... Expert systems and geographicalinformationsystems for impact assessment/Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson p cm Includes bibliographical references and index Geographicalinformationsystems ... Rodriguez-Bachiller, A (2000b) GeographicalInformationSystems and Expert Systems for Impact Assessment Part II: Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems, Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy ... States in the US to develop systems concerned with their natural resources and withenvironmental issues The US Geological Survey developed, from 1973, the GeographicalInformation Retrieval and...
... the core of these systems Within this framework, knowledge acquisition became crucial to the design of expert systems (Figure 2.6) With the popularisation and diffusion of expert systems technology ... specific problems within wider problem-solving frameworks, which are dealt with by other means and with different computer tools 2.5 FROM EXPERT SYSTEMS TO DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS As problems ... backbone, much in the style in which expert systems interact with their users A new generation of interactive operating systems – like Windows – also appeared, with “user-friendliness” as their selling...
... and Regional InformationSystems Association (URISA) Conference, Boston (August 6–10), Vol II, pp 210–6 Krasovskaia, T.V and Tikunov, V.S (1991) GeographicalInformationSystems for Environmental ... Integrating Air Quality Models WithGeographicalInformation System for Regional Environmental Planning, International Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol 54, No 3–4 (Section A: Environmental Studies), ... (1996) Environmental Multimedia Exploratory Systems, in Rumor, M et al (eds) op cit., Vol 1, pp 147–66 Fouda, Y.E., El-Kadi, H and El-Raey, M (1993) A GeographicalInformation System for Environmental...
... States, Environmental Management, Vol 26, No (July), pp 13–24 Chang, K.-T and Li, Z (2000) Modelling Snow Accumulation With a GeographicalInformation System, International Journal of GeographicalInformation ... specifically on GIS and environmentalmodelling (Goodchild et al., 1993, 1996a,b) 4.3.1 Water modelling Fedra (1993) reviews a set of systems dealing with a wide range of environmental issues like ... the mountains of Nepal Some mapping systems can be integrated with general regional planning to provide environmentalinformation to be combined with other information, as in Botswana (Nkambwe,...
... (1992) Environmental Decision Support System Project: An Exploration of Alternative Architectures for GeographicalInformation Systems, International Journal of GeographicalInformation Systems, ... Knowledge-Based Geographic Information Systems, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Vol 18, No 4, pp 233–42 Fischer, M.M and Nijkamp, P (1992) GeographicalInformationSystems and Spatial Modelling: Potentials ... Rodriguez-Bachiller, A (2000) GeographicalInformationSystems and Expert Systems for Impact Assessment Part II: Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems, Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy...
... expert systems when dealing with too large and complex problems, with expertise still subject to debate, and with “common-sense” issues (Waterman, 1986) In practical terms, expert systems dealing with ... Cleveland County Council, Environmental Impact Statement, Environmental Resources Management (for Northumbrian Environmental Management) Giesler, N (1994) Personal Communication, Environmental Resources ... to hold such meetings In addition to the existing environmentalinformation about the area or the site, any published good-quality descriptive information, like smallscale maps or aerial photographs,...
... really the information we are after), and we can get that information directly, without having to extract it from published information about the area they are likely to come from With these ... Tourist Boards have good information about local capacity and occupancy rates; local Tourist Information Centres can often provide more “on the ground” information) ; (e) with respect to trends ... Geographic informationsystems can be used as a storage and “synthesizer” of large amount of information (from the Census and many other sources) and, to that extent, an existing GIS with all or...
... consultation with organisations that have the relevant information (Simonson, 1994),47 and only rarely – for big projects with a big budget for the impact study – does it involve fieldwork to collect information ... recorded with photography or by fishing (with traps, nets, hook and line); (iii) marine mammals can be detected with similar methods, but are the most difficult to quantify The baseline is assessed with ... this part was greatly helped by conversations with John Simonson, of Environmental Resources Management Ltd (Oxford branch); Mathew Anderson helped with the compilation and structuring of the material...
... transfer (within and/or between organisations) implicit in expert systems, seen in this respect as ideal “enabling” tools And GIS are built to deal quickly and accurately withgeographical information, ... associated with Expert systems should be just seen as interactive62 computer systems that encapsulate the problem-solving procedures of experts for the use of non-experts, without identifying them with ... a flexible framework within which chains of expert systems can be used to 62 Interaction with a human user in the case of diagnostic systems like those discussed here, or with sensors and control...
... and an earlier book on environmentalmodellingwith G I s (Goodchild et al 1993) 1.3 WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTALMODELLING AND HOW CAN GIs AND REMOTE SENSING HELP IN ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING? A model is ... Principles of GeographicalInformationSystems Oxford, Clarendon Press Crane, M.P and Goodchild, M.F., 1993, Epilog In Goodchild, M.F., Parks, B.O., Steyart, L.T (editors) EnvironmentalModellingwith ... assessment 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Land-atmosphere interaction modelling 4.3 Ecosystems process modelling 4.4 Hydrologic modelling 4.5 Dynamic biosphere modelling 4.6 Data access 4.7 Global databases 4.7.1...
... Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remote Sensing 2.3.3 Discussion Both inductive and deductive methods have been used for environmentalmodelling However, inductive ... 2002 Andrew Skidmore 20 EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remote Sensing expert system based only on existing knowledge; that is an expert would deduce a model about an environmental system Such ... soil type mapping using an expert system with Landsat Thematic Mapper data and a digital terrain model International Journal of GeographicalInformation Systems, 5: 43 4 Skidmore, A.K., Gauld,...
... Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore EnvironmentalModellingwith GIS and Remote Sensing 36 3.4 HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION SATELLITES 3.4.1 Low spatial resolution satellite systemswith high revisiting time ... 10.4-12.6 pm with a 30 m (MSU-E) and 200-300 m (MSU-SK) spatial resolution The swath width is 760 km with a 3-5 day revisit time Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 38 EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS ... hand, pure commercial remote sensing systems, with no government funding, implies a high Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 28 EnvironmentalModellingwith GIS and Remote Sensing risk, especially...
... presence or absence Besides, models with a low accuracy may still contain ecologically relevant information Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 130 EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remore Sen.ring The ... EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remote Sensing Congalton, R.G., Stenback, J.M and Barrett, R.H., 1993, bfapping deer habitat suitability using remote sensing and geographic informationsystems ... multiple Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 128 EnvironmentalModellingwith GIS and Remote Sensing factors, especially when they were poorly correlated with each other This is frequently the case;...
... of water (Shaw 1993) Beds of rock Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 172 EnvironmentalModellingwith GIS and Remote Sensing with high porosity that are capable of holding large quantities of water ... at a spatial resolution of 25 m to 50 m, which corresponds well with data Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remote Sensing 174 on vegetation and surface conditions ... referred to as permeability (Grip and Rhode 1994) Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 170 EnvironmentalModellingwith GIS and Remote Sensing The actual infiltration capacity of a soil varies depending...
... disasters, with trends (Source: Munich Re 2001) Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 206 EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remote Sensing 10.2 DISASTER MANAGEMENT One way of dealing with natural ... Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remote Sensing 208 should supply planners and decision-makers with adequate and understandable information As many types of disasters, ... the main source of information at this level, forming the basis for hazard assessment Apart from the actual hazard information, environmental and population and infrastructural information can be...
... 11) These systems generally consist of a standard GIs with some additional software components to facilitate decision support Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore EnvironmentalModellingwith GIS and ... perceived with GIs modelling for environmental applications, that is data and models, has not changed in the last decade At the First International Conference on Integrating GIs and EnvironmentalModelling ... reflects the fact that the course Copyright 2002 Andrew Skidmore 256 EnvironmentalModellingwith CIS and Remote Sensing focussed on GIs modelling, and not remote sensing per se However, it is clear...
... INNOVATIVE INFORMATIONSYSTEMSMODELLING TECHNIQUES Edited by Christos Kalloniatis Innovative InformationSystemsModelling Techniques Edited by ... orders@intechopen.com Innovative InformationSystemsModelling Techniques, Edited by Christos Kalloniatis p cm ISBN 978-953-51-0644-9 Contents Preface IX Chapter Information Systems: From the Requirements ... information system Most informationsystems are nowadays software-intensive systems: they integrate heterogeneous, distributed software components, large-scale software applications, legacy systems...
... web-based information sources created with a low budget and simple tools One of the most reasonable criteria for such an evaluation is the measurement of the platform visits per month with the ... to provide information contemporarily [10, 13] This medium increasingly influences the work and decision expiry in medicine Therefore the use of online medical databases and expert systems were ... digital records A special web-based information source of the German Perinatal Registry does not exist Therefore the Internet platform of the German Working Group for Information Technologies in Gynecology...