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...

The integration of building information modelling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) in construction management is a new and fast developing trend in recent years, from research to industrial practice. BIM has advantages on rich geometric and semantic information through the building life cycle, while GIS is a broad field covering geovisualization-based decision making and geospatial...

What this paper tends to address are followings. (1) A notable common characteristic of many GIS applications we ever might ignore is that the ability of analysis is not primarily provided by GIS itself, GIS generally plays roles of data management and virtual environment construction, and it is the users of GIS software that achieve that intelligencerequired process of problem solving. That is...

Geographic information systems (GIS), a technology for spatial data analysis which is widely used in geology, appears to have significant potential in construction applications. GIS as well as computer-aided design (CAD) are two computerized systems widely used in engineering design and spatial management. Currently, CAD is the most popular tool in geometric model creation. However, due to the ...

Grid GIS is a new technology which integrates the Grid with GIS. The analysis and application of geospatial information based on WebGIS now has new contents and application approaches based on Grid GIS, so the assignment and realization of computation tasks are more complex. The algorithm Com-Pool which is applied in Grid GIS can realize the task scheduling for its simple and practical characte...

1. INTRODUCTION Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide well-developed tools for query, analysis and display of point, line, and polygon data, and there are well-developed communities that use these data types and rely heavily on GIS tools. Many meteorological datasets consist of combinations of time series and grids. Tools for query, analysis and display of these data types are less well ...

The evaluation of potential damage of future floods is an essential part of flood management project appraisals. Analysis results reliability is an important issue when comparing flood risk reduction project scenarios. Geographic Information System (GIS) technology plays a crucial role on flood risk analyses. On one hand, the evaluation process requires data on flood hazard and on vulnerability...

A Geographical Information System (GIS) provides a powerful collection of tools for the management and visualization of spatial data. These tools can be even more powerful when they are integrated with methods for spatial data analysis. In this context, we provide several examples that show the power of exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) within a GIS and how this can provide the foundatio...

As society becomes increasingly spatially enabled, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) will evolve, and geographical information will be embedded in most information applications and services that society uses. This trend presents many opportunities and challenges. It means GIS technologies will facilitate ‘more’ by becoming ‘less’. As the general use of GIS increases, the visible appearance...