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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…
Yuichiro Shimura, Kayoko Yamamoto
This study treats the determination of routes for evacuation on foot in earthquake disasters as a multi-objective optimization problem, and aims to propose a method for quantitatively searching for evacuation routes using a multi-objective genetic algorithm (…
Abdul Qayum, Andrew Michael Lynn, Rakesh Arya, 1 1
The native communities have been using their unique traditional knowledge system (TKS), culture, indigenous skills and expertise since the ancient times. India has witnessed its legacy from the time of Charaka & Susruta for TKS of medicinal plants. The object…
Margarita Vargas-Sandoval, Angel G. Priego-Santander, Alejandra Larrazábal, Carolina G. Sosa-Gutiérrez, Blanca Lara-Chávez, Teresita Avila-Val
Ticks are regarded as the most relevant vectors of disease-causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals. The diversity of Ixodidae is known for a very small number of genera. Ixodes are represented by 26 species, and in 2007 the first reported ticks vectors…
Toju Francis Balogun, Henry Okeke, Christain Ifanyin Chukwukere
This paper first examines crime situation in Benin metropolis using questionnaire to elicit information from the public and the police. Result shows that crime is on the rise and that the police are handicapped in managing it because of the obsolete methods a…
Javed Mallick, Mohd Abul Hasan, Yasser Alashker, Mohd Ahmed, 1 1
This study investigates the potential for remote sensing of lake water bathymetry and geochemical by 1) examining the empirical based technique for retrieving depth information from passive optical image worldview-2 satellite data, 2) performing atmospheric c…
Chigueru Tiba, Ruibran Januário dos Reis Reis, Júlio César Ezequiel da Costa, Verônica Wilma Bezerra Azevedo, Jõao Francisco Abreu, Melina Amoni Silveira Alves, Daniel Pereira Guimarães, Marco Aurélio Dumont Porto
The generation of heliothermal electricity has received increasing attention throughout the world in countries such as Spain, the USA, Germany and many others. In Brazil, this type of energy generation in the form of large projects (above 80 MW) remains unexp…
Lev Spivak, Ivan Spivak, Alexey Sokolov, Sergey Voinov
A new methodology of comparing digital raster maps was proposed which allows not only detecting changes in the maps, but also obtaining quantitative measures of the importance of selected differences. Procedure of object interpretation of satellite images and…
Shahzad Sultan, Renguang Wu, Iftikhar Ahmad, M. Fahim Ahmad
Diffuse solar radiation is subject to the combined influence of ground and sky factors, such as topography, geography of the area and cloud cover. This study attempts to quantify the impacts of topography, sky factors and the cloud cover on the distribution o…
Ossi Kotavaara, Mari Pukkinen, Harri Antikainen, Jarmo Rusanen
During past decades, effects of accessibility to growth have been considered extensively. In previous studies, however, matter of scale has been largely ignored. In this study, relevance of travel accessibility and essential socio-economic variables for expla…
Oludare H. Adedeji, Clement O. Adeofun
Spatial patterns of land cover changes in the Omo-Shasha-Oluwa Forest Reserves were conducted on Landsat TM and ETM+ imageries of 1986 and 2002 using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Extent of tree plantation ( Gmelina arborea ) grew from about 145 sq. km 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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