ArcGIS ist ein vollständiges, durchgängiges System zu Erstellung und Verwaltung von Karten und geografischen Informationen. Es bietet vielfältige Methoden zur Visualisierung und räumlichen Analyse von Geodaten mit dem Ziel, Informationen mit Raumbezug – immerhin schätzungsweise 80 Prozent aller Daten weltweit – verständlicher darzustellen und damit Entscheidungen besser und effizienter treffen ...

In Canada, flooding is the most common and costly natural hazard. Flooding events significantly impact communities, damage infrastructures threaten public security. Communication, as part of a flood risk management strategy, an essential means countering these threats. It therefore important to develop new innovative tools communicate with citizens. From this perspective, use story maps can be ...

Currently, there is no spatial DBMS that implements a rule-based topology engine (considering that the topology rules are designed and performed in the spatial backend). If the topology rules are applied in the frontend (as in many GIS desktop programs), ArcGIS is the most advanced solution. The system presented in this paper has several major advantages over the ArcGIS approach: it can be exte...

Learning to avoid threats in the environment is highly adaptive. However, sometimes a dysregulation of fear memories processing may underlie fear-related disorders. Despite recent advances, a major question of how to effectively attenuate persistent fear memories in a safe manner remains unresolved. Here we show experiments employing a behavioural tool to target a specific time window after tra...