Geospatial reasoning has been an essential aspect of military planning since the invention of cartography. Although maps have always been a focal point for developing situational awareness, the dawning era of network-centric operations brings the promise of unprecedented battlefield advantage due to improved geospatial situational awareness. Geographic information systems (GIS) and GIS-based de...

Due to the driving forces of the Internet and network communication technology, the paradigm of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is shifting [16, 19]. Moreover, with the advances in computer technology and GIS science, distributed GIS become practical and widely acceptable. Traditional GIS plays an extremely valuable role in GIS applications by providing a wide variety of tools to handle ge...

Remote Sensing and Geographic information System together comprise of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) which is a core research field that tries to emphasis on advanced geographic concepts in Geographic Information System and examines the impact of GIS on individuals and society as a whole and re-examines the themes with incorporation of most recent cognitive and Information Science. ...

Three-dimensional (3D) GIS is gaining more and more acceptance among both scientists and the general public. Though powerful in data visualization, 3D GIS is comparatively weak in geospatial analysis. In order to enhance 3D GIS’s analysis capability, we present an approach for integrating geospatial processing services into 3D GIS. The architecture of our approach contains four layers which are...

Most civil engineering tasks require accessing, surveying and modifying geospatial data in the field and referencing this virtual, geospatial information to the real world situation. Augmented Reality (AR) can be a useful tool to create, edit and update geospatial data representing real world artifacts by interacting with the 3D graphical representation of the geospatial data augmented in the u...

The goal of this work is to increase the use of the GIS (Geografic Information System) in developing countries that are lacking economic resources and technical skills. In these areas, GIS would be very useful for geospatial data management and analysis, graphics/maps production, spatial modelling and visualisation in help the management of the territory. This work follows a project to reduce t...

Grid GIS is a new technology which integrates the Grid with GIS. The analysis and application of geospatial information based on WebGIS now has new contents and application approaches based on Grid GIS, so the assignment and realization of computation tasks are more complex. The algorithm Com-Pool which is applied in Grid GIS can realize the task scheduling for its simple and practical characte...

The Geographical Information System (GIS) design process usually involves experts in specific application domains (e.g. geology and forestry). These experts are responsible for capturing user needs, and communicating them to GIS developers. However, as the community of users is not directly involved in the design process, these experts may miss some user intentions. This may lead to ill-defined...