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From infectious diseases to chronic diseases: the paradigm shift of spatial epidemiology in disease prevention and control. [PDF]

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Geographic information systems (GIS)

2017
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computerized spatial decision-making tools that work with place-based information and allow users to display, manage, and analyze geographic data. Since coastal features typically show distinct spatial patterning, coastal managers and scientists have incorporated this technology from its beginnings.
Boeser, Shawn M, Hamylton, Sarah
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

2012
Geographic information systems (GIS) are an enabling computer technology for the collection and processing of geographic data. As a tool for representing geographic reality in the computer, GIS help us to compile, link, and query information about the state of the environment.
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Geographical Information System (GIS)

2010
Geographical Information System, also called Geobased Information System (GIS), is a relatively new technology. It is a very powerful tool for processing, analyzing and integrating spatial data sets (e.g. Star and Estes 1990; Lo and Yeung 2006; Chang 2008; Harvey 2008).
B. B. S. Singhal, R. P. Gupta
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Geographical Information System (GIS)

2015
© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Geographic Information System (GIS) is defined as a special type of information system that is used to input, store, retrieve, process, analyze and visualize geospatial data and information in order to support decision making, see e.g., Aronoff, Geographic information systems: a management ...
Sholarin, E., Awange, Joseph
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Geographical information systems (GIS)

1999
Geographical information system, also called geobased information system (GIS), is a relatively new technology. It is a very powerful tool for processing, analysing and integrating spatial data sets (Aronoff, 1989; Star and Estes, 1990; Maguire et al., 1991; Attenucci et al., 1991; Heywood et al., 1997).
B. B. S. Singhal, R. P. Gupta
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Implications for Promoting Social and Economic Justice

Computers in Human Services, 1999
SUMMARY This article is a consideration of the implications for the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology in social work practice as a tool for improved visualization of social and economic inequalities. Along with a brief, general introduction to GIS, overviews are included of the historical uses of geographic mapping, as well as ...
Paige L. Tompkins, Linda H. Southward
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Parking system using Geographic Information System (GIS)

2016 IEEE Conference on Systems, Process and Control (ICSPC), 2016
This paper presents the prophecy of parking area in parking management system using Geographic Information System (GIS). Parking area is generated by using Google SketchUp Pro 2015. One of the most outstanding and major problems in the parking management system is to search for an empty parking space.
Norsuzila Ya'acob, Aziean Mohd Azize, Nik Muhammad Ridhwan Nik Zainal Alam   +2 more
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Natural Hazards

2013
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is a computer-based information system designed for capturing, storing, analyzing, managing, and displaying spatial data representing human and natural phenomena from the real world. It may include application to remote sensing, land surveying, mathematics, and geography. Natural Hazard.
TAROLLI, PAOLO, M. Cavalli
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Geographic information systems (GIS) for microcomputers

ACM SIGUCCS Newsletter, 1989
At The University of Calgary, courses in Geographic Information Systems are offered in the departments of Geography and Surveying Engineering and the Faculty of Environmental Design. In this article. Roger Wheate describes how the development of the microcomputer as a standard has made this technology accessible to a wide body of users and provides ...
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