research methods using geographic information systems

... accessibility: A comparative analysis using a point-based framework Geographical Analysis 1998, 30:191-216 40 Nuckols JR, Ward MH, Jarup L: Using geographic information systems for exposure assessment ... Quarterly 2009, 87:155-184 32 Matthews SA, Moudon AV, Daniel M: Work group II: Using Geographic Information Systems for enhancing research relevant to policy on diet, physical activity, and weight Am ... and attribute information on the built environment Spatial data can be acquired using primary or secondary data collection methods Primary data are often collected using two common methods: 1)...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... Modelling – A GIS-Based Approach Using Voronoi Diagrams with Constraints 283 Nicolai Guth and Philipp Klingel Chapter 16 Using Geographic Information Systems for Health Research 303 Alka Patel and ... Stich Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University, USA 18 Application of Geographic Information Systems Colin Brooks Environmental Science Laboratory, Michigan Tech Research Institute, ... sub-VU is produced (Fig 9-d) 32 Application of Geographic Information Systems Figure 10 Vector Unit splitting using raster information The use of raster information to both evaluate the homogenity...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... Introduction to Urban Geographic Information Systems Oxford University Press: New York Information Resource Council 1997–2001. Geographic Information Systems. ” Columbia, SC: Office of Information Resources ... with H.Archer 1991, Geographic Information Systems: A Guide to the Technology Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, Netherlands Aronoff, Stanley 1991 Geographic Information Systems: A Management ... The Design and Implementation of Geographic Information Systems The Design and Implementation of Geographic Information Systems John E Harmon and Steven J Anderson This book...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 12:38

... in a GIS Environment, Geo Info Systems, April 1992, pp 58–63 Huxhold, W.E., 1991, Information in the Organization, An Introduction to Urban Geographic Information Systems, Oxford University Press, ... usage of Geographic Information Systems, there is a corresponding need for standardization Standardization does not mean that all GIS databases contain the same format and quality of information; ... elements must be considered as part of a Geographic Information System REFERENCES Cooke, D.F., 1992, Spatial Decision Support System: Not Just Another GIS, Geo Info Systems, May 1992, pp 46–49 Cowen,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 20:20

... Development Research Office of Research and Planning Office of Data and Policy Analysis (DAPA) Hawaii Community Services Council Center for Neighbourhood Technology Chicago Area Geographic Information ... Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) The Right-to-Know Network (RTK NET) Food Research and Action Center DC Agenda Project Federal City Council Poverty and Race Research Action Council ... Neighbourhoods On-line The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring Housing Association of Delaware Valley Rhode Island Geographic Information System (RIGIS) The Providence Plan Department of Ecology...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... community groups use maps and geographic information , Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 25(2): 95–104 Dangermond, J (1988) ‘Who is designing geographic information systems for the public?’ ... (1993) ‘Guidelines for demonstrating geographical information systems based on participatory development’, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (7): Jarvis, K A and Spearman, ... Sharing Geographic Information Systems, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Centre for Urban Policy Research, pp 292–306 Onsrud, H J and Rushton, G (eds) (1995) Sharing Geographic Information Systems, New Brunswick,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... provide an adequate housing supply for this new demand, and consequently requests for housing permits, especially live–work permits, sky-rocketed in SoMa The demand for housing among young, newly ... Pascual Up until 1996, there were few requests to construct new live–work housing Based on the few requests to build live–work housing that did come in, the Planning Department quickly became aware ... last remaining affordable housing stocks in San Francisco, with over 30 Single Room Occupancy Residential Hotels (SROs) and several hundred units of low-rent family housing By 1995, a network of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... neighbourhood planners and interested citizens would be sitting at PCs in the CDC offices using GIS to both query the information regarding the particulars of their environments and to perform ‘what if’ ... and laws, and distribution of services It is information traditionally recorded, e.g property owners, tax assessment, code violations and so on It is information collected with new technologies ... distribution of central databases using the Internet with an easy-to-use interface This eliminates the problem of finding and keeping GIS trained personnel OHCD’s Neighbourhood Information System is an...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... neighbourhood So we created a special housing repair program for that area, and focused [a housing program] there So housing development, housing information, and housing grants and loans were focused ... perspectives and needs’, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 25(2): 77–88 Elwood, S (2000) Information for Change: The Social and Political Impacts of Geographic Information Technologies, Ph.D ... Kansas), pp 96–111 Ghose, R (1999) ‘Use of information technology for community empowerment: transforming geographic information systems in community information systems , © 2002 Taylor & Francis 88...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... (2000) ‘Web-based public participation geographical information systems: an aid to local environmental decisionmaking’, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 24(2): 109–125, Elsevier Science ... http://www.nop.co.uk/internet/surveys/in07.htm NOP Research Group NOP (1999) ‘Internet research , http://www.nop.co.uk/internet.asp/ NOP Research Group Ordnance Survey (1997) Developments for the Web, Information paper 13/1997, ... mapping on the Internet, Information Paper 1/1999 Version 2, Southampton: Ordnance Survey Pickles, J (1995) Ground truth: the social implications of geographical information systems, New York: Guildford...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... impact of integrated land information systems upon public decision making in Australia’, Papers from the 1988 Annual Conference of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, 1: 68–79 ... (1991) ‘Some indicators to measure the impact of land information systems in decision-making’, Proceedings of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, vol © 2002 Taylor & Francis ... land use information using a variety of venues and events We have guided the County Executive’s staff in the analysis, display and dissemination of their own geospatial data, particularly information...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... desktop version on CD and an online interactive mapping application that offers layers of geographic information © 2002 Taylor & Francis 128 M Bosworth et al individually or in combination to ... decreases, information gets simpler At the top of the pyramid, the usual suspects represent the smallest yet most involved group of people Metro reaches Conversely, they require the most detailed information ... largest portion of the pyramid Residents in the region have a wide variety of methods to communicate back to Metro These methods can be organized by the communications pyramid structure For all three...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... catchment by providing and allowing access to geographic information, GIS tools, and expertise The organization is intended to facilitate a common geographic view of the catchment and enable synergistic ... HRIC, particularly in relation to collaboration between groups 11.4.2 Methods The HRIC evaluation was conducted using qualitative research techniques (Denzin and Lincoln 1994; Patton 1987) Each year ... establishing their own resource information centres in a rural regional setting Funding from the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group enabled development of an information kit by staff from...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... participatory geographic information systems: redressing South Africa’s historical political ecology’, in J Pickles (ed.) Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems, New ... knowledge and geographic information systems in the use and management of Hawaii’s coral reefs and fishponds’, High Plains Applied Anthropologist 16(2): 144–164 Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical ... approaches in geographic information systems for coastal management’, Marine Pollution Bulletin 25(1–4): 82–87 Robinson, M., Garvin, T and Hodgson, G (1994) Mapping How We Use Our Land: Using Participatory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... Tulloch, D L (1999) ‘Theoretical model of multipurpose land information systems development’, Transactions in Geographic Information Systems 3(3): 259–283 © 2002 Taylor & Francis ... of the NGO systems are defined, in part, by the missions of the organizations These organizations often are engaged in efforts to alter land-related resource allocation systems while using geospatial ... future roles In 1999, the governor of New Jersey and the state chief information officer formed a state Office of Geographic Information Although the Office was formally designated to coordinate...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... chapter describes community-based research intended to bring local spatial information into public consciousness and build local capability to manage and use that information It focuses on two initiatives ... that involve academic researchers and local citizens manage the projects This chapter explores two particular issues arising from the research initiatives: (1) barriers to information flow (Meredith ... ecosystems they are managing (community-based) and those who are external to those systems (technocratic) The concept of rational expectations in the field of economics recognized that the way systems...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 25(2): 67–76 Harris, T., Weiner, D., Warner, T and Levin, R (1995) ‘Pursuing social goals through participatory geographical information systems: redressing ... International Development 10(4): 527–537 Mather, C (2000) ‘Geographical information systems and humanitarian demining’, South African Geographical Journal 82: 56–63 Obermeyer, N (ed.) (1998) ‘Special ... Cartography and Geographic Information System 22(1): 30–44 Weiner, D and Harris, T (1999) ‘Community-Integrated GIS for land reform in South Africa’, WVU Regional Research Institute Research Paper...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... 31–35 Stonich, S C (1998) Information technologies, advocacy, and development: Resistance and backlash to industrial shrimp farming’, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 25(2): 113–122 ... information about ISA Net, action alerts and news, a list of ISA Net members and their individual websites, an archive of press releases, links to current research and scholars, and contact information ... communicate ecological information; to share information; to integrate scientific data with local knowledge; and to advance public/consumer campaigns Simultaneously, field research is being conducted...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... information is in the GIS and ready to be used, the spatial jurisdiction information will be shared with law enforcement and other interested agencies outside the tribe Although some tribal information ... prohibitive without the help of the GDSC in Lakewood GIS staff was also sent to Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) training centres for intensive, advanced ArcInfo training GIS equipment ... agencies outside the tribe Although some tribal information is proprietary, most digital, geographic information can be shared This will significantly reduce duplication of effort and contribute...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22