The debate on vector versus raster based models is nearly as old as the concept of a GIS (Dutton 1979). It was restated as a debate between GIS with an object concept (not to be confused with object-oriented as used in software engineering; (Worboys 1994) uses the term object based GIS, where objects have sharp boundaries delimited by vectors and the GIS which model the continuous variation of ...

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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...

Deforestation and climate change heavily impact the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest threatening its resilience and the sustainability of many human activities. Land protection may prevent ecosystems and their services to deteriorate from the pressures of agricultural expansion, population growth and wood harvesting. In the Brazilian Amazon land protection occurs in several forms such as envi...

Water resources suitability is one of the most important factors to sustainabilityutilization of natural potential by rangeland grazing suitability. To determine this factor inshort time, low cost and high accuracy are most challenges of experts and ranchers. Usingsuitable technique for this subject can be sustainable utilization comprising from rangelandecosystems according to its degradation ...

For GIS, SGML document servers and other highly specialized application domains, the systems integration problem is essential since the available software often is complex and would be costly to reimplement or to modify. In this paper we describe a two-level architecture for integrating software components based on partial data integration and user interface synchronization. We also present a p...

BIOGRAPHY Steven Rozic: M.Sc. Candidate, University of Windsor. Received B.Sc. in Software Engineering in 2004. Research interests in artificial intelligence and GIS integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, and software engineering methodology. Phil Graniero: Assistant Professor, University of Windsor since 2000 and Researcher, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research since ...