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...

ecotourism as the most attractive subset of the tourism industry can contribute to natural resource conservation and local development. although great numbers of people annually visit abbasabad area, in veresk, mazandaran, to enjoy its brilliant landscape and moderate ecologic condition, there is no applicable plan for many natural attractive zones in this area. as a result, some specific well ...

water use productivity is one of the most important factors in scientific agriculture. it is equal to 0. 7 kg of production per cubic meter of irrigation water (kg/m3) in iran which is very low in comparison with advanced countries (1 to 2 kg/m3). current research studies temporal and spatialchanges of water use productivity in hamedan province in iran using geographic information system (gis),...

background in many industries, noise is attributed as the most prevalent harmful agent threatening workers' health. geographic information system (gis) is an applicable surveying tool in civil engineering. but, the use of gis for noise and hearing loss screening seems to be partly a new approach. objectives this study aimed to apply gis in noise and hearing loss screening in the production hall...

in order to have a sustainable and valuable development, land planning is an essential issue and the potential assessment of the environment is the most important part of this subject. jiroft county has an acceptable potential for agricultural use, so the evaluation of its environmental potential for agricultural potential expansion is considered in this paper. in order to perform this research...

This paper presents research in Geographic Information Systems interoperability. Also, paper describes our work in development, introduces interoperability framework called GeoNis, which uses proposed technologies to perform integration task between GIS applications and legacy data sources over the Internet. Our approach provides integration of distributed GIS data sources and legacy informatio...

LINK TO PAPER The Challenges of Implementing Enterprise GIS at the City of Fort Worth Track: State and Local Government Author(s): Len MacKenzie During the past year, the City of Fort Worth, Texas has been implementing an enterprise GIS based on ESRI's suite of software products. This paper will give an overview of the technical and administrative challenges involved in coordinating enterprise ...