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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…
Sandul Yasobant, Kranti Suresh Vora, Carl Hughes, Ashish Upadhyay, Dileep V. Mavalankar
Use of GIS in public health is currently limited to tracking immunizations, disease surveillance, and establishing new service areas. The potential of GIS to improve planning, implementation and monitoring of programs and to inform policymaking processes for…
Mohammad Ashraf, Rabeya Nawaz
Wetlands are those landscapes which are saturated with water or covered by water either perennially or for a major part of the year. Due to transforming nature of the wetlands from aquatic to terrestrial, the related physical features are not easy to be monit…
Korehisa Kaneko, Seiich Nohara
We tried more precise mapping of vegetation using UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), as a new method of creating vegetation maps, and we objected to be clearly the efficient mapping of vegetation using the UAV method by comparing vegetation maps created by analys…
Arjun Raj Pandey, Farzad Shahbodaghlou
The aim of this project was to prepare and study a hazard map of Nagadhunga-Naubise section of the Tribhuvan highway. This section lies in the Middle Mountain region of Nepal. For the preparation of the hazard map of the corridor three steps, initial study, f…
Erin Speiser Ihde, Themba Nyirenda, Aridaman K. Jain, Ji Meng Loh, Francisco Artigas, Christine Hobble, Dom Elefante, Saleh Kojak, Jin Young Shin, Lawrence Rosen
The rise in reported prevalence rates of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is a national concern that continues to grow at a record pace. New Jersey has the highest prevalence rate of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) among states surveyed, with approximately 1…
Simhachalam Alajangi, Satyanarayana Prasad Nerella
The importance of Web-based GIS applications for government is to analyze the information they produce and to establish their impact on efficiency, effectiveness and transparency. The potential of Remote Sensing and GIS provides cost and time-effective resour…
Rabii El Gaatib, Abdelkader Larabi
The initial state of the Oued Beht watershed (430,728 ha) is characterized by a socio-ecological vulnerability associated to the water erosion risk. Especially, the consequences are chained and the soil loss alters its hydrological behavior and its ability to…
Javed Mallick
This knowledge of land surface temperature and its spatial variations within a city environment is of prime importance to the study of urban climate and human-environment interactions. Few studies have examined the influence of land use and terrain on the sur…
Sami Al Jaber, Amit Kumar Ghosh, Mallik Sezan Mahmud
The spatial land cover pattern of Dhaka city is restlessly altering as it has highest growing rates among megacities. Due to high urbanization rates, land use is changing from natural to man-made along with resource extractions that accelerate the land cover…
Kenneth Mubea, Gunter Menz, 1 1
Urban land-use modeling has gained increased attention as a research topic over the last decade. This has been attributed to advances in remote sensing and computing technology that now can process several models simultaneously at regional and local levels. I…
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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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