Knowledge Base

This section contains references, papers, articles, and books that Integral GIS, Inc. has contributed to:

Jeff Thurston is a regular columnist for GISCafe and the European magazine, GEO Informatics.

• GIS Cafe
• GEO Informatics

Jeff Thurston, Tom Poiker, and Patrick Moore have recently written a book, titled, Integrated Geospatial Technologies (John Wiley & Sons, 2003). In addition, they're working on a book, titled, GIS for Civil Engineers (ESRI Press).

Writing articles for a number of different publications keeps Jeff Thurston occupied. Here are some available for download:

• GALILEO, GLONASS And NAVSTAR:A Report on GPS for GIS People
• Geo-Visualization: Current Issues / Future Potentials
• GIS and Remote Sensing: New Trends in Feature and Object Recognition
• Is GIS Working? : Spinning Wheels vs. Moving Ahead
• LIDAR: Lighting the Way (GISCafe.com – September 2001)
• GIS: The Challenge of Upgrading (GISCafe.com – October 2001)
• Mosaics: Aligning Perspectives (GISCafe.com – December 2001)
• Measurement Technologies (Geo Informatics )
• GIS & Artificial Neural Networks: Does Your GIS Think?
• Changing Thoughts about Time

Some other papers and publications available for download that you might find interesting:

• Building a Baseball Stadium using GIS (PDF format)
• Oklahoma City Bombing Forensic Study (PDF format)
• Santorini Archaeologic / Geophysics integration (PDF format)
• Building Vulnerability (PDF format)
• Salt Lake City Olympics Preparation (PDF format)