As GIS implementations mature and GIS use expands beyond the current core GIS community the need to discover and disseminate GIS capabilities grows. The Internet and the age of distributed computing provide the technical framework on which distributed GIS is built. As key application of distributed GIS, geoportals provide a gateway to discover and access geographic Web services. Four key geopor...

To improve the spatial retrieving by means of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), a distributed GIS-Application has been designed. This application is mainly focused on making spatial analysis, throughout Spatial Analyzer Module (SAM). SAM contains several spatial and mathematical models that have been designed and implemented for detecting landslides and flooding areas. Users can make an a...

In this paper, we propose the Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System for the disaster countermeasures headquarters at the time of large-scale natural disaster. This Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System consists of the Post Damage Picture Smartphone Application, the Post Damage Picture Facebook Application, and the Web-GIS Disaster Information Management Site. The P...

This paper proposes a generic relational-database schema that can efficiently accommodate various types of GIS data. The proposed schema complies with the OpenGIS Simple Features Specification for SQL developed by OGC (OpenGIS Consortium) and can be used for any geographic application whose geographic objects are represented based on 2D geometry with linear interpolation between vertices. The g...

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...

................................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 3 CHAPTER 2 – AN INTRODUCTION TO GEO-INFORMATION SYSTEMS ... 7 2.1 What is a Geo-Information System? ......................................................... 7 2.2 Data found in a GIS ...................

The use of geographic information system (GIS) technology allows public health practitioners to explore disparities in health, analyze disease outbreaks, and prioritize the use of limited resources for improving population health. Nursing students benefit from use of World Wide Web GIS resources as they develop knowledge and skill in assessing population health and planning interventions. This ...

GIS is a tool for the production of applied geographic knowledge as well as for its wide dissemination and use. This paper examines the problems of quality control and monitoring resulting from the ease with which non-experts can now produce, using GIS, many kinds of documents thus far obtainable only from experts. Because the quality of a GIS product is largely a function of the background ass...

The most main current of software industry tends to focus on the area of component. In this situation, software industry in GIS (Geographic Information System) also becomes an interesting issue by performing a large scale of national GIS application development as well as even small scale of FMS (Facility Management System). In order to develop those system efficiently, there should be deep con...

The synergy of commercial GIS packages with other specialist systems and methodologies is usually imposed in order to meet the requirements of advanced geographic applications. The paper examines the alternative scenarios regarding the synergy of GIS with other systems towards the development of Intelligent GIS. Several prototype systems developed for different application domains are also pres...