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U.S. Geological Survey National Computer Technology Meeting: Program and Abstracts, May 7-11, 1990

U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 90-161

Compiled by B.H. Balthrop and E.G. Baker


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Section 1 -- 1.87 MB

Foreword

Program listing

Video training sessions

Optical scanning of geologic maps for input to a geographic information system

Proximity analysis: A tool for comparing data bases

A computer program for determining streamflow availability

Automated data collection for detection of flood hazards in Clark County, Nevada

System monitoring at the Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility

The approaching retirement of the present National Water Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey

Integrating text and graphics by using a word-processing software package

Digital systems development at the U.S. Geological Survey

Illustration capabilities of a computer graphics system

The development of a geographic and user-oriented system for accessing information in the National Water Data Exchange data base

Processing of bathymetric data for Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho

A computer program to calculate sediment-discharge records

A method for evaluating potential water-supply-well sites by use of a geographic information system

Consolidation and upgrade of the Distributed Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division

Evolution of a microcomputer-based local area network for reports processing

A procedure for choosing class intervals for county choropleth maps

Using an automated geographic information system to produce graphics for a page description language

Using a statistical analysis system as a geographic information system

Digitizing time-series data from continuous-record charts

Integrated approach to developing digital data bases for stream networks and drainage basins

 

Section 2 -- 2.04 MB

Preliminary comparison of ground-water site inventory information in the U.S. Geological Survey’s National and distributed data bases

A method for describing stream-drainage-system topology in a geographic information system

Hypertext documentation of a geographic information system

Transferring computer programs between different computers

Software quality assurance in the National Water Information System program of the U.S. Geological Survey

Use of a geographical information system to integrate and analyze multiple ground-water data bases

Water-budget and remote-sensing technologies combine to account for water use along the lower Colorado River

Integrating the Federal water data coordination program in the new National Water Information System program

Distributed Information System-II training for the U.S. Geological Survey

Archiving on-line data to optical disk

Use of a geographic information system to improve location data in a National pollutant discharge data base

Use of remote-sensing data to map irrigated crops in south-central Texas

A computer program to determine map coordinates from public land-survey coordinates

An interactive computer program, G WARC, to create a geographic information system data set from ground-water site inventory data

National Water Conditions, a periodical published by the U.S. Geological Survey

The spatial data transfer standard

Using microcomputer graphics technology as an aid in the presentation of geographic information systems projects

Analysis and presentation of geophysical data using a computer program

Automation of camera-ready tables of ground-water site inventory wells and springs

Image-processing capabilities related to water-resources investigations

Presentation computer graphic slide service

Configuration and contract management for the Distributed Information System-II of the U.S. Geological Survey

Implementation of a local area network of microcomputers to complement minicomputer applications - A state office experience

Multiple data base compatibility analysis

Comparison of four procedures for estimating basin and sub-basin slopes based on a geographic information system

National Water Information System II software configuration management

Use of computer programs to enhance water-quality data processing

Defining the functional requirements of an integrated National Water Information System

A program to digitize charts having non-standard coordinate systems

Development of the new National Water Information System of U.S. Geological Survey

Demonstration of an earth science hypermedia system

A terminal-emulation program (SMTERM) for retrieving electronically collected data on minicomputers

Glossary


 

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