GEOLIS: a logical information system for geographical data

GEOLIS: a logical information system for geographical data

Today, the thematic layer is still the prevailling structure in geomatics for handling geographical information. However, the layer model is rigid: it implies partitionning geographical data in predefined categories and using the same description schema for all elements of a layer. Recently, Logical Information Systems (LIS) introduced a new paradigm for information management and retrieval. Us...

Designing a logical data model of athletes' hospital information management system based on international standards

Background and purpose: Today, hospital care, relying on the health record system, has received more attention than before. Considering the diversity of data in these systems, the design of standard conceptual and logical models by service providers will play an important role in their success. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of designing a logical data model of the hospital...

A Geographical Information System for Humanitarian Demining

A review of some Geographical Information Systems dedicated to humanitarian demining is presented together with PARADIS, a Prototype for Assisting Rational Activities in Demining using Images from Satellites, designed for the Mine Clearance Service of the Belgian Army.

A Web-Geographical Information System to Support Territorial Data Integration

Geographical Information System Shell and Geographical Information Query Tool

 This paper discusses traditional development models of GIS and proposes another model, geographical information system shell(GISS). Following the thought of GISS, a geographic information query tool(GIQT) is developed. GIQT's main purpose and menu structure are introduced, as well as the classification and encoding. This paper especially describes the implementation of "two-direction multi-fu...