The field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) has seen significant advancements in recent years, particularly in the context of monitoring regional hydrology, ecology, and ...

Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had several interesting ...

Cohort studies have demonstrated increased mortality risks associated with differences between large urban areas in annual average air pollution concentrations over several years (Dockery et al., 1993 ...

Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ensure that staffing, to whatever extent, is utilized most effectively. A ...

Directions Magazine is pleased to welcome Eva Reid as a regular columnist. In her debut contribution, she examines how health data modeling—particularly through GIS and agent-based systems—will ...

Standardized data modeling has become essential within the continually changing environment of geospatial information systems (GIS). Organizations extensively use GIS to plan infrastructure and manage ...

Proposed by Egyptian scientists, the proposed GIS technique considers a pumped-hydro project’s head and elevation difference, the penstock-length distance from the base plant, the site’s slopes and ...

Project delays and failures can eat up time, resources, goodwill and -- not infrequently -- professional reputations. Over the years, a number of Geographic Information System (GIS) projects have ...

CRAWLEY, AUSTRALIA—The Science Network of Western Australia reports that Tom Whitley of the University of Western Australia is leading an international team of scientists in developing a Geographic ...