Drawings alone are no longer a sufficient format to manage complex project data. To establish a competitive advantage in a very competitive industry, engineers, planners and designers must embrace the benefits of enterprise wide project data sets. This paper presents an approach that transforms the traditional engineering design project lifecycle by synthesizing drawing data, planning applicati...

This paper presents an advanced DInSAR-GIS technique developed by the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC) for the generation of precise terrain deformation maps using data acquired by satellite platforms. These radar systems, known as Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR), allow obtaining terrain reflectivity images, which are processed by means of DInSAR algorithms for monitoring ground stabil...

The Landscape Genetics GIS Toolbox contains tools that run in the Geographic Information System software, ArcGIS , to map genetic landscapes and to summarize multiple genetic landscapes as average and variance surfaces. These tools can be used to visualize the distribution of genetic diversity across geographic space and to study associations between patterns of genetic diversity and geographic...

Spatial statistical stream-network models are useful for modelling physicochemical data, but to-date have not been fit to macroinvertebrate data. Spatial stream-network models were fit to three macroinvertebrate indices: percent pollution-tolerant taxa, taxa richness and the number of taxalacking out-ofnetwork movement (in-stream dispersers). We explored patterns of spatial autocorrelation in t...

In an extension of the work of Drs. Hunt and Lipo published in Antiquity (2005), I surveyed the prehistoric roads of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) using ArcGIS software and satellite images of the island. A pre-determined set of criteria was utilized, though there was much potential for error with both false positives and negatives. A great deal of progress was made in identifying potential location...

High-resolution images available on Google Earth are increasingly being consulted in geographic studies. However, most studies limit themselves to visualizations or on-screen measurements. Google Earth allows users to create points, lines and polygons on-screen, which can be saved as KML files. Here, the use of R statistics freeware is proposed to easily convert these files to the shapefile for...

The Landscape Genetics GIS Toolbox contains tools that run in the Geographic Information System software, ArcGIS(®), to map genetic landscapes and to summarize multiple genetic landscapes as average and variance surfaces. These tools can be used to visualize the distribution of genetic diversity across geographic space and to study associations between patterns of genetic diversity and geograph...

This paper describes how geographic information system (GIS), remote sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies were used to plan the collection of entomological baseline data for a tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) elimination project in the Mouhoun river basin in Burkina Faso. Historical data were collated as the background for data analysis. These data were used to define t...