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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Digital mapping"”.
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Ecologies of digital mapping: Open source communities and grassroots maps
… work and practices (both online and offline) of digital mapping communities in matters of disaster management, environmental justice, and grassroots activism. My interest in these communities stems from their drive to integrate considerations of the lifeworld, in the parlance of Jürgen Habermas, …
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Theory of Acceptance and Sustained Use of Technology: : A technology acceptance model adapted in the context of digital mapping for disaster preparedness in East Africa
… of this project is to assist crowdsourced mapping of developing countries (particularly in East Africa) for the purposes of disaster preparedness. In the event of a disaster, relief organisations require an up-to-date map of the affected area. In developing countries, maps of vulnerable …
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Quantitative Geographic Analysis: A Cultural History of Australian Bushfire Narratives
… writing but also critically examines the role of digital mapping technologies in literary analysis. While these technologies are often presented as transformative tools, discourses of technological novelty tend to obscure the need for a more critical engagement with how they both enable and …
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Quantitative Geographic Analysis: A Cultural History of Australian Bushfire Narratives
… writing but also critically examines the role of digital mapping technologies in literary analysis. While these technologies are often presented as transformative tools, discourses of technological novelty tend to obscure the need for a more critical engagement with how they both enable and …
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The use of satellite imagery for domestic law enforcement
… event management standpoint, and in concert with digital mapping applications, satellite imagery has proven its utility to support first responders and emergency services in a wide range of both natural and manmade disasters. Imagery data has also supplemented police activities in developing …
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Cree (Nêhiyawak) Mobility, Diplomacy, and Resistance in the Canada-US Borderlands, 1885 - 1917
… 1885 to 1917. It combines archival research, digital mapping (GIS), ethnohistory, and data analysis to track Indigenous movements and to analyze how the Cree navigated their status as “foreign” Indians. It focuses on Cree transnational mobility, diplomacy, and resistance from the events of …
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Biologically inspired digital fabrication
… system. In contrast, traditional methods of digital design and fabrication are characterized by a linear progression of three main stages: modeling (digital generation in the digital domain), analysis (digital mapping of the physical domain), and fabrication (physical generation of the …
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Finding the Fantastic: Digitally Mapping the London of Fantasy Youth Literature
… centre stage as an emerging technology in the Digital Humanities allows scholars to re-explore literary landscapes through digital maps. This dissertation demonstrates how pro- tagonist demographic elements of gender and age impact identity formation through movement in the London of fantasy …
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Development and Demonstration of a In-Vehicle Lane Departure and Advanced Curve Speed Warning System
… receiver with access to lane-level resolution digital maps to system's efficiency but make the overall system more complex and expensive. On the other hand, ADWS use road-level information which includes road curvature, speed-limit, position. etc. of a given curve. In this report, a lane …
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Landscape of Legislation: A Photographic Investigation of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
… legislation. This study also found that digital mapping offers potential to lead future photographic studies.
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Geotechnical Problems with Pyritic Rock and Soil
… with acknowledged heave problems are presented. Digital data and ESRI's ArcGIS digital mapping program were used to create maps showing results of sampling and testing performed during this study. Appendices include mitigation options, results of a practitioner survey, chemical test procedures, a …
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Towards an Asynchronous Cinema: how can the asynchronous use of sound in artists' moving image underpin the creation of dialectic tension between the audio, the visual and the audience?
… publications implement asynchronism, including digital mapping to facilitate innovative reciprocal sound and image combinations, and the asynchronous use of ‘found sound’ from a range of online sources to reframe the moving image. The synthesis of publications and practice demonstrates that …
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Information and communication techologies and the urban transformation of South African informal settlement communities
… much to be desired. Within the larger theme of digital activism, three main research areas were identified and explored: the appropriation of ICTs by the SJC’s field staff, the use of their Web 2.0 based social networking sites (SNS) in their advocacy work and digital mapping of portable …
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The Robust Compression of Digital Elevation Models
The representation of terrain by a regular grid Digital Elevation Model (DEM) requires a large amount of data which increases with the resolution. The nature of the typical applications of terrain data, for example, aeronautical navigation, dictates that the reliability of the data is of prime …
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Automated Cartographic Name Placement Using Rule-Based Systems
This thesis describes automated cartographic name placement using rule-based systems. In particular it describes the problem involved with designing a system which is flexible enough to place names on a variety of maps. This is demonstrated using logic programming techniques written in …
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Three-dimensional interactive maps - theory and practice
… enabling technologies for three-dimensional (3D) mapping have been ready for some time, and the benefits are significant, one might expect that a wide adoption of threedimensional maps should already be happening. However, for some reason, the transition to 3D cartography is not happening as …
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Aspects of medieval landscape change in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire: evidence from the feet of fines
… produced from linking these databases to a GIS digital mapping system.<br/><br/>The conclusion highlights the differences in land use and settlement patterns in the three counties and includes comparisons between the three studies.
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Analysis and application of an underwater optical-ranging system
In order to provide a high-resolution underwater-ranging capability for scientific measurement, a commercially available optical-ranging system is analyzed for performance and feasibility. The system employs a structured-lighting technique using a laser-light plane and single-camera imaging system. …
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Salvage cartographies : mapping, futures, and landscapes in northwest British Columbia
… dissertation examines how the proliferation of digital mapping technologies and the contraction of government research institutions have reformatted contests over resources, sovereignty, and local belonging in the neoliberal era. The two groups at the heart of this multilocale ethnography, …
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