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The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Support Homeland Security: Recommendations for Emergency Management and Bioterrorism Response in Nebraska
White Papers This article shows how GIS technology provides the tools for displaying and analyzing spatial data in order to answer questions based on location of critical facilities, resources, and several areas. Emergency management combines planning...
[January 5, 2005, 2:00]
GIS and GSM Network Quality Monitoring: A Nigerian Case Study
White Papers This paper will describe how MTN Nigeria Communication is using GIS capabilities with a GSM network monitoring tool to find geographic areas where subscribers are suffering low quality, and help fix the problem.
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Avista Utilities Case Study - GIS: Technology for Your Enterprise
White Papers The company's Spokane, Washington, gas facilities data was the first to be converted to the GIS environment. ArcFM facility management software by Miner & Miner (M&M) was originally used in the GIS gas application.
[January 11, 2006, 23:00]
GIS Based Enterprise Solutions with WebSphere Server and ArcGIS Server
White Papers Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play a role in the process of solving critical business problems in industries such as government, utilities, retail, banking, insurance, oil and gas, transportation, and health.
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
GIS for a Policy Decision Support in National Tourism Portal
White Papers Therefore, Korean Ministry of culture and tourism established the national tourism information strategy plan for building GIS based national tourism portal. In addition, GIS makes linkage among these four databases.
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
The Emerging Strategic Resource for Government - Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
White Papers While Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been widely adopted in government, it is primarily used as a transactional and tactical resource. GIS offers governments much more than mapping capabilities.
[August 11, 2006, 0:00]
Case Study: GIS, an Integral Part of Successful Economic Development
White Papers The Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce, an economic development organization serving a metro region encompassing eight counties in three states: Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, is using GIS to illustrate spatial relationships and to get a...
[January 11, 2006, 23:00]
GIS Topology
White Papers A GIS topology is a set of rules and behaviors that model how points, lines, and polygons share geometry. Topology has long been a key GIS requirement for data management and integrity. In general, a topological data model represents spatial...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
GIS Vehicle Tracking System
White Papers Being a geospatial solution, GIS Vehicle Tracking System allows the customer to effectively use the synergy of geographically-referenced data with modern information technologies. Intellias has successfully implemented a comprehensive GIS/GPS-based...
[May 3, 2007, 1:00]
State Government: GIS Solutions for the Public Sector
White Papers GIS technology is integral to communication and collaboration. ESRI GIS technology provides analytical and operational solutions that improve the effective-ness of department programs. GIS visualizes a department's knowledge network and enables...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
GIS Teaching Via Distance Learning Experiences and Lessons Learned
White Papers This paper draws on seven-years' experience of postgraduate teaching GIS via distance learning mode. Experience has shown that in setting-up, maintaining and developing the GIS course via distance learning, particular consideration has to be given...
[January 11, 2006, 0:01]
Integration of GPS, Digital Imagery and GIS With Census Mapping
White Papers The recent technological developments, including new high-resolution sensors, global positioning systems (GPS), geographical information systems (GIS), Internet and World Wide Web services, are revolutionizing cartography, surveying and mapping in...
[January 5, 2006, 0:01]
ESRI: Extending GIS to Enterprise Applications
White Papers ESRI has led the GIS industry in revenue and growth for years. But, geospatial technology is beginning to reach beyond traditional GIS. Today, businesses are migrating location-specific capabilities into their information systems.
[July 21, 2005, 6:00]
Mainframes and GIS: A New ESRI Solution on IBM zSeries Using Linux
White Papers IBM and ESRI are leading the development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) solutions away from a specialized departmental technology into a more comprehensive enterprise-wide platform. Enterprise GIS now contains all the reliability...
[March 24, 2006, 0:01]
City of Grapevine Makes Big Strides in GIS
White Papers This case study will review how Grapevine was able to leverage the grant and create the foundation for what has blossomed into a comprehensive Enterprise GIS. The City of Grapevine is an outstanding example of how a GIS can flourish in a small city...
[February 16, 2006, 23:00]
Using FME to Load GIS Data Into Oracle Spatial
White Papers When the City of Vancouver decided to move the GIS data from their existing VISION system to Oracle Spatial, they didn't want to trust the translation of the data, which they use to run a billion-dollar infrastructure, to just anyone.
[February 16, 2006, 23:00]
Integrated Mobile GIS and Wireless Internet Map Servers for Environmental Monitoring and Management
White Papers With the progress of mobile GIS technology there is a great potential for adopting wireless communications and Internet mapping services for regional environmental management programs and natural habitat conservation.
[January 20, 2006, 0:01]
WS-GIS: Towards a SOA-Based SDI Federation
White Papers In this paper, the authors proposes WS-GIS which is a SDI using Web services. WS-GIS enables spatial search on distributed catalogs that form a federation of spatial databases. The volume of spatial data available on the Web has been increasing...
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Maps and Data Sets Supplied With SAS/GIS Software
White Papers Several SAS/GIS sample maps and their associated data sets are supplied with SAS/GIS Software. To open the sample maps, invoke SAS/GIS and select File => Open Map, or right-mouse on the GIS Map window and select Open map.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
How to Set Up a GIS Program at a Tribal College
White Papers This paper provides detailed ideas on how to set up a college GIS program and how to develop it for maximum benefits in education, research, and community. It draws the experiences from setting up the GIS program at Oglala Lakota College, Pine...
[January 5, 2006, 0:01]
