In this chapter we report on the GIS-based analysis of the Nasca geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru, undertaken in the course of the Nasca–Palpa Archaeological Project. We focus here on the analysis of spatial relationships between the geoglyphs and the surrounding landscape in terms of visibility and orientation. Our motivation for this contextual analysis was to gain a better understanding of the funct...

Digital technologies, the use of which has progressively increased over last few years, could represent key tools in learning and active citizenship development processes. In this sense, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have gradually become an integral part various disciplines sectors. Even if relevance diffusion GIS educational pedagogical fields are increasing, their potential is still...

Biogeographical research seeks to identify the processes structuring organismal diversity at a variety of geographic and taxonomic scales, from community patterns of species richness to higher-order taxonomic study. Molecular data are featured prominently in contemporary biogeographical studies because patterns of genetic variation, when interpreted in the context of geography, can provide insi...

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 ...

In the mid-1990s, several critical texts raised concerns about the social, political, and epistemological implications of GIS. Subsequent responses to these critiques have fundamentally altered the technological, political, and intellectual practices of GIScience. Participatory GIS, for instance, has intervened in multiple ways to try to ameliorate uneven access to GIS and digital spatial data ...

Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation (CHICA) is a computer decision support system (CDSS) that interfaces with existing electronic medical record systems (EMRS) and delivers "just-in-time" patient-relevant guidelines to physicians during the clinical encounter and accurately captures structured data from all who interact with the system. "Delivering Geospatial Intelligence to He...

To improve the customer service level, tobacco companies in China use the strategy of direct delivery. But this strategy has a great influence on the local company’s operation cost. In this paper, a distribution planning of the local company is made to decrease the operation cost. The distribution planning includes the location and choice of the distributed centers and the transferring points. ...

Computer assisted cartography and geographical information systems (GIS) are developed in the general frame of information society based on knowledge. The study of new mapping and GIS tools in the large field of geomatics disciplines is now a necessity. These systems use computer networks and the more complex “.net” software. More and more economic and social fields benefit of introduction of s...

Recent environmental developments have stimulated an interest in conservation and restoration of the historical Willamette River flood plain, both to protect against flooding and to provide wildlife habitat. In order to best utilize scarce resources, we characterized historical and modern river channel and flood-plain conditions to evaluate changes and help prioritize restoration sites. Using c...

From their first college year students are being taught in geography that scale is an intrinsic property of geographic space and geographic objects. However, in the existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and desktop mapping scale is merely a ratio between distances measured on the map and on the ground. This interpretation of scale results from technological limitations of the traditiona...