Benefits of ArcGIS Desktop Enhancements Throughout the Enterprise Track: State and Local Government Author(s): Matt Wennstedt, Russ Schuster, Shannon Porter The ArcGIS 8 Desktop environment offers great functionality. This paper addresses some of the advantages of customizing an ArcGIS application for the enterprise at a county governmental level. The advantages include rapid mapping ability an...

Ericsson uses GIS as the core component integrating Business Consulting, Cellular, Transmission, and Datacom Planning departments. The GIS infrastructure is composed of servers and desktop software, integrating the other systems used by Ericsson, such as TEMS and VPI. The result is an ArcSDE/ArcIMS server that stores and shares all the geodatabase with Ericsson users, clients and partners in Br...

This paper highlights the importance of using Remote Sensing and GIS for assisting the seismic risk assessment for historical town centres in Cyprus. The selected case study is the Paphos town centre including the archaeological area of Nea Paphos. The authors present their proposed methodology for inventory collection, which is based on the integrated use of aerial photos and satellite imagery...

After a careful examination and an extensive investigation of the Geopark development, all data of geological heritage, relevant research, tourism information and science education are integrated by the technologies of ArcGIS, MapServer and database software, based on the detailed analysis and design of system architecture, database design, map file handling, user interface design and system de...

Maintenance of a sustainable clean water supply is critical for our future. However, watershed degradation is a common phenomenon around the world that leads to poor water quality. In order to protect water resources, the Watershed Forest Management Information System (WFMIS), was developed as an extension of ArcGIS and is described in this paper. There are three submodels to address nonpoint s...

Varioussoftware for Geographical Information Systems (GISs) have been developed and used in many different engineering projects. In GIS applications, map coverage is important in terms of performing reliable and meaningful queries. Map projections can be conformal, equal-area and equidistant. The goal of an application plays an important role in choosing one of those projections. Choosing the e...

This paper presents an endeavour of integration of GIS (Geographical Information System) and BIM (Building Information Modelling) for indoor geovisual analytics. The merits of two types of technologies, GIS and BIM are firstly analysed in the context of indoor environment. GIS has well-developed capabilities of spatial analysis such as network analysis, while BIM has the advantages for indoor 3...

Areal interpolation has been an active research area, but its wide adoption in the general GIS community is limited due to the lack of implementation tools in commercial software. To bridge this gap, an areal interpolation extension is developed in ArcGIS with 4 popular algorithms, 10 raster and vector implementations, and 4 commonly used error measures. A comparative case study utilizing the e...