Features of the built environment are increasingly being recognised as potentially important determinants of obesity. This has come about, in part, because of advances in methodological tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS has made the procurement of data related to the built environment easier and given researchers the flexibility to create a new generation of environmental ...

The evaluation of land quality plays an important role in the study of land resources. Some software of GIS was applied to evaluate land quality in recent years. There is some limitation in Appling GIS to evaluate land quality directly. GIS combined with MCE (Multi-Criteria Evaluation) can eliminate limitation existing in using GIS singly. In this thesis key technology of evaluating land qualit...

In this paper, we seek to design, develop, and explore a typical geo-database for hydrographic purposes through the aid of some Open-Source Geographical Information System (GIS) and relational database packages that had been confirmed and certified to be adequate for various GIS tasks. One of the recent and reliable OpenSource software in GIS analysis is gvSIG. gvSIG is a tool oriented to manag...

Computer tools for spatial analysis of plant genetic resources data: 1. DIVA-GIS The DIVA-GIS software allows analysis of genebank and herbarium databases to elucidate genetic, ecological and geographic patterns in the distribution of crops and wild species. It useful for scientists who cannot afford generic commercial GIS software, or do not have the time to learn how to use it, and for others...

While the use of three-dimensional (3D) geographical information system (GIS) is becoming in rapid development and being used in various fields such as urban and regional planning, disaster management and planning, mobile navigation and etc., commercial and open source GIS software packages tend to offer 3D-GIS functionalities for their products. On the basis, GIS analysis functions are to prov...

This work presents a panorama of GIS integration in Spatial Statistics environments. It highlights the current needs of communities considering such integration. Spatial Statistics is treated in a context focused on the use of computational tools. A review of types of integration is accomplished and a new approach is proposed integrating the statistical software R and the GIS library TerraLib.

Many market surveys in Germany are indicating that the GIS usage in smaller municipalities and counties will increase in future. This is due to the fact that Internet technologies are offering advanced solutions, not only for eGovernment but also for GIS problems. Nevertheless costs are playing an important role. The concept of a cost-effective Internet-GIS solutions for communes and counties b...

A major challenge in landscape and environmental modelling is to effectively visualize large amounts of time-series simulation output, often in various Geographic Information System (GIS) formats. We developed a software tool (LANDISVIEW), to easily visualize and animate time-series of ERDAS *.gis maps. The open source tool can also be used to generate batch files for FRAGSTATS, a widely used s...

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The demand in the Saudi markets for qualified environmental and landscape planners with Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing knowledge, has led the Landscape Architecture Department, Faculty of Environmental Design, at King Abdulaziz University (KAAU) Jeddah to start a pilot project applying GIS and Remote Sensing techniques in a fourth year (third year department) landscape pla...