Contamination of the environment in Kuwait occurred in 1990-1991 during the Iraqi invasion and due to explosion of more than 700 oil wells. Oil contamination caused serious damage to the environment. This study was conducted to estimate the extent and volume of contaminated soil by using remote sensing, GIS application and field survey.. A map of the area was developed by GIS showing four types...

Monet is a customizable database system developed at CWI and University of Amsterdam, intended to be used as the database backend for widely varying application domains. It is designed to get maximum database performance out of today's workstations and multiprocessor systems. It has already achieved considerable success in supporting a Data Mining application 12, 13], and work is well under way...

Spatial and statistical analyses were performed on data submitted by government-run animal care agencies (ACAs) from three southeast Minnesota municipalities for the purpose of using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to determine the distance traveled by lost dogs from lost location to found location. Data submitted included descriptions of each dog and the location where the dog was lost a...

Information Systems traditionally involve the application of computing to solve the problems of organizations. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are characterized by data, spatial objects, which have locations (e.g. addresses, landmarks, geopolitical boundaries, etc.) and data associated with them (e.g. demographic information, value, etc.). While many associate GIS systems with scientific d...

Computerized mapping provides a powerful way to present and identify many types of spatial relationships. This type of data presentation and visualization is possible through software called geographic information systems (GIS). GIS is viewed as one of the most important developments in computer technology since the advent of the computer spreadsheet (Raymond, 1997). The application of GIS tech...

Mobile-messaging technology is evolving rapidly to provide multiple services and applications for Mobile subscribers. Mobile marketing and advertising applications deliver promotional information to consumers, based on their preferences and location. This paper examines the use of Promotionmessage in Product Advertising. In this paper, we present a context based location sensitive mobile applic...

Support of Internet GIS application framework for design and development of location based services is described in this paper. Definition, main characteristics and functions of location-based services are presented and the Internet GIS as their core component is described through overview of possible architectures and development methodologies. The iSTOMM a framework for Internet GIS applicati...

In this paper a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is proposed to support the interaction with legacy Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the implementation of value added data sharing services. In particular, we base our proposed architecture both on the standardization effort carried out by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and on current state-of-the-art Web Service middleware inf...

This paper addresses a computer system capable of integrating, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographic information. Currently, the Geographic Information System is not only limited to cartography but also related to various data management such as natural resource management, environmental impact assessment, and etc. The Internet system allows more geographic information sharing as many u...

In this paper, the application of High-Performance Computing (HPC) techniques in processing of geospatial data in Geographic Information System (GIS) is presented. We evaluate two parallel/distributed architectures and programming models: Message Passing Interface (MPI) over Network of Workstations (NoW) and Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in well-kn...