NCRST Synthesis

Synthesis Report 2001

Download the 2001 Synthesis Report. You're welcome to print and to distribute copies, but we ask that you give due credit where appropriate. The links below are organized to mirror sections in the report.

This page is a supplement to the report. Vendors listed below are those cited in the publication. Other vendors are listed under Resources-Vendors.

Technological Background

GIS Core Curriculum www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/core.html
Remote Sensing Core Curriculum www.umbc.edu/rscc
Canada Center for Remote Sensing www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/eduref/educate.html

Success Stories of the Last Decade

Photogrammetry for Asset Management

Pima Association of Governments www.pagnet.org/website/pagrdc
Andy Gunning, Regional Planning Director, PAG agunning@pagnet.org
Ted Jones, Florida DOT District Three Planning Ted.Jones@dot.state.fl.us

3-D Surveys for Visualization

John Simmers, Virginia DOT, simmers_jr@vdot.state.va.us
Jack Hill, Houston Advanced Research Center, jhill@harc.edu
Dan Cotter, TerraPoint, dancotter@transamerica.com

Video Logs

Roadware, www.roadware.com
Gil Boettcher, Roadware, info@roadware.com

The Fly-by

NASA, esdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/GLACIER.BAY/movies.flyby.html
TBD

Planning a Transportation Corridor

Norfolk Southern study: David J. Cowen, John R. Jensen, Chad Hendrix, Mike Hodgson, Steve Schill, Frank Macchiaverna, 2000, “A GIS-assisted Rail Construction Econometric Model that Incorporates LIDAR Data,” Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 66(11): 1323-1328
Quantm, www.quantm.net

Credits and Acknowledgements

This report was produced by the National Consortium on Remote Sensing in Transportation—Infrastructure Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration (www.rspa.dot.gov), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (www.nasa.gov) and the California Department of Transportation's Testbed Center for Interoperability. Dr Michael F Goodchild is the Principal Investigator of NCRST–Infrastructure, Dr Richard L Church is co-Principal Investigator, Dr Val Noronha is Project Director and principal author of this report. The report incorporates contributions from NCRST–Environment, NCRST–Flow and NCRST–Hazards.

We are particularly grateful to the following individuals for their generous contributions of content and illustrative materials, and sensitivity to our timelines:

Jim Altenstadter, Pima Association of Governments
Ron Birk, Intermap Technologies
Gil Boettcher, Roadware
Gay Hamilton Smith, HSA Consulting Group Inc
Jack Hill, Houston Advanced Research Center
John Jensen, University of South Carolina
Ted Jones, District 3, Florida DOT
John Simmers, Virginia DOT

Contact Information

Program Manager

Dr K Thirumalai, K.Thirumalai@rspa.dot.gov
Chief Engineer, Research and Special Programs Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

NCRST Institutions

Environment	www.rstc.msstate.edu/NCRSTE/	Roger King	rking@ece.msstate.edu
Infrastructure	www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/ncrst	Michael F Goodchild	good@ncgia.ucsb.edu
Flow	www.ncrst.org/research/ncrst-f.html	Joel L Morrison	morrison@cfm.Ohio-State.edu
Hazards	www.trans-dash.org	Stan Morain	smorain@spock.unm.edu

Technology Application Partners

Technology Service Corporation	Steve Jaroszewski, sjaroszewski@tsc.com
Bridgewater State College	Lawrence Harman, lharman@bridgew.edu
Veridian ERIM International Inc	Chris Chiesa, chiesa@erim-int.com
ICF Consulting	Gary Erenrich, gerenrich@icfconsulting.com
EarthData International	Karen Schuckman, kschuckman@earthdata.com
Tetra Tech/ASL	William Lyte, blyte@aslce.com
Orbital Imaging Corporation	Terry Lehman, Lehman.Terry@orbimage.com
AERIS Inc	Robert Davis, aerisrwd@aol.com
EarthWatch Inc	Stella Todd, stodd@digitalglobe.com

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