The main objective of integrating Web GIS in airport emergency response should be to provide the most appropriate geospatial information to all participants. Airport emergency response still needs a model that will explain its complexity: its participants, their tasks and information needs. This paper presents the UML model of airport emergency response. Such a model facilitates a common unders...

The development and testing of a Web-based GIS e-learning resource is described. This focuses on the application of GIS for siting a nuclear waste disposal facility and the associated principles of spatial decision-making using Boolean and weighted overlay methods. Initial student experiences in using the system are analysed as part of a research project on teaching GIS concepts to large number...

The application of GIS to the forecast and evaluation in the regional landslide can provide scientific basis for the regional geological environment management and the geological disaster assessment, can integrate the scattered data to share each other, and can improve data value. Its powerful interface function library provides a good tool for the professional GIS design and development. This ...

This article provides an overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the issues surrounding their use in mortgage finance and related industries. After a brief introduction to GIS and geographic data, the application of GIS technology to mortgage finance is explored. The article also examines organizational challenges in developing in-house GIS capability. GIS’s greatest potential cont...

Introduction: Geographic information systems (GIS), and more specifically remote sensing, have been used within the geosciences for well over two decades. In that time, the ability to handle a variety of increasingly voluminous data (both vector and raster) has allowed continued data analysis and exploitation within mainstream GIS. The uptake and use of GIS has not been mirrored within the plan...

Current GIS technology tends to impede problem-solving for many of its users and is difficult for vendors to develop and support. Why this may be the case and what might be done about it is explored in this paper. Three problems shared by most commercial GIS' are identified and examined: inadequate data models; inferior application development tools; insufficient on-line expertise. It is argued...

What this paper tends to address are followings. (1) A notable common characteristic of many GIS applications we ever might ignore is that the ability of analysis is not primarily provided by GIS itself, GIS generally plays roles of data management and virtual environment construction, and it is the users of GIS software that achieve that intelligencerequired process of problem solving. That is...

Sustainability of a bioenergy project depends on precise assessment of biomass resource, planning of cost-effective logistics and evaluation of possible environmental implications. In this context, this paper reviews the role and applications of geo-spatial tool such as Geographical Information System (GIS) for precise agro-residue resource assessment, biomass logistic and power plant design. F...

Nowhere in the eastern United States is the con ̄ict between the conservation of the rich biological diversity of existing forested landscapes vs. a continued expansion of suburban/exurban development more evident than in the case of Sterling Forest, a 7245 ha tract of land on the New York±New Jersey border. This paper reports on our application of geographic information systems (GIS)-based asse...

Dynamic spatial modeling addresses computational aspects of space-time process modeling. The types of processes it is meant to deal with are commonly found in Earth and biological sciences, such as hydrology and ecology. Geographical information systems (GIS) are a popular tool for modeling these application areas. A GIS provides spatial data structures, query capability and functions to manipu...