident Locations

India Railways GIS-Based Decision Support System

Preparing Networks for Routing Applications

Traffic Accident Records Integration of Engineering Systems

Using the Georgia Department of Transportation's Road Characteristics Database for Intersection Level Calibration: An Application of the ARC/INFO Dynamic Segmentation Model

Utilization of GIS in the Decision Making Process of a Transportation Master Plan: The Interstate 4 Multimodal Master Plan



Universities and Higher Education


Avenue on CD, a Multimedia Training Tool

GIS Management Education

Teaching GIS in a Heterogeneous Networked Computing Environment



Water Distribution, Wastewater, Sewer


Development of Storm Water Drainage Master Plan for a Small Municipality

Integrating GIS for Better Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling

Technical Aspects of a PC-Based GIS Application: The Water Facilities GIS from Conceptual Design to Final Product

Using a GIS to Optimize Resources: A Work Order/Routing System Based on Transportation Costs and Spatial Order

Using GIS as the Data Integration Strategy at the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District



Water Resources


An Extraction of the Hydro-Geometric Information by Using Geographic Information System

Description of Basinsoft, A Computer Program to Quantify Drainage-Basin Characteristics

GIS and the Floodplain Management Planning Process in Washington State

Groundwater Modeling and Analysis Using the USGS MODFLOW Program and ArcView Version 2.1

Hydrological Modeling of the River Ythan Using ARC GRID

ModelGIS, an Interface for the USGS Three-Dimensional Finite-Difference Model MODFLOW

Utilizing the ARC/INFO Data Model to Build Conceptual Models for Environmental/Hydraulic/Hydrologic Simulations

Vulnerability of Missouri Public Drinking Water to Chemical Contamination



Wildlife Management and Fisheries


A GIS System for Bahrain Fisheries Management

Applying GIS and Remote Sensing to Avian Research: A Case Study on the Ouachita National Forest

Beyond Mapping: Using GIS for Natural Resource Assessment and Analysis

Hydrologic and Hydrographic Database Design in Support of Anadromous Fisheries Restoration Planning