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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…
Sabbar Abdulla Salih, Abdul Salam Mehdi Al-Tarif
The GIS data of digital elevation model, topographic maps of different scales, satellite images and GPS were used to analyze the geometrical relations, bathometric properties and shape form of selected depressions on Al-Jirnaf valley. GIS was used to analyze…
John R. Hébert, Jan T. Kozák
In the paper a little known large 4-folio map of the territory of the later US states Virginia and Maryland is introduced. The map, which was surveyed and composed between 1660 and 1670, is exceptional from several points of view: the vast impenetrable territ…
Yuki Hanashima
Recently, ontological study has been one of the key concerns of geographic information science, a number of studies have been conducted in both of philosophical and knowledge engineering approach. Some studies pointed out the importance of human cognition and…
Sabbar Abdulla Salih, Jabir Hameed Ulaiwi, AbdulSalam Mehdi Al-Tarif, Ali Ismail Al-Juboury
The study determines the shape, area, and discharge properties and other factors of morphometric analysis and drainage pattern to characterize the optimum location for salt harvesting in the salt ponds in Meha area, northwest Sharqat city, Iraq. The morphomet…
Binbin He, Jianhua Chen, Cuihua Chen, Yue Liu
Extracting and synthesizing information from existing and massive amounts of geology spatial data sets is of great scientific significance and has considerable value in its applications. To make mineral exploration less expensive, more efficient, and more acc…
Raj Setia, Vipan Verma, Pawan Sharma
Soil Informatics, the GIS-based decision-support system, helps to establish the potentials and limitations of different soils for crop production. A new methodology combining soil survey indices with available nutrients (P and K) was developed to evaluate soi…
Sri Maryati, Hideki Shimada, Takashi Sasaoka, Akihiro Hamanaka, Kikuo Matsui, Hideaki Nagawa
Mining sector in Indonesia faces many challenges including needed to support national economy, compliance to central and local government regulations, local community empowerment and environmental impact management. Mining companies are mandatory to perform t…
Chun Liu, Nan Li, Meixian Huang, Hangbin Wu
After introducing the principle of float car data (FCD), this paper gives the primary flow of pre-handing and map- matching of the FCD. After analyzing the percentage of coverage of FCD on the road network, large quantity of heritage database of routing statu…
Hua Sun, Juan Li, Xiaojun Mao
The spatial distribution characteristics of six heavy metals and metalloid in soil of Zhuji Lipu copper mining area, Zhejiang Province, was studied by using geostatistics approaches combined with GIS. These elements included Pb, As, Cr, Cu, Zn and Ni. The sta…
Weihua Liao
There are two methods for GIS similarity measurement problem, one is cross-coefficient for GIS attribute similarity measurement, and the other is spatial autocorrelation that is based on spatial location. These methods can not calculate subzone similarity pro…
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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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