GIS Project Management

Resilient Project Management, A New Approache to Develop Project Management Knowledge (Case Study: Infrastructure Civil Projects Management)

Accepetance of the fact that the working context of civil projects is challenging can enhance the resiliency capacity and will increase the project management concentration for improving and developing the software and hardware capabilities to facilitate project success achievement. This article is documented based on a research results in macro-hydropower plants projects management context to ...

Gis and Uncertainty Management

The contribution deals with issues that are very closely connected: Web services model, Dynamic GIS and the problem of uncertainty of spatial data and discusses the possibilities of the context use as a reflection of the system of understanding. The problem of the relation to the decision support system is addressed and GIS as a tool dealing with all phases of knowledge structure. GIS Web servi...

Making a GIS Intelligent: CommonGIS Project View

The project CommonGIS [1] started in October 1998 with the goal to develop an intelligent system supporting end users in visual analysis of thematic data in a geographic context. The primary focus of the project is automated visualization of spatially referenced data. The partners in the project are 3 research institutes (GMD, IGD, and JRC), 2 commercial software providers (PGS and Dialogis), n...

Project 3 — A GIS system 1 Introduction

GIS in emergency management

Hoetmer defines emergency management as the discipline and profession of applying science, technology, planning, and management to deal with extreme events that can injure or kill large numbers of people, do extensive damage to property, and disrupt community life (Drabek and Hoetmer 1991). Recently, there has been increased interest in mitigating the effects of these extreme events, and this i...