understanding data and information systems for recordkeeping

... PART I GIS and expert systems for impact assessment The potential of expert systems and GIS for impact assessment Expert systems and decision support 27 GIS and impact assessment 52 GIS and environmental ... Geographical Information Retrieval and Analysis System (GIRAS) to handle information on land use and land cover from maps derived from aerial photography Jack Dangermond had started ESRI (Environmental Systems ... expert systems for IA of the situation being considered: understanding of the project, understanding of the environment, and understanding of the alternatives involved Impact prediction for each...

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... non-real-time Information Systems (IS) were based largely on “electronic data processing” (EDP) routines, and were oriented mostly towards “reporting the past” Next, real-time Management Information Systems ... the appeal and of the development of expert systems from the beginning and, to a certain extent, has given shape to what is still considered today a “standard” structure for these systems (Figure ... Glasson Expert systems and decision support 37 • If some of the information needed is to come from existing data instead of the user (or if the output from the system is to be stored), a database appropriate...

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... Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) Conference, Boston (August 6–10), Vol II, pp 210–6 Krasovskaia, T.V and Tikunov, V.S (1991) Geographical Information Systems for Environmental ... 459–68 Siderelis, K.C (1991) Land resource information systems, in Maguire, D.J., Goodchild, M.F and Rhind, D.W (eds) Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Applications, Longman, London, ... 72 GIS and expert systems for IA Boursier, P., Dbouk, M., Germa, J.-M., Dugue, C., Geffray, F., Souris, M and Mullon, C (1994) The Use of Geographic Information and Digital Terrain Models for Evaluating...

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... L.E., O’Donnell, S and Tibi, R (1990) Interactive Hydromet Information System for Real-Time Flood Forecasting and Warning, Proceedings of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association ... with John Glasson 84 GIS and expert systems for IA use remote sensing to map fallow land, and Allanson and Moxey (1996) map agricultural land-use changes in England and Wales; Pratt et al (1997) ... similar approach to assess land degradation and farmland dynamics in Nigeria, and Petit and Lambin (2001) combine GIS and multi-source remote sensing information to detect land-cover changes in Zambia...

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... Planning, Oxford Brookes University Rodriguez-Bachiller, A (2000) Geographical Information Systems and Expert Systems for Impact Assessment Part II: Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems, ... 146 GIS and expert systems for IA Foody, G.M (1995) Land Cover Classification by an Artificial Neural Network With Ancillary Information, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, ... Glasson 142 GIS and expert systems for IA Burrough, P.A (1992) Development of Intelligent Geographical Information Systems, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, Vol 6, No...

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... odours dust and particulate matter Waste disposal treatment Soil and land loss of agricultural land soil contamination 10 Landuse and planning plans and planning policies 11 Material assets and resources ... vibration AIR QUALITY: – the effects of dust and particulate matter The SCREEN and SCOPE systems are used mainly for demonstration and teaching purposes, and also for practical project work by students ... of dust and particulate matter LAND USE AND PLANNING: – potential discrepancies with the local plans and planning policies GEOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY: – the geological suitability to withstand the...

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... Glasson 192 Building expert systems for IA Figure 7.2 Information about project characteristics and location with informed bodies of opinion must be used On the one hand, there may be technical ... mining and quarrying For impact assessment, an overall emissions inventory27 should catalogue each source and provide for it the relevant emission data to be combined with the atmospheric data for ... provide standards for annual averages but only the WHO has one for hourly averages, and the standard most appropriate for each case should be identified, preferably following the aforementioned...

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... of Morris and Therivel, 2001): A – Woodland and scrub B – Grassland and marsh C – Tall herb and fern D – Heathland E – Mires F – Swamp, marginal and inundation G – Open water H – Coastlands I – ... preliminary desk study: landform, landcover and landscape features On the other hand, a more subjective approach is used to determine the “character” and quality of the landscape – and this is why it ... area into landscape units, broadly homogeneous landscape areas identified in terms of: • • • landform: slope, valleys, ridges, etc landcover: vegetation, land uses, woodland, etc landscape features:...

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... source for this information in the UK is the Department of Employment Data Sources (e.g Labour Market Trends) that update and publish unemployment, vacancy and redundancy data on a monthly basis, and ... (10–15 years ahead) for the local area are crucial, and from them other projections are made of demand for housing, schooling, health care and other services Geographic information systems can be ... a storage and “synthesizer” of large amount of information (from the Census and many other sources) and, to that extent, an existing GIS with all or part of the information needed for the baseline...

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... operates an online “Geoscience Data Index” of all the data and maps they hold (Hodson et al., 2001) in digital form, and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford also has produced the ... study based on published information – like national inventories that exist for certain types of ecosystems – and verbal consultation with well-informed organisations and interest groups: • • ... al., 1997a and 1997b; Picton and Costello, 1997) for both littoral and sublittoral surveys Phase aims at identifying and quantifying species and communities of various types (see Thompson and Lee,...

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... It can therefore be concluded that expert systems have a definite potential for problem solving in IA, but we must once and for all “divorce” the idea of expert systems from specific forms of computer ... bodies are to be contacted as the holders of important information needed for the study, like the various Institutes (for Ecology, for Landscape, etc.) The diversity of approaches found in the ... type of data (habitats and species for ecology, biochemical composition for water) Beyond these, the baseline studies are quite specific to each type of impact in terms of the data collected and...

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... InSTEDD, MedISys, MiTAP, and Proteus-BIO), and systems collect from both formal members and informal sources (EWRS and GOARN) ProMED-mail is the only system obtaining firsthand information from its ... on individual technologies for users’ interaction with the data to tag (mark or catalog) the information for future use, and to comment on the information (for sharing and collaboration with other ... delivering information, and in methods for visualization In moderated systems, information is processed entirely by human analysts or is first processed automatically and then Social Media and Internet-Based...

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... preparation of this report  European Commission Data and Information on Women’s Health in the European Union  Foreword Dear Reader, This report Data and Information on Women’s Health in the European ... EU-27 was 503.6 for women and 827.4 for men (data unavailable for Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, and the UK) SDR was also higher among men than women in all individual countries for which data was available, ... availability of reliable and topical data for all or most EU-27 Member States and the EEA, and the availability of data in a sex-specific format, which is not the case for many fields In light...

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... variation in risk is greater for some forms of theft than others By combining data from the NHTSA and HLDI indices and supplementing these data with model-specific information on recovery rates ... Survey Data about what is stolen in car thefts and burglaries for large and nationally representative samples of households has been obtained in the British Crime Survey These data include information ... Hot Products: understanding, anticipating and reducing demand for stolen goods Ronald V Clarke Editor: Barry Webb Home Office Policing and Reducing Crime Unit Research, Development and Statistics...

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... thank Alexandra Anghel, Carol Burling, Barrie Clark and Stuart Honan for their editorial assistance, David Ginley, John Kelly and Reshef Tenne for providing information, James Bolton for his early ... Nanostructured and Photoelectrochemical Systems for Solar Photon Conversion eds Mary D Archer & Arthur J Nozik Forthcoming From Solar Photons to Electrons and Molecules by Mary D Archer Wanda - Nonostructured ... while the valence-band edge of the absorber must be below that of the hole conductor The conduction-band and valence-band offsets ∆Ec and ∆Ev between the electron or hole conductor and the absorber...

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... help and support I thank all my co-workers for the pleasant working atmosphere I also wish to thank Markku Koskinen and Esa Jansson from Noptel and Ilkka Kaisto from Prometrics for their help and ... help and for the sincere interest they showed towards my work I wish to thank Prof Erkki Ikonen and Dr Kalevi Hyyppä for examining my thesis, and Mr Malcolm Hicks and Mr Janne Rissanen for revising ... sensor systems for tracking and displacement sensing are needed in industrial and commercial applications Typical examples include centring and focusing of the pick-up laser beam in optical data...

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... Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) C 150 Standard Specification for Portland Cement C 494 Standard Specification for Chemical Admixtures for Concrete C 512 Standard Test Method for Creep ... insulation and forming system COOLING AND INSULATING SYSTEMS Stay-in-place precast concrete panels have been used on several RCC dams to form both upstream and downstream faces, and also to form spillway ... Compression C 595 Standard Specification for Blended Hydraulic Cements C 618 Standard Specification for Fly Ash and Raw or Calcined Natural Pozzolan for Use as a Mineral Admixture in Portland Cement Concrete...

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... available systems Dispensing and automated handling systems for dyes and chemicals have been reviewed and a tabular guide given of the functions available on commercially available systems for which ... process control, selection of recipe and process, quality and production information Systems can be operated from keypads or touch-screen colour displays and can include machine diagrams, on-line ... chemically resistant and of sufficient weight- bearing capacity to allow for the traffic of heavy containers Walls and floors should allow for easy and regular cleaning Suitable storage for dyes ranges...

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... high-level information fusion: The focus of data and information fusion research is shifting from low-level information fusion towards high-level information fusion We a survey on problems and techniques ... 29 2.2 Performance assessment/evaluation for data fusion systems 31 2.3 Data/ information fusion & resource management: problems and techniques 36 2.4 Problems and techniques in ... form of information systems or sentient beings, informational states and perceptual states, as well as their relations to the physical states, may also be relevant for consideration Informational...

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