International Conference on Discrete Global Grids
Radisson Hotel
Santa Barbara, California, USA
26-28 March 2000

Conference Program

• Discrete Global Grids: One User's Perspective
  Ralph Kahn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  


• Discrete Global Grids and Digital Earth
  Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
  


• Discrete Global Grids Applicable to Spatially Balanced Sampling
  Anthony Olsen, Denis White, US EPA; and Don L. Stevens. Jr., Dynamac Corporation

• Augmenting SAND with a spherical data model
  Houman Alborzi and Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, College Park
  


• A Preliminary Comparison of Proposed Topologies for Geodesic Discrete
  Global Grid Systems
  Kevin Sahr, University of Oregon
  


• Practical Properties of the Spiral Points
  Robert Raskin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• Universal Geospatial Data Exchange via Global Hierarchical Coordinates
  Geoffrey Dutton, Spatial Effects
  


• Interoperable Coordinate Transformation and Identification of Coordinate Systems
  Daniel Specht, Topographic Engineering Center
  


• Challenges of Georeferencing Places: Development of Digital Gazetteers
  Linda Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara
  


• Digital Earth: Building the New World
  Yvan G. Leclerc, M. Reddy, L. Iverson and N. Bletter, SRI International.

• Pixel Loss and Duplication during Projection of Global Grids
  Karen A. Mulcahy, East Carolina University
  
  
• EarthView -- a "planet browser"
  Paul Hansen and Tom Van Sant
  


• Real-Time Global Data Model for the Digital Earth
  Nick Faust, William Ribarsky, T. Y. Jiang, and Tony Wasilewski, Georgia Institute of Technology



• The Global Spatial Data Model (GSDM)
  Earl F. Burkholder, Global COGO, Inc.

• The World Geographic Reference System
  Jordan T. Hastings, Go2 Systems, Inc.
  


• A Seamless Global Terrain Model in Hipparchus System
  Hrvoje Lukatela, Geodyssey Limited
  


• EASE-Grid: A Versatile Set of Equal-Area Projections and Grids
  Mary J. Brodzik and Ken Knowles, University of Colorado
  


• Developing an Equal Area Global Grid by Small Circle Subdivision
  Lian Song, A. Jon Kimerling and Kevin Sahr, Oregon State University
  

• Experiments In Modeling Global Trade
  Waldo Tobler, University of California, Santa Barbara
  


• Unexpected and Complex Behavior of Hierarchical, Multiresolution Cellular Automata
  Ross Kiester, USDA Forest Service; and Kevin Sahr, University of Oregon
  


• Finding a (Buffon’s) Needle in a Hierarchical Triangular Haystack
  Ashton Shortridge, University of California, Santa Barbara
  


• An Adaptive Grid and Associated Advanced GIS Techniques for Air Quality Models
  Maudood Khan, M. Talat Odman; Hassan A. Karimi, University of Pittsburgh; and Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
  

• Comparative Study on Map-Projection Based & Direct Spherical Tessellation
  for Global GIS
  Shohaku Ko, Chiba University; and Ryosuke Shibasaki, University of Tokyo
  


• Criteria and Measures for the Comparison of Global Geocoding Systems
  Keith C. Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara
  


• Comparing Intercell Distance and Cell Wall Midpoint Criteria for Discrete
  Global Grid Systems
  M. J. Gregory, A. J. Kimerling, D. White, and K. Sahr, Oregon State University

• The Relationship Between Wavelets and Quadtrees for Global Grids
  Robert Raskin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  


• Ellipsoidal Area Computations of Large Terrestrial Objects
  Hrvoje Lukatela, Geodyssey Limited
  


• Design Issues in the Go2 Grid System
  Val Noronha, Digital Geographic Research Corporation
  


• Closing Remarks
  Steering Committee