This paper addresses the impact of transport infrastructure projects of manufacturing employment in Thai regions. After a theoretical review we consider the impact of various transport modes: road, rail and ports. We find that roads and ports have a positive impact on industrial location, although the size of the impact is modest. Labor appears to be a more important location factor in Thailand...

I/O EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

We provide an overview of selected recent operational applications of satellite remote sensing and marine Geographic Information Systems (GIS) procedures to the practice of sustainable aquaculture in southern Hokkaido, Japan, focusing mainly on kelp and scallop aquaculture. We also developed a suitable aquaculture site-selection model (SASSM) for suspension culture of Gagome (a kelp species) in...

Road extraction from satellite imagery has become a heated research subjects in recent years. It is especially used in the city planning, cartography and to update previously detected roads in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment.In this study automated road extraction technique is applied to four different satellite images (SPOT, IKONOS, QUICKBIRD, ASTER) with different resolutions...

The Center for Geographic Information Science (CGISc) at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) was established in the Summer of 2006. CGISc is an educational research entity that relies on the use of GIS and the science of geographic information to conduct research on human and natural phenomena distributed on the Earth’s surface. CGISc welcomes interdisciplinary collaboration, and...

For decades, metadata has been the ever-present, cure-all solution to heterogeneous data integration and use. Yet, high-quality, ubiquitous metadata is extremely rare in practice. Current volunteered geographic information systems may provide insights on how the scientific community can produce and manage metadata for geospatial data infrastructures.

The paper introduces an overview on the researches we are currently carrying out on the integration of semantic aspects in Geographical Information Systems. Through an overview on the activities in the context of a project concerning the study of Bronze Age settlements in northern Italy, the paper shows how issues concerning semantics and GIS are currently faced to define an innovative and inte...