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Files in directory /pub/sdts/article/ascii

FILE NAME       DATE           DESCRIPTION

README         01/97     Directory information file 

approved.doc   08/92     Technical Announcement: "Spatial Data Transfer Is
                            Approved"

conftest.doc   11/93     Paper: "Conformance Testing For The Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard", written by Robert Lazar

design.doc     12/92     Article: "Design of a Spatial Data Transfer Processor"
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, 
                            written by Phyllis Altheide (Reproduced from 
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)

dlgsdts.doc    12/92     Article: "Conversion of a U.S. Geological Survey DLG-3
                            Data Set to the SDTS Topological Vector Profile"   
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, 
                            written by Michael G. Williams (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)

encode.doc     12/92     Article: "An Implementation Strategy for SDTS Encoding"
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping,
                             written by Phyllis Altheide (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)

library.doc    05/92     Article: "SDTS Support Software: The FIPS 123 Function
                            Library" from American Congress on Surveying and
                            Mapping, written by Robert Lazar (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)  

local.doc      12/92     Article: "Opportunities for Use of the Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard at the State and Local Level"
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping,
                            written by Harold Moellering (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)

manage.doc     12/92     Article: "The Spatial Data Transfer Standard (FIPS123):
                            A Management Perspective" from American Congress on
                            Surveying and Mapping, written by Kathryn Neff 
                            (Reproduced from Cartography and Geographic 
                            Information Systems)

modules.doc    09/93     SDTS Module Types list

objcodes.doc   08/93     Modules and Object Representations

overview.doc   12/92     Article: "An Overview of FIPS 173, The Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard" from American Congress on 
                            Surveying and Mapping, written by Robin Fegeas, 
                            Janette L. Cascio, and Robert Lazar (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)    

pathesis-txt.tar.gz      Thesis: An Object-Oriented Approach to Data 
                            Exchange Applications: Development of a Class
                            Library for the SDTS, Dec 1992, by Phyllis
                            Altheide, University of Missouri-Rolla.

profiles_93.doc 11/93    Paper: "Profile Developement for the Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard", written by John A. Szemraj and
                            Billy R. Tolar 

profiles_97.txt 09/97    Paper: "SDTS Profiles", written by Charles Hickman and                             presented at the FGDC SDTS Workshop, Sept. 1997.

quality.doc    08/93     Spatial Data Quality

raster.doc     12/92     Article: "Developing a Raster Profile for the Spatial 
                            Data Transfer Standard" from American Congress on 
                            Surveying and Mapping, written by David D. Greenlee
                            (Reproduced from Cartography and Geographic 
                            Information Systems)

register.doc   11/93     Paper: "A Spatial Features Register: Toward Standardi-
                            zation of Spatial Features" written by Janette 
                            Casico
sdts_tutorial.wpd  03/99  Manual: Retrieving and Unpacking SDTS Data,
                            Tutorial and Users manual, Applies to USGS Data.

spobject.doc   08/93     Spatial Objects (Defined in SDTS Part 1, Section 2.3)

table41.doc    08/93     Table 41 Representation module type and object 
                            representations

thesis.txt     12/92     III. THE SPATIAL DATA TRANSFER STANDARD [Excerpt from 
                            An Object-Oriented Approach to Data Exchange
                            Applications: Development of a Class  Library for
                            the Spatial Data Transfer Standard. A masters 
                            thesis done by Phyllis Altheide, University of 
                            Missouri at Rolla, in Dec 1992. Full text
                            available at ftp sdts.er.usgs.gov, directory 
                            pub/sdts/thesis.]

tiger1.doc     12/92     Article: "TIGER/SDTS: Standardizing an Innovation" from
                            American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, written
                            by Beverly A. Davis, Jack R. George, and Robert W.
                            Marx (Reproduced from Cartography and Geographic
                            Information Systems)

tiger2.doc     12/92     Article: "TIGER/SDTS Topology" from American Congress 
                            on Surveying and Mapping, written by John A.
                            Szemraj (Reproduced from Cartography and 
                            Geographic Information Systems)

translators.txt 03/99     Translating SDTS data to other formats

tvppaper.doc  12/92      Article: "The SDTS Topological Vector Profile" from 
                            American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, written
                            by Robert Lazar (Reproduced from Cartography and
                            Geographic Information Systems)