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A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science at the United States Geological Survey (2007) / Chapter Skim
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... A Committee and Staff Biographies Robert P Denaro, Chair, is vice president of NAVTEQ, a corporation that specializes in digital road maps for navigation, and is leading NAVTEQ's new thrust into Advanced Driver Assistance Systems.
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From page 126...
... Her research interests cover multiple representations and cartographic generalization; investigations and visualization of data quality and uncertainty; metadata services, representation, and visualization; digital libraries; the integration of geospatial data and imagery; and gazetteer development. Her recent research addresses modeling, analysis, and visualization of space-time events.
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... , where his responsibilities included implementing The National Map, a plan to provide current and accurate digital map data for the United States. He also had responsibilities for coordinating with the Bureau of the Census and internal USGS activities related to transportation data development.
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... His research interests are in Internet mapping and distributed GIS applications, mobile GIS and wireless communication, multimedia cartography and user interface design, and software agents and distributed computing technologies. He has applied his research interests in applications such as wildfire mapping, environmental monitoring and management, habitat conservation, and border security.
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... and has just started a four-year term on the Editorial Board of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. He has chaired the Applied Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (1989-1991)
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... 130 Appendix A funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) , he has carried out fieldwork in Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic Sweden, the Canadian Rockies, the Swiss Alps, and the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan.
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  • land cover
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  • information science
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  • map design
  • international journal
  • gis applications

  • american geographers
  • editorial board
  • user interface
  • feature extraction
  • multiple representation

  • cartographic association
  • international cartographic
  • map data
  • service award


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