San Diego Wildfires 2003

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Tsou, M.H. Internet GIS and Geospatial Information Technology. National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 8th, 2005. (14MB).

Tsou, M.H. Combining Web-based GIS and Wireless Mobile GIS for Wildfire Recovery and Watershed Management. (San Diego Fire Recovery Network -- SDFRN, April 13, 2005 Workshop). (8MB).

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Tsou, M.H. (2002) An Operational Metadata Framework for Searching, Indexing, and Retrieving Distributed Geographic Information Services on the Internet. Geographic Information Science-Second International Conference GIScience 2002, M. Egenhofer and D. Mark (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2478, Springer, Berlin. pp.313-332.

(Download Early Draft Version) Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P.(2002) A Dynamic Architecture for Distributed Geographic Information Services. Transactions in GIS. 6(4) 355-381.

Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P.; (2000), Agent-based Mechanisms for Distributing Geographic Information Services on the Internet, GIScience 2000: First International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Octorber 28-31, Savannah, Georgia.

Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P.; (1998) Client/Server Components and Metadata Objects for Distributed Geographic Information Services. Proceedings, GIS/LIS '98, Fort Worth, TX, November, 1998: 590-599.

Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P.; (1998) An Agent-based, Global User Interface for Distributed Geographic Information Services. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Vancouver, British Columbia, July, 1998: 603-612.

Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P.; (1997) A Direct Manipulation Interface for Geographical Information Processing. In: Kraak, M.J. and Melenaar, M. (eds.) Advances in GIS Research II: 905-915. First appeared in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Delft, The Netherlands, August 1996: 13B.37 - 13B.47.

Textbook:

Peng, Z.R. and Tsou, M.H. 2003 (textbook) Internet GIS: a distributed geospatial information services for wired and wireless network. The writing of this textbook (650 pages) is completed. John Wiley and Son Inc. has accept this textbook and will publish it in February, 2003. (http://map.sdsu.edu/gisbook)

Refereed Articles:

Tsou, M.H. (2003) (accepted) An Intelligent Software Agent Architecture for Distributed Cartographic Knowledge Bases and Internet Mapping Services. This book chapter is accepted by the book editor of Maps and the Internet, Michael Peterson. The book will be published by Elsevier Press in 2003.

Other Publications and Presentations:

Tsou, M. H. 2003, Integrated Mobile GIS and Wireless Internet Map Server for Environmental Monitoring and Management. AAG Annual Meeting 2003, New Orleans. Abstract. [PowerPoint Presentation].

Tsou, M.H. 2002 Adopting Software Agents for Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices. Proceedings, ESRI International User Conference, San Diego California, July 8-12, 2002. http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc02/abstracts/a0234.html

Tsou, M.H.; 2001, Poster Session: Dynamic Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices, NSF Arctic GIS Workshop, January 21-24, Seattle Washington, 2001, URL http://www.arcus.org/gis/abstracts/tsou.html

Tsou, M.H. and Buttenfield, B.P.; 2000, Abstract: Agent-based Mechanisms for Distributing Geographic Information Services on the Internet, GIScience 2000: First International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Octorber 28-31, Savannah, Georgia. http://www.giscience.org/GIScience2000/papers/064-Tsou.pdf

Buttenfield, B.P., Tsou, M. H., Dickinson, T. and Petrik, K; 2000 GIS for the Rest of Us: Internet Delivery of Earth Science Class Exercise, Accepted for Presentation at Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April, 2000.

Buttenfield, B.P. and Tsou, M.H.; 1999 Distributing an Internet-based GIS to Remote College Classrooms, Proceedings, ESRI International User Conference, San Diego California, July, 1999.

Buttenfield, B.P. and Tsou, M.H.; 1997 Encapsulated Operators for Processing Geographic Information. Invited Presentation, Second Workshop on Progress in Automated Map Generalization Gaevle, Sweden, 19-21 June 1997.

Buttenfield, B. P., Tsou, M.H., Smith, A.D., and Larsen, S. 1998. The Digital Map Library as a Moving Target: Evaluation of Technology and Knowledge. XVIII Annual Meeting, North American Cartographic Information Society, October 7-10, 1998, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Buttenfield, B.P. and Tsou, M.H.; 1997 Encapsulated Operators for Processing Geographic Information. Invited Presentation, Second Workshop on Progress in Automated Map Generalization Gaevle, Sweden, 19-21 June 1997.

Buttenfield, B. P., Weber, C., Tsou, M.H., Trawinski, P., Ricci, V.; 1995, Putting Cartography on the Internet: The Alexandria Digital Library Project. XV Annual Meeting, North American Cartographic Information Society, October 4-7, 1995, Wilmington, North Carolina.

Sun, C.H., Tsou, M.H., and Yae, C.Y.; 1991, Development of the Population Data Visualization System, the Proceedings of Conference on Retrospect and Prospect of Population Policy, Population Association of China, Taiwan, June, 1991.

Presentations:
(PowerPoint Slides)

GIS and Public Health (November 12, 2003, SDSU)

NASA 2003

Tsou, M.H. 2002 An Operational Metadata Framework for Searching, Indexing, and Retrieving Distributed Geographic Information Services on the Internet. Geographic Information Science-Second International Conference (GIScience 2002). Boulder Colorado.

Tsou, M.H., (2002), An Intelligent Agent-based Architecture for Internet Mapping -- Dynamic Construction of Cartography Knowledge Base. 2002 AAG Annual Meeting, March 19-22, Los Angeles.

Tsou, M.H.; (2001) Dynamic Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices, NSF Arctic GIS Workshop, January 21-24, Seattle Washington, 2001.

Tsou, M.H. (2001). Web-based Geographic Information Services and Analytic Tools for Natural Habitat Conservation and Management. NASA ARC project.

Tsou, M.H. (2002). GEO 596: Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices. NPACI EdCenter Faculty Program Spring 2002 Presentations. May 13, 2002. San Diego State University.

Tsou, M.H. (2002). Internet GISerivices: Web-based Geospatial Information Services. Invited Speaker at Comlex Sensor Networks Visualization. May 14, 2002. San Diego State University.

Project Documents:

NASA Project Final Report (Draft). (2002) Web-based Geospatial Analytical tools for Environmental Monitoring and Management.