This paper presents results of a coastal decision making system that utilizes the following tools: Internet, wireless technology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The developed system consists of an on-site mobile spatial subsystem, a coastal structure permitting subsystem, and a web-based shoreline erosion awareness subsystem. The system is being tested and developed for applications ...

The implementation and development of effective mentoring is crucial to the growth and success of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) librarianship and staffi ng. Mentoring is necessary to fi ll the gaps for all staff members, especially students. I propose that mentoring can assuage many of the staffi ng obstacles to successful GIS programs. Effective mentoring will create a healthy and produ...

This poster reports on the results of a culturally relevant mathematics unit, the Community Mapping Project (CMP), where urban students learned statistics by producing and analyzing maps of their own community using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In this poster we show how three aspects of culturally relevant pedagogy, familiarity of context and authentic purpose, and informal linguistic...

E. Mac Aoidh, G. McArdle, M. Petitc∗, C. Ray, M. Bertolotto, C. Claramunt, and D. Wilson Computer Science Dept., National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland; Computer Science Dept., University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Geographic Information Systems Dept., Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest, France; Software and Information Systems Dept., University of North Carolina, Charlott...

This paper falls into a common field of scientific research and its practical applications at the interface of urban geography, environmental criminology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The purpose of this study is to identify types of different land use which influence the spatial distribution of a set of crime types at the intra-urban scale. The originality of the adopted approach ...

B. HUANG*?, P. FERYS, L. XUES and Y. WANGT[ ?Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SDepartment of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore §Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Peking University, Beijing, PR China TInstitute of Geographical Sciences and Nature Resources Researc...

In the last years, the attention of the public community on electromagnetic pollution has continuously grown. In this paper we argue that the use of Geographic Information Systems in this domain should be encouraged as a valid support to the monitoring activities related to this phenomenon. In particular, our proposal of a visual environment, the Metaphor GIS Query Language is shown to provide ...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can serve as a planning tool to promote community health at many levels, such as the policy, organizational and public levels. The Brownfields to Healthfields (B2H) program involves creating new opportunities to support community public health, including the development of park spaces and new hospital facilities. However, there was no existing portal for org...

Geographic information systems (GIS) have developed in response to a range of needs, and provide highly structured environments for working with particular classes of information. The environment and structure of a GIS is defined by its data model; the paper reviews the basic data models of GIS. The needs of discrete transportation modeling have led to a number of extensions of the basic data m...