Emergency management/Emergency service is a compelling domain for applying GIS Web Service. GIS Web Service expands the further development of GIS. A Web service is described using XML-standards like the WSDL (Web Service Description Language). Web Services, are different from Web applications, don’t require people to use; but software applications to call. Thus, the Web service does not have a...

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A yield estimation method by remote sensing was used to estimate the yield of winter wheat in Jiangsu province, China. The first step of this study was to extract the planting area of winter wheat from environmental satellite images and land -use map of Jiangsu province, meanwhile, correlation analyses were performed by using 8-day of composite Leaf Area Index (LAI) data from Moderate Resolutio...

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...

This paper presents a software development approach to customize the GIS software ArcGIS (by ESRI) for spatial decision support. For the case study, example data of the Quémé catchment in Benin (Africa) is used to program such a system which will be used to plan the establishment of potential small water reservoirs. Therefore, a new user menu in ArcGIS is introduced which allows (i) the integra...

Given the low accuracy of the traditional remote sensing image processing software when orthorectifying satellite images that cover mountainous areas, and in order to make a full use of mutually compatible and complementary characteristics of the remote sensing image processing software PCI-RPC (Rational Polynomial Coefficients) and ArcGIS-Spline, this study puts forward a new operational and e...

This report addresses the problem of extracting topographic features from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) imagery. The features are used for Earth science applications and include slope, curvature, aspect, flow direction, flow accumulation and compound topographic index (CTI). The objective of our work is (1) to support topographic feature extraction similar to the one in ArcGIS, (2) to...