The Irrigation Advisory Plan of Campania Region is an initiative of the Assessor for Agriculture and Productive Activities, through the Research and Development Service (Se.S.I.R.CA); it consists of an innovative advisory service for irrigation, based on the combined use of Earth Observation data, GIS and Information Technology to provide crop water requirements information from the ield scale ...

The main purpose of the present study was to assess the ecological capability of agricultural soils using geographic information system (GIS). This research was conducted during 2014 in Hamedan Province, Iran. A cross-sectional study was conducted mapping the 10 factors of soil characteristics (texture, depth, erosion, and aggregation, percentage of slope, direction of slope, height, soil salin...

Despite the rapid growth of electronic health data, most data systems do not connect individual patient records to data sets from outside the health care delivery system. These isolated data systems cannot support efforts to recognize or address how the physical and environmental context of each patient influences health choices and health outcomes. In this article we describe how a geographic ...

Under the Resource Management Act (1991) water managers are required to promote the sustainable management of natural resources, which involves safeguarding the life supporting capacity of water and ecosystems. To help water managers give practical effect to the concept of life supporting capacity, the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and a number of regional councils are working collaborativ...

This paper addresses a computer system capable of integrating, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographic information. Currently, the Geographic Information System is not only limited to cartography but also related to various data management such as natural resource management, environmental impact assessment, and etc. The Internet system allows more geographic information sharing as many u...

This paper introduces the characteristics of Geography Information System (GIS) and the actuality and assignment of environmental monitoring. The authors expound GIS applications in ecological monitoring, water monitoring, air monitoring and environmental noise monitoring, then illuminate the vital role of GIS in environmental protection. GIS is the computer information system that can collect,...

This paper discussed the concepts and development of a multimedia geographic information system (GIS) for analyzing and visualizing both spatial and temporal geographic information in image/vector format as well as multimedia information in descriptive text, graphics, ground photographs and digital video clips. The multimedia GIS presents a new way to analyze and visualize geographic informatio...