The authors present an experimental project that aims to establish an effective navigation system in accordance with European Council Regulation 1/2005 concerning animal welfare during transport. The prototype created during the project consists of both hardware and software components. An onboard unit is installed at truck level. It collects and transmits real-time information of the animal tr...

In times of crisis, the President and other senior officials at the University of Redlands have the primary responsibility for effectively managing any emergency that might occur on or affect the UoR campus. To assist the University, a customized GIS application was developed enabling a temporal based analysis of a disaster occurrence with concentrations of campus populations identified down to...

In this article, a single application is suggested to determine the position of vehicles using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Geographical Position Systems (GPS). The part of the article material included mapping three dimensional coordinates to two dimensional coordinates using UTM or LAMBERT geographical methods, and the algorithm of conversion of GPS information into GIS maps is ...

A typical Internet map-server application allows only retrieval of maps and maprelated data. We have been developing web-based GIS/database (WebGD) applications that allow users to insert, query, update, and delete geographical features and the data associated with them from standard Web browsers. The code shared by these applications is organized as the WebGD framework. We have also built a We...

All kind of data is the important component of a GIS studies. The data which will be used for GIS works is mostly provided from an digitized maps, existing paper maps, areal photos or satellites images. Nowadays the data from GPS can be used to make plans and maps of the studied area and the GPS data can be converted into the GIS environment more easily. GIS and GPS integration systems have som...

Current advances in wireless technology supported by the development of customized GIS applications, can significantly enhance field data collection, processing and visualization in environmental research. A distributed wireless sensor network was designed to collect and remotely transmit data in real-time to an in-house geodatabase, to monitor the long-term natural attenuation of groundwater c...

Increasing number of geodata producers and users have expressed the need for the integration of geodata from distributed information sources and for interoperable GISs (Stoimenov, 2002). The systems that own this data must be capable of interoperation with systems around them, in order to make access to this data to become feasible. The system also must deal with issues unique to geospatial dat...

Informal carers save the state's health and social care services billions of pounds each year. The stresses associated with caring have given rise to a number of short-term care services to provide respite to carers. The Carers (Recognition & Services) Act of 1995 identified formally for the first time, the important role that unpaid carers provide across the community in Britain. The planning ...

While most current Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are 2D GIS, more and more application domains as geology, civil and military engineering, etc, need 3D GIS. The particularities and capabilities of a 3D GIS are outlined in this paper. Although 3D GIS are not much developped, some studies have already been done, especially in order to represent 3D data for geological or architectural app...

With the progress of mobile GIS technology there is a great potential for adopting wireless communications and Internet mapping services for regional environmental management programs and natural habitat conservation. This paper provides an overview of a NASA-funded research project that focuses on the development of mobile GIS tools and wireless Internet Map Server (IMS) services to facilitate...