Geospatial technology in environmental health applications

Leveraging Visualization Technology in Geospatial Applications

As visualization software technology combined with geospatial components increases in the utility, telecommunications and related industries, applications are providing insight necessary to improving the optimization of network performance, capacity planning and utility asset management. By leveraging advanced visualization technology, complex data is transformed into useful and interactive inf...

Measuring similarity between geospatial lifelines in studies of environmental health

Many epidemiological studies involve analysis of clusters of diseases to infer locations of environmental hazards that could be responsible for the disease. This approach is however only suitable for sedentary populations or diseases with small latency periods. For migratory populations and diseases with long latency periods, people may change their residential location between time of exposure...

Service-oriented applications for environmental models: Reusable geospatial services

Environmental modelling often requires a long iterative process of sourcing, reformatting, analyzing, and introducing various types of data into the model. Much of the data to be analyzed are geospatial data — digital terrain models (DTM), river basin boundaries, snow cover from satellite imagery, etc.— and so the modelling workflow typically involves the use of multiple desktop GIS and remote ...

Microarray Technology and Applications in Environmental Microbiology

Environmental sensitivity of flash flood hazard using geospatial techniques

Flash flood has been increasing in the Khartoum area, Sudan due to geographical conditions and climatic change as heavy rainfall and high temperature, therefore the present work tried to estimate the sensitivity of flash flood. The present work proposes an advanced technique of flood sensitivity mapping using the method of analytical hierarchy process. Ten factors as elevation, slope, distance ...