Geographic Information Systems Technology For Business Applications

Collaborative Geographic Information Systems for Business Intelligence

This paper shows a number of sceneries where information (specifically, geographical-related information) is lost because there is no method for storing or sharing it. This research has been done with the aim to solve those scenery problems in a general way, by means of a geographical information system that can store geographical-related information and publish it in order to avoid loss of inf...

Water Resource Applications of Geographic Information Systems

Use of Information Technology for Community Empowerment: Transforming Geographic Information Systems into Community Information Systems

GIS has emerged as an elitist, anti-democratic technology by virtue of its technological complexity and cost. The question of democratizing this technology has been addressed in the GIS and Society literature. This paper addresses the thorny issue of uneven access to GIS and the associated social power it confers. Following the principle that effective access to information leads to better gove...

Geographic information systems as a marketing information system technology

Marketing information systems (MKIS) are decision support systems targeted at marketing-specific decisions. One of the most widely disseminated MKIS models divides the marketing decision universe into four domains and links these domains to each other and to other marketing activities. Unfortunately, there is little guidance on the construction of specific MKIS targeted at problems in these dom...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Livestock Science: applications