CONFERENCE ANOUNCEMENT: *************************************************************************** DECISION SUPPORT - 2001 TORONTO SEPTEMBER 12 - 16, 1994 DELTA CHELSEA INN *************************************************************************** FEATURING OVER 200 PAPERS, 14 WORKSHOPS, and 35 EXHIBITORS An international conference for resource managers, scientists and technology developers to discuss the application of advanced technologies to the solution of complex environmental management problems. This combined conference will bring the 4th Biennial Resource Technology Symposium and the 17th Annual Ontario Geographic Information Seminar together in one location providing a greatly expanded forum for reviewing the development and application of Decision Support Systems, GIS, remote sensing, and other advanced technologies for environmental and natural resource management. HOSTS Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada Resource Technology Institue - International Symposium in Advanced Technology in Natural Resource Management Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources SPONSORS Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, USDI National Park Service, Natural Resources Canada, USGS National Mapping Division, Environment Canada, China (Taipei) Council of Agriculture, Canadian Institute of Geomatics, China (Taipei) Environmental Protection Administration, Symposium on Geographic Information Systems, Golden International Inc., NASA Office of Mission to Planet Earth, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Resource Technology Institute, USDA Forest Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ESSA Technologies Ltd. (contributor) COOPERATORS University of Arizona, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Texas A&M University, International Union of Forest Research Organizations, University of Illinois, Mathematical and Computer Modelling Journal, University of Melbourne, AI Applications in Natural Resource Management, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, ITRES Research, Atterbury Consultants, Inc., Terrain Resources Ltd., Geomatics, Inc., Innovative Systems Developers, Inc., TERRA Lab Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Southern Illinois University, GEOserv Inc., Digital Equipment Canada, New Zealand Forest Research Institute, SUN Microsystems, Virginia Polytechnical Institute & University, CSIRO Division of Information Technology- Australia, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Resource Technology 94 Melbourne (affiliated Australia/New Zealand regional conference) WORKSHOPS Time: Monday, September 12 1. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS Workshop Leader: Doug Loh, STARR Lab, Rangeland Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS Sponsored by Environment Canada Workshop Leader: Charles P. Kofron, Regional Research and Development Services, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois 3. PLANNING AND MANAGING REMOTE SENSING PROJECTS Workshop Leader: Bill Bruce, Chief, Technology Transfer, Training, and Development at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa 4. GEO-GUIDE - A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) FOR ARC/INFO Workshop Leader: Dan Thomas, President, Innovative Systems Developers, Inc., Columbia, Maryland. 5A. AIRBORNE VIDEO - IMAGE ACQUISITION Workshop Leader: Richard J. Myhre, Forest Pest Management Methods Application Group, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado 5B. AIRBORNE VIDEO - IMAGE ANALYSIS/PROCESSING Workshop Leader: Robert A. Wright, Information Systems Forester, Atterbury Consultants. Inc., Beaverton, Oregon. 6A. INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) Workshop Leader: Robert Van Wyngaarden, Geomatics, Inc., Burlington, Ontario 6B. INTRODUCTION TO REMOTE SENSING Workshop Leaders: M. Strome, Director, Forest Management Systems, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Chalk River, Ontario: and A. Rencz, Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 6C. INTEGRATION OF GIS AND REMOTE SENSING Workshop Leaders: Malcolm Lowings, President, Terrain Resources Ltd., Lethbridge, Alberta; and Greg Wickware, President, Geomatics International Inc., Burlington, Ontario 7. ELECTRONIC NETWORKING AND NETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCE Workshop Leaders: Alois Kempf, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; and Jarmo Saarikko, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland 8. DATA VISUALIZATION Workshop Leaders: Terry C. Daniel, Psychology and Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; and Brian Orland, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 9. CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS Workshop Leader: Brenda Faber, Visiting Scientist, Terrestrial Ecosystems Regional Research and Analysis Lab (TERRA Lab), Fort Collins, Colorado. 10. REMOTE SENSING AS A TOOL FOR MAPPING Workshop Leader: Bill Tyler. Research Scientist, Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM), Ann Arbor, Michigan. 11. GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS (GPS) Workshop Leader: James Ferguson, Vice-President, GEOserv Inc., Ottawa, Ontario ICE BREAKER Time: Monday, September 12 1900 - 2100 OPENING PLENARY SESSION Time: Tuesday, September 13 Welcome to TORONTO, June Rowlands Mayor of the City of Toronto EXECUTIVE PANEL -- INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVES PRESENTING ISSUES ON MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Perspectives on the issues and problems in making decisions about natural resources and the environment will set the stage for the conference. DECISION SUPPORT - 2001 is pleased to host this panel of dignitaries who will set forth the challenge to all participants to work towards developing and using information technologies that can address emerging global needs. Panel Moderator: Ron Vrancart Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario Panel Members: George Rideout, M.P. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources, Canada Howard Hampton, M.P.P. Minister of Natural Resources, Ontario Lung-Shen Chang Administrator, Environmental Protection, Administration, China (Taipei) Mfaro Moyo, Deputy Secretary, Zimbabwe Representative from Environment Canada Representative from U.S. Department of Interior PAPERS SESSIONS Tuesday, September 13 Session: Information Management and Exchange Moderators: Linda Stirling, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON, and Howard Hsih-how Chen, Environmental Protection Administration, China (Taipei) Satellite Information Management for Decision Support Systems H. Le and N. Bussieres, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Atmospheric Information System (ATIS): National Climate Archive - The Next Generation Yves Durocher, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Constructing an Infrastructure of Joint Success for Natural Environment Database System In Taiwan Sheng-Ming Yang and Cheng-min Chen, Ministry of Economic Affairs, China (Taipei) Automated Recognition of Severe Summer Weather Features in Radar Data Anthony Keck and Louis Legal, Environment Canada, Winnipeg, Man. The National Topographic Data Base Denis Boutin, Canada Centre for Geomatics, Natural Resources Canada Forestry Information Resources in the World Wide Web Jarmo Saarikko, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland Distributing Canadian Government Information on the Internet. Tyson Macaulay, Industry Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Development of Intelligent Executive Support Systems: An Experimental Study Liu Shuhua, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Information Management for Environmental Protection in Taiwan Howard S.H. Chen and Yu-Chi Chu, Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, China (Taipei) Session: Natural Resource Decision Support Systems in Canada Moderator: Tom Moore, Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River, Ontario Linking models with GIS as a decision support system for economic evaluation of forestry-recreation-wildlife conflicts W.A. Thompson, S. Brown, H. Schreier, A.D. Kliskey, G.C. van Kooten, I. Vertinsky, Forest Economics & Policy Analysis Research Unit & Resource Management Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC A DSS for Budworm and Forest Management: Maximizing Protection Benefits & Forecasting Inventories David A. Maclean and Kevin B. Porter, Canadian Forest Service, Fredericton, NB Expert System Approach for Decision making in White Pine Management Liisa Saarenmaa, University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Ecology, Helsinki, Finland Economic & Environmental Effects Associated with Sustained Yield Unit Size J.D. Nelson and K. Rouck, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Reducing Complexity in Decision Support Systems: A Visual Interactive Programming Language for GIS and Simulation Models Gilles Clement, Logiciels et Applications Scientifiques Inc., Montreal, Que., and Tom Moore and Peter Hvezda, Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River. ON Pine Marten Population Dynamic Model Richard Schneider, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Spatially Explicit Planning Tools Donald R. Morgan, Rick E. Page, Marvin A. Eng and Bruce Enns, Research Branch, BC Ministry of Forests, Victoria, BC The Fire Management Information System in Ontario: The system that works P.C. Ward and G.H. Holder, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Sault Ste. Marie, ON Session: DSS in Agriculture Moderator: R. L. Olson, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Mississippi State, MS Storage Planner - A Planning System for Fruit Storage Anton P.H. Saedt and R.C.W.M. Peters, Department of System Engineering and Logistics, Wageningen, Germany Intelligent Support for Composite Resource Management Decisions John Anderson, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems for Cotton Pest Management R. L. Olson, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Mississippi State, MS Integrated Knowledge-Based Systems and Geographic Information Systems for Natural Resource Management Douglas Loh, Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Intelligent Decision Support System Using the CERES Wheat Crop Monitoring System Ahmed Kamel, Jon Sticklen, Urs Schulthess, Richard Ward, and Joe Ritchie, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Weed Identification Using a Picture-Based Hierarchical Classification System Urs Schulthess, Rick Ward, Kris Schroeder, Ahmed Kamel, Jon Sticklen, A. Abdel Shafy Ali and Abdel-Ghani Mostafa Abdel-Ghani, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, and Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Cairo, Egypt SWINEPRO - An Integrated Decision Making Support System for Improving the Profitability of Pork Production Gerald R. Shurson, Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota Decision Support System for Agricultural Nutrient Management M.A. Bower, W.L. Magette, T. H. Ifft, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural Engineering Session: Global Positioning Systems / Control Survey Moderator: Peter Finos, Natural Resources Information Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, North York, ON NAD83 in Ontario: Approaching Official Adoption J. Morgan Goadsby, Geodetic Services, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, North York, ON 1:500 Mapping Without Ground Control Using Airborne GPS Paul Mrstik and Kresimir Kusevic, GEOserv Inc. GPS Locations for GIS: Getting Them Right the First Time Caroline Erickson, Geodetic Survey Division, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON A Real-time Graphical Database & Navigation System Steven Honkus, Honkus & Associates Differential GPS Update Arthur F. Lange, Trimble Navigation, Ltd., Sunnyvale, CA A MNR GPS Base Station Networked Pilot J. Morgan Goadsby and Dan Bulger, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Session: Data Visualization Moderator: Brian Orland, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Video Navigation: Including Viewer Choice in Scene-Based Visual Preference Research Nathan H. Perkins, Richard Wyma, Wolfgang Haider, University of Guelph, ON, and Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research, Lakehead University Campus, Thunder Bay, ON Rendering the Midway Face Forest, Towards High Realism in Environmental Visualization Midori Kitagawa De Leon, Langford Architecture Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX SMARTFOREST: A 3-D Interactive Forest Visualization and Analysis Brian Orland, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Visual Appraisal of an Indicative Forestry Strategy and Afforestation using GIS David R. Miller, Richard J. Aspinall, Willie Towers, Richard V. Birnie, GIS & Remote Sensing Unit, Land Use Division, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Graigiebuckler, Aberdeen, Scotland A Research Design for Merging GIS, Image Processing, and Visualization Technologies to Evaluate Scenic Landscape Change Gary R. Clay and Stuart Marsh, School of Renewable Natural Resources, and Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Understanding the Relationship of Computer Generated Image Quality and Viewers Perceived Realism Weilong Ye, School of Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph, ON Use of Permanent Time-Laps Video Recording and Network Analysis for the Quantification of Recreational Activities Manfred Lengauer, Andreas Muhar, Robert Zemann, Institut fuer Landschaftsgestaltung, Bodenkultur University, Vienna, Austria Session: Knowledge Based Systems Moderator: David Goodenough, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Participatory Decision Making Daniel L. Schmoldt, David L. Peterson, USDA Forest Service - Virginia Tech University, US National Biological Survey, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Designing an Expert System that Provides Remediation Options for Department of National Defense Construction Engineering Managers Stephen Medd, Kevin Biggar, Michel Tetreault, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON A GIS-Based Expert System for Environmental Assessment Colin J. Daniel and Timothy M. Webb, ESSA Technologies Ltd., Richmond Hill, ON Forestry Decision Making - Consistency, Objectivity and Accountability through Expert Systems, John Ross, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Sydney, Australia Computer-Based Planning, Problem Solving, and Decision Making in Forest Health Management: An Implementation of the Knowledge System Environment for the Southern Pine Beetle, ISPBEX-II Robert N. Coulson, Walter C. Daugherty, Michael D. Vidlak, Jeffrey W. Fitzgerald, Swee Hor Teh, Forrest L Oliveria, David B. Drummond, and Wesley A. Nettleton, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Forest Vegetation Management Expert Decision Support System (EDS) Michael Rogozynski, Greg Hannah, Dr. Robert Wagner, F.Wayne Bell, Dr. R.A. Lautenschlauger, Dr. Michael Ter-Mikaelian. Dr. Robert Campbell, Sault College, Ontario Forest Research Institute, and Forest Pest Management Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, ON Using GIS to Tailor Expert Weather Forecasting Systems Rosemary M. Dyer, Geophysics Directorate, Air Force Phillips Laboratory Pesticide Risk Assessment Knowledge Base System Ron Gauthier, Evaluation and Interpretation Branch, Ecosystem Conservation Directorate, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec Wednesday, September 14 Session: Environmental Assessment and Protection Applications Moderator: Richard K.S. Fan, Environmental Protection Administration, Taipei, China (Taipei) Environmental Indicators as a Tool for Decision-Making Anne Kerr, Indicators & Analysis, Environment Canada Developing Environmental Decision Support Systems for the Real World-Lessons from South Africa D. Macdevette, G. Forsyth and G. Meyer, CSIR Division of Forest Science and Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Decision Support for Environmental Restoration Managers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Through Improved Geospatial Data and Tools R.F. Winterfield, University of Tennessee, TN Degradation of Organic Contaminants in the Soil Using Cultured White Rot Fungus Lawrence Greenfeld, Halliburton NUS Corporation, Gaithersburg, Maryland Model-Based Support Tools for Energy and Environmental Decision-Making G.N. Mentzas and J. Psarras, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece The Ecology of Si in Terrestrial Ecosystems Vladimir Matichenkov, Institute of Soil Science and Photosynthesis, Russian Academy of Science, Puschino, Moscow Region, Russia Biogeochemistry of Heavy Metals in Soil Ecosystems and Lines of Attack on Problem of Their Maximum Permissible Concentration in Soils David L. Pinsky, Institute of Soil Sciences and Photosynthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Puschino, Moscow Region, Russia Session: DSS in Agriculture (Continued) Moderator: R. L. Olson, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Mississippi State, MS HYDRA: Decision Support for Irrigation Management G. Jacucci, P. Kabat, L. Pereira, P. Verrier, G. Bertanzon, G. Giannerini, J. Huygen, P. Steduto, J. Teixeira, G. Toiler, G. Tziallas, C. Uhrik, J. Vera Munoz, P. Yovchev, Laboratory for Informatic Engineering, Department of Informatics, University of Trento, Mesiano - TN, Italy Intelligent Technologies in Crop Management Decisions Boris Kovalerchuk, Tashkent WED University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, CIS The Using of Silicon-Rich Industrial wastes in Environment friendly Agrotechnologies Vladimir Matichenkov, Institute of Soil Science & Photosynthesis, Russian Academy of Science, Russia Session: Decision Support Systems in Ecosystem Management Sponsored by ESSA Technologies Ltd. Moderator: Colin Daniel, ESSA Technologies Ltd., Richmond Hill, ON A Hybrid Expert System and Network Approach for Ecosystem Decision Management David Lam and Isaac Wong, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Burlington, ON EHLDSS - A Decision Support System for Management of the Eastern Hemlock Looper A. Carroll, J. Meades, J. Hudak, Canadian Forest Service, St. John's, Nfld., and M. Power and T. Gillis, Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River, ON Information Management and Decision Support System for Environment Canada's Residual Discharge Information System Clark Lawlor, Evaluation & Interpretation Branch, Ecosystem Conservation Directorate, Environment Canada, Hull, Que. Preliminary Frameworks for Decision Support Systems T. Gillis and J.M. Power, Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River, ON GIS: A Critical Component of Aquatic Ecosystem Management Richard Post, Evaluation and Interpretation Branch, Ecosystem Conservation Directorate, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec; Ted R. Yuzyk and Klaus Wiebe, Integrated Monitoring Branch, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec; Dale Lynch and Felice Petti, Environmental Services Department, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, ON Modeling Spatial Decision Processes in a Pastoral Ecosystem in Northern Kenya M.G. Walsh and D.K. Loh, Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX A Network-Based Object-Oriented Ecosystem Information System Ray Ford, Ron Righter, Richard Thompson, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana The Primacy of Geographic Technologies in Ecosystem Management Crista S. Carroll, Albuquerque District, Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque, NM, and Stanley A. Morain, Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Building a GIS Database for Ecosystem Modelling in the Grand River Basin, Ontario Bob Sharpe and Scott Slocombe, WIlfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON Session: Decision Support in Recreation and Tourism Moderator: Wolfgang Haider, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Thunder Bay, ON Introduction: Assessing Timber and Remote Tourism Trade-Offs in Northern Ontario Wolfgang Haider, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Thunder Bay, ON Identifying and Scaling Factors Affecting Tourist's Experiences Terry C. Daniel, Psychology and Renewable Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Efficient Experimental Designs for the Study of Remote Tourist's Destination Choices Donald A. Anderson, Department of Statistics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, and Jordan J. Louviere, Eccles School of Business. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Calibrated Images: Landscape Visualizations To Meet Rigorous Experimental Design Specifications Brian Orland, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Psychophysical Evaluation of Environmental features Affecting the Quality of Remote Tourists' Experiences Terry C. Daniel and John Hetherington, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ A PC-Based Decision Support System for Remote Tourism in Northern Ontario. Michael Williams, Intelligent Marketing Systems, Inc., Edmonton, AB, and Jordan J. Louviere, Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Session: Requirements for DSS for Sustainable Development Moderator: David Brand, Science and Sustainable Development Directorate, Canadian Forest Service, Hull, Quebec The Model Forest Concept David Brand, Science and Sustainable Development Directorate, Canadian Forest Service, Hull, Que. DSS Initiatives in Ontario Model Forests and Community Forests Andy Welch, Dendron Resource Surveys Inc., Ottawa, ON. Spatial Forest Modelling Glen Jordan, Rick Wightman, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B. Habitat Modeling-A Decision Support Tool in the Manitoba Model Forest Doug Schindler, TAEM, Selkirk, Manitoba The Importance of Integration in DSS for the Western Newfoundland Model Forest Brian Bonnell, Canadian Forest Service, Corner Brook, Nfld., and Boyd Pittman, Nfld. Department of Forestry, Corner Brook, Nfld. Tabu Search and Simulated Annealing: New DSS Tools Carey Lockwood and Dwight Scott Wolfe, MacGregor Model Forest Association, Prince George, BC The International Model Forest Program and DSS Richard Baerg, Science and Sustainable Development Directorate, Canadian Forest Service, Hull, Que. Panel Discussion David Brand, Science and Sustainable Development Directorate, Canadian Forest Service, Hull, Que. Session: Partnerships for Marketing Geomatics Products and Services Moderator: Nargis Ladha, Ontario Hydro, Toronto, ON TERANET: The Working Model Aris Kaplanis, Teranet Land Information Services Inc., Toronto, ON Partnering for International Marketing Success in Geomatics Ed Kennedy, President, Geomatics Industry Association of Canada, Ottawa, ON Ministry of Natural Resources Directions in Geomatics Ron Vrancart, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Toronto, ON Marketing Geomatics Products and Services: Coping with an Evolving International Marketplace David J. Coleman, John D. McLaughlin and Sue Nichols, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB Partnerships - A Fuzzy Model Chuck Preston, Geopower Technologies Inc., Thornhill, Ontario Session: GIS and Decision Support Systems in Municipalities Moderator: Barry Costello, Natural Resources Information Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, North York, ON Inter-Agency Systems Implementation Coordination Walter Gasparini, Information Systems, Regional Municipality of Kitchener-Waterloo, ON PLUS Mapping Project City of London, Teranet, and Ontario Municipal Affairs Urban Planning for Conservation of Stream Fish Communities: A Prototype Computerized Decision Support System Gwen M. White and Anne R. Kapuscinski, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, University of Minnesota Joint Venture Update (Municipal Reference Model & Engineering Data Model) Chartwell IRM Joint Venture Municipal Data Model - Implementation The City of Ottawa Interim GIS Architecture-An Application Oriented Approach John M. Smyrnew, Department of Corporate Services, City of Ottawa, ON Update on Ontario's Standard Labelled Road Network (SLRN) Model Valerian T. Noronha, Digital Geographic Research Corp., Mississauga, ON, and Michael F. Goodchild, National Centre for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Thursday, September 15 Session: Geographic Information Systems in Decision Support Systems Moderator: Paddy O'Reilly, GIS'95 Symposium, Vancouver, BC Building a Forest Management Decision Support system Product: Challenges & Lessons Learned Harold Hunt and R. Keith Jones, ESRI Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON, and Victoria, BC Development of A Geographical Operating Environment (GOE) to Aid Spatial Decision Making Steven J. Tomlinson, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom An Automated Mining Claim Maps System for Land Use Management Mark Hall and Rod MacLeod, Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines Development of an Information and Decision Support System for Pesticide Risk Assessment Utilizing a Geographical Information System Matthew K. Craig, Evaluation & Interpretation Branch, Ecosystem Conservation Directorate, Environment Canada, Hull, Que. The Role of GIS-Like Technology in the B.C. Ministry of Forests Silviculture Program Norman T. Helewa, Ministry of Forests, Victoria, BC GIS to Monitor Environmental Impacts to Increase Agricultural Productivity in Malawi. Daniel Dworkin, US Agency for International Development Bureau for Africa, Arlington, VA W.R. Belisle, T.L. Coleman, S.A. Aburime, and W. Tadesse Model Development for Subsurface Organic Compound Vapor Diffusion Using Geographic Information Systems: Part 1 - Feasibility Assessment. Alabama Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (ACARS) Laboratory, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL Development of a Landscape Resources Management Decision Support System Bin Y. Liu and Vernon O. Shanholtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA Session: Emerging Technologies for Decision Support Systems Moderator: Murray Strome, Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Natural Resources Canada, Chalk River, ON Octree-based 3-D GIS: A Review and Conceptual Design Robert C. Yoder, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, Albany, NY Fractal Dimensions: Parsecs to Pinpoints Willem W.S. van Hees, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Anchorage, Alaska Information Systems Development In Forestry: A Model for Applied Software Development Erkki Kaila, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland, and Larry Marshall, Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River, ON Queries & Answers in a DSS Integrated Remote Sensing and GIS David G. Goodenough, Daniel Charlebois, Stan Matwin, Alan Thomson, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC Team Interactive Decision Analysis & Natural Resource Management John L. Schnase, Advanced Technology Group, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, Michael M. McCarthy, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Mark E. Frisse, Advanced Technology Group, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri Modeling and Mapping Potential Vegetation Using Digital Terrain Data John E. Fels, Virtual Environments Laboratory, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Jean Thie National Atlas Electronic Mapping System (live demo) National Atlas Information Service, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON Making GIS More Intelligent by Adding Knowledge-Base Guoqiang Shen, Department of City and Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Session: Technology Transfer and Education of Resource Managers Moderators: Bill Disbrow, USDA Forest Service, Denver, CO and Jule Caylor, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT Advanced Technologies and Innovative Training Techniques: The Key to Successful System Implementation Dawn Rogal, DMR Group Inc., Toronto, ON Team Training in the New Paradigm Sam Dunlap and Alice RoseBrook, UDSA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland, OR Training Strategies for Ecological Monitoring Programs: The Forest Health Monitoring Experiences Nita Tallent-Halsell and Timothy E. Lewis, Forest Sciences Laboratory, Bureau of Land Management, Research Triangle Park, NC Information for Education and Regional Decision-Making David W. Hulse, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Case Study on the Diffusion of GIS into the Southern Region of the US Forest Service Roy Mead and Ray Johnston, USDA Forest Service, Southern Region, Atlanta, GA Developing Computer-Based Training (CBT) to Reach Forest Managers with Technical Information Steve Stearn-Smith, B.C. Forest Service, Victoria, BC, and Doug Williams and Melissa Hadley, Cortex Consultants Inc., Halfmoon Bay, BC Laird Van Damme DSS: Decision Support or Education Support System? Ontario Advanced Forestry Program, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON Virtual Reality from the Human Perspective Mike Walterman, Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah Session: Object Oriented Modeling of Nature and Problem Solving in Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management Papers denoted with an asterisk will be published in a special issue of the journal, Mathematical and Computer Modelling Moderator: Hannu Saarenmaa, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland Preface on Object-Oriented Modelling of Natural and Artificial Agents in Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management H. Saarenmaa, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland and R.H. Gimblett, School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Guiding Object Oriented Design Via the Knowledge Level Architecture: The Irrigated Wheat Testbed (*) Kris Schroeder, Ahmed Kamel, Jon Sticklen, Computer Science Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Rick Ward, Joe Ritchie, Urs Schulthess, Crop and Soil Sciences Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, A. Rafea, A. Salah, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Cairo, Egypt An Object-Oriented Characterization of Spatial Ecosystem Information (*) Ron Righter, Ray Ford, Department of Computer Science, University of Montana, Missoula, MT BIOTA: An Object-Oriented Tool for Modeling Complex Ecological Systems (*) Benjamin Jones, Department of Biology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, William Sterner, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, IL, and Jeffrey Schank, Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, IL Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Object-Oriented Modelling of a Fishery (*) F. Bousquet, CIRA-GREEN, Paris France, C. Cambier, ORTROM, Bondy Cedex, France, and P. Morand, ORSTROM, Bamako, Mali Using an Object-Oriented Model for Ecological Risk Assessment on a Great Blue Heron Colony(*) Y.G. Matsinos, Graduate Program in Ecology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, D.L. DeAngelis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, and W. F. Wolff, Forschungzentrum Juelich, Germany Modelling Trees with an Object-Oriented Scheme (*) H. Salminen, H. Saarenmaa, J. Perttunen, R. Sievanen, E. Nikinmaa, and J. Vakeva, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi, Finland Object Oriented Software for Modelling Growth and Size-Class Distributions of Tree Crops: An Overview of the Design (*) H.K. Koesmarno, E.G. Mason, and A.G.D. Whyte, School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Defining Relationships in Ecology Using Object-Oriented Formal Specifications(*) Bohdan Durnota, Monash University, Caulfield, Caulfield East, Australia Simulation of Heathland Ecosystems Using Object Oriented Modeling and Remote Sensing Techniques A. H. Bakema and R. Meijers, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Session: Modeling Autonomous Agents in Naturalistic Environments Papers denoted with an asterisk will be published in a special issue of the journal, Mathematical and Computer Modelling Moderator: Randy Gimblett, School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Intelligent Agent Modelling for Natural Resource Management (*) John Anderson, Mark Evans, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man. Agent Behavior and Systems Analysis Peter Rothman, Avatar Partners, Boulder Creek, CA Automated Lay Down and Route Planning for Simulation Jed Marti, Rand Corporation KnowVis: An Intelligent Assisted Visualization System Polly Baker, SuperComputer Center, University of Illinois, IL Intelligent Agents for Automated Visualization Micheal Merefat, Department of Electrical Computing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ The Role of Goal-Oriented Autonomous Agents in Modeling People-Environment Interactions in Forest Recreation (*) Peter Deadmen and R.H. Gimblett, School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Session: Decision Support Systems in Parks and Protected Areas Moderator: Andre Savioe, Canadian Parks Service, Natural Resources Canada, Hull, Que. Aerial Videography Martin Boisvenu, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Hull, Que. Fire Management Decision Support System IDSYS, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Hull, Que. Low Cost Digital Recording Technologies R. Letellier, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Hull, Que. Geographic Information System/Detection of Change Jean Poitevin, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Hull, Que. DNA Analysis and Biodiversity Conservation B. Hughson, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Hull, Que. Expert System and Environmental Impact Assessment J. Norris and I. Smith, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Hull, Que. The Role of GIS in the Process of Development and Realization of a Protection Plan for a National Park in the Polish Conditions Wlodzimierz Karaszkiewicz, Department of Forest Management and Forest Geodesy of Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland Automating the Analysis of Current and Potential Visitor Use and their Impacts on Bruce Peninsula National Park Henry Schryver and Brian Hutchinson, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Cornwall, ON Session: Forestry Applications Moderator: Bill White, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO An Experiential Based Model Relating Expected Tree Stocking to Site Type and Harvest/Regeneration Treatment Jim Duncan, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Timmins, ON Use of Vegetation Index to Estimate Forest Canopy Density Kuo-Mo Chiao, Department of Forestry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, China (Taipei) Geostatistical Models of Tree Size and Increment in an Old-Growth Forest Franco Biondi and Donald E. Myers, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Designing and Implementing a Forestry Plantation Decision Support System G. Meyer, S. Christie, K. du Preez, and K. Higgins, CSIR Division of Forest Science and Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Analysis of Forest Stand Management and Climate Change Using an Optimization Program with a Graphical User Interface Lauri T. Valsta and Tapio Linkosalo, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland Optimal Temporal and Spatial Timber Harvest Scheduling Gary P. Williamson and Maarten A. Nieuwenhuis, Forestry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University College Dublin, Ireland Using Logistic Regression for Predicting Lumber Quality of Pine Stems Jori Uusitalo, Department of Forest Resource Management, University of Helsinki, Finland Decision Tools for Establishing Forest Plantations E. G. Mason, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Session: Forestry Applications (continued) Moderator: Bill White, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO A Decision Support System for Wildfire Management Yue-Hong Chou, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, CA An Overview of the Integrated Silviculture Information System Insha Khan, Norman T. Helewa and Joanne M. Bowden, Silviculture Branch, Ministry of Forests, Victoria, BC ISIS, an Operational Information System for Silviculture Joanne Bowden, Ministry of Forests, Victoria, BC Case-Based Design for Decision Making in Forest Management Planning in Japan Naoto Matsumura and Kyosi Nishikawa, Shikoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kochi, Japan Session: Action Ontario Moderator: Gabriella Zillmer, Human Resources Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Toronto, ON The Action Ontario Session is intended to deliver a vision of the future role of government in Ontario. Executives from various Ontario ministries involved in the information systems field will present their strategic plans and activities. In addition, corporate strategies for information technology and service delivery will be presented. A short discussion period will be included in the session. Session: Remote Sensing Development and Applications Moderator: Malcolm Lowings, Terrain Resources Ltd., Lethbridge, AB Positional Accuracy & Image Quality of Automatically Mosiacked Digitized Airborne Videography David S. Linden, Roger M Hoffer, Colorado State University Video Imager for Monitoring Forest Health Thomas J. Bobbe, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT and Richard J. Myhre, USDA Forest Service Fort Collins, CO Suitability of CASI MSS Data for Collecting Natural Resource Inventories Mark N. Law, Dave Bray, Nanette Renaud, Valerie Payne, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, Wingham, and North Bay, Ontario, and Sir Sanford Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario. Scrapping the Sketchmaster: Videos Take Off! Kevin Topolniski, Thomas G. Roussell, Fraser Inc., Edmundston, N.B. Satellite remote sensing of spruce understories in deciduous & mixedwood stands S.E. Franklin, R.H. Hall, G. Ghitter, University of Calgary, and Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB A Neural Technique for Solving Classification Problems in Remote Sensing Tomas Zdravev, Hristo Nikolov, Doyno Petkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Integrating Remotely Sensed & field data in a GIS for Mapping Salinity Status of Natural Grassland Patches Andrew Davidson & Ferenc Csillag, Geography Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON An Evaluation of Narrow-Band Multispectral Video Imagery for Natural Resource Monitoring Applications. Tom Bobbe, Paul Ishikawa, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT, and Dick Myhre, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins CO Session: Decision Support Systems in Meteorology Moderator: Barry Greer, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON A Decision Support System for Air Quality Emergency Response S. M. Daggupaty, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Weathercopy - Innovative Technology for Information Delivery J. R. Janzen, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Testing Technology to Manage the Procurement Decision Process of Meteorological Sensors Roger Van Cauwenberghe, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Designing an Integrated Climate Change Impact Assessment Framework for the Mackenzie River Basin in Canada. Yongyuan Yin, Environmental Adaptation Research Group, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Automation of Smog Advisories using Computational Intelligence Techniques Naresh K. Akkur, Peter W. Summers, and William R. Burrows, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Weather Analysis and Display System (WADS) W. Purcell, Environment Canada, Winnipeg, Man. The Use of GIS in Climate Impact Studies Linda Mortsch, Grace Koshida, Wendy Leger, and Brian Miller, Water Issues Division, Environment Canada, Burlington, ON Terrestrial Remote Sensing Automatic Weather Station Program Ken Reninger, National Interagency Fire Center, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID Session: Natural Resource Decision Support: Theory and Practice Sponsored by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations All papers in this session will be published in the journal, AI Applications in Natural Resource Management Moderator: H. Michael Rauscher, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC Decision Support for Natural Resources Management: Models, GIS and Expert Systems Kurt Fedra, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria System Design for the Northeast Decision Model: Integration of AI with Prescriptions, Simulation, and Data Management for Natural Resource Decision Support R. Peter Kollasch and Mark J. Twery, USDA Forest Service, NEFES, Morgantown, WV INFORMS-TX: Designing Software for Use in a Diverse Organization Stephen B. Williams, David J. Roschke, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, and David R. Holtfrerich, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Artificial Landscape Visualization of Ecosystem Management Plans Richard L. Church, Alan T. Murray, Michael A. Figueroa, Alan Ager, Robert J. McGaughey, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Dept. of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Assessing and Communicating Risk and Uncertainty in Decision Support Systems David A. Cleaves, Law and Economics Research, USDA Forest Service, New Orleans, LA An Aspen Forest Management Decision Support System Implemented Using a Prolog Knowledge Systems Toolkit Donald E. Nute, AI Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, H. Michael Rauscher, USDA Forest Service, SEFES, Asheville, NC, Donald A. Perala, USDA Forest Service, NCFES, Grand Rapids, MN, Guo-jun Zhu and Yousong Chang, AI Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, George M. Host, NRRI, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN Robert J. Laacke Building a Decision Support System for Ecosystem Management: KLEMS Experience Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Redding, CA Agroforestry Practices Daniel Walker, School of Agricultural & Forest Sciences, University of Wales Session: Water Resources Moderator: Bob Chang, Aquatic Ecosystems Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Toronto, ON Developing a Catchment Resource Assessment Model on a Personal Computer G. Meyer, B. Scholes, R. Beukman and K Higgins, CSIR Division of Forest Science and Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Digital Mapping of the National Rivers Inventory Peter H. Murtaugh, National Mapping Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA Extraction and Representation of Watershed Structure Including Lakes & Wetland to Support Hydrological Modelling D. S. Mackay, L.E. Band, and V.B. Robinson, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Real Time Aquatic (Water Quality and Quantity) Monitoring T. Yuzyk, K. Wiebe and R. Post, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Hull, Que. A Municipal Planning Application of AutoEAD Flood Damage Modelling and Information System John Ding, Robert Griffiths, and Ian Cameron, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, North York/Peterborough, ON, Planning Department, Corporation of Victoria, Lindsay, ON A Study of Plume Front off the Dardanelles: Modelling and Observation V.A. Ivanov, E.G. Nikolaenko, N. M. Stashchuck, and V. I. Vlasenko, Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Crimea, Ukraine Runoff Routing Using Geo-Information -- A Case of Upland Catchment in NW New Territories, Hong Kong Lilian S.C. Pun-Cheng, Department of Land Surveying and Geoinformatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong An Environmental Decision Support System for Local Wellhead Protection Steven P. Frysinger, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Session: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Moderator: Ian Ross, Natural Resources Information Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Toronto, ON Ontario's Digital Topographic Data Base - Update on Version 2 Implementation Tom Malone, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Southern Region Information Management Strategy John Houwelling, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Satellite Based Provincial Landcover Mapping Project Andrew Jano, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Automating a Large Format, Highly Complex Thematic Map Peter Wisbey, Melita Kosek, and Randy Rennick, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, North York, ON GIS Implementation in a Multi-Participant Environment: The Example of Central and Northeast Regions, MNR Colin Brethour, Central Region, and Albert Yeung, Northeast Region, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Utilizing Spatial Technologies to Support the Megisan Lake Area Environmental Assessment Dave Wray, Paul Glassford, Colin Curlew, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, and Joseph Kapron, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, ON Ontario's Natural Heritage Information Centre and System Ian Kirkham, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Access to OMNR Information Stan Mathewson, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources RESOURCE TECHNOLOGY MARKETPLACE Time: Wednesday, September 14 An important part of Decision Support - 2001 is the Resource Technology Marketplace -- an event that will enable you to explore various commercial products and services, poster exhibits, and software demonstrations. Food and refreshments will be available throughout the day in an informal atmosphere. You will find this event a great opportunity to meet the experts, discuss with your peers, and gather useful information COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION Wednesday, September 14 and Thursday, September 15 Exhibitors CADHAM HAYES SYSTEMS INC., CADIX RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ,INTERA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (CANADA) LTD ,MARSHALL MACKLIN MONAGHAN LTD., AUTODESK CANADA, LECIA CANADA INC., PCI ENTERPRISES, NORTHWAY MAP TECHNOLOGY LTD., GIS'95 SYMPOSIUM, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT OF CANADA LTD., SHL SYSTEMHOUSE, DIGIMAP DATA SERVICES, US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, CANADIAN FORESTRY EQUIPMENT LTD., CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMATICS, ESSA TECHNOLOGIES LTD., ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES, INTERGRAPH CANADA LIMITED, CANADIAN FOREST SERVICE - NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA, DENDRON RESOURCE SURVEYS LIMITED, TECHNICOM INC., FACET DECISION SYSTEMS INC, ESRI CANADA LIMITED, NASA OFFICE OF MISSION TO PLANET EARTH, GEOREF SYSTEMS LIMITED, ROBBERT ASSOCIATES, TYDAC TECHNOLOGIES INC, USDI BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, L.A.S. INC., CHINA (TAIPEI), SPECTRANALYSIS INC., Ph. D. ASSOCIATES INC., ONTARIO HYDRO ENVIRONMENT CANADA NON-COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS Time: September 14. Non-commercial software demonstrations will be given by many agencies throughout the day. Please refer to the software demonstration schedule posted in the court area. The equipment for these demonstrations are kindly provided by SUN Microsystems Ltd. and Digital Equipment Canada Ltd. POSTER SESSION Time: Wednesday, September 14 Spatial Analysis of Recent Northern Hemisphere Temperature Change using a Geographic Information System Jennifer A. Reycraft, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario Object-Oriented Database Technology for GIS Dominic Roy, Defence Research Establishment, Valcartier, Quebec, and Gilles Clement, Logiciels et Applications Scientifiques Inc., Montreal, Quebec Development of a Stratified Ecological Database for Ontario Ian E. Jarvis and K. Bruce MacDonald, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Guelph, Ontario Predicting Tree Growth and Timber Yield Steve Stearns-Smith, BC Forest Service, Victoria, BC, and Doug Williams and Melissa Hadley, Cortex Consultants Inc., Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia Environmental Indicators as a Tool for Decision-Making Anne Kerr, Janet Lamb, and Peter Rodgers, State of the Environment Reporting, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec Using World Wide Web and Object Databases for Managing and Distributing Information about Pest Management.and Biodiversity Hannu Saarenmaa, Jouni Vakeva, and Jarmo Saarikko, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland Imagery-Based Diagnosis of Forest Tree Damage -- an Object-Oriented Expert System Jouni Vakeva, Jari Perttunen, and Hannu Saarenmaa, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland Forest damage around Monchegorsk, Kola Peninsula K. Mikkola and Aulis Ritari, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi, Finland Teaching land management with a microcomputer-based model Dan Ross, Soil Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Tom Nash, Geography Department, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, and Jon Harbor, Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio The Utility of Rulebase Technology in a Decision Support System Stephen B. Williams, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado, Ron Perisho, USDA Forest Service Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and David R. Holtfrerich, Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Computer Data Visualization in Environmental Management Jeanine L. Paschke, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado An Evaluation of Narrow-Band Multispectral Video Imager for Monitoring Forest Health Thomas J. Bobbe, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, Utah and Richard J.Myhre, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado The Use of Airborne Video in Forest Pest Management Applications Richard J. Myhre, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado Relationships between Balsam Fir Spectral Reflectance, Growth Efficiency & Insect Defoliation J.E. Luther, J. Meades, and J. Hudak, Canadian Forest Service, St. John's, Newfoundland, and S.E. Franklin, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Red-Shouldered Hawk Habitat Supply Analysis a la GIS Andy Todd, Scott Christilaw, and Brian Naylor, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, North Bay, Ontario Global Positioning System Technology Helps Wildlife Managers Andy Todd and Scott Christilaw, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, North Bay, Ontario Mountain Pine Beetle Decision Support System Terry Shore, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, British Columbia Canada's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network Adam French, Environment Canada T.L. Coleman Multiple Band Digital Orthophoto Data: A Source for Generating Land Use Maps Alabama Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (ACARS) Laboratory, Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama J.R. Janzen Green Plan Warning Delivery Project Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario D. Dueck Forecaster Workstation Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario Caught in the Net: What the World Wide Web can do for Resource Managers Larissa Larsen and Brian Orland, Imaging Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IL Capturing Ecosystem Dynamics Using a Microcomputer-based Modeler Jeff Zimpfer, Safia Aggarwal and Brian Orland, Imaging Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL CLOSING PLENARY SESSION Time: Friday, September 16 EXPERT PANEL: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND USE Decision Support - 2001 is pleased to host a distinguished panel of experts representing a cross-section of government, industry, research, and public interest. The panel will present a review of the state of resources and technologies with recommendations based on their own assessments and on the deliberations of the conference. The presentations, discussions, and conclusions of this panel will be recorded and published, and are expected to provide the directions we need for decision support by the year 2001. Panel Moderator: Kenneth Copeland, Vice-Chair of Administration and CEO for Ontario Workers Compensation Board, former President and CEO of Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd. Panel Members: Jim Linders, Professor, Computer Science, University of Guelph, Ontario Nancy Tosta, Staff Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia Rose Marie Rauter, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Forest Industries Association, Toronto, Ontario Elizabeth May, President, Sierra Club of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI Ltd., Redlands, California Polly Baker, Visualization Research Scientist, NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Kurt Fedra, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria Jag Maini, Special Advisor, Sustainable Development, Canadian Forest Service, Ottawa, Ontario CONFERENCE WRAP-UP 1150-1200 Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing after the conference. All participants will receive a free copy. General Information Accommodations The Delta Chelsea Inn is the host hotel for Decision Support 2001 and is located at 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto. The Delta Chelsea is located in the hub of downtown activity, a half block away from the Yonge Street entertainment district and two blocks from the huge Eaton Centre shopping complex. Many restaurants, are located within and around the hotel providing a wide selection of fare and are easily accessible for quick lunches during the conference All conference activities will be held at the Delta Chelsea and rooms have been blocked at a special rate for conference attendees. It is very important for the conference to have attendees stay at the Delta Chelsea and specify they are attending the Decision Support-2001 conference when making their room reservations. The room night count is applied directly to reducing the costs of the conference facilities. Availability of rooms is guaranteed only until August 13, 1994 so make your reservations early. Each attendee is responsible for making their own guest room reservations and for full payment of room, tax and incidentals. Reservation instructions are different for employees of governments within Canada than for all other conference attendees so please follow the appropriate instructions given below. General Attendees The general conference rate is equivalent to the US government rate, which is $91.00 Canadian for single or double occupancy. The following information must be given to the reservations desk at the Delta Chelsea Inn in order for you to receive the conference rate: Group Name - Decision Support 2001- Q-Name - GBUSA. The Delta Chelsea Inn accepts all major credit cards. Room rate will be quoted in Canadian funds. Phone 1-800-243-5732. Attendees who are employees of governments in Canada The rates for employees of governments within Canada are equivalent to the Government of Canada rates, which are $79.00 single and $.94.00 double occupancy. The following information must be given to the reservations desk at the Delta Chelsea Inn in order to receive the conference rate: Group Name - Decision Support 2001 Q-Name - GBCDN. The Delta Chelsea Inn accepts all major credit cards. Phone (416)595- 1975 or 1-800-243-5732. Transportation The Toronto Pearson International Airport is served by many major airlines with direct access from major cities in North America, Europe and Asia. The airport is approximately 45 minutes from the Delta Chelsea Inn. Ground transportation is available from the Pacific Western Shuttle Airporter and is $11.00 Canadian per adult one way. All international participants are reminded to obtain proper travel documents such as passports and visas. US citizens are not required to have passports or visas but must provide appropriate evidence of citizenship. Check with your travel agent or Canadian consulate for specifics. Tours A series of tours, excursions and theatre packages are available for interested delegates. Tours include the City of Toronto, Niagara Falls, and the Rotterdam brewery. Theatre shows are Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, and Showboat. A block of tickets has been reserved for the Toronto Blue Jays/New York Yankees baseball game, Thursday evening, September 15. Please reserve your tickets in advance by contacting Base Services to make and confirm your bookings. Tel:(416)494-1440 Fax: (416)495-8723 Program Changes and Liability The Organizers reserve the right to change the program if necessary. The Organizers decline all responsibility for any personal injury or any damage to or loss of property which may occur in connection with Decision Support 2001 or its related events. Cancellation Policy A full refund will be given for written cancellations received by Decision Support 2001/Base Services before July 12, 1994. A $100.00 CDN administration fee will be applied to all written cancellation requests received by Decision Support 2001/Base Services between July 12 and August 12, 1994. No refunds will be given for cancellation requests received after August 12, 1994. Confirmation Confirmation/receipt forms will be mailed to participants who register before September 1, 1994. All participants registering after that time will receive a confirmation/receipt at the conference site. REGISTRATION In order to register, please contact Decision Support - 2001 c/o Base Services Canada Inc., 250 Consumers Road, Suite 301, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada M2J 4V6;Tel(416)494-1440, Fax (416)495- 8723. They will send you the proper forms to fill out. Registrations will not be accepted by email. Registrations can be FAXed on the proper forms but will not be considered as paid until an original form with payment is received. Do not send any registrations to any other location but Base Services Canada. Direct all queries on registration to Base Services Canada. REGISTRATION CATEGORIES, FEES AND DEADLINES (Prices are in Canadian Dollars) Payments Received by July 1 Full Conference Registration $200.00,Conference single day attendance $100.00, Monday per workshop attendance $100.00(must also be fully registered with the conference), Student $100.00, Spouse/Companion $40.00, Extra Marketplace Ticket $40.00 Payment Received by Sept 1 Full Conference Registration $275.00, Conference single day attendance $125.00, Monday per workshop attendance $125.00 (must also be fully registered with the conference), Student $125.00, Spouse/Companion $50.00, Extra Marketplace Ticket $50.00 Payment Received after Sept 1 Full Conference Registration $350.00, Conference single day attendance $150.00, Monday per workshop attendance $150.00 (must also be full registered with the conference), Student $150.00, Spouse/Companion $60.00, Extra Marketplace Ticket $60.00 All fees must be in Canadian funds and payable to Decision Support 2001. ************************************************************************ This program is also available on GOPHER. 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