Baseline data represent one of the important stages of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure that describes the existing environment of the study area and surrounding areas in enough detail to allow the environmental impacts of the proposed area to be accurately and adequately assessed, and future changes and effects can be measured. Baseline data may be inaccurate, difficult to obtai...

In this paper, The purpose and the goal of the paper are to introduce a framework based on onto Geographical information systems (GIS) to integrate geographic information of Urban areas taking Khartoum State as an example. One of the main characteristics of such a framework is to support the information integration and data exchange between facilities using the base maps to solve the problem of...

Building and managing large datasets of alien species is crucial to research, management, and control of biological invasions. To this end, the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) platform aggregates, integrates, and harmonizes spatio-temporal data regarding alien species in Europe, including both invasive and non-invasive alien species. These data are stored in the EASIN Geodata...

To improve the efficiency of existing emergency response and facility management systems, many utility companies choose to implement the ArcFM GIS. Based on my experience designing and implementing an ArcFM GIS for the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), Washington D.C., this paper provides a road map through implementation of an enterprise-wide GIS using technologies built-on ArcInfo 8 pla...

This paper describes how geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies were used to plan the collection of entomological baseline data for a tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) elimination project in the Mouhoun river basin in Burkina Faso. Historical data were collated as the background for data analysis. These data were used to define t...

UN World Food programme (WFP) is implementing its own Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), in the framework and following the guidelines developed by United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG) with the UNSDI initiative. This paper will present an updated situation report of WFP SDI implementation, project realized with the technical support of ITHACA association. Geodatabase con...

When conducting an investigation of the subsurface a geoscientist will often locate specific borehole geophysical data for the area of study. This process of locating spatially where the geophysical logs have been conducted and what specific parameters have been run in each logging suite can often be difficult and take the investigator several hours or even days depending upon the size of the s...

Using ArcGIS Topology Rules for Improving Data Maintenance for Navy PWCs Track: Defense and Intelligence Author(s): Dale Dunham The Public Works Centers in Navy Regions Japan and Hawaii had converted their GIS data maintenance process to the SDE Geodatabase environment realizing significant efficiencies. With the release of Topology rule-based editing in ArcGIS 8.3, significant process improvem...