scholarly journals An Introduction to the HLanData Project: a Step Forward in the Harmonization of Spatial Information Throughout Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Sarmite Barvika ◽  
Liga Jankava
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Waste Dumps ◽  
Geographic Data ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Data Analysis System

Nowadays spatial information is becoming more and more accessible for various purposes due to local, national and European initiatives. This paper is addressed to one such initiative Hlandata, whose purpose is to make a significant step forward in the harmonization and use of land cover (LC) and land use (LU) geographic data and its related data bases over Europe. The project was developed using the best experiences from previous geographic data harmonization activities with the goal of demonstrating the feasibility of European level harmonization of land information related datasets. The three pilot projects “LU-LC Data Analysis System for intermediatelevel users”, “Harmonized and Interoperable Land Information Systems” and “Stratification of Waste Dumps” were developed and tested within the project and demonstrated advantages from user oriented value-added services emphasizing data search, exploration and analysis.

scholarly journals AUTOMATIC CAL/VAL METHODS LOWERING PRODUCTION EFFORT OF UPDATING LARGE CORE SPATIAL DATA

2020 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W10 ◽  
pp. 167-171
Author(s):  
A. Peled
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Vector Information

Abstract. There are basically two levels of calibrations and validation of digitally acquired spectral and other information via sensors carried on space-borne or airborne platforms. The basic level is carried out by the data producers executed by comparison made of results taken over test fields for example. The second level, more a part of a supervised classification effort are carried by the data users and value added spatial information users or providers to edge users. The latter is quite typical for supervised classification protocols. This is either for establishing libraries of spectral signatures for each relevant class-type or for ad-hoc classification where no previous information or specific knowledge wee kept. Such methods indicate and support even strongly the need of the basic Cal/Val step of the sensors made by the original data providers. The paper is reviewing the method of database-driven concept that allows for automatic recognition of detected features within the digital spatial 2-D (yet) realm to its identification within the digital 2.5D spatial vector information within existing large Big-data national core spatial data bases to be updated. These Large data bases are Big enough to operate the resourceful Munchhausen method of self-pulling information out of the huge abandon of data resources.

scholarly journals Energy Atlas—mapping energy-related data for DoD lands in Alaska : Phase 1—assembling the data and designing the tool

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Callaghan ◽  
Matthew Bigl ◽  
Brandon Booker ◽  
Kyle Elliott ◽  
Paulina Lintsai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Land User ◽  
The Face ◽  
Resource Data ◽  
Effective Visualization

The U.S. Army is the largest Department of Defense (DoD) land user in Alaska, including remote areas only accessible by air, water, or wintertime ice roads. Understanding where energy resources and related infrastructure exist on and adjacent to DoD installations and training lands can help in-form Army decision-makers, especially in remote locations like Alaska. The Energy Atlas–Alaska provides a value-added resource to support decision-making for investments in infrastructure and diligent energy management, helping Army installations become more resilient and sustainable. The Energy Atlas–Alaska utilizes spatial information and provides a consistent GIS (geographic information system) framework to access and examine energy and related resource data such as energy resource potential, energy corridors, and environmental information. The database can be made accessible to DoD and its partners through an ArcGIS-based user interface that provides effective visualization and functionality to support analysis and to inform DoD decision-makers. The Energy Atlas–Alaska helps DoD account for energy in contingency planning, acquisition, and life-cycle requirements and ensures facilities can maintain operations in the face of disruption.

Developmental Measurement of Mental Attention

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pascual-Leone ◽  
Raymond Baillargeon
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class ◽  
Latent Class Models ◽  
Categorical Data Analysis ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Mental Demand ◽  
Mental Attention ◽  
Constructivist Model ◽  
Discrete Manner ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Data Analysis System

A dialectical constructivist model of mental attention ("effort") and of working memory is briefly presented, and used to explicate subjects' processing in misleading test items. We illustrate with task analyses of the Figural Intersections Test (FIT). We semantically derive a set of 10 Theoretical Structural Predictions (TSP) that stipulate relations between mental attentional resources (mental-power: Mp) and the systematically varied mental demand of items (mental-demand: Md), as they jointly codetermine probable performance (conditional probabilities of passing and failing). These predictions are evaluated on first approximation using a known family of ordered Latent Class models, all probabilistic versions of Guttman's unidimensional scale. Parameters of these models were estimated using the Categorical Data Analysis System of Eliason (1990). Main results are: (1) Data fit Lazarsfeld's latent-distance model, providing initial support for our 10 predictions; (2) The M-power of children (latent Mp-classes) when assessed behaviourally may increase with age in a discrete manner, and have the potential to generate interval scales of measurement; (3) In the light of our results what statisticians often consider "error of measurement" appears (in part) to be signal, not noise: The organismic signal of misleading (Y-) processes that in their dialectical (trade-off) interaction with success-producing (X-) processes generate performance.

scholarly journals Overcoming the capital investment hurdle in worker-controlled firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Guy Major ◽  
Jonathan Preminger
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Employee Ownership ◽  
Workplace Democracy ◽  
Equity Investment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Worker Ownership ◽  
Significant Step ◽  
Average Worker

Purpose Both the academic literature and practitioners have long noted the need for an equity investment mechanism for worker-controlled firms that alleviates investor anxieties without undermining internal workplace democracy. The purpose of this paper is to outline one such possible mechanism. Design/methodology/approach The proposal locks together the interests of workers and external investors, via non-voting shares with dividends set by a pre-agreed value-added sharing formula. Each worker is paid a base wage, with the average across the firm being a pre-defined multiple of the national minimum wage. Any additional surplus is split into a number of equal “slices”, with each share receiving one slice as its dividend, and the average worker receiving a pre-agreed number of slices as a bonus. Findings Workers have an incentive to maximise their own incomes, and in so doing, will also automatically maximise the dividends received by investors, obviating the need for the shares to have normal voting rights. Working on this principle of aligned interests, the authors also discuss reinvestment, worker ownership of non-voting shares and possibilities for a secondary share market. The authors show how this proposal will be a significant step in aligning the interests of investors with owner-workers in a democratic, negotiated way that shares both risk and returns, thus making worker-controlled firms more attractive to equity investment. Originality/value In light of the recognised problem of underinvestment in worker-controlled firms and the risk of their degeneration, this paper will interest both academics and practitioners in employee ownership, co-operatives and various forms of workplace democracy.

Integrated diagnostic and data analysis system of the C-2W advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration plasma experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (10) ◽  
pp. 10K114 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Thompson ◽  
T. M. Schindler ◽  
R. Mendoza ◽  
H. Gota ◽  
S. Putvinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Field Reversed Configuration ◽  
Plasma Experiment ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Data Analysis System
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