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Geographic information system

Pollution Assessment for Sustainable Practices in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 2021
This chapter provides a basic overview of geographic information systems (GISs) as well as a summary of basic concepts encountered with GISs. Specifically, it touches on the various spatial data structures and models used by GISs to represent ...
Fares M. Howari, Habes Ghrefat
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Review of geographic information systems-based rooftop solar photovoltaic potential estimation approaches at urban scales

, 2021
In urban environments, decentralized energy systems from renewable photovoltaic resources, clean and available, are gradually replacing conventional energy systems as an attractive source for electricity generation.
Abdo Abdullah Ahmed Gassar, S. Cha
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Distribution of fluoride contamination in drinking water resources and health risk assessment using geographic information system, northwest Iran.

Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology : RTP, 2019
This paper considers exposure to the concentration of fluoride in drinking water resources of Showt city in West Azerbaijan Province in, Iran, and its related potential health risk assessment issues to the resident populations.
M. Yousefi   +6 more
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Geographic information systems

Water Environment Research, 1996
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and relational database management system technology have increasingly provided a foundation for integration and analyses of water environment data in context with other geographically related data.. While large scale GIS projects can pose expensive undertakings, an ever-widening variety of applications are ...
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Geographical Information Systems

2011
Unlike contagious diseases such as influenza, injury is not spatially contagious. Yet, its occurrence is clearly influenced by locational factors. Reducing injury has to do with understanding the underlying spatial relationships beyond simple mapping.
Yao, S, Loo, BPY
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Geographic information systems

Progress in Human Geography, 1988
Geographic information systems (GISs) are defined as software systems. In this article, the relationships between GIS and other activities having to do with geographic information are reviewed. The use of GIS in social and behavioral sciences is discussed as an increasingly essential component of the research infrastructure and as a tool for acquiring ...
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Geographic Information Systems

2020
The chapter presents the geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that allows various sources to gather and organize, manage, analyze and combine, develop, and present geographically located information contributing in particular to the management from space.
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