Sound, Ink, Bytes: Geographical Information through the Centuries

The University of Halle through the centuries.

Improving Manet Routing Protocols through the Use of Geographical Information

This paper provides a summary of our research study of the location-aided routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). This study focuses on the issue of using geographical location information to reduce the control traffic overhead associated with the route discovery process of the ad-hoc on demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol. AODV performs route discovery by flooding the ...

The horse through fifty centuries of civilization

ANTHONY DENT (editor), The horse through fifty centuries of civilization, London, Phaidon Press, 1974, 4to, pp. 288, illus., £8.95. For more than five thousand years until about sixty years ago, the history of the horse was the history of man. Although the dog has been man's best animal friend, the horse has been much more a part of his civilization than any other of his domesticated animals. A...

Sharing Landscape Information through an Online Geographical Visualisation Portal

The access to, and visualisation of, landscape information through online websites can effectively support natural resource management and decision making. Online repositories of information are a useful resource for community members and researchers to enhance their understanding of agricultural and natural landscapes past, present and future. In this paper we report on the development of an o...

Geographical Domain and Geographical Information Systems

In the eld of geography, we have beenexamining the contribution of the morpho-genetic rep-resentation to the comprehension of the cycle: reality,representation, model, reality. A distinction is madebetween map and geomap based on the notion of locus-object. 1. Foundations and limits of cartographic rep-