Decision making at the national level in both developing and developed countries requires the integrated use of information from a multitude of sources. Both local and national governments in many developed countries have found geographic information systems (GIS) to be a critical tool in resource management, regional planning, and economic development. Unfortunately, the practical use of GIS i...

Since ancient times, men had the necessity to catch somehow the concept of “information”, to model it in a certain way and even to find out methods to store it. Information is a term with many meanings depending on context, but is, as a rule, closely related to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. Of course an important part of th...

Managing crises requires collecting geographical intelligence and making spatial decisions through collaborative efforts among multiple, distributed agencies and task groups. Crisis management also requires close coordination among individuals and groups of individuals who need to collaboratively derive information from geospatial data and use that information in coordinated ways. However, geos...

Reproductive health has been paid more attention by international society since the concept was put forward in the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. This paper analyzes firstly the application of geospatial information techniques, including Global Positioning System (GPS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS), in survei...

Facilitating an interoperable application environment based on heterogeneous georesources is one of the ultimate goals for a spatial data infrastructure (SDI). As the sharing of geospatial data becomes increasingly easy and convenient, the discrepancy and heterogeneity of data quality between datasets dynamically collected from various georesources must be taken into consideration. Such awarene...

Abstract In most agricultural area, the efficient and proper management is found effective using information gained from combination of Geospatial Information System (GIS) combined with field sampling techniques. This study aimed to determine physico-chemical properties selected soil area develop a small-scale thematic mapping ArcGIS software. The research was conducted at matured oil palm plan...

The Center for Geographic Information Science (CGISc) at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) was established in the Summer of 2006. CGISc is an educational research entity that relies on the use of GIS and the science of geographic information to conduct research on human and natural phenomena distributed on the Earth’s surface. CGISc welcomes interdisciplinary collaboration, and...

Social media is valuable in propagating information during disasters for its timely and available characteristics nowadays, and assists in making decisions when tagged with locations. Considering the ambiguity and inaccuracy in some social data, additional authoritative data are needed for important verification. However, current works often fail to leverage both social and authoritative data a...

In recent years the OpenGIS technology standards have been developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which provide the essential basis for syntactic interoperability of geographic information services, also gives an opportunity for data interoperability, data integration and data sharing between different emergency management agencies. However finding suitable services and visualizatio...