A GIS framework, the Army Remote Moisture System (ARMS), has been developed to link the Land Information System (LIS), a high performance land surface modeling and data assimilation system, with remotely sensed measurements of soil moisture to provide a high resolution estimation of soil moisture in the near surface. ARMS uses available soil (soil texture, porosity, Ksat), land cover (vegetatio...

The planning and support of military naval expeditionary operations relies on precise environmental data, which must be available on time, at the right place and in the requested format. These data sets, usually obtained from a wide number of sensors (satellites, sonars) and models (meteorological and oceanographic), have a common feature: the geospatial component. This paper presents a client-...

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...

Abstract The largest reservoir of drinkable water on Earth is surface water. It crucial for maintaining ecosystems and enabling people to adapt diverse climate changes. Despite freshwater essential life, the current research shows a striking lack understanding in its spatial temporal dynamics variations outflow storage across sizable country: India. Numerous restrictions apply research, includi...

Geographic Information System (GIS) was used as a decision-making tool to target potential geothermal power plant sites in Sabalan geothermal field, northwestern part of Iran. The aim of the study was to identify suitable areas to establish 55 MW geothermal power plants (GPP). After comprehensive study about required data for GPP site selection project, available data in the area on a regional ...

An automated binary change detection model using a threshold-based calibration approach was introduced in the study. The burdensome processes required in binary change detection, including calibration, calculation of accuracy, extraction of optimum threshold(s), generation of a binary change mask, and removal of “salt-and-pepper” noise were integrated and automated in the model. For practical p...

This study used GIS to identify flood risk areas on the proposed Wapuli and Kpalba roads to help policy makers take a firm decision on which road to link Yendi, Saboba, Chereponi and Gushiegu districts in Northern Ghana. The aim was to identify and measure floodable areas on the proposed roads. Factors influencing flooding in the area are identified and reclassified to flood risk values based o...

This study evaluated 967 U.S. CVB websites using a modified Balanced Scorecard (mBSC) approach which assesses website performance with respect to overall technical functionality, customer friendliness and usability, effectiveness of marketing the destination, and information content. Spatial maps were constructed for these four dimensions and overall CVB website performance using ArcMap v.9.2 G...