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Geographic information science

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Spruce snag quantification by coupling colour infrared aerial photos and a GIS

Rita Bütler Sauvain, Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Among different dead wood types, large snags have a particular ecological relevance for biodiversity in forest ecosystems. For both research and management purposes, rapid and cost-effective inventories of large snags are required. Due to the great variabi ...

Elsevier2004

Hare abundance as an indicator for urbanisation and intensification of agriculture in Western Europe

Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Significant land-use changes have occurred in Western European rural regions since the 1950s, leading to standardisation of the landscape, and to the decline of the richness in terms of habitat for fauna and flora. This paper reports on a study of the dyna ...

Elsevier2003

Database and tool development for organising and storing socio-economic and geographical information

Stéphane Joost, Régis Caloz

In: Sustainable Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources in Marginal Rural Areas: Integrating Molecular Genetics, Socio-Economics and Geostatistical Approaches, ECONOGENE project - QLK5-CT2001 - 02461, Progress Report Year 1, European Union Project, Qualit ...

2002

Map of ecological networks for landscape planning

Roland Prélaz-Droux, Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

This paper presents a method based on a geographical information system (GIS) to model ecological networks in a fragmented landscape. The ecological networks are generated with the help of a landscape model (which integrate human activities) and with a wil ...

Elsevier2002

TLSim: A software for Electrical Public Transportation Systems

Jean-Jacques Simond, Philippe Allenbach, Roland Wetter

The Laboratory of Electrical Machines of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) has developed a software (TLSim) for the simulation of electrical urban transportation systems. This program can simulate the behaviour of the power supply networ ...

2001

MurMur: Database Management of MultipleRepresentations

Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent

Successful information management implies the ability to design accurate representations of the real world of interest to targeted applications. Current systems do not provide representation schemes supporting the diversity of user needs. In the context of ...

2000

Supporting Multiple Representations inSpatio-Temporal databases

Stefano Spaccapietra

2000

Spatial Data Standards in View of Models of Space and the FunctionsOperating on Them

A new architecture for GIS is presented based on a systems view of geographical space as it is popular in geography. Starting with concepts of spatial modelling, current GIS standards are examined for their suitability to support different modelling concep ...

1999

Spatio-Temporal Conceptual Models: Data Structures + Space + Time

Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent

Nowadays, many applications need data modeling facilities for the description of complex objects with spatial and/or temporal facilities. Responses to such requirements may be found in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), in some DBMS, or in the research ...

1999

Geographical information system application of multiprocessor multidisk image servers

Roger Hersch

The article analyses the behavior of two kinds of multiprocessor multidisk storage server architectures for a data intensive application, namely for spatial queries in geographical information systems (GIS). The two kinds of servers are: (1) a workstation ...

Elsevier1996

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