CONTENTS 
Foreword iii 
The Practical Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS 
D. J. Cowen 1 
GIS Standards—What Should They Standardize? 
W. Kuhn 17 
A Design for an Integrated Geographic Information System 
M. Gahegan 18 
Improving Ground Truthing for Integrating Remotely Sensed Data and GIS 
Q. Zhou and P. Piles]о 30 
Landscape Structure: A Means to Integrate Socio-Economic and Ecological Data for 
Environmental Planning and Management 
A. Lucas 39 
An Object-Oriented Approach for Handling U.S. Defense Mapping Agency Vector 
Product Format Databases 
M.J. Chung, M.A. Cobb, K.B. Shaw, and D.K. Arctur 40 
Integrating GIS Information and Remotely Sensed Data for Producing European 
Forest and Land Cover Data Sets 
C.G. Hoffmann and D.P. Roy 49 
Design of Federated Databases for Multi-Level Decision Making in Watershed 
Management 
Y.A. Bishr, M.M. Radwan 60 
Structure of Metadata in GIS 
E. -M. Forster, R. Hang, A. Muller, and R. Lenz 69 
Integration of a Process Based Model of Saltmarsh Development with Remotely 
Sensed Data in an Environmental GIS 
R. Wadsworth and R. Pakeman 77 
A Modular Approach to Integrated Environmental Modeling Systems Incorporating 
GIS and Visualization Functionality 
J. Deckmyn, C. Paniconi, A. Giacomelli, and S. Kleinfeldt. 
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