The City of Winnipeg, located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, has over 240 km of natural riverbank property. The increased frequency and magnitude of flooding along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers over the past decade appears to have influenced the number of slope failures along riverbank property, resulting in the loss of both public green space and privately owned land. The loss of private and public property adjacent to the river has led to the loss of valuable real estate and public parkland amenities. To ensure that riverbank property is preserved for future generations, the City of Winnipeg wants to increase the stability of certain reaches of publicly owned riverbank property along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers that are prone to slope movements. Extensive research has been conducted on slope stability problems in the Winnipeg area, but a transparent prioritization procedure for the remediation of riverbank stability problems has not existed. Therefore, a Riverbank Asset Management System (RAMS) was developed for publicly owned riverbank property to prioritize riverbank slope stability problems along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. The RAMS provides the City of Winnipeg with a rational approach for determining risk levels for specific reaches of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. The calculated risk levels allow the City to develop recommended response levels for slope stability remediation projects in a fiscally responsible manner with minimal personal and political influences. This system permits the City to facilitate timely and periodic reviews of priority sites as riverbank conditions and input parameters change.

The City of Winnipeg, located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, has over 240 km of natural riverbank property. The increased frequency and magnitude of flooding along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers over the past decade appears to have influenced the number of slope failures along riverbank property, resulting in the loss of both public green space and privately owned land. The loss of private and public property adjacent to the river has led to the loss of valuable real estate and public parkland amenities. To ensure that riverbank property is preserved for future generations, the City of Winnipeg wants to increase the stability of certain reaches of publicly owned riverbank property along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers that are prone to slope movements. Extensive research has been conducted on slope stability problems in the Winnipeg area, but a transparent prioritization procedure for the remediation of riverbank stability problems has not existed. Therefore, a Riverbank Asset Management System (RAMS) was developed for publicly owned riverbank property to prioritize riverbank slope stability problems along the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. The RAMS provides the City of Winnipeg with a rational approach for determining risk levels for specific reaches of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. The calculated risk levels allow the City to develop recommended response levels for slope stability remediation projects in a fiscally responsible manner with minimal personal and political influences. This system permits the City to facilitate timely and periodic reviews of priority sites as riverbank conditions and input parameters change.

Η παρούσα εργασία αφορά τη διαδικασία ανάπτυξης, σχεδίασης και αξιολόγησης του εκπαιδευτικού λογισμικού «Μέγας Αλέξανδρος: η εκστρατεία του». Η εφαρμογή αναπτύχθηκε πάνω στο «Google Earth» χρησιμοποιώντας τα εργαλεία του και κυρίως τα αρχεία kmz. Παρουσιάζει με αλληλεπιδραστικό και δυναμικό τρόπο ιστορικές και γεωγραφικές πληροφορίες, δραστηριότητες και βίντεο για τους μαθητές. Το λογισμικό κατά τη διαδικασία αξιολόγησής του παρουσιάστηκε σε μαθητές, γυμνασίου και αξιολογήθηκε από αυτούς. / This work involves the development process, design and evaluation of educational software «Alexander the Great: his campaign». The application was developed on the «Google Earth» using the tools and particular files kmz. Presents in a interactive and dynamic way historical and geographical information, activities and videos for students. The software during the evaluation process was presented to students high school and was evaluated by the above.

abstract: Recent advances in geo-visualization technologies, such as Google Earth, have the potential to enhance spatial thinking. Google Earth is especially suited to teaching landforms and geomorphological processes in traditional, online, or hybrid college classroom settings. The excitement for the technology as a learning tool, however, must be tempered by the need to develop sound and supportive pedagogies. A fundamental gap in the geoscience education literature exists because learning experiences with Google Earth, from the perspective of the student, are not completely understood. This dissertation analyzes three case studies in college introductory physical geography (Chapters 2 and 4) and teacher education (Chapter 3) courses at Arizona State University where students completed an online (Chapter 2 and 3) laboratory that used Google Earth as the main tool for landform identification and interpretation, and a hardcopy laboratory and in-field exercise (Chapter 4) that compared Google Earth oblique with traditional stereopair air photo and planimetric perspectives. Gauging student performance in these tasks, along with their formative and summative opinions for `what it was like to learn this way', provide information as part of a feedback loop to develop and improve instructional scaffolding and best practices so that the focus remains on the content-to-be-learned and not the tool. These case studies show that, in general, prior use of Google Earth is usually not a limiting factor; multiple perspectives and supplemental visualizations of landforms with Google Earth's may enhance the learning experience; the hands-on nature of structured Google Earth exploration in these labs are virtual field trips that increase enjoyment and fit within a learner-centered curriculum; scaffolding landform-learning exercises for aspiring elementary school teachers linked to children's literature assists the development of content knowledge for teaching physical geography and spatial thinking; and, finally, despite a virtual globe's high-quality visualizations and promising potential for learning, there is still a role for stereopair images in the geomorphology classroom. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Geography 2014

Submitted by Ricardo Carrasco (ricardogc84@uepb.edu.br) on 2016-10-20T19:07:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Antonio Gregório da Silva.pdf: 1756137 bytes, checksum: 1f141179c1bcf63dd0b9cf5f6195988a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Irenilda Medeiros (nildamedeiros@uepb.edu.br) on 2016-11-07T19:17:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Antonio Gregório da Silva.pdf: 1756137 bytes, checksum: 1f141179c1bcf63dd0b9cf5f6195988a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-07T19:17:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Antonio Gregório da Silva.pdf: 1756137 bytes, checksum: 1f141179c1bcf63dd0b9cf5f6195988a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-30 / Universidade Estadual da Paraíba / Esta disertación tiene como objetivo investigar el nivel de comprensión de los estudiantes en relación con la cartografía la alfabetización en el sexto año de la Escuela Primaria pasando de la teoría a la práctica, con la ayuda de las herramientas digitales disponibles através del Google Earth, aproximarse a las intersecciones entre aprendizaje y experiencias. Buscamos desarrollar los estudiantes que participan en este estudio, la noción espacial y la representación cartográfica, la comparación de los diferentes tipos de representación de la superficie terrestre: mapas, imágenes de satélite, fotografías aéreas y las estrategias didácticas y lúdicas de ruptura en tres dimensiones, aliados a la alfabetización digital, lo que permite niños liberados la primera fase del acceso a la escuela primaria a los medios digitales a través de los laboratorios de cómputo que sirven para ayudar a un aprendizaje significativo, fomentar el dominio de la tecnología y despertar el interés de los estudiantes por la cartografía escolar. Pensando en ello, este trabajo puede promover la estimulación de los estudiantes a diversas formas de lectura, así como el desarrollo del lenguaje cartográfico como elemento educativo la formación de nuevas prácticas y habilidades en las aulas. / Esta dissertação tem o objetivo de investigar o nível de compreensão dos alunos no tocante a alfabetização cartográfica no 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental passando da teoria à prática, com o auxílio das ferramentas digitais disponibilizadas através do Google Earth, abordando as interseções entre aprendizado e experiências. Procuramos desenvolver com os alunos participantes, a noção espacial e a representação cartográfica, comparando diferentes tipos de representação da superfície terrestre: mapas, imagens de satélite, fotografias aéreas e tridimensionais partindo de estratégias educacionais e lúdicas, aliadas ao letramento digital, possibilitando as crianças egressas da 1ª fase do Ensino Fundamental o acesso às mídias digitais, através dos laboratórios de informática cujos equipamentos servem de auxílio para uma aprendizagem mais significativa, favorecendo o domínio das tecnologias e o despertar do interesse dos educandos pela cartografia escolar. Pensando nisso, este trabalho poderá promover o estímulo dos estudantes às mais diversas formas de leitura, além de desenvolver a linguagem cartográfica como elemento educativo formador de novas práticas e habilidades em salas de aula.

Submitted by Erika Demachki (erikademachki@gmail.com) on 2014-10-21T20:07:30Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Laíze Leite Vieira - 2013.pdf: 8922754 bytes, checksum: e3da0ab5b025ac7b269575096ad922fc (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Silva (jtas29@gmail.com) on 2014-10-21T20:19:36Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Laíze Leite Vieira - 2013.pdf: 8922754 bytes, checksum: e3da0ab5b025ac7b269575096ad922fc (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-21T20:19:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Laíze Leite Vieira - 2013.pdf: 8922754 bytes, checksum: e3da0ab5b025ac7b269575096ad922fc (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-23 / The Tourism has become an profitable economic activity, a fact explained by the high levels of employment and income arising from circulation of tourists all over the world. However, these figures hide important information about the interaction between the traveler and the visited location. There is a wide range of destinations growing up by demand of visitors, oblivious to issues of relevance to the tourism planning, such as the availability of accurate, which enable the tourist an holistic view of geographic space. After the advent of the new technologies, the decision of the travel to a specific touristic destination increasingly depends of the quality in access to information. So, this research aims to promote a discussion about the impact of touristic information organized through Geographic Information System - GIS on web environment for communication with tourist. In this context are analyzed the ways of the Tourism by threefold bias of Virtual Communication, Touristic Cartography and Geotechnologies as strategies for the better reveal the space to the new tourist profile of the digital age. The results of these reflections are gathered on the project SIGTUR Alto Paraíso, a proposal of the GIS application online using the Google Earth software as a dynamic and interactive information platform for viewing maps and elements of touristic space. The spatial area adopted is the Alto Paraiso city, in whose territory is the gateway to the National Park of Chapada dos Veadeiros- NPCV and sceneries of natural beauty that position this area as one of the main ecotourism destinations the State of Goiás. / O turismo tornou-se uma rentável atividade econômica, fato explicado pelo altos índices de emprego e renda decorrentes da circulação de turistas em todo o mundo. Entretanto, esses números escondem dados importantes quanto à interação entre o viajante e o local visitado. Existe grande variedade de destinos crescendo pela demanda de visitantes, alheios a aspectos de relevância para o planejamento turístico, como por exemplo, a disponibilização de informações precisas, que possibilitem ao turista uma visão holística do espaço geográfico. Após o advento das novas tecnologias, decidir a viagem para um destino turístico específico depende cada vez mais da qualidade no acesso à informação. Assim, essa pesquisa busca promover uma discussão sobre o impacto da informação turística organizada através de Sistema de Informação Geográfica – SIG em ambiente web para a comunicação com o turista. Nesse contexto, são analisados os caminhos do Turismo pelo tríplice viés da Comunicação Virtual, da Cartografia Turística e das Geotecnologias como estratégias para melhor revelar o espaço ao novo perfil de turista da era digital. Os resultados destas reflexões são reunidos no projeto SIGTur Alto Paraíso, uma proposta de aplicação de SIG on line que utiliza o software Google Earth como dinâmica e interativa plataforma de informações para visualização de mapas e elementos do espaço turístico. O recorte espacial adotado é o município de Alto Paraíso, em cujo território está a porta de entrada para o Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros – PNCV e cenários de beleza natural que posicionam esta área como um dos principais destinos de ecoturismo no estado de Goiás.

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks are flexible, self configuring networks that do not need a fixed infrastructure. When these nets are simulated, mobility models can be used to specify node movements. The work in this thesis focuses on designing an extension of the random trip mobility model on a city section from EPFL (Swiss federal institute of technology). Road data is extracted from the census TIGER database, displayed in Google Earth and used as input for the model. This model produces output that can be used in the open source network simulator ns-2. We created utilities that take output from a database of US counties, the TIGER database, and convert it to KML. KML is an XML based format used by Google Earth to store geographical data, so that it can be viewed in Google Earth. This data will then be used as input to the modified mobility model and finally run through the ns-2 simulator. We present some NAM traces, a network animator that will show node movements over time. We managed to complete most of the goals we set out, apart from being able to modify node positions in Google Earth. This was skipped because the model we modified had an initialization phase that made node positions random regardless of initial position. We were also asked to add the ability to set stationary nodes in Google Earth; this was not added due to time constraints.

This is a survey of different techniques that may be used for embedding geographicdata into web pages. Different models of GIS communication are examined and a testsubject in the form of an application is implemented and evaluated.The test application (‘StudentKarta’ eng. ‘Student Map’) lets students submit theirresidential data and shows their position as pins on an embedded Map.An expire date is used to let the pins fade away and disappear.The application uses the popular Google map engines to display the geographicalpresentations. Both 2D (Google Maps) and 3D (Google Earth) are used and the pinsare rendered by using bitmaps and 3-models. / Detta arbete undersöker de faktorer som kan vara avgörande vid val av teknik för attbädda in geografisk information i webbsidor varefter verktyg väljs och en pilotapplikationimplementeras och utvärderas.Som leverantör av geografiska data valdes den populära leverantören Google, förutveckling av applikationen ’StudentKarta’.Applikationen låter studenter mata in sina uppgifter varefter deras bostadsortpresenteras på en inbäddad karta. Uppgifterna är försedda med ett bäst-före-datumoch studentmarkörerna ”tonar bort” ju närmre detta datum kommer, för att slutligenförsvinna.Den resulterande applikationen presenterar en inbäddad lösning med två olikapresentationstekniker:- En tvådimensionell kartrepresentation med markörer som renderas medrastergrafik.- En tredimensionell ”Glob” (Google Earth) där positionerna märks ut medtredimensionella markörer.

Extraction of streets from Google earth imagery is a hot research topic. The main purpose of this paper is to create a method to extract streets information from satellite image automatically. It is exceedingly difficult to achieve, because every road has different characters and there are a lot of noises (e.g. shadow, building, and vehicle) in the image. By using generic color model and the image analysis techniques, we build up the automatic road extraction system. It extracted road successfully from mid-size city image with a very high extraction rate. Some interesting discoveries and unique creative solution are proposed in this paper.

We are facing a period that coming into information time, which forced us to live in a new living style. It seems that every business movement is related with information transformation. When computers are used to deal with business data, we begin to search a way to make digital data into refined format information in order to let people to understand. This change results in a changing of business forms. For example, e-services refer to provide a certain service or play function on line, which has the tendency to replace the place of traditional service. How this kind of service can be developed remains a question mark to us. The challenge of e-service is how to get different functions into integration. This thesis begins to research it focusing the point view of GIS (Geography Information System). Take Google earth as an example to illustrate how GIS is being used and what possible future uses of it can be developed. By exploring its use in data collecting, and analyzing, the possible applications in business world can be obviously released.