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Mapping Our Changing World

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Chapter 9 old: Geoanalytics: From Data to Answers (LLRW)

1. Overview
2. Checklist
3. Context
4. Low Level Radioactive Waste
5. Siting LLRW Storage Facilities
6. Map Overlay Concept
7. Pennsylvania Case Study
8. Vector Approach
9. Stage One: Statewide Screening
10. Stage Two: Regional Screening
11. Stage Three: Local Disqualification
12. Buffering
13. New York Case Study
14. Outcomes
15. Conclusion
16. Bibliography

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GEOG 160: Mapping Our Changing World

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Chapter 1: Location is Where It’s At: Introduction to GIScience and Technology
Chapter 2: Shrinking and Flattening the Globe: Scale, Projections, and Datums
Chapter 3: Can I Map That? Maps to Depict Anything in Our World
Chapter 4: Encoding Our World: Geographic Data Representation
Chapter 5: How We Know Where We Are: Land Surveying, GPS, and Technology
Chapter 6: Can We Get There From Here? Applications of Topology, TIGER, and Geocoding
Chapter 7: Remote Sensing: Imaging Our World
Chapter 8: Representing Surfaces
Chapter 9: Geo-Analytics: From Data to Answers

Joshua Stevens, Jennifer M. Smith, and Raechel A. Bianchetti (2012), Mapping Our Changing World, Editors: Alan M. MacEachren and Donna J. Peuquet, University Park, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University.

Adapted from DiBiase, David, The Nature of Geographic Information (http://natureofgeoinfo.org(link is external)), with contributions by Jim Sloan and Ryan Baxter, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.

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