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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:04:18 EDT
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From:         "Pat Bresnahan" <pat@OTIS.HSSC.SCAROLINA.EDU>
Subject:      Spat. Data Handling '92 Proceedings

                        PRESS RELEASE

         SPATIAL DATA HANDLING PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE

              International Geographical Union
                      Commission on GIS

The two volume set of proceedings of the papers presented at
the Fifth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling
held in Charleston, South Carolina August 3 through 7 are now
available. These 725 page Proceedings contain 71 scientific
papers that were carefully selected from more than 125 papers
submitted for review.  The papers represent the current state
of the art in fields such as computer science, geography,
geology, mathematics, and engineering that deal with the
computer processing of geographically referenced information.
Since there will not be an AUTO-CARTO meeting in 1993 these
Proceedings will be the most significant source of technical
developments in the field for the next two years.

The lead article is the Keynote Speech " The Information
Infrastructure of GIS"  which was presented by Professor David
Rhind, Director General and Chief Executive of the British
Ordnance Survey.  In many ways the papers represent the major
new trends in the field that will be reflected in future
enhancements of existing systems.  More than 60 percent of the
papers were written by scientists outside the United States
and reflect the current projects underway at the major
research centers such as the National Center for Geographic
Information and Analysis as well as England, France, Wales,
Norway, Russia, Scotland, the Netherlands, Australia and
Canada.

The topics covered include: System Design Issues, Cartographic
Representation, user Interfaces, Generalization, Performance
issues, Spatial Indexing Methods, Parallel Processing, Spatial
Queries, Spatial Data Integration, Data Access methods,
Topological Data Structures, Knowledge-Based Approaches,
Computational Geometry, Spatial Decision Support Systems,
Fuzzy Data Handling, Data Conversion, Spatial Analysis,
Digital Terrain Analysis, Temporal Models, Object oriented
Data Structures, Network Processing and Simulation.

The proceeding are priced at $50.00 which includes the cost of
surface book rate delivery.  The proceeds from the sale of the
proceedings are used to help the efforts of the IGU Commission
in the dissemination of GIS technology throughout the World.

A limited number of copies of the Proceedings of the 2nd
(Seattle, 1986) and 3rd (Sydney, 1988) Spatial Data Handling
Symposia are also available.  We are also interested in the
demand for copies of the 4th Symposium (Zurich, 1990) which is
currently out of print.


ORDER FORM

1992, Proceedings, 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data
Handling (ISBN 0-9633532-2-5)
@ $50     # of copies _______  Amt._____

1988, Proceedings 3rd International Symposium on Spatial Data
Handling
@ $20     # of copies______  Amt._____

1986, Proceedings, 2nd International Symposium on Spatial Data
Handling
@ $15      # of copies_______ Amt._____

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the 4th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling?____

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Please make all checks payable to the IGU Commission on GIS.

If necessary we will take a purchase order or send you an
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Return form to:
IGU Commission on GIS
c/o Humanities and Social Sciences Computing Lab
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC  29208

(803) 777-6803
FAX (803) 777-7489
pat@otis.hssc.scarolina.edu
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