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 ...

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 ...

"A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" The following terms are condensed and reproduced with permission from "A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" by Stearns J. Wood, which contains more ...

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 ...

Presents a data model and associated tools to design a template for archiving MODFLOW models with ArcGIS. Harbaugh, A.W., E.R. Banta, M.C. Hill, and M.G. McDonald ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2 (July to December, 2007), pp. 44-52 (9 pages) Abstract:Environmental degradation, and specifically erosion, is a serious and extensive ...