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Journal of Geographic Information System (JGIS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geographic information system. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. The journal publishes the h…
Rodrigo Rafael Souza de Oliveira, Everaldo Barreiros de Souza, Aline Maria Meiguins de Lima
This work aimed to analyze the spatial behavior of plant formations and land use in the Ecological Tension Area Amazon—Cerrado. To this end, the Araguaia river basin was selected, in its low course, because it constitutes a physical-natural limit between the…
Chigueru Tiba, Verônica W. B. Azevêdo
Brazil has a predominantly renewable energy matrix, with large participation of water resource in domestic supply of energy. Data from 2019 National Energy Balance show that renewable sources (water, biomass, wind and solar photovoltaic) together represented…
Ekaterina Podolskaia, Dmitriy Ershov, Konstantin Kovganko
In the big forest countries, there is an actual challenge of accessing the forests for their resources, operational wildfire management, and economic estimations for various purposes. In Russia, there are two ways to access the forests: by air and by ground m…
Vivian da Silva Celestino Reginato
Satellite imagery is used for many activities in different areas of the planet, including searching for alternative and sustainable sources to meet growing energy demand to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One way to minimize these effects and expand en…
Olusegun Owoeye Idowu, Abdullateef Iyanda Bako, Olalekan Tolulope Bodurin Aduloju
Current situation of development in Minna has raised many spatial challenges especially in the peri-urban areas. This study analyzed the spatial development of Minna between 1972 and 2015, with a view to determining the trend at which the peri-urban area chan…
Caren Kahangwa, Cuthbert Nahonyo, George Sangu
This study monitored land cover change in the mining sites of Golden Pride Gold Mine (GPGM) and Geita Gold Mine (GGM), Tanzania. The satellite data for land cover classification for the years 1997, 2010 and 2017 were obtained from the United States Geologic S…
Moncef Bouaziz, Sarra Hihi, Mahmoud Yassine Chtourou, Babatunde Osunmadewa
Soil salinity is one of the serious environmental problems ravaging the soils of arid and semi-arid region, thereby affecting crop productivity, livestock, increase level of poverty and land degradation. Hyperspectral remote sensing is one of the important te…
Raed A. Salha, Muain Q. Jawabrah, Usama I. Badawy, Amjad Jarada, Abdelkhalek I. Alastal
The main characteristics of potential smart cities in the future, smart citizens, smart energy, smart buildings, smart mobility, smart technology, smart healthcare, smart infrastructure, smart governance and education, and finally smart security are the aspec…
Nilay Nishant, Avinash Chouhan, Dibyajyoti Chutia, Puyam S. Singh, Sanjiv Ojah, Sanjiban Roy, P. L. N. Raju
Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease is a major pandemic which has taken the world by storm. More than 524,000 citizens of the globe have succumbed to the disease as on 3 rd July, 2020. Accurate modeling of the dynamics of the disease spread is required to curb the…
Christian Nunes Da Silva, Vicka De Nazaré Magalhães Marinho, Gracilene De Castro Ferreira, Yasmin Alves Dos Santos, Roberto Magno Reis Netto, Aline Reis De Oliveira Araújo, Rafael Dantas Dias, Adolfo Da Costa Oliveira Neto, Rodolpho Zahluth Bastos, João Marcio Palheta Da Silva, Leonardo De Sousa Santos
The use of cartography in geographical approaches, notably in those focused on territorial discussions, is gaining more and more importance. However, the use of technical maps still prevails, which often act to hinder its use and appropriation by traditional…
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Journal of Geographic Information System (JGIS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geographic information system. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. The journal publishes the h… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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