This article presents a synthetic vision of geographical information systems (GIS) applications that are state of the art in the renewable energy field. The objective is to analyze the main qualities and problems of these applications, focusing on specific samples, and to carry out a methodological proposal in this genre. From this point of view, the study synthesizes the analyzed applications ...

Natural (spoken) language, combined with gestures and other human modalities, provides a promising alternative for interacting with computers, but such benefit has not been explored for interactions with geographical information systems. This paper presents a conceptual framework for enabling conversational humanGIS interactions. Conversations with a GIS are modeled as human-computer collaborat...

In the eld of geography, we have beenexamining the contribution of the morpho-genetic rep-resentation to the comprehension of the cycle: reality,representation, model, reality. A distinction is madebetween map and geomap based on the notion of locus-object. 1. Foundations and limits of cartographic rep-

It is increasingly understood that transport infrastructure and services are critical elements to achieving poverty reduction, gender equality, and sustainable development, but relevant methods to systematically characterize and address differences in mobility and access are lagging. This paper presents a series of maps based on an integrated pilot application of geographical information system...

Although being increasingly powerful in handling spatial data, geographical information systems (GIS) still lack the powerful functionality for process modeling in terms of simulation and optimization. This article discusses the concepts and methodologies of a geographical simulation and optimization system (GeoSOS). GeoSOS integrates cellular automata (CA), agent-based models (ABMs), and swarm...

This paper presents a study on accessibility analysis for public housing development in Choa Chu Kang/Bukit Panjang area, Singapore, using geographical information systems (GIS) and multi-criteria analysis methods. GIS is used to measure accessibility to different types of facilities and amenities, while a multi-criteria method is employed to weight buyers’ preferences about the importance of e...

The availability of reliable spatial information is often a prerequisite for rapid decision making in health-, and emergency management. Meanwhile, there are many variations of “Geographical Information Systems” (GIS) on the market, ranging from Desktop-GIS and Internet-based GI-services to various kinds of mobile applications, the latter often localizing themselves via the GPS. The different f...

Dynamic spatial modeling addresses computational aspects of space-time process modeling. The types of processes it is meant to deal with are commonly found in Earth and biological sciences, such as hydrology and ecology. Geographical information systems (GIS) are a popular tool for modeling these application areas. A GIS provides spatial data structures, query capability and functions to manipu...

The article deals with imprecise geographical entities modelled according to the fuzzy set theory for both spatial and quantitative information. It presents the issues of fusion of fuzzy geographical objects according to its storing modes (raster, vector) in a mutualised geographical information system (GIS). We study the aggregation of imprecise spatial entities and its impact in the imprecise...

environmental monitoring and rest or at ion requires efficient access to large amounts of spatial information. the geographic information system (gis) and remotely sensed data are related to both physical and man-mad e features. in order to handle this task, the environmental scienc es section (ess) created the environmental data atlas (eda) that uses spatial keys to link all data sources to a ...