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Creation Of A Spatial Decision Support System As A Risk Assessment Tool Based On Kentucky Tornado Climatology, Christopher Michael Blinn

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Tornadoes are one of Mother Nature’s deadliest phenomena. They affect a large region of the United States. The risk of tornadoes is contingent on dynamic atmospheric conditions that are most likely during spring but which can occur anytime of the year, making the storms challenging to forecast. Using geographical information systems (GIS), a web-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) was created to help understand the spatial dimension of tornado risk assessment. The risk values are calculated using Tornado Days rather than taking a crude density measurement. The SDSS hosts GIS web services that are displayed on an Adobe Flex application. …

Transboundary Political Ecology In The Peru-Brazil Borderlands: Mapping Workshops, Geographic Information, And Socio-Environmental Impacts, David S. Salisbury, A. William Flores De Melo, Pedro Tipula Tipula

Geography and the Environment Faculty Publications

Development, resource, and settlement frontiers inspired by national policies and global demand continue to expand into the international boundary lands of Amazonia. National policies promote development and conservation projects on lands already inhabited and managed. Regional governments are increasingly frustrated by the inadequate and outdated geographic information available to solve overlapping claims and improve planning in sensitive border regions. The resulting combination of inappropriate policies, contested resources, and poor geographic information in the borderlands create impacts not only for national, regional, and local landscapes and livelihoods but also foreign relations due to transboundary effects. This article uses a transboundary political …

Digital Mapping As A Student And Staff Communication Tool, Ryan Gyurkovitz

Horticulture and Crop Science

A study in the use of Geographic Information Systems in the development of digital maps for use by students and staff in Plant Identification Courses.

Ua30/2 2011-2012 Parking 101, Wku Parking & Transportation Services

WKU Administration Documents

2011-2012 parking map and instructions which includes list of possible fines for Western Kentucky University.

Gis Maps And The Amazon Borderlands, David S. Salisbury

Geography and the Environment Faculty Publications

With training, GIS can be used by all sectors of Latin American society and is the mapping tool of choice for institutions ranging from the Inter-American Development Bank to remote communities in the Amazon rain forest. Geographic information systems are thus a tool of the powerful and the marginalized and the official and the unofficial. [...] In this chapter, we see how GIS maps can improve our ability to analyze conflict over resources and allow additional participation in the process of mapping, but we also confront some of the many political and technical challenges that must be overcome to construct …

Death To Kappa: Birth Of Quantity Disagreement And Allocation Disagreement For Accuracy Assessment, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Marco Millones

Geography

The family of Kappa indices of agreement claim to compare a map's observed classification accuracy relative to the expected accuracy of baseline maps that can have two types of randomness: (1) random distribution of the quantity of each category and (2) random spatial allocation of the categories. Use of the Kappa indices has become part of the culture in remote sensing and other fields. This article exam- ines five different Kappa indices, some of which were derived by the first author in 2000. We expose the indices' properties mathematically and illustrate their limitations graphically, with emphasis on Kappa's use of …

A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History: Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps Pt. 2, Su Kim Chung, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Research

An interesting set of historical maps of Nevada and the Las Vegas area.

A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History: Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps, Su Kim Chung, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Research

An interesting set of historical maps of Nevada and the Las Vegas area.

Ua30/2 Visitor's Guide & Campus Map, Wku Parking & Transportation Services

WKU Administration Documents

Western Kentucky University campus map includes advertisements for local Bowling Green businesses.

Remembering Dehlie: A Chrono-Topo-Graphy Of Imagination, Subhash Jaireth

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

In a few weeks I shall be going to India to see my daughter. This will be our first meeting after she went back to India with her mother five years ago. She is fifteen now, and, in a way, a complete stranger to me. You don't know me, she tells me often on the phone, Neither do I know you. The little girl whom you carried on your shoulders and played hopscotch with, is nothing but a shadow. Come and see what has become of me. I have made up my mind to go but I know …

Ua3/9/2 Warren / Edmonson Counties I-66 Scoping Study, Wku Presiden'ts Office

WKU Administration Documents

Agendas, statistics, maps and other data regarding the I-66 corridor through southern Kentucky.

Ua30/1/1 Visitor's Guide Campus Map, Wku Planning, Design & Construction

WKU Administration Documents

Map of Western Kentucky University with historical data and photographs.

Africa: A Continent Revealed (Exhibit Pamphlet), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

Africa: A Continent Revealed . Mapping the Continent from the 16th Century to the 21st Century (Exhibit Pamphlet).

January 21, 1998 to May 17, 1998

A Central Intelligence Agency Exhibit on the Portland Campus of the University of Maine.

This traveling exhibition traces the development of European mapping, from the 16th to the 21st century, of the African continent, or one fifth of the world's landmass.

Ua45/1/1 Campus Accessibility Map For Students With Disabilities, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

WKU accessibility map published in 1995-97 undergraduate catalog.

Ua45/1/1 Campus Map, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus map included in the 1995-97 undergraduate catalog.

The Cartographic Collections - The Harold L. And Peggy L. Osher Collection & The Lawrence M.C. And Eleanor Houston Smith Collection, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications

The Cartographic Collections - The Harold L. and Peggy L. Osher Collection & The Lawrence M.C. and Eleanor Houston Smith Collection.

The Smith and Osher Cartographic Collections comprise fine specimens of original maps, atlases, geographies, and globes spanning the years from 1475 to the present.

Ua1c9/1108 Wku Campus Map, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Map of WKU campus.

Ua66/8 Student Atlas Of Kentucky, Wku Geography & Geology, Kentucky Geographic Alliance

WKU Administration Documents

Student Atlas of Kentucky designed to supplement the fourth grade curriculum project "Incorporating the Five Fundamental Themes of Geography into Kentucky Studies." Consists of 33 base maps of Kentucky made to same scale.

Ua1b3/1 Campus Master Plan, Johnson/Romanowitz/Architects & Planners

WKU Administration Documents

A 20-Year Campus Master Plan developed by Johnson/Romanwitz/Architects & Planners for Western Kentucky University which includes maps, planning methodology, parking, pedestrian access, future construction and growth, signage, maintenance and accessibility.

Norman J. W. Thrower's Review Of Gary L. Fitzpatrick's Palapala‘Āina: The Early Mapping Of Hawai‘I, Norman J. W. Thrower

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Norman J. W. Thrower's Review Of Gary L. Fitzpatrick's Palapala‘Āina: The Early Mapping Of Hawai‘I, Norman J. W. Thrower

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Max E. Stanton's Review Of Stephen A. Wurm And Shiro Hattori's Language Atlas Of The Pacific Area, Part I: New Guinea Area, Oceania, Australia, Max E. Stanton

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Ua1c9/1107 Wku Campus Map, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Map of WKU campus.

Printed Maps Of Utah To 1900: An Annotated Cartobibliography, Riley Moore Moffat

Theses and Dissertations

Old maps are valuable research tools in many fields. Finding and identifying them, however, is often difficult. This annotated cartobibliography attempts to identify all maps of Utah printed before 1900. Entries give the distinguishing features, peculiarities, inaccuracies, and a general description as well as the map's provenance and citations in other lists and bibliographies.

The maps are listed chronologically and include all maps located in research collections in Utah, and in the catalogs of the Library of Congress and the Bancroft Library. Although the first entry is dated 1777, the first map of Utah made from actual observation, earlier maps …

Multi-Colored Maps From False Color Separations: Kirtland Examples (1800-1900), James D. Bryan

Theses and Dissertations

Cartographers utilize primary and secondary colors in producing color maps. It is relatively easy to print the primary colors of magenta, cyan, and yellow on photo paper. It is considerably more difficult to print the secondary colors of red, blue, green, orange, purple, seagreen, and leafgreen consistently.

This thesis has solved the problem associated with producing photographic color for cartographic maps. A new system of developing color maps has been developed. This system has produced: (1) pure blacks, (2) suitable secondary colors, (3) pastel colors, and (4) mid-value and dark colors.

Ua30/2 Western Kentucky University Parking Map, Wku Parking & Transportation Services

WKU Administration Documents

Parking map of Western Kentucky University, includes birds-eye-view of campus.

Ua30/2 Western Kentucky University Parking Map, Wku Parking & Transportation Services

WKU Administration Documents

Parking map for Western Kentucky University includes a birds-eye-view of campus.

Ua66/8 Visibility Chart For College Heights Weather Station, J. M. B., Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Administration Documents

Visibility chart created for the College Heights Weather Station. The chart measures 40" x 32" and is a series of concentric circles showing visible items up to 8 miles distant from the weather station. The inner most circles are at 1/4 and 1/8 mile intervals; 1/2 mile intervals through 3 miles and then 1 mile intervals to 8 miles. Features included on the chart are Pearce-Ford Tower, McDonald's restaurant, WBKO TV tower, Bowling Green-Warren County Hospital Water Tower, Bowling Green Water tower, Greenview Hospital, knobs and the Greewood Interchange

The Image Of Provo, Utah, As Seen Through The Perceptions Of Its Residents, J. Larry Murdock

Theses and Dissertations

The data for this study was gathered through a random stratified geographic sample from all residential areas of Provo. The study was based on 84 completed questionnaires which were gathered on the basis of a broad socio-economic cross section. All of the questions were open-ended, and included the drawing of mental maps of residents' images of Provo. The data was analyzed on the basis of respondents' areas of residence, age, length of residence in Provo and religious background.

The purpose of the study was to focus on the visual perception of Provo, Utah, as seen by its residents. The study …

How To Make A Natural Resources Inventory, Community Natural Resources Inventory Project

Maine Collection

A Handbook How to Make a Natural Resources Inventory for Your Community

Prepared by: James F. Connors, Sterling Dow III & Dean B. Bennett

Community Natural Resources Inventory Project (Title I, Higher Education Act), The University of Maine at Portland - Gorham (Project Sponsor) and The Maine Association of Conservation Commissions (Project Co-Sponsor), 1975.

"This handbook is published as a result of a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare under the Higher Education Act, Title I. No official endorsement by the U.S. Office of Education should be inferred."

Contents: Preface / Introduction / …