The development and testing of a Web-based GIS e-learning resource is described. This focuses on the application of GIS for siting a nuclear waste disposal facility and the associated principles of spatial decision-making using Boolean and weighted overlay methods. Initial student experiences in using the system are analysed as part of a research project on teaching GIS concepts to large number...

This paper is concerned with very long-terms trends in poverty and inequality in England and Wales over the last century. It seeks, in particular, to provide a tentative quantitative answer to the question of whether relative poverty has become more or less extreme geographically (Dorling and Woodward 1996). Such a study is only possible through the application of novel methods for data analysi...

by LIANG ZOU (Under the Direction of Xiaobai Yao) ABSTRACT The development of geographic information system (GIS) is accomplished by increasing popularity of Internet GIS. However, currently most commercial Web GIS applications use proprietary data sets and employ raster images to disseminate maps. The traditional method of Web GIS lacks interoperability, efficiency and quality. To overcome the...

Using geographical information systems (GIS) has been of great interest lately. A lot of GIS applications are being introduced to regular and noncomputer-expert people through their everyday used machines such as cars (GPS), mobile (location systems), Internet (locating systems and direction guiders), and others. ”Google Earth,” a free online application, is one of those online geographical sys...

Designing a GIS data model that can help analyze spatial and temporal patterns and interactions of human activities presents a challenging research topic. Due to a growing adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in today’s society, an increasing number of human activities are performed in the virtual space. This paper presents a spatio-temporal GIS design to support explor...

The space–place dichotomy has long been discussed in geography, psychology, philosophy, and more recently geographic information science. attempts to integrate vague notions of place into systems (GIS) constitute the foundations place-based GIS stream research, but rationale methods for operationalizing differ considerably literature. We present a literature review an attempt identify discuss d...

During the last few decades in the academic field, the debate has increased on the effects of social geography on the opportunities of socioeconomic integration. On one hand, it has been discussed how the contents of the urban structure and social geography affect not only the way people interact, but also their chances of social and economic integration. On the other hand, it has also been dis...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a disease with high disabling disorders and considerable social and economic impacts. this study was conducted to analyze the spatial distribution of ms disease in tehran, iran during 2001-2012.the existing information in the ms patients' medical files who had registered in iranian ms society (imss), located in tehran office, was used for analysis. the relationship be...