|
|
| GeoCommunity Mailing List |
| |
| Mailing List Archives |
| Subject: | Re: GISList: spatial decision support system |
| Date: |
06/10/2002 07:58:38 AM |
| From: |
David Nealey |
|
|
Foster,
Many US government scientists met circa 1997-1998 in Denver in a workshop
for geospatial decision support systems. If I remember right there were
post-workshop proceedings published.
In your particular field, I recall that the US Fish and Wildlife Services in
Ft. Collins had developed a GDSS. I recall the key people's name as Mowrer.
The University of Colorado's Geography Dept also did a research project very
similar to your thesis project for the USGS Colorado Front Range
Infrastructure Resources Project. The report contained numerous evaluations
of GDSSs. Because the report was prepared circa 1996-1997, the information
is a little out of date but could be good as a starting point.
The most robust that I ever played around with was SmartPlaces, an
application that interfaced with ArcView 3x. It was marketed by Foresite
Consulting in Loveland, Colorado. I believe that the Orton Family has taken
over the develop of SmartPlaces. The principal at Foresite (Brenda Faber)
gave a presentation and won the best paper award at last year's URISA Annual
Conference in Long Beach.
The reason that I say that SmartPlaces is a robust tool is that it built on
top of a good GIS foundation. One application that my team in the USGS had
was to understand urban growth in Colorado and the role of sand and gravel
resources to growth dynamics. We wanted to include the economic and safety
issues in our analyses. SmartPlaces allowed us to model the traffic
statistics, highway deaths, depletion rate of resources (sand and gravel),
and costs of a new community in a geographic context.
SmartPlaces was designed as a collaborative GDSS. It allowed 10 or 12
managers/elected officials to sit around a table and draw their vision for a
new community and then reconcile differences visually. Each person's map
was compared by the software and criteria rated statistically. In this
manner, political and hidden agendas could be removed from the decision
making process once the criteria had been established.
I would argue that a GIS is not a GDSS without collaborative functionality
and criteria-based analysis. The essential aspect of a Decision Support
System must be collaboration.
In your thesis, I hope that you address the role of the GIS specialist. As
I envision it, the GIS specialist has a passive role. He/she creates,
compiles, and inputs the data: sets up the model and equipment: and, steps
back from the table. If the GIS specialist does the analysis it is not a
GDSS, in my opinion.
Good luck with your thesis.
David
Foster Mensah wrote:
> I am writing my thesis on the development of a spatial decision support
> system for the control of plant disease. I want to do most of my
> literature review on the net. I'll appreciate it anyone could suggest
> links to relevant literature as well as decision support tools
>
> Thanks
>
> To unsubscribe, write to gislist-unsubscribe@geocomm.com
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Setup a GeoCommunity Account and have access to FAST DataDownloads
> and Premium Career Posting at a discounted rate!
> https://www.geocomm.com/cgi-bin/accounts/login
>
> On-line Archives available at
> http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/community/lists/
To unsubscribe, write to gislist-unsubscribe@geocomm.com
________________________________________________________________________
Setup a GeoCommunity Account and have access to FAST DataDownloads
and Premium Career Posting at a discounted rate!
https://www.geocomm.com/cgi-bin/accounts/login
On-line Archives available at
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/community/lists/
|
|
Sponsored by:
For information
regarding
advertising rates
Click Here!
|
