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The spring seminar series of the Center for Mapping has several talks
that are telecommunicaitons related. For completeness I've include all
the seminars.

The seminars are 11 AM-noon in Room 102 Page Hall, 1810 College Road.
The nearest visitor parking is Garage C (Ohio Union Ramp) on High St.,
just south of Page Hall.

For more information contact the Center at 1216 Kinnear Road,
Columbus, OH 43212, phone 614-292-1600, or fax 614-292-9062.

-- Friday, April 10 : Managing Statewide Economic Development and
Industrial Site Selection in a GIS Environment, David Cowen, Director,
Humanities and Social Science Computing Laboratory, University of
South Carolina.

Dr. Cowen will discuss technical and organizaitonal issues related to
the South Carolina Infrastructure and Economic Planning System. This
system represents a unique approach to creating and maintaining a
statewide spatial decision support system for economic development and
industrial site selection. ...

-- Friday, April 17: Satellite Mapping for Developing Countries,
Gordon Petrie, Department of Geography & Topographic Science,
University of Glasgow, Scotland.

The problems of producing and maintaining topographic maps in
developing countries are severe and the use of satellite imagery is
often suggested as a possible solution to these problems.  This
presentation covers the results of extensive testing MSS, TM, SPOT,
MOMS, MC, and LFC imagery for new mapping including tests in the Sudan
and Yemen. ...

-- Friday, May 8: Soil Conservation Service and USDA's Geographic
Information System Activities, Gale W. Teselle, Director, Cartography
and GIS Division, USDA Soil Conservation Service.

... This presentation will include a discussion of GRASS GIS
implementation, using GIS at the field office level for conservation
planning, GIS in Secretary Madigan's Easy Access Project, and an
overview of GIS use in the USDA.

-- Friday, May 15: Statistical Treatment fo Mapping Spatially
Distributed Variables with an Application in Soil Science, Alfred
Stein, Assistant Professor, Department of Soil Science and Geology,
Agricultural University, Vageningen, The Netherlands.

A statistical mapping procedure know as Kriging is used in soil
science, petroleum geology, forestry, meteorology, and other applied
sciences.  This presentation will cover statistical treatment of
Kriging with an application to soil moisture deficits. ...