INTRODUCTION Research data often remains unanalyzed and unpublished due to incompetency in statistical software usage. Lack of planning before data collection has severely impaired the quality of research in Pakistan. Most of the researchers are unaware of usage of statistical software like SPSS, Epi info, SAS, R. and most of the Data Analysis is done through the employment of a bio-statisticia...

One of the important stages in the implementation of a GIS is referred to preparation of data to be entered to the system. To produce spatial data for entering to GIS using photogrammetric techniques, common and current method is to utilize photogrammetric and GIS systems individually (off-line procedure). Preparing spatial data on the basis of the mentioned method has a lot of problems, such a...

Building a new GIS project is a major investment. Choosing the right GIS software package is critical to the success and failure of such investment. Because of the complexity of the problem a number of decision making tools must be deployed to arrive at the proper solution. In this study a new decision making approach for solving GIS software selection problem was proposed by integrating Expert...

We stress the importance of requirements engineering (RE) for the development of large scale software in general and for GIS-applications in particular. RE analyses the problem domain and de nes the requirements upon the software to be developed. We discuss two GIS-application scenarios, the so-called topological scenario and the network scenario, we frequently encountered in real life projects...

The aim of this paper is to describe the evolution of GIS applications development process, based on the SDKs transformations, especially by considering the ESRI ArcGIS development platform. On the one hand, this study relies on our previous experience in GIS software engineering; on the other hand, it reflects the features and particularities of the projects we conducted within the bachelor an...

The available sight distance (ASD) in front of the driver to detect possible conflicts with unexpected obstacles is fundamental for traffic safety. In the last 20 years, road design software (RDS) has been continuously updated with dedicated modules to estimate ASD, thus assessing the quality of project from a safety point of view. Unfortunately, the evaluation of ASD still represents an issue ...

For the last decade and a half, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services in academic libraries have been developing, and GIS librarians have been experimenting with different ways to provide these services. However, there has been virtually nothing in the literature with respect to GIS consultation statistics. One goal of this article is to discuss a four-year case study on the use of GIS ...

In this study which is based on the information taken from the map of Soil Conservation and Management Master Plan of Turkey published by the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Rural Affairs in 1987, all major soil groups were digitized and stored in a computer. After transferring process, the data in a GIS software have been used with different data such as main characteristics of the soils,...

The Walkway Management System (WMS) uses geographic information system (GIS) software to calculate an estimate for the level of maintenance required for walkway segments. It then assists the user in prioritising the maintenance on segments of the walkway that require repair. The development of the WMS is a cooperative effort between a team of researchers at Lincoln University and Department of ...

The authors present an experimental project that aims to establish an effective navigation system in accordance with European Council Regulation 1/2005 concerning animal welfare during transport. The prototype created during the project consists of both hardware and software components. An onboard unit is installed at truck level. It collects and transmits real-time information of the animal tr...