Goals: to describe the STARS ArcGIS geoprocessing toolset, which is used to calculate the spatial information needed to fit spatial statistical models to stream network data using the SSN package. The STARS toolset is designed for use with a Landscape Network (LSN), which is a topological data model produced by the FLoWS ArcGIS geoprocessing toolset. An overview of the FLoWS LSN structure and a...

Four spatial estimation techniques available in commercial computational packages are evaluated and compared, namely: regularized splines interpolation, tension splines interpolation, inverse distance weighted interpolation, and ordinary Kriging estimation, in order to establish the best representation for the shallow stratigraphic configuration in the city of Aguascalientes, in Central Mexico....

With the arrival of GPS, satellite remote sensing, and personal computers, the last two decades have witnessed rapid advances in the field of spatially-explicit marine ecological modeling. But with this innovation has come complexity. To keep up, ecologists must master multiple specialized software packages, such as ArcGIS for display and manipulation of geospatial data, R for statistical analy...

The study of geographical systems as graphs, and networks has gained significant momentum in the academic literature as these systems possess measurable and relevant network properties. Crowd-based sources of data such as OpenStreetMaps (OSM) have created a wealth of worldwide geographic information including on transportation systems (e.g., road networks). In this work, we offer a Geographic I...

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Service-oriented architecture supports data and model sharing and interoperability. The concept of such a service-oriented and distributed architecture is applied to build and integrate web-based service models of ecological resources quantitative measurement. The paper is to develop and integrate a GI web service by using an algorithm that calculates net primary productivity of terrestrial veg...

As a basic data structure in geometry, theoretical and computational aspects of Voronoi diagrams (VDs) and multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagrams (MWVDs) have been widely researched and applied. But few algorithms are implemented in combination with geographic information system (GIS) softwares for practical use. A vector-based algorithm based on ArcGIS Engine (AE) is proposed to generate V...