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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…
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Flash floods in arid environments are a major hazard feature to human and to the infrastructure. Shortage of accurate environmental data is main reason for inaccurate prediction of flash flooding characteristics. The curve number (CN) is a hydrologic number u…
Yahya Farhan, Atef Ayed
Flash flood hazard initiated by heavy rainstorms is common in arid Jordan, and often has induced immense damage to life and infrastructures. The current study presents a flash flood assessment for Wadi Rajil (northern Jordan) and Wadi Wuheida (southern Jordan…
Orit Rotem-Mindali, Eran Feitelson, Yaron Michael
Jerusalem is holy to the three main monotheistic religions. Hence Jerusalem is, from a touristic perspective, a world city. Jerusalem is also a highly segmented city. While Jerusalem may seem as an extreme case, it is not unique. Many cities attract large num…
Hala M. Ebaid, Medhat Aziz
Monitoring of variations in water for lakes and reservoirs is a requirement for meeting human needs and assessing ongoing climatic changes. However, regular gauging networks fail to provide the information needed for water volume data. The aim of this study i…
Bulus L. Gadiga, Mala Galtima
The study examines the dynamics of land use/cover in a rapidly urbanizing city of Gombe in Northeast Nigeria. The objective was to apply geospatial techniques in mapping and characterization of the pattern of land use changes in the metropolis that occurred b…
Rizwan Ali, Mobushir Riaz Khan, Hannan Mehmood
Violence comes first by which human lives are being destroyed. Violence poses serious challenges to law enforcement agencies and policy makers as well as it threatens the writ of the Government. Violence condition of a country can be visualized through an acc…
Md. Azharul Islam, Md. Amit Hasan, Murad Ahmed Farukh
Bangladesh is a densely populated country where food crisis is one of the major issues where proper soil mapping is lacking till now. The purpose of this study is to prepare soil mapping of Bangladesh including different soil factors like pH, salinity, nutrie…
Marcos Roberto Martines, Rogério Hartung Toppa, Ricardo Vicente Ferreira, Alexandre Cavagis, Fernando Shinji Kawakubo, Rúbia Gomes Morato
There has been great interest on the part of public and private initiatives in knowing the location of urban areas with potential for investments in social resources. The aim of the present article is to propose a methodology to identify such areas, using the…
Angela Terumi Fushita, José Eduardo dos Santos, Yuri Tavares Rocha, Elisabete Maria Zanin
The urbanization of a campus landscape has required much space for this expansion, reinforcing the status of geographical space as a limited resource. We analyzed the effects of land cover change assessed over temporal dataset on composition and configuration…
Shane Furze, Jae Ogilvie, Paul A. Arp
Improving the accuracy of digital elevation is essential for reducing hydro-topographic derivation errors pertaining to, e.g., flow direction, basin borders, channel networks, depressions, flood forecasting, and soil drainage. This article demonstrates how a…
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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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