Science
Tools presents
The
ANGUS AWARD
to Howard
Foster
Howard
C. Foster Ph.D.
Research Specialist, UC Center for Environmental Design Research
University of California, Berkeley California, 94720-1870
E-mail – hfoster@regis.berkeley.edu
RESEARCH
DEVELOPMENT FOCUS:
Dr. Foster has been developing federated architectures for describing,
searching and visualizing geographic information. He was responsible for
conceptual development of geographic information systems for the UC Berkeley
Digital Library Project where he designed document-spatial data interfaces,
geographic data generalization technologies and linkages to associated
non-spatial attribute data. He was geographic technology consultant to
the Microsoft Terraserver project. With the Center for Environmental Design
Research, he has been applying geographic information science as project
manager to a number of environmental planning projects including the UC
Merced Campus Area Biologic Resources Study, the Urbanization/Military
Facility Encroachment Study and the State Delta Protection Commission
Land Use Study. He has developed ground water pollution potential models
and databases for the Calif. Regional Water Quality Control Board. He
has been a private environmental planning consultant for the USGS/Biological
Resources Division, US Park Service, Regional Science Institute Sapporo,
Japan, Lassen National Park, and Dames and Moore.
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GIS
and UC Berkeley's Multi-Valent Document Architecture
Howard Foster, Programmer
Computer Science Division, University of California Berkeley
Some
unique features of the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project influence
the application of GIs technology. These are (1) a significant number
of documents relate to the California natural environment; (2) the
Project must accommodate environmental planners who often need to
make complex ad-hoc queries on multi-attribute data; (3) the Project
almost totally relies upon the World Wide Web for document access;
and (4) Project documents are organized as "Multivalent"
(multi-layered) entities for which GIs operations must be integrated.
In response to these requirements our GIs has a prominent database
component to accommodate complex queries on spatial and non-spatial
attributes; our GIs depends upon a distributed arrangement of components,
especially a Java image for adequate display functionality (e.g.,
pan an zoom). Ultimately our GIs is to be integrated into the general
multivalent document access interface. This means, for example,
a project site map accessed within a document could turn into a
GIs interface for the analysis of a project's contextual geographic
information.
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