Pub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2003.9714238
( i i ) PERIODICALS RECEIVED Australian Map Circle, The Globe, 2002,53 British Cartographic Society, Maplines, 2002,8,2,3 Cartographica, 2000,37,4 Comite FranGais de Cartographie, Le Monde des Cartes, 2002,173-4 Geodezia es Kartografia, 2002,8,9,10,11,12 Geogra fia, 2002,27,2 Geographical Society o f New South Wales Inc, Australian Geographer, 2002,33,3 GIM International, Geomatics Info, 2002, 16, 10, 11, 12; 2003,17,1,2 Innovation, 2002,ll Japan Cartographers Association, Map, 2002, 40, 2 ,3 Kartographische Nachrichten, 2002,4 Polski prezglad kartograficzny, 2002,34,2,3 Polska Akademia Nauk, Przeglad Geograficzny, 2001,73,4; 2002,74,1,2 Polska Akademia Nauk, Prace Geograficzne, 2001, 179,180,181,182 Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal, 2002,168,3 Ukrainian Geographical Journal, 2002,1,2 United States. Geological Survey, New Publications of the US Geological Survey, 2002, 1125-1127, 1128-1130
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Pub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2003.9714232
K. McDougall, F. R. Young, A. Apan
The Surveying and Land Information Discipline at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) has delivered full time and distance education programs in surveying and related areas for over 26 years. Academics at USQ have recently embarked on multimedia enhancement and online delivery of curricula to provide an even broader and more contemporary learning environment. These enhancements, when developed professionally, require a significant commitment of resources and expertise, and often necessitate a team approach to their design and development. Although there has been a proliferation of activity in the area of online delivery, little consideration has been given to the support infrastructure that is necessary to establish, deliver and maintain these offerings. This paper examines the operational infrastructure that is critical to distance education students receiving a comprehensive, timely and quality learning experience.
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Pub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1137/SIREAD000046000002000309000001
Bobby Schnabel
Warren Entsch, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, has warmly welcomed the establishment of a new CRC for Spatial Information. Today’s decision to commit $13.3 million to establish this CRC is a clear and strong reflection o f the Australian Government’s support for the spatial information industrv, Mr Entsch said. Australia’s spatial information industry is an unheralded, but vital link in making informed decisions on a wide range of key economic, environmental and social issues.
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Pub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2003.9714230
K. Papadopoulos
The importance of toponymy in cartography makes the relevant standardization issue indeed decisive. This is particularly the case in the so-called less spoken languages. The cartographic use of Greek characters is implemented only in two small countries (Greece and Cyprus), and this very fact is creating discomfort in practicing transcription of geographic names to Roman characters. The occasion of the 2004 Olympics in Greece has given the issue a new dimension. The transcription of Greek place names into Roman is gaining relevance also as far as the cartographic implementation is concerned. Here, a simple system for an effective automatic transcription has been developed, which can be used not only for cartographic purposes but also in general relevant text and graphical applications.
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Pub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2003.9714235
A. Vassilopoulos, N. Evelpidou
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are important tools for various scientific aspects. Especially sciences related to cartography and geographical analysis should definitely employ GIS technology. In this study an Internet-based GIS is presented that was developed on the MapXtreme platform. This application gives access to numerous web-users through a server that controls both analysis and data retrieval requests. It is a practical and economical method in order to introduce GIS to educational institutions. This Web GIS may operate through a local or wide area network and, apart from educational purposes, offers a low cost information exchange solution between vast numbers of users.
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Pub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2003.9714233
R. Olomo
This paper examines the mapping situation in Nigeria. There are many organisations that are involved in mapping activities in the country, these can be classified into the public and private sectors, with the Federal Survey Department as the apex mapping organization. Generally, the country is poorly mapped as exemplified by the range and quality of mapping products. This is attributed to poor funding, which is responsible for the current state of mapping personnel and equipment. A detailed evaluation of mapping and how to improve mapping in the country is discussed.
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Pub Date : 2003-06-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2003.9714231
T. Robinson, G. Metternicht
Site-specific crop management requires matching resource application and agronomic practices with soil and crop requirements, as they vary in space and time within a field. As such, information on the composition of soils at either farm or paddock scale is essential. Soil composition over an entire paddock might not be uniform. For instance, it may not be efficient to fertilise an entire paddock if only the northeast corner show deficiencies. Furthermore, it is not possible to sample every centimetre of the paddock, as this would be a very time consuming and costly procedure. Ideally, we should be able to collect enough sample points so that continuos maps of soil properties can be accurately produced using spatial interpolation techniques, and good judgements can be made about the soil composition of an entire paddock. Two spatial interpolators, namely kriging and inverse distance weighting (IDW) are compared in this paper, evaluating their accuracy in the prediction of seasonally stable soil properties at paddock level. Organic matter content and soil reaction (pH) are the soil properties selected for this investigation, as previous research by Yule et al. (1996) and Brady and Weil (1999) has found these properties to be correlated to cropping potential. The selected spatial interpolators are tested on an existing data set (e.g. 100 soil samples) collected using a stratified random approach over a 60 ha paddock, located in the southwest of Western Australia. The research approach consists of three main steps. Firstly, basic descriptive statistical techniques are applied to identify the presence of outliers. Secondly, selected interpolators are applied to generate continuous maps of the soil properties, and finally the mean root mean square error (RMSE) is used as the validation index, and to select the best spatial interpolator for the soil properties selected. Therefore, for each soil property, every fourth sample is removed from the main data set and put aside to validate the result of the interpolation method. Likewise, the map of uncertainty generated by using the kriging interpolation method is used as an additional source for evaluating the quality of the prediction maps. The RMSE results show IDW to perform slightly better than kriging for pH (e.g. 0.38 vs 0.39) and organic matter (1.25 vs 1.34)
因地制宜的作物管理需要将资源应用和农艺实践与土壤和作物需求相匹配，因为它们在田地内因空间和时间而异。因此，关于农场或围场规模的土壤成分的信息是必不可少的。整个围场的土壤成分可能不均匀。例如，如果只有东北角出现缺陷，那么对整个围场进行施肥可能效率不高。此外，不可能对围场的每一厘米都进行采样，因为这将是一个非常耗时和昂贵的过程。理想情况下，我们应该能够收集足够的样本点，以便使用空间插值技术准确地生成土壤属性的连续图，并且可以对整个围场的土壤成分做出良好的判断。本文比较了两种空间插值方法——克里格法和逆距离加权法(IDW)，评价了它们在围场水平季节性稳定土壤性质预测中的准确性。由于Yule等人(1996)和Brady和Weil(1999)之前的研究发现，有机质含量和土壤反应(pH)是本次调查选择的土壤特性，这些特性与种植潜力相关。选择的空间插值器在现有数据集(例如100个土壤样本)上进行测试，这些数据集是在西澳大利亚西南部一个60公顷围场上使用分层随机方法收集的。研究方法包括三个主要步骤。首先，应用基本的描述性统计技术来识别异常值的存在。其次，利用所选插值器生成土壤属性的连续图，最后以均方根误差(RMSE)作为验证指标，对所选土壤属性选择最佳空间插值器。因此，对于每一种土壤性质，从主数据集中抽取每四分之一的样本，并将其搁置，以验证插值方法的结果。同样，使用克里格插值方法生成的不确定性图被用作评估预测图质量的附加来源。RMSE结果表明，IDW对pH(例如0.38 vs 0.39)和有机质(1.25 vs 1.34)的表现略好于克里格法。
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Pub Date : 2002-12-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2002.9714206
G. J. Lawford, E. Masters
The concepts of fractal and fractal dimension are defined and their history and development described. The common methods of measuring the fractal dimension of cartographic lines are described, as are their pros and cons. Past research into the application of fractal theory to the cartographic line is reviewed.
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Pub Date : 2002-12-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2002.9714208
P. Chhetri, C. Arrowsmith
The natural landscape is an arena for a wide array of recreational activities. Recent changes in hiking behaviour in wilderness settings have been attributed to changes in tourists' attitudes, personalities and life styles. Modern tourists are not only looking for quality but also a variety of leisure products and experiences and a style of product delivery compatible to their life style. Tourists patronise those areas that offer diversity of natural and cultural attractions and a variety of experiences in an easily legible, navigable and accessible geographic space. This paper investigates characteristics of terrain surfaces in order to develop a spatial model of hiking experiences around the Pinnacle walking track in the Grampians National Park. In situ measurements of feelings and experiences were determined via a questionnaire administered to a group of adolescent aged students hiking on a track. The paper shows the development of a set of predictors derived from surface features and surface cover that can be used to predict potential hiking experience. Factor analysis has been used to identify a smaller set of dimensions that explain most of the variance among input variables. Finally, a predictive spatial model of hiking landscapes has been developed from input maps over the entire geographic space. The developed spatial model of probable hiking experiences is suggested as an alternative strategy to ease mounting pressure around existing walking tracks.
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Pub Date : 2002-12-01DOI: 10.1080/00690805.2002.9714209
W. Cartwright, G. Heath
Multimedia Cartography has changed artifacts for geographical exploration-from ‘frozenscapes’ (visualizations of geography that cannot be altered by the user) to ‘Malleable Visualizations’ (a computer-generated multimedia visualization with which users can interact and ‘mold’ into one that best suits their particular needs). However, it is argued, this has caused problems, as Multimedia Cartography is more complex. Does the way of ‘seeing’ influence the way of knowing? Does the application of interactive multimedia products really allow access to ‘better’ educational packages? What is the most appropriate pedagogy for using New Media technologies for geography education? How do humans learn geographic information, and how does this learning vary as a function of the medium through which it occurs (direct experience, maps, descriptions, virtual systems, etc.)? This paper reports on the initial findings from the ‘GeoExploratorium’ research programme, that investigated the construction and evaluation of a ‘different way’ of offering geographical teaching/learning elements with multimedia cartography. The ‘GeoExploratorium’ provides a new way of ‘seeing’ geographical information by supplying different viewpoints, hopefully, ensuring that the ‘voids of geographical understanding’ are filled with information gathered from other perspectives and used to assemble a more complete picture of reality.
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