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Free Download Geographic Information Science: 4th International Conference, GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings By Pragya Agarwal, Roderic Béra, Christophe Claramunt (auth.), Martin Raubal, Harvey J. Miller, Andrew U. Frank, Michael F. Goodchild (eds.)
2006 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 3540445285 | PDF | 9 MB
The GIScience conference series (www. giscience. org) was created as a forum for all researchers who are interested in advancing research in the fundam- tal aspects of geographic information science. Starting with GIScience 2000 in Savannah, Georgia, USA, the conferences have been held biennially, bringing together a highly interdisciplinary group of scientists from academia, industry, and governmentto analyze progressand to explore new researchdirections. The conferences focus on emerging topics and basic research ?ndings across all s- tors of geographic information science. After three highly successful conferences in the United States, this year’s GIScience conference was held in Europe for the ?rst time. The GIScience conferences have been a meeting point for researchers coming from various disciplines, including cognitive science, computer science, engine- ing, geography,information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology,social science, and statistics. The advancement of geographic information science – quiressuchinterdisciplinarybreadth,andthisisalsowhatmakestheconferences so exciting. In order to account for the di?erent needs of the involved scienti?c disciplines with regard to publishing their research results, we again organized two separate stages of paper submission: 93 full papers were each thoroughly reviewed by three Program Committee members and 26 were selected for p- sentation at the conference and inclusion in this volume. Then, 159 extended abstracts, describing work in progress, were screened by two Program Comm- tee members each. Subsequently, 42 of them were selected for oral presentation, and 46 for poster presentation at the conference.

Free Download Christopher J. Dawsen, "Geographic Information Systems "
English | ISBN: 1612099254 | 2011 | 153 pages | PDF | 12 MB

Free Download Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval By Dr. Javier Nogueras-Iso, Dr. F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, Dr. Pedro R. Muro-Medrano (auth.)
2005 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 3540244646 | PDF | 4 MB
Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about data", it is an essential requirement for locating and evaluating available data. Therefore, this book focuses on the study of different metadata aspects, which contribute to a more efficient use of DLs and SDIs. The three main issues addressed are: the management of nested collections of resources, the interoperability between metadata schemas, and the integration of information retrieval techniques to the discovery services of geographic data catalogs (contributing in this way to avoid metadata content heterogeneity).

Free Download The Power of Where
by Dangermond, Jack;, Esri, The GIS Community
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1589486064 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 89.74 MB

Free Download National Geographic Birding Basics: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Great Bird-watching by Noah Strycker
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 142622219X | True EPUB | 256 pages | 163 MB
Targeted to beginners and beyond, National Geographic’s fun, inspiring guide to the art, craft, and science of bird-watching combines practical know-how and expert knowledge. Browsable and bursting with helpful illustrations and photographs, Birding Basics offers new ideas for when, where, and how to get to know the birds in your world.

Free Download Modern Accelerator Technologies for Geographic Information Science By Xuan Shi, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Chaowei Yang (auth.), Xuan Shi, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Chaowei Yang (eds.)
2013 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 1461487447 | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores the impact of augmenting novel architectural designs with hardware‐based application accelerators. The text covers comprehensive aspects of the applications in Geographic Information Science, remote sensing and deploying Modern Accelerator Technologies (MAT) for geospatial simulations and spatiotemporal analytics. MAT in GIS applications, MAT in remotely sensed data processing and analysis, heterogeneous processors, many-core and highly multi-threaded processors and general purpose processors are also presented. This book includes case studies and closes with a chapter on future trends. Modern Accelerator Technologies for GIS is a reference book for practitioners and researchers working in geographical information systems and related fields. Advanced-level students in geography, computational science, computer science and engineering will also find this book useful.

Free Download Governments and geographic information By Masser, Ian
1998 | 121 Pages | ISBN: 0748407065 | PDF | 5 MB
Modern geographic information systems technology has transformed spatial data handling capabilities and made it necessary for governments to rethink their roles with respect to the supply and availability of geographic information.; The nature of the relationship between governments and geographic information is explored in this book from a number of different conceptual positions with reference to the experiences of Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and the United States and particularly with respect to the development of national geographic information strategies.; The book examines the role that can be played both directly through a variety of policy initiatives and also indirectly because of the extent to which they create the broader institutional context within which these are developed and implemented.The discussion is divided into three main parts. The first of these considers what is Special About Geographic Information And Evaluates The Notion Of geographic information from four different standpoints – as a resource, a commodity, an asset and an infrastructure.;; The second part presents the findings from four case studies of national geographic information strategies, while the final section evaluates these experiences with a view to identifying what general lessons can be learnt from them.

Free Download Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment: Phase II: Implications for Access, Quality, and Efficiency By Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, Margaret Edmunds, Frank A. Sloan, A. Bruce Steinwald
2012 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0309257980 | PDF | 9 MB
Medicare, the world’s single largest health insurance program, covers more than 47 million Americans. Although it is a national program, it adjusts payments to hospitals and health care practitioners according to the geographic location in which they provide service, acknowledging that the cost of doing business varies around the country. Under the adjustment systems, payments in high-cost areas are increased relative to the national average, and payments in low-cost areas are reduced. In July 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Medicare, commissioned the IOM to conduct a two-part study to recommend corrections of inaccuracies and inequities in geographic adjustments to Medicare payments. The first report examined the data sources and methods used to adjust payments, and recommended a number of changes. Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment – Phase II:Implications for Access, Quality, and Efficiency applies the first report’s recommendations in order to determine their potential effect on Medicare payments to hospitals and clinical practitioners. This report also offers recommendations to improve access to efficient and appropriate levels of care. Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment – Phase II:Implications for Access, Quality, and Efficiency expresses the importance of ensuring the availability of a sufficient health care workforce to serve all beneficiaries, regardless of where they live.

Free Download Ashley Morris, Svitlana Kokhan, "Geographic Uncertainty in Environmental Security"
English | 2007 | pages: 285 | ISBN: 1402064365, 1402064373 | PDF | 9,0 mb
On June 28 through July 1, 2006, a NATO advanced research workshop was held in Kyiv, Ukraine. This meeting of scholars from both NATO and NATO partner countries brought together the leading researchers in the field of Fuzziness and Uncertainty in GIS for Environmental Security and Protection. The papers based upon the presentations at this meeting are included in this book. They were all quite good, some focusing on the use of fuzzy sets in geography, others focusing on explicit environmental concerns in Ukraine. What this book cannot show is the camaraderie and spirit of cooperation that permeated the atmosphere of this workshop. These researchers, many of whom had never met before, are now colleagues, and are continuing to collaborate on research to this day, and probably beyond. Scholars from various positions and countries have chosen to work together in the spirit of cooperation to make the ideas presented in this book come to fruition. At press time, we do not know if Ukraine will become a NATO member or not. In any case, the editors wish to thank the NATO Science Committee for their funding, encouragement, and work in making this workshop a reality. We hope that the spirit of cooperation and intellectual curiosity that was so lively at the conference will encourage the reader in the perusal of this work.

Free Download The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World by Andy Sharp
English | October 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1786786737 | 272 pages | MOBI | 84 Mb
EXPLORE THE LANDSCAPES OF THE OCCULT – EXPAND THE HORIZONS OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS