Geographic information systems (GIS) education is at a crossroads in the United States. Since its inception in the early 1990s, GIS has diffused slowly into select groups of K-12 classrooms through the efforts of geography and environmental educators. However, many of the assumptions underpinning the initial period of enthusiasm for the technology are now being questioned. This paper reviews is...

A promising approach to environmental assessment and decision making analyses is based on integrating Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and GIS tools. Integration of GIS and MCDA tools can be potentially achieved through interoperability, where these tools can exchange relevant information to tackle a particular environmental problem. However, the problem of semantic heterogeneity caused b...

Recent attempts to integrate geographic information systems (GIS) and participatory techniques, have given rise to terminologies such as participatory GIS and community-integrated GIS. Although GIS was initially developed for physical geographic application, it can be used for the management and analysis of health and health care data. Geographic information systems, combined with participatory...

This paper discusses the integration of a geographic information system (GIS) and moving objects in surveillance videos (“moving objects” hereinafter) by using motion detection, spatial mapping, and fusion representation techniques. This integration aims to overcome the limitations of conventional video surveillance systems, such as low efficiency in video searching, redundancy in video data tr...

This paper explores the developments which have precipitated the use and integration of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) within the South African Police Services (SAPS). The paper provides a historical overview of GIS within South Africa, supplemented with the legislative origins of the integration of GIS within policing in the country. Various geo-analytic operations that GIS technology ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: BIM GIS FM Integration Surface model BG-ETL In this study, we propose software architecture for the effective integration of building information modeling (BIM) into a geographic information system (GIS)-based facilities management (FM) system. This requires the acquisition of data from various sources followed by the transformation of these data into an appropri...

The traditional home of GIS in terms of managing, mapping, modeling and making decisions based on spatial data has been in the land-based sciences and professions. This has resulted in a concentration of GIS on land-based "application domains" (sets of GIS applications with common properties and data formats), with a relatively homogeneous groups of users and applications addressing the solutio...

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is an important distributed information resource. GIS technology is being utilized in many areas of research. Based on the concept of agent, we introduce a multi-agent architecture to develop a GIS Multi-Agent System (GISMA) that enables cooperation to assist different users to locate and retrieve spatial GIS file information in large networks. GISMA consis...

Locating usable spatial data is essential for the application and use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS data collection development constitutes a core element of GIS services within academic libraries. Managers of geospatial resources require a fundamental understanding of the nature and use of GIS data. In the creation of a GIS collection development policy, library professionals sh...

Although, most of phenomena change over time, there has been an attempt to model the phenomena of real world assuming a static nature for them. Even when changes occurred in the phenomena, it is restricted to identify and assess the changes over a period of time. These static modeling can be applied when phenomena with a long change period are considered. Since late 1980s, and by increasing geo...