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Dr. Berry has been involved with GIS and geospatial technologies for
over four decades. He will be sharing his thoughts on similarities and differences in Natural Resource and
Agriculture use of GIS technology with particular emphasis on map analysis and
modeling. All are welcome; open to the public.
The presentation will take place in the North Classroom
Building, Room 5032, University of Colorado at Denver, Auraria Campus.
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GIS in Natural Resources and Agriculture
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
9:30 to 10:30am (Handout with
online references; PowerPoint with
presentation notes, 18MB)
Often Natural Resources and Production Agriculture
are viewed as similar endeavors where forests are just a larger form of a crop—
hence the U.S. Forest Service is in the Department of
Agriculture. However their modern expressions identify significant
differences in their motivations, goals, decision environments, technological
approaches and applications. This presentation assesses the
similarities and differences in Natural Resource and Agriculture use of GIS
technology with particular emphasis on map analysis and modeling.
Note: download
special embedded animated slide set on Backcountry Emergency Response linked to
slide #4 (Travel-time Surface)
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Supporting Online/Hardcopy Book Series
Beyond Mapping: Compilation of 25 Years of
Essays and Activities about GIS
The Beyond
Mapping Compilation Series of
the 25-year run of the “Beyond Mapping” column by Dr. Joseph K.
Berry in GeoWorld is finally
“soup.” The nearly 1000 pages and more than 750 figures in the Series provide
a comprehensive and longitudinal perspective of the underlying concepts,
considerations, issues and evolutionary development of modern geotechnology,
including remote sensing, GIS, and GPS.
The Series is organized into four online
books (with hard copy options), each containing an Introduction, Ten
Topics, Epilogue, and Further Readings with
links to online support materials including additional online readings, color
graphics files, instructor materials, and software for “hands-on” exercises
that are cross-referenced to the topics.
Book
IV — GIS
Modeling: Applying Map Analysis Tools and
Techniques (columns from 2007 to 2014). This compilation extends
earlier discussions of map analysis concepts, procedures, approaches,
applications and issues affecting contemporary relevance and future potential.
Book
III — Map Analysis:
Understanding Spatial Patterns and Relationships (columns from 1996
to 2007). This
compilation develops a structured view of the important concepts,
considerations and procedures involved in grid-based map analysis.
Book
II — Spatial
Reasoning for Effective GIS (columns from 1993 to
1996). This
compilation encourages the reader to extend the historic role of maps telling
us “Where is what?” to “So what?”
Book I — Beyond
Mapping: Concepts, Algorithms and Issues in GIS (columns
from 1989 to 1993). This compilation describes an emerging technology
that goes beyond traditional mapping and spatial database management to new
concepts and procedures for modeling the complex interrelations among spatial
data of all kinds.
The
resource is available at http://www.innovativegis.com/basis/BeyondMappingSeries/
and permission to use portions of the Beyond Mapping Compilation Series
collection of columns for educational and non-commercial purposes is
granted (and encouraged). Navigation within this tsunami of information
is aided by five separate organizational listings of the individual Beyond
Mapping columns, including a Chronological
Listing of the nearly 300 individual Beyond Mapping
columns; an Application
Listing that organizes the columns by application areas;
an Operations
Listing that organizes the columns by operational
topic/theme discussed; an Interactive
Listing (.doc) that can be searched/sorted by any word or
phrase, topic, theme and application area; and a soon-to-be-published Combined
Index of keywords and phrases covering all four
books (in progress; planned for Fall 2014).
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