AN EVALUATION OF SAS/GRAPH SOFTWARE FOR COMPUTER CARTOGRAPHY1

The SAS® computer software system, widely used and respected for its capabilities in statistical analysis and data base management, now includes a new set of graphic and cartographic procedures called SAS GRAPH?. We have used these cartographic procedures in research on mapping ethno-cultural census data from metropolitan areas in Ontario and in undergraduate and graduate courses in computer cartography. On the basis of that experience, we describe and evaluate SAS/GRAPH'S cartographic capabilities and illustrate with maps drawn by various devices.     

等高线自动绘制中断层处理的新方法

提出了一种断层处理新方法——分块法与断层恢复法合成算法，这种方法兼有分块法与断层恢复法的优点同时又克服了其不足，较好地解决了含逆断层时煤层底板等高线自动绘制及任意边界的构网问题，使绘出的等值线图误差较小，更加符合实际。     

制图综合中移位算法概述分析

本文首先对移位算法的发展史进行简要介绍,然后,在其基础上,根据各移位算法的思想特征,对各移位算法进行归纳,将其划分为七类,并对每一类算法的核心思想进行详细论述,最后,对各类移位算法进行评价,分析其优缺点,总结各类算法中的可借鉴思想,为更好地实现移位奠定基础。     

分形学:现代地图学的非线性数学分析方法

分析了地图学的传统数学分析方法，讨论了对象复杂性与方法简单化的矛盾，阐述了分形几何学，为现代地图学研究的定量化、系统化提供了新的数学分析方法。     

Internet teaching foundation for the Remote Sensing Core Curriculum program

The Remote Sensing Core Curriculum (RSCC) was initiated in 1993 to meet the demands for a college-level set of resources to enhance the quality of education across national and international campuses. The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing adopted the RSCC in 1996 to sustain support of this educational initiative for its membership and collegiate community. A series of volumes, containing lectures, exercises, and data, is being created by expert contributors to address the different technical fields of remote sensing. The RSCC program is designed to operate on the Internet taking full advantage of the World Wide Web (WWW) technology for distance learning. The issues of curriculum development related to the educational setting, with demands on faculty, students, and facilities, is considered to understand the new paradigms for WW-influenced computer-aided learning. The WWW is shown to be especially appropriate for facilitating remote sensing education with requirements for addressing image data sets and multimedia learning tools. The RSCC is located at http://www.umbc.edu/rscc     

Integrating Environmental Education Into Business Schools' Educational Plans in Finland

Environmental education in business school context has a significant effect on the way companies view environmental problems. Business schools train the future decision makers who can, with their own attitudes and practical actions, influence the contribution of business to the process of ecologically sustainable development. However, several studies show that no systematic thinking has been undertaken within business education as to what the educational prerequisites of the process of ecologically sustainable development are. In this article, I will firstly analyze by means of environmental education how business polytechnics in Finland have taken into consideration ecologically sustainable development. Secondly, I will raise the starting points for the development of the implementation of environmental education as part of the business schools▪ educational plans. Integrating environmental education into the vocational courses is identified as being one of the most effective ways of increasing the effectiveness of environmental education. Thirdly, the emphasis is on identification of barriers of integrating environmental education into the educational plans of business polytechnics. Theoretically, the article is attached to the objectives and learning concepts of environmental education and to educational planning theory in general. The empirical data are based on interviews I conducted 1999–2000 in all Finnish polytechnics offering business education. My article increases theoretical and practical understanding of how environmental education should be implemented in business education and how the current situation could be developed. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Traces of the secondary Geography curriculum

Abstract: Expressions of dissatisfaction about the post‐compulsory Geography curriculum in the early 1970s were unusually concerted, leading to the creation of a National Geography Curriculum Committee. This essay reviews this history and the resulting Syllabus for Schools: Geography Forms 5–7 as a prelude to a discussion of contemporary curriculum development. The essay argues that curriculum development from 1975 and the ‘education reforms’ of the late 1980s failed to produce conditions in which satisfactory outcomes for a Geography curriculum can be assured in 2005, and that a new and concerted period of participation in curriculum discussion is required. Some goals for this process are outlined in the final section of the paper.     

以测绘职业技能竞赛为导向的课程改革实践探索——以工程测量技术专业课程改革为例

通过近年来测绘职业技能大赛的举办,测绘职业技能竞赛对课程改革的导向功能逐渐显现。本文以工程测量技术专业课程改革为例,重点探讨了测绘职业技能竞赛在课程改革方面发挥的导向作用,展示了我院工程测量专业在课程改革中初步取得的成效。     

现代专题地图制图研究进展与趋势分析

针对专题地图制作相关研究不足的问题,该文通过归纳总结专题地图理论与应用、网络共享等方面的研究进展,从功能转变、模式转变和内涵冲击三方面分析专题地图研究趋势,并探讨现有制图理论技术存在的不足之处。文章认为:研究专题地图符号的内在结构及统一构建方式,在符号学和微观语言学的理论框架下建立专题符号句法模式,注重对专题地图符号模型的整体描述,并通过相应制图模型的研究来优化制图过程,发掘和创新制图理论成果,将会促进专题地图理论的完善,深化专题符号的自适应表达。     

《地图学》多元教学方法改革与实践

针对测绘工程专业传统的《地图学》课程教学中存在的只注重理论教学、教材内容陈旧、缺乏贴近学生实际和当前测绘科技发展的问题,该文提出《地图学》的多元教学方法,即将教书育人理念融入课堂教学、现代教学手段融入传统课堂及书本理论教学融入实践体验的教学方法。