Urban drainage control applying rational method and geographic information technologies

Urban landscape and quality of urban environment by means of geographic information system

Quality of urban environment as a subset of quality of life now represents the search for happiness and personal satisfaction in urban environment and is a broad concept which is concerned with the overall well-being in urban environment. The purpose of this study was to investigating the quality of urban environment according to the 5 urban landscape indicators; Land use, Green space, Populati...

Implementing Geographic Information Technologies Ethically

Spatial technologies are changing relations among citizens, between citizens and businesses, and between citizens and their governments. Profound implications regarding our relationships with each other are being raised by the expanding use of mobile, spatial, and context-aware technologies, the building of interoperable coordinated spatial data infrastructures and pervasive sensor-networks, th...

Applying Geo-feedback to Geographic Information Retrieval

In this paper we identify location names that appear in queries written in Indonesian using geographic gazetteer. We built the gazetteer by collecting geographic information from a number of geographic resources. We translated an Indonesian query set into English using a machine translation technique. We also made an attempt to improve the retrieval effectiveness using a query expansion techniq...

Volunteered geographic information, urban forests, & environmental justice

Applications and researches of geographic information system technologies in bibliometrics

Although the research and application of a geographic information system (GIS) in bibliometrics remains in its initial stage, several valuable attempts have been made in recent years. This paper provides our overview regarding this area. We first reviewed the spatial information mining derived from literature, including structured and unstructured data. The spatial display and the basic spatial...