GeoDesign enhances traditional Environmental planning and Design activities with the power of modern computing, communications, and collaboration technologies, providing on-demand simulations and impact analyses to provide more effective and more responsible integration of scientific knowledge and societal values into the design of alternative futures. For practitioners, as well as students and...

GIS can be readily used to manage and analyze 2D information and also afford 3D visualization of surface features. However, general-purpose GIS packages do not offer capabilities for constructing or visualizing 3D geologic models. GIS tools must, therefore, be appropriately tailored to handle geologic data and accommodate the special spatial analysis needs of geologic information. Since 3D geol...

Geographic integration using overlay operations remains one of the key features of GIS and has received much attention from geographers. Integration is often presented as the universal ability to combine heterogeneous sources of data into meaningful information. While all data can be merged based on location, the significance and meaning of the resulting data is often dubious. Cartographers hav...

3D spatial data acquired from aerial and remote sensing images by photogrammetric techniques is one of the most accurate and economic data sources for GIS, map production, and spatial data updating. However, there are still many problems concerning storage, structuring and appropriate management of spatial data obtained using these techniques. According to the capabilities of spatial database m...

The paper offers a detailed analysis of GIS integration as a curricula and technology in the Albanian market and institutional environment. The growing market needs for GIS utilities in Albania and the handicap, due to the lack of experts in geospatial technology constitutes a major concern. The research goal is to concentrate on the undisputed fact that the development of GIS curricula in the ...

A key point in modern automated data processing is metadata semantics representation. Employing Semantic Web existing features ontologies is a promising option. Ontologies open a novel approach to knowledge representation. The paper presents a GIS (Geographic Information System) domain application illustrating ontological approach to data integration and data processing automation in the specif...

this research was conducted to identify the limitative factors of forage productionsuitability in order to achieve the sustainable exploitation of natural ecosystems in aliabadwatershed in lorestan in 2013. the field measurements have been done through cutting andweighing method to estimate the forage amount, four-factor method to determine the rangecondition, trend scale to specify the orienta...

-This paper presents ORHIDEA project which provides intelligent integration of information using mediation technology. ORHIDEA is used for integration of spatial data from GIS databases, alphanumerical data from RDBMS and other data sources. Index terms --mediator, information integrati on, GIS legacy databases