USGS

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


Table of Contents

Foreword

Program listing

Video training sessions

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

J.W. Atwood

Proximity analysis: A tool for comparing data bases

T.W. Augenstein, Silvia Terziotti and P.J. Horn

A computer program for determining streamflow availability

C.R. Baxter and J.E.Terry

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

D.E. Blackstun and E.A. Cox

System monitoring at the Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility

D.L. Boyes and E.L. Ford

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

J.C.Briggs

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

R.L.Bunch

Digital systems development at the U.S. Geological Survey

G.M.Callahan

Illustration capabilities of a computer graphics system

J.L.Callahan

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

M.E. Darling and Bruce Parks

Processing of bathymetric data for Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho

R.L. Fields and P.F. Woods

A computer program to calculate sediment-discharge records

J.R. Gray and T.J. McElhone

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

R.J. Haefner

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

A.E.Hall

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

B.J. Hawes-Bour

A procedure for choosing class intervals for county choropleth maps

K.J. Hitt

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

K.J.Hitt

Using a statistical analysis system as a geographic information system

T.E.Huffman

Digitizing time-series data from continuous-record charts

T.D. Liebermann

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

T.D. Liebermann

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

T.D. Liebermann

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

D.L.Lorenz

Hypertext documentation of a geographic information system

J.J. Majure

Transferring computer programs between different computers

S.I. McFarlane

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

C.F.MerkandG.R.Dempster,Jr.

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

M.A. Orona, A.F. Choyuette, B.G. Katz, and W.S. Pendexter

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

S.J. Owen-Joyce and B.K. Von Allworden

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

Bruce Parks

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

J.L. Porter

Archiving on-line data to optical disk

J.L. Porter, J.L. Kiesler, and D.A. Stedfast

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

C.V.Priceand K.W. Robinson

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

L.H.Raymond

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

A.H. Rea and J.C. Scott

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

L.I. Rolon-Collazo and Philip Gonzalez

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

T.G.Ross

The spatial data transfer standard

H.J. Rossmeissl

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

B.R. Schachte

Analysis and presentation of geophysical data using a computer program

D.H. Schaefer

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

G.L.Shank

Image-processing capabilities related to water-resources investigations

J.L.Smith

Presentation computer graphic slide service

J.A.Solomon

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

G.J. Stiltner

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

J.L.Strause

Multiple data base compatibility analysis

J.E. Terry and L.A. Moore

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

R.P.Thomas and D.R. Bleakly

National Water Information System II software configuration management

R.E.Thornberg and C.F. Merk

Use of computer programs to enhance water-quality data processing

A.B. Tihansky and J.L. Keisler

Defining the functional requirements of an integrated National Water Information System

S.M. Trapanese, J.D. Christman, and J.C. Briggs

A program to digitize charts having non-standard coordinate systems

M.R. Werley

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

O.O. Williams andT.H. Yorke

Demonstration of an earth science hypermedia system

D.A. Wiltshire

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

D.K. Yancey and S.I. McFarlane

Glossary

 


 

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