Geographical Information Systems (GIS) presents data-intensive environment for acquiring, processing and sharing geo-data among interested parties. In order to serve geographical information to users in such environment, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles have gained great importance. In SOA-based systems, Information Services support the discovery and handling of these geospatial s...

Although the Geographical Information System (GIS), which integrates computerized drawing computer assisted design (CAD) and relational databases (data base management system (DBMS)), is best known for applications in geographical and planning cartography, it can also use many kinds of information concerning the territory. A multidisciplinary project was initiated since 5 years a multidisciplin...

An evaluation was conducted on a web-based e-learning system designed to facilitate integration of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) into the Civil Engineering curriculum. The principal goals of the evaluation were to determine the overall effectiveness of the system and to better understand underlying learning processes. Data were collected from 80 students who participated in a computer ...

In recent years, Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS) technologies has been the object of considerable interest to all bodies concerned with space and in particular emergency services and disaster management. In this paper we, address the issues regarding contemporary works on role of GIS in disaster Management. This paper is a review of some interesting and milestone resear...

Numerous applications involve the use of a Geographical Information System (GIS). A working session consists of several spatial database orders. The scope of this paper is to provide a link between alphanumeric data and spatial representation of objects stored in a GIS database. The notions of Granule, Topology and Set_relationship are defined to guarantee a semantics to alphanumeric data parts...

Natural language interface to spatial databases have not received a lot of attention in computational linguistics, in spite of the potential value of such systems for users of Geographical Information Systems (GISs). This paper presents a controlled language for GIS queries, solves some of the semantic problems for spatial inference in this language, and introduces a system that implements this...

Software Architecture design is to be a key step in the process of software development. For large and complex emergency network geographical information system in practice, it is ridiculous to achieve the goal of emergency management based on unsuitable software architecture. At present, the network geographical information system software architecture can be divided into four layers: display ...

Architectural heritage must be conserved by using contemporary approaches. Conserving the historical buildings depend on appropriate measurements and data related to their life history. At this stage, digital photogrammetric techniques and GIS (Geographical Information System) integration would be one of the best solutions. GIS has a capability to integrate and update graphic and non-graphic da...

This paper explores the potential for geographical information system technology in defining some variables influencing the use of primary care medical services. Eighteen general practices in Scotland contributed to a study examining the accessibility of their services and their patients' use of the local Accident and Emergency Department. Geo-referencing of information was carried out through ...