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Management Information Systems Book
“Management Information Systems 2000: GIS and Remote Sensing,” published by WIT Press, contains 48 papers presented at the Second International Conference on Management Information Systems incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing (Lisbon, Portugal, June 2000). The papers originated from a wide range of practitioners, including researchers in academia and industry, land use planners, and technology network managers.

Topics include data acquisition facilities, database features, and human interface capabilities. The book is organized into ten chapters, as follows:

      • Environmental Management
      • Economic Development Management
      • Applications of GIS
      • Modeling Issues
      • MIS in Training and Education
      • The World Wide Web
      • Applications of MIS
      • Remote Sensing
      • Integrated Modeling and Management
      • Hydro-Informatics and Geo-Informatics

For more information, visit the Computational Mechanics, Inc. web site at www.compmech.com or telephone (978) 667-5841.

CITYgreen 4.0
American Forests, oldest nonprofit citizen conservation organization in the US, recently released version 4.0 of CITYgreen software. CITYgreen is designed to map urban ecology and measure the economic benefits of trees and greenspace.

The user supplies geo-referenced, low-level, aerial imagery at 0.1 to 1-meter resolution. Other data requirements vary, but may include tree health, species, height, trunk diameter, soil type, and slope. CITYgreen then combines this imagery and field data to create an inventory and perform a benefits analysis of vegetation at a neighborhood scale. The software models and compares different land use
and land cover scenarios and illustrates what is most beneficial to a community. Its growth model predicts the future growth and potential benefits of trees, demonstrating the value of greenspace investments.

The software is an extension of ESRI’s ArcView for Windows and requires ArcView to run.

For more information, email info@amfor.org. For more information on ArcView, visit ESRI’s web site at www.esri.com.

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MapViewer 4
Golden Software, Inc. recently released version 4 of the MapViewer mapping software. MapViewer generates the following publication-quality maps:

      • prism
      • line graph
      • flow
      • hatch
      • density
      • pie
      • bar
      • symbol
      • pin
      • base

It includes a variety of text and drawing tools. The built-in worksheet allows you to enter, edit, sort, print, and display data. Data can be imported from XLS, SLK, WK4, DBF, DB, TXT, DAT, and many other formats. And, maps/graphics can be imported from and exported to a variety of formats.

For more information, visit the Golden Software web site at www.goldensoftware.com.