Yearly Archives: 2001

Issues in visualization of risk and vulnerability

Visualization technology has emerged as a form of exploratory cartography, which can help explain, analyze and communicate risk.

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MFworks Tutorial

This tutorial, developed in 2002, is a showcase on network analysis in MFworks, with step by step instructions and a summary of the theory behind it.

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Corridor Analysis – A timeline of evolutionary development

corridor-modellingLocating a right-of-way for a linear facility such as a pipeline, a transmission line, a railway or a roadway can be a complex problem. Locating a corridor connecting an origin and a destination on a landscape is analogous to identifying a route that traverses a continuous landscape. Thus, corridor analysis is closely linked to shortest-path finding and network analysis in raster GIS, and has evolved along with it. Corridor analysis is essentially a variant of surface analysis, but can also be viewed as a site selection problem where an optimal contiguous and elongated site is sought.

My PhD?

On a sidenote, I should mention that since this post was first published,

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The use of air photos in emergency management

Air photos can capture a lot more information than field surveys can, and can assist in a number of situations. Air photos are a tool which should not be left out in any form of emergency management.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risks and supply chains... stochastically speaking2
A word of warning: This is not your typical journal article on supply chain risk. Risks and supply c[...]
Drivers of supply chain vulnerability
In 2005, the topic of supply chain vulnerability was still a relatively unexplored territory, though[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Procurement Risk
"Do yo like living dangerously? Then you should read this book. It exposes you to over seventy types[...]
Book Review: Reputation Risk
Reputation. Not only is it practically impossible to measure, its value is also frequently underesti[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Analysing road vulnerability in Norway
How does the Norwegian Public Roads Administration NRPA assess the vulnerability of the Norwegian ro[...]
A risky business? The top 10 challenges of offshoring
Organisations embarking on offshoring face multiple challenges; many of which can be extremely daunt[...]
from HERE and THERE
Piracy at sea - is your supply chain at risk?
You may not consider it the foremost supply chain risk, but piracy can endanger civilians, can disru[...]
Norwegian roads are slooooow...
In a previous post, a while I ago, I stated that Nowegian roads are dangerous...well, not only that,[...]