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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…
Nassareddine Azzouzi
Following the example of other industrial activities, mining evaluation is now exposed to socio-economical and technological constraints which are unstable in quick evolution. The keys to its success are increasingly related to a methodology of work more scie…
Padma Weerakoon
Urban growth is a continuous spatial expansion, and happens as a spatial-temporal process. This physical process influenced by various driving factors on the sub-systems within the main urban system. Analysing this spatial-temporal process and the influencing…
Maduako Nnamdi Ikechukwu, Elijah Ebinne, Ufot Idorenyin, Ndukwu Ike Raphael
It is practically impossible and unnecessary to obtain spatial-temporal information of any given continuous phenomenon at every point within a given geographic area. The most practical approach has always been to obtain information about the phenomenon as in…
Marco A. Contreras, Wesley Staats, Jian Yiang, David Parrott
Digital elevation models (DEMs) derived from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology are becoming the standard in representing terrain surfaces. They have numerous applications in forestry, agriculture, and natural resources. Although elevation errors…
Ahmed F. Elaksher
The automation of extracting planner surfaces is a main field of research in digital photogrammetry. These surfaces are essential to generate three dimensional GIS databases. Surfaces are usually determined from either DEMs or images. Each dataset provides a…
Charity W. Kimuku, Moses Ngigi
Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a phenomenon characterized by higher surface and atmospheric temperatures in urbanized areas as compared to the surrounding rural areas. This phenomenon is a consequence of increase in Land Surface Temperatures (LST) as a result of…
Rida Al-Adamat
This research is an attempt to develop a new GIS index to investigate the surface water susceptibility to pollution (SWSi). In this index, the Weighted Linear Combination techniques within GIS environment was used to calculate the overall surface water suscep…
Yousif Elnour Yagoub, Zhongqin Li, Omer Said Musa, Muhammad Naveed Anjum, Feiteng Wang, Chunhai Xu, Zhang Bo
The aim of this research paper is to investigate the land cover changes in Sudan during the period 2001-2013 by using the MODIS data and to identify climatic factors influencing the land cover. SPSS v 17 software was used to investigate the correlation of cli…
Mauro Di Luzio, Mike J. White, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Jimmy R. Williams, James R. Kiniry
Water quality modeling requires across-scale support of combined digital soil elements and simulation parameters. This paper presents the unprecedented development of a large spatial scale (1:250,000) ArcGIS geodatabase coverage designed as a functional repos…
Thankam Theresa Paul, Grinson George, A. Dennis, N. R. Athira, R. S. Biradar, Rajani Khandagale, K. G. Padmakumar
The biomass and distribution of black clam ( Villorita cyprinoides ) in Vembanad, a tropical estuary located along the southwest coast of India varied significantly. Sampling was done in freshwater-dominated zone in the south (distal) and brackish water zone…
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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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