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...

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 ...

backgrounds and aims: using geographical information system (gis) can decreases the burden of road traffic injuries effectively by identification of hot spot to modification in hazardous areas. the aim of the study was determining geographical distribution of human risk factors associated with road traffic injuries by using geographical information system (gis) in iran. materials and methods: t...