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- The Bay Area Shared Information Consortium (BASIC) is a California
Incorporated 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization located in San
Jose, California, USA, serving the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey
Bay Region of California, USA.
The BASIC is a NASA Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP) Type
III. The primary focus for the BASIC is applied Earth science and area
and regional geographic data distribution. BASIC provides geographic
information to users of the World Wide Web through our BASIC On-line
Service (BOLS), "http://www.basic.org".
DATA SETS:
BASIC Data Sets Coverage: San Francisco Bay Area & Monterey Bay
Region, CA, USA BASIC Data Set Temporal Coverage (approximate):
1981-2001
These data sets are available for preview via the BADGER Map Browser
on BASIC's web site, "http://www.basic.org":
* BADGER USGS Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrants (DOQQ), San
Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
* BADGER Wildflower TOPO! Topographic Maps, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
* BADGER USGS DEMs, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
* BADGER USGS DLGs, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
* BADGER NOAA GCPs, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
Note: BADGER refers to the Bay Area Digital Geo Resource Project which
ended August 1997. The BADGER data sets are also available online (in
limited data formats) at: "http://badger.parl.com/". The BASIC can
provide the data in additional formats & offline media (CD, DAT, ZIP).
A descriptive reference of these data sets is available under the
Geodata Product listing on BASIC's web site:
"http://www.basic.org/products.html"
* Cupertino/CA High Resolution, High Resolution Aerial Orthophotos,
* Cupertino, CA, USA San Jose/CA High Accuracy, High Accuracy DEM &
* Orthophotos, San Jose, CA, USA
Special restrictions may apply to BASIC?s satellite data, please
inquire, email: geodata@basic.org, regarding:
* Landsat 7 SF/CA, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
* IKONOS SF/CA,San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
Custom GPS Data Sets (BASIC can create custom GPS data sets within the
SF Bay Area, CA, USA): * Shoreline Trails MV/CA, GPS of trails at
Shoreline Park, Mountain View, CA, USA
SERVICES (GIS, GPS, Education, Applied Earth science):
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > Data Analysis And Visualization
* Calibration/Validation
* Geographic Information Systems
* Global Position Systems
* Statistical Applications
* Visualization/Image Processing
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > Data Handling
* Archiving
* Cataloging
* Data Search And Retrieval
* Interoperability > Reformatting
* Media Transfer
* Subsetting/Supersetting
* Transformation/Conversion
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > Education/outreach -- (see GISTEP,
"http://www.basic.org/body_gistep.html")
* Curriculum Support > Background Information
* Interactive Programs > Web-based
CONTACT INFO:
To contact the Bay Area Shared Information Consortium (BASIC):
Mailing Address: 650 N. Winchester Blvd., Suite #4, San Jose, CA 95128 USA
Phone: (408) 345-1570
Fax: (408) 345-1571
Web site:"http:// www.basic.org"
Email: geodata@basic.org
Note: BASIC's individual DIFs (for data sets) & SERFs (for services)
are in progress.
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| Abstract from DBPedia | BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers. At the time, nearly all computers required writing custom software, which only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn. In addition to the program language, Kemeny and Kurtz developed the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS), which allowed multiple users to edit and run BASIC programs simultaneously on remote terminals. This general model became very popular on minicomputer systems like the PDP-11 and Data General Nova in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hewlett-Packard produced an entire computer line for this method of operation, introducing the HP2000 series in the late 1960s and continuing sales into the 1980s. Many early video games trace their history to one of these versions of BASIC. The emergence of microcomputers in the mid-1970s led to the development of multiple BASIC dialects, including Microsoft BASIC in 1975. Due to the tiny main memory available on these machines, often 4 KB, a variety of Tiny BASIC dialects were also created. BASIC was available for almost any system of the era, and became the de facto programming language for home computer systems that emerged in the late 1970s. These PCs almost always had a BASIC interpreter installed by default, often in the machine's firmware or sometimes on a ROM cartridge. BASIC declined in popularity in the 1990s, as more powerful microcomputers came to market and programming languages with advanced features (such as Pascal and C) became tenable on such computers. In 1991, Microsoft released Visual Basic, combining an updated version of BASIC with a visual forms builder. This reignited use of the language and "VB" remains a major programming language in the forms of VBA and VB.NET.BASIC（ベーシック）は手続き型プログラミング言語のひとつ。 名前は「beginners' all-purpose symbolic instruction code」（「初心者向け汎用記号命令コード」を意味する）のバクロニムである。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/BASIC) |
