1 : This paper presents the conceptual design and the related implementation of a bidirectional domain interconnection bridging Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Geographic Information (GI) systems. Due to the numerous common interests and the fact that both realms, SCADA and GIS, have their own central information, namely time-based sensor data and geographical posit...

There is growing needs for web based GIS for easy and fast dissemination, sharing, displaying and processing of spatial information which in turns helping in decision making for various natural resources based applications. In order to make a cost effective implementation, operation and maintenance of spatial information over the web, a cheaper yet feature rich alternative to commercial softwar...

This work presents GISCASE, an UML CASE tool based on the conceptual framework GeoFrame-A to aid GIS users to model their geographical analysis processes. Starting from a graphical specification of the geographic process, the tool generates an XML intermediate code free of platform and then creates the specific programs for a GIS system. In addition, GISCASE is entirely developed using free sof...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: BIM GIS FM Integration Surface model BG-ETL In this study, we propose software architecture for the effective integration of building information modeling (BIM) into a geographic information system (GIS)-based facilities management (FM) system. This requires the acquisition of data from various sources followed by the transformation of these data into an appropri...

OBJECTIVE Novel, inexpensive solutions are needed for improved management of vector-borne and other diseases in resource-poor environments. Emerging free software providing access to satellite imagery and simple editing tools (e.g. Google Earth) complement existing geographic information system (GIS) software and provide new opportunities for: (i) strengthening overall public health capacity th...

Humanity has faced an enormous technological evolution over the last 15 years in the area of Networks and Communications, in parallel with the continuous progress occurring in the computer hardware and software technologies. Communications and Informatics are undoubtedly considered as the fundamental sections for developing systems and managing their critical component, the data, in order to ob...

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are correlative models that use environmental and/or geographical information to explain patterns of species occurrences. Those models are being used in various fields including climate change, invasive species research, evolutionary biology and epidemiology. Thanks to the availability of increasing computational resources, new methods continue to be developed...

The building of virtual reality system for the opencast mine is a complicated and systemic project. The building process of virtual system includes data collection, GIS geodatabase, model designing and raster textures making. GIS data is from field survey, maps, and remote sensing images. The import phase is the building of kinds of models in different environment. This paper introduced several...

The term "Grid" has become common parlance among parallel and distributed computer scientists to denote a middleware infrastructure for wide-area scientific and engineering computing. Information services are a vital part of any Grid software infrastructure, providing fundamental mechanisms for discovery and monitoring and thus for planning and adapting application behavior. Grid Information Se...