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 ...

Chad Beam provides the ins and outs of the implementation of GIS, advanced communication systems and predictive modeling to ...

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 ...

A warming climate and the increasing threat of urban wildfires have water districts assuming new responsibilities as part of their role to provide fire protection — and they're supporting that work ...

The Geographic Information System team for the City of Lawrence was given a a Special Achievement award for its GIS work by the ESRI organization in San Diego in July. The employees were presented ...

The Carbon Trust has launched the Unison Project, which will develop a standardised offshore wind data model to support safer ...

ABSTRACT. The complexity of urban systems makes it difficult to adequately address their changes using a model based on a single approach. In this research, we developed a GIS-based integrated ...