May 2003
Posted May 22, 2003 Posted May 20, 2003UCGIS Spring 2003 Newsletter
The UCGIS Spring 2003 Newsletter is now on-line at http://www.ucgis4.org/Newsletter/ . Please take a moment to catch up on UCGIS 2003 activities.
The UCGIS Summer Assembly is fast approaching. It will be held at Asilomar Conference Center near Monterey California from June 16-19. Information on the program can be found at http://www.ucgis.org/summer03/. The program will include six workshops by:
* Michael Goodchild, Professor and UCGIS 2002 Educator of the Year from the Department of Geography at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Dr. Goodchild will present the workshop Location-Based Services and Augmented Reality.
* Axing Zhu, Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Zhu was selected to present his research at the UCGIS 2003 Congressional Briefing this past February. His workshop is entitled "Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction Techniques for Natural Resources Inventory".
* Carolyn Merry, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science at The Ohio State University and UCGIS President. She will present a workshop on "Using Remote Sensing Data in Engineering Applications".
* John Landis, Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Landis will be presenting a workshop on "Modeling and Projecting Urban and Exurban Growth and Its Impacts".
* Craig Knoblock, Professor and Senior Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. Dr. Knoblock’s workshop is "Integrating Online and Geospatial Information Sources".
* Marc Armstrong, Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Iowa, and former member of the UCGIS Board of Directors. Dr. Armstrong will present a workshop on "Computational Geography: The Grid, the Un-grid, and Their Wedding in the Chapel of Collaborative Tools".
More information on the workshop contents and schedules can be found on http://www.ucgis.org/summer03/workshops.htm. These workshops are included in the registration fee. You can register on-line at http://www.ucgis.org/summer03/registration.htm and download a housing form from http://www.ucgis.org/summer03/accommodations.htm.
The Education Committee will be spearheading a review and update of the education initiatives during the Assembly. The goal is to have an updated list of priorities, and the foundation for supporting white papers completed during the meeting.
June 18, 2003 - Lecture on Scale, Structure and the Demise of the 'Hydraulic City' at Angkor
Lecture Announcement:
Wednesday, June 18
5 pm
Location: Library Instruction Room, 305 Wurster Hall
"Scale, Structure and the Demise of the 'Hydraulic City' at Angkor"
Damian Evans
Archaeological Computing Laboratory
Spatial Science Innovation Unit
University of Sydney
The decline of the early historic settlement of Angkor, in Cambodia, represents one of the great demographic collapses in the history of urbanism. In the 12th and 13th century CE, the settlement sprawled over an area of over 1000 km2 and may have carried a population approaching 750,000. Without a doubt, Angkor's defining archaeological feature is not its collection of temples: it is the sheer scale of its water management system. A vast water management system connected the monumental religious complex in the centre of the Angkor plain to the Kulen Hills in the north and to the great lake, the Tonle Sap, in the south. Angkorean achievements in monumental architecture were equalled or surpassed in many places worldwide, but their achievements in hydraulic engineering, as far as can be told, were not.
Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, the Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the University of Sydney is investigating the nature of Angkorian urbanism, and exploring the reasons for its ultimate decline.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsors:
The Geographic Information Science Center
The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
The Center for Information Technology Research
in the Interests of Scoiety
Berkeley Center for the Information Society
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Contact: cari@uclink.berkeley.edu
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