Color Figures from Geographical Information Systems, Second Edition



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Plate 36 Explicit incorporation of lakes and wetlands into a drainage system involves first identifying and labelling flat bottomland features, then building the upland drainage structure surrounding them rather than attempting to route fictional paths through them. Site is the Turkey Lakes Experimental Watershed, a ten square kilometre catchment in northern Ontario. DEM is 5-metre resolution.
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Plate 37 Level of detail management with regular triangulation. (Source: Georgia Tech Virtual GIS project.)
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Plate 38 The Georgia Tech Virtual GIS project.
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Plate 39 Multi-scale spatial simulation: forest fire model running on top of two terrains with different resolutions. (Source: Gonçalves and Diogo 1994)
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Plate 40 Virtual GIS Room project interface components. (Source: New University of Lisbon)
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Plate 41 Change in market share of a newly merged financial institution, following the actions listed in Table 3 of Chapter 51. The legend shows the percentage change in market share, partitioned into quintiles; the branch locations of the two constituent institutions are labelled in black and red.
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Plate 42 A collaborative planning system being tested in a ‘same place/same time’ environment to study the effects of aircraft noise on a community.
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Plate 43 Video conferencing software being tested in a ‘different place/same time’ environment to present student projects (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) to professional planning staff in Washington DC.
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Plate 44 A public kiosk design for accessing information in a ‘same time/different time’ environment that describes a strategic plan St Louis’ distressed neighbourhood.
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Plate 45 A test of a planning annotation and digital video navigational aid being tested in a ‘different place/different time’ environment using the WWW to study the characteristics of various locations in Washington DC.
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Plate 46 Property damage caused by Hurricane Fran.
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Plate 47 Flooding caused by Hurricane Fran.
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