Landfill sites receive 92% of total annual solid waste produced by municipalities in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. In this study, candidate sites for an appropriate landfill location for the Abu Dhabi municipal area are determined by integrating geographic information systems (GIS) and multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) analysis. To identify appropriate landfill sites, eight input map layers including...

When the user is free to write anything, like handwriting, drawings, or gestures, techniques are required to distinguish between modes. Mode detection, preceding recognition, can be an important aid in applications that invite natural pen input. In this paper, a large amount of data, acquired in different contexts, is used to assess eight features on their suitability for mode detection. Six gl...

A process cartography, or process map, hierarchically classifies the processes of an organization into meaningful domains. It provides an overview of the operations in the organization, eases the identification of processes and facilitates the communication across departments. Switzerland has defined a unified cartography for E-Government Services (eCH-0145). In this work, we discuss advantages...

The paper is dealing with scanpath comparison of eye-tracking data recorded during case study focused on the evaluation of 2D and 3D city maps. The experiment contained screenshots from three map portals. Two types of maps were used standard map and 3D visualization. Respondents’ task was to find particular point symbol on the map as fast as possible. Scanpath comparison is one group of the eye...

This article presents a new method for actively exploring a 3D workspace with the aim of localizing relevant regions for a given task. Our method encodes the exploration route in a multi-layer occupancy grid map. This map, together with a multiple-view estimator and a maximum-information-gain gathering approach, incrementally provide a better understanding of the scene until reaching the task t...

BACKGROUND Artemisia annua L. is an important source for artemisinin, a potent drug for treating malaria. This study aims to map and predict the potential geographic distribution of A. annua L. in China. METHODS The Geographic Information System for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM-GIS) was developed and used to map the potential geographic distribution of A. annua L. RESULTS Climatic, eda...

As the outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa is now contained, attention is turning from control to future outbreak prediction and prevention. Building on a previously published zoonotic niche map (Pigott et al., 2014), this study incorporates new human and animal occurrence data and expands upon the way in which potential bat EVD reservoir species are incorporated. This update d...

Ubiquitous crowd-sourcing has become a popular mechanism to harvest knowledge from the masses. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a successful example of ubiquitous crowd-sourcing, where citizens volunteer geographic information in order to build and maintain an accurate map of the changing world. Research has shown that OSM information is accurate, by comparing it with centrally maintained spatial informa...

Edge linking is a fundamental computer vision task, yet presents d@culties arising from the lack of information in the image. Viewed as a constrained optimisation problem, it is NP hard being isomorphic to the classical travelling salesman problem. Self-learning neural techniques boast the ability to solve hard, ill-dejned problems, and hence offer promise for such an application. This paper ex...

Background: Over the last decade, a significant area of Zagros forests, especially in Ilam Province, west Iran, has been affected by phenomenon oak decline. The most basic item for fighting decline these forests is to know site suitability, parameters affecting it, determining criteria and preparing map potential forests. In this study, efficiency Maxent on suitability Dalab Bankol important P....