Tag Archives: analysis
Engagement At MIT Colab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has undertaken a very interesting initiative called Colab. The intention is to engage interested individual people from all over the world in thinking of ideas for ameliorating the effects of climate change. Currently there are 25 … Continue reading
Core Data Considerations.
1. TABLE CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS. If, as I have suggested, we set the size of our basic land units (BLUs) at about 1 sq. km., we will require about 8 million records. The actual size of Australia is about 7,700,000 sq. … Continue reading
Some Database Considerations.
1. INTRODUCTION. I designed my first database in the late 1960s. In those days, they were known as hierarchical databases consisting of a number of separate files. There was no metadata (an IT buzzword meaning “data about data”) providing any … Continue reading
Project Summary 1.
First of all, I will remind you that the main objective of this exercise is to create a terrain model which can be used to estimate the true sustainable population-carrying capacity of the Australian continent at varying standards of living, … Continue reading
Land Usage Mapping.
1. CREATING LAND USE PROFILES. If we are going to produce a map showing all of the potential land usages in a given area, we must first create, for each type of land use, a set of parameters, such as … Continue reading
The re-engineering of Australia. 