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The Emerging Strategic Resource for Government - Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
White Papers While Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been widely adopted in government, it is primarily used as a transactional and tactical resource. GIS offers governments much more than mapping capabilities.
[August 11, 2006, 0:00]
Geographic Routing in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
White Papers In this paper, a Two-Phase Geographic Greedy Forwarding (TPGF) routing algorithm is proposed in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). TPGF is a pure geographic greedy forwarding routing algorithm, which does not include the face routing and...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
National Geographic Picture of the Day widget
Downloads The National Geographic Picture of the Day widget is for use with the Yahoo Widget Engine.This widget displays the National Geographic Picture of the Day on your desktop. A description of the image is available in a slide-out text area that can be...
[May 11, 2006, 2:57]
A Year Ago: Demand pummels National Geographic
News Just 24 hours after National Geographic.com launched its new "Map Machine" feature, the site is still scrambling to handle the demand. It's really been surprising how quickly the word got out," said Mark Holmes, vice president of programming and...
[October 29, 2000, 6:02]
Capacity Deficit in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Due to Geographic Routing Overheads
White Papers This paper uses an information-theoretic approach for characterizing the minimum routing overheads of geographic routing in a mobile network. Overheads incurred by routing protocols diminish the capacity available for relaying useful data over a...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Optimizing Mirroring Performance Using HACMP/XD for Geographic LVM
White Papers The newest addition to IBM's HACMP/XD family, HACMP/XD for Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) is easier to configure and manage than the existing IP-based disaster recovery solutions. To ensure that the mirroring of the critical data across...
[August 30, 2006, 1:00]
Securing Geographic Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper considers the security of Geographic Routing (GR) that is widely used in ad hoc and wireless sensor networks due to its scalability. In GR, a node greedily forwards a packet to the neighbor that is closest to the destination.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Infrastructure Recommendations for an ESRI and IBM Geographic Information System
White Papers ESRI is an industry leader in Geographic Information Systems and has been rewarded with a market-share leadership position. IBM has industry-leading information technology project management and systems integration capabilities necessary to deliver...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
On Optimal Geographic Routing in Wireless Networks With Holes and Non-Uniform Traffic
White Papers The algorithms preserve the inherent advantages of geographic routing such as scalability and fast convergence while providing better throughput. In future, the analysis will be extended to networks with a larger class of holes and also will...
[August 10, 2007, 11:15]
The Practical Union of OLAP Analysis and Geographic Mapping
White Papers Whether it is product sales, insurance rates, or credit card fraud, multidimensional data often contains a geographic dimension that allows analysis based on varying locations. In many cases, these locations are political boundaries such as country...
[May 5, 2006, 1:00]
An Integrated Environment for High-Dimensional Geographic Data Mining
White Papers Geographic data are often very large in volume and "Characterized by a high number of attributes or dimensions". There are urgent needs to develop effective and yet efficient approaches for analyzing such voluminous and high-dimensional data to...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Google opens geographic search interface
News That means other sites incorporating Google Maps will be able to find geographic features that are in Google's database but that previously were visible only through Google's own map site. Google previously shared only some geographic data through...
[May 14, 2008, 14:08]
Nuggets: National Geographic gets CD treatment
News Fans of the National Geographic will be familiar with its fantastic foldout maps -- ace for Geography O'Levels! They are now available as National Geographic Maps, an eight CD-ROM collection distributed by Mindscape.
[March 15, 1999, 13:43]
Yahoo opens up geographic data to websites
News Yahoo is letting outside websites use information from its own catalogue of geographic information, thus allowing programmers to employ Yahoo data and services in their own applications. The offering is part of what Yahoo calls the Yahoo Internet...
[May 13, 2008, 11:11]
Geographic Symbols for Handlix Draw
Downloads Geographic Symbols Library for Handlix Draw.Draw a map right in the field! Use ready-to-use symbols of buildings, roads and vegetation to record the position and layout of objects right in the field. You can immediately send your workmate the map...
[August 4, 2003, 8:00]
National Geographic POD
Downloads National Geographic POD is a simple application that downloads the latest National Geographic picture of the day and sets it as the background.
[March 20, 2007, 1:32]
Using the Geographic LVM in AIX 5L
White Papers The Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) is a new AIX 5L software-based technology for real time geographic data mirroring over standard TCP/IP networks. GLVM can help protect your business from a disaster by mirroring your mission-critical...
[January 4, 2006, 0:01]
Demand pummels Nat'l Geographic
News "It's really been surprising how quickly the word got out," said Mark Holmes, vice president of programming and content development for National Geographic.com. The launch of the Map Machine coincides with the release of National Geographic's new...
[October 29, 1999, 14:49]
'Geode' plug-in brings geographic edge to Firefox
News Mozilla Labs plans to announce a plug-in called Geode on Tuesday that gives the Firefox web browser a better ability to understand and use geographic information on the web. Geo-tagging most commonly refers to photos with geographic data stored...
[October 7, 2008, 9:35]
Henkel Improves Facilities Mapping by Integrating Asset Management and Geographic Data
White Papers Henkel, a Fortune Global 500 company, operates in three strategic business areas - Home Care, Personal Care, and Adhesives, Sealants and Surface Treatment. The company wanted to reduce the time employees spend manually combining spatial and...
[May 17, 2007, 1:00]
