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Ten Things I Learned at LI 2008
Location Intelligence 2008
provided a glimpse into some of the technology trends shaping the
industry. Conference Chairman Joe Francica provides a quick takeaway
on
his observations of the event and the conversations he had with
attendees. The conference took place last week in Santa Clara, CA.
Expect further coverage later this week.
BE Conference 2008 will provide infrastructure
professionals with an inclusive and engaging environment to share best
practices and learn about Bentley solutions from the leading provider
of infrastructure software.
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Books
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Thinking
Spatially Using GIS: Our World GIS Education, Level 1
Early exposure to geography, spatial thinking, and geographic
information systems (GIS), helps students gain an understanding of the
world around them. With the first volume in the Our World GIS
Education
series, teachers and students use tools of geography maps, geographic
data, and GIS to progress from a basic understanding of spatial
concepts toward recognizing patterns and analyzing map trends.
Students
reinforce and improve their basic map-reading skills and extend those
skills as the book prompts them to analyze and think critically about
the data. From ESRI press, 2008.
Bayesian
Networks: A Practical Guide to Applications
Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial
intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their
versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of
fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and
diagnosis. This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian
networks, defining and illustrating the basic concepts with
pedagogical
examples and twenty real-life case studies drawn from a range of
fields
including medicine, computing, natural sciences and engineering.
Designed to help analysts, engineers, scientists and professionals
taking part in complex decision processes to successfully implement
Bayesian networks, this book equips readers with proven methods to
generate, calibrate, evaluate and validate Bayesian networks. From
Wiley, 2008.
GPS
for Land Surveyors, Third Edition
Since the last edition of this international bestseller, GPS has grown
to become part of a larger international context, the Global
Navigation
Satellite System (GNSS). Both GPS and GNSS technologies are becoming
ever more important in the everyday practice of survey and mappers.
With GPS for Land Surveyors, Third Edition, a book written by a
land surveyor, for land surveyors, you can stay in the know on the
latest GPS techniques, technologies, codes and signals. From CRC,
2008.
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Oracle's
Location Intelligence Podcast Series (#6): Oracle Utility Applications
and Integration with Oracle Locator, Spatial & MapViewer
Oracle is rapidly location-enabling many of its business applications
so that users can access, visualize, query and analyze spatial
information together with non-spatial information in the same
enterprise database, from the same familiar application environment.
In
this podcast, learn firsthand how Oracle Utilities is taking advantage
of Oracle Application Server MapViewer, Oracle Locator and Oracle
Spatial in utility industry applications. In addition, you'll hear how
many of the Oracle applications that were acquired from Siebel, JD
Edwards and PeopleSoft will use Oracle Spatial Technology. We are
speaking to Peter Turi, Director, Product Management, Oracle Utilities
Work and Asset Management, and Jim Steiner, Senior Director, Oracle
Server Technology.
ESRI's
ArcGIS 9.3 Podcast Series (#2): What's coming in the Geodatabase for
9.3
In this podcast, Derek Law, Geodatabase Technical
Analyst at ESRI, gives an overview of what's new in the ArcGIS 9.3
geodatabase.
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