Essays on Geographic Information System

Abstract

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is technological programming that gathers, accumulates, and evaluates data related to the earth’s surface. GIS interprets set of data on a single map, which is evaluated and interpreted subsequently. Over the years, the integration of the technology with the principles of Transportation Economics gained a significant attention of numerable economies. Particularly the metropolitan cities of developed countries that encounter various challenges related to the development and maintenance of infrastructure. It was found that GIS allows the Transportation Economists to develop and propose an efficient plan related to different routes and their smart integration. ...

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Land use pertains to different factors on how the actual land is being used, such as mix, density, roadway design, connectivity, and transportation. In chapter 16, it was stated that adverse impacts could happen on land use in once the creation of accessibility is done by new transport facilities (Sinha & Labi, 2011). This study will present one of the land use impacts towards transportation along with its importance. Additionally, GIS or Geographic Information System will be discussed as well as its relationship with the transportation economics. Although there are issues that were identified, there are significant relationship ...

Defining the GIS system:

In the modern era of science and technology, GIS is a significant invention. GIS means Geographic Information System which is a type of computer system that captures, checks, stores, and displays data relevant to different positions on the surface of the Earth. The GIS system can present different types of data on a map. It helps people to easily view, read, and analyze the patterns and relationships; then it helps to understand the patterns and relationships of the data .

Data and GIS:

Different forms of data can be used into Geographic Information System (GIS). Data that exists in map-form can be used ...

The Geographic Information System more commonly referred to as GIS is amongst one of the several methods used by environmental managers to assist them in making more informed decisions about the environment. However, the usage of this technology is not limited to environmental managers. Other users of this technology include; private sector, public sector, on field analysts, web users, and international organizations. The flexibility of this technology and wide usage has been the major contributors towards the success of GIS.

The Geographic Information System allows the analysis of several factors regarding the environment in a single ...

There are various categories of technologies that run the modern world and without which the human life would be traumatized. Man has integrated his environment with his artificial creations to achieve better results from life activities. The environment comprises of the ecosystem where human beings interact with their day-to-day operations. Some of such aspects that man has invented into his environment are geo design, geographic information science and geographic information science. Geo design involves technology, inventions and techniques for planning man-made and natural environmental systems in a procedural integrated manner that includes analyses, design and design creation, project conceptualization ...

Geographic Information System

Access to good health services in many countries is very crucial for effective treatment among the population, hence preventing most of the unnecessary deaths in the society. Primary care is singled out as the most important form of healthcare for population health management since it is the corner stone of healthcare delivery to people in the developing countries for instance. It is low priced and therefore can be conveyed more easily compared to any inpatient care and distinctive feature, and if apportioned correctly, it will effective in avoiding on large scale the advancement of the disease. The human ...

This paperwork will comprise of what I have learned about GIS by tackling the following questions: What is the technology of Geographic Information Systems? How the ESRI’s GIS products designed for environmental management? How can GIS be used to help solve the complicated physical environmental issues in the real world? I have learned that the geographic information system technology maintain and convey information to both the community and the environment managers. The flexibility of geographic information system also permits the examination and amalgamation of numerous layers of location-based statistics plus ecological measurements. ESRI’s geographic information system ...

With the advance in technologies the ability to organize or manipulate data to be more useful in everyday operational and strategic planning as become a key element for success. We can view this in one such systems recognize as the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This study tends to define what GIS (Geographic Information System) is and explain how GIS can be beneficial in the Health Care sector by manipulating raw data to be simulated into useful information by medical personnel’s in the Health Care Sector. In order to understand the benefits that derive from using a Geographic Information ...

Introduction

As a field of engineering, petroleum engineering puts much emphasis on production of hydrocarbons in form of either natural gas or crude oil. Production and exploration of these hydrocarbons is a difficult task which presents various challenges to the technologists. To handle this problem, a number of tools and softwares have been created o ensure the task is easy. Although there are many softwares that are used in this industry, some of them are more basic. These may include the ArcGIS, Goggle Earth, he Petra, excel and PHDWin. This paper discusses these softwares and the role they play in the petroleum engineering ...

In the journal titled Mapping the Spatial Influence of Crime Correlates: A Comparison of Operationalization Schemes and Implications for Crime Analysis and Criminal Justice Practice, Caplan Joel acknowledges the variety of independent variables that have significant direct correlation with particular crime outcomes that decades of research in the field of criminology have identified. The author admits that despite tremendous amount of research in criminology, researchers still understand little about correlates and research factors. He reiterates that there is a meager understanding of the manners in which the factors and correlates of crime become applicable in ways that represent their spatial ...

Abstract Shelter is one of the basic human necessities. Provision of decent-quality and affordable housing is one challenge that various authorities have been faced with, and Sheffield is not left behind. Though she has surpassed her average annual housing needs, Sheffield is still struggling to mitigate housing problems. This research project reviews the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Sheffield’s housing and how education level affects the adoption of GIS in affordable housing initiatives. In order to achieve this objective, the current state of Sheffield’s housing is exhaustively considered. Using the boundary data from EDINA ...