On the application of spatial information technologies for highway environmental protection

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujie Huang ◽  
Yi Shen ◽  
Segang Shao ◽  
Xiaochun Qing
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information

The cartographic ambiguities of HarassMap: Crowdmapping security and sexual violence in Egypt

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Sunday Grove
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Crowdsourced Data ◽  
Control State

In December 2010, HarassMap was launched as a Cairo-based interactive online mapping interface for reporting and mapping incidents of sexual harassment anonymously and in real time, in Egypt. The project’s use of spatial information technologies for crowdmapping sexual harassment raises important questions about the use of crowdsourced mapping as a technique of global human security governance, as well as the techno-politics of interpreting and representing spaces of gendered security and insecurity in Egypt’s urban streetscape. By recoding Egypt’s urban landscape into spaces subordinated to the visual cartography of the project’s crowdsourced data, HarassMap obscures the complex assemblage that it draws together as the differentially open space of the Egyptian street – spaces that are territorialized and deterritorialized for authoritarian control, state violence, revolt, rape, new solidarities, gender reversals, sectarian tensions, and class-based mobilization. What is at stake in my analysis is the plasticity of victimage: to what extent can attempts to ‘empower’ women be pursued at the microlevel without amplifying the similarly imperial techniques of objectifying them as resources used to justify other forms of state violence? The question requires taking seriously the practices of mapping and targeting as an interface for securing public space.

scholarly journals The Integrated Management of Information about the Geodetic Point Fields—A Case of the Czech Republic

Geosciences ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Janečka
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Spatial Database ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
New Information ◽  
Available Information

The geodetic point fields play a crucial role in measuring a terrain, in surveying, and mapping applications. Due to the rapid development in the domain of information technologies, it makes sense to consider using the database and web technologies to manage and disseminate the available information about the geodetic point fields. The paper presents the creation of a spatial database which integrates the information about the various kinds of established geodetic point fields (horizontal, vertical and gravitational) with the aim of enabling their effective management. Furthermore, based on the integrated spatial database, the prototype of the new information system of geodetic point fields has been developed. The functionality of the prototype also considers the requirements coming from the international efforts, i.e., the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) directive. The prototype, based on Java Enterprise Edition (EE) technology, implements the features reflecting the cyber-security issues and ensures the modularity and scalability of the system, which is important for further development of the system and dissemination and accessibility of the information about the geodetic point fields via modern web technologies.

scholarly journals Facing a Second Wave from a Regional View: Spatial Patterns of COVID-19 as a Key Determinant for Public Health and Geoprevention Plans

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8468
Author(s):  
Olga De Cos ◽  
Valentín Castillo ◽  
David Cantarero
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Spatial Behavior ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Geographic Information Technologies ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Johns Hopkins University

Several studies on spatial patterns of COVID-19 show huge differences depending on the country or region under study, although there is some agreement that socioeconomic factors affect these phenomena. The aim of this paper is to increase the knowledge of the socio-spatial behavior of coronavirus and implementing a geospatial methodology and digital system called SITAR (Fast Action Territorial Information System, by its Spanish acronym). We analyze as a study case a region of Spain called Cantabria, geocoding a daily series of microdata coronavirus records provided by the health authorities (Government of Cantabria—Spain) with the permission of Medicines Ethics Committee from Cantabria (CEIm, June 2020). Geocoding allows us to provide a new point layer based on the microdata table that includes cases with a positive result in a COVID-19 test. Regarding general methodology, our research is based on Geographical Information Technologies using Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Technologies. This tool is a global reference for spatial COVID-19 research, probably due to the world-renowned COVID-19 dashboard implemented by the Johns Hopkins University team. In our analysis, we found that the spatial distribution of COVID-19 in urban locations presents a not random distribution with clustered patterns and density matters in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, large metropolitan areas or districts with a higher number of persons tightly linked together through economic, social, and commuting relationships are the most vulnerable to pandemic outbreaks, particularly in our case study. Furthermore, public health and geoprevention plans should avoid the idea of economic or territorial stigmatizations. We hold the idea that SITAR in particular and Geographic Information Technologies in general contribute to strategic spatial information and relevant results with a necessary multi-scalar perspective to control the pandemic.

scholarly journals New Spatial Planning Data Access Methods Through The Implementation Of The Inspire Directive

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Iwona Kaczmarek ◽  
Adam Iwaniak ◽  
Jaromar Łukowicz
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Access Methods ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
New Information ◽  
Real Estate Management

Abstract Constant access to reliable information concerning future land use is of utmost importance for the real estate market as well as for spatial monitoring and public participation in spatial planning. The implementation of the INSPIRE Directive (Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) introduces new means for sharing spatial planning data. According to the Act of March 4 2010 on Spatial Information Infrastructure, which is a transposition of the Directive, every member state is obliged to publish data and metadata concerning the subject of spatial planning. In the Directive, this is defined as a “territory characterized according to its current and future planned functional dimension or socio-economic purpose (e.g., residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural, forestry, recreational)”. In the article, the authors present new possibilities for spatial planning data access, which result from the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive with the use of new information technologies, in the context of real estate management conditions.

A Model For Education in Spatial Information Technologies

Cartography ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
D. Pullar ◽  
P. Sharma ◽  
G. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Spatial Information

DEVELOPING A GIS-BASED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITIES

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 503-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHUNFU HU ◽  
JIANPENG ZHOU
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Treatment Facilities

On-site wastewater treatment facilities (WWTFs) collect, treat, and dispose wastewater from dwellings that are not connected to municipal wastewater collection and treatment systems. They serve about 25% of the total population in the United States from an estimated 26 million homes, businesses, and recreational facilities nationwide. There is currently no adequate coordinated information management system for on-site WWTFs. Given the increasing concern about environmental contamination and its effect on public health, it is necessary to provide a more adequate management tool for on-site WWTFs information. This paper presents the development of an integrated, GIS-based, on-site wastewater information management system, which includes three components: (1) a mobile GIS for field data collection; (2) a World Wide Web (WWW) interface for electronic submission of individual WWTF information to a centralized GIS database in a state department of public health or state environmental protection agency; and (3) a GIS for the display and management of on-site WWTFs information, along with other spatial information such as land use, soil types, streams, and topography. It is anticipated that this GIS-based on-site wastewater information management system will provide environmental protection agencies and public health organizations with a spatial framework for managing on-site WWTFs and assessing the risks related to surface discharges.

Construction of Digital Mine and Key Technologies

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 413-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Lin ◽  
Pei Liu ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Lian Peng Zhang ◽  
Ya Zhou Ji
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information System ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
Digital Mine ◽  
Working Face

In China, the mine is facing a stern challenge over its environmental protection, the limitation on its structure and function within its subsystem, optimization of its limited manpower, financial and material resources and its sustainable development. Digital mine is come up with to deal with all these problems. The Digital Mine can be liken to “a logistics supply chain”, the basic characteristic is the high-speed network, with broadband and two-way communication system, used as “path map”, which shall make sure the fast delivery of all the data within all the relevant enterprises in the country; It consists of vehicles, which refers to the techniques of Mine CAD, virtual reality, mine simulation, scientific calculation, artificial intelligence, visualization and office automation; goods, which refers to mine data and mind application model; package, which refers to 3DGM(3-Dimensional Geographical Model) and data mining; security system, which refers to the collection and renewal system of mine data; and dispatching system, which refers to MGIS(Mine Geographical Information System), the common carrier of the entire information and office decisions, controlling the use and operation of all vehicles as well as all of the goods production and the package system. The basic structure of the Digital Mine is composed of two parts: digital ground and digital mine. The digital ground is a management information system based on the EPR (Enterprise Resource Planning) and spatial information infrastructure and information system based on 3S technology and computer network. The digital mine regards the mine geology and surveying data as basic information data for spatial positioning, furthermore, inputting other relevant information if necessary, such as mining working-face, excavating working-face, underground chamber, mechanical and electronic equipments, ventilation and safety device, underground pipeline and communication and others, forming a spatial database. Thus, the entire mine’s information system of management and service and decision support system is established. The Digital Mine is a huge systematic project, involving 3S (GIS, GPS, RS), IT (Information technology), mine science, virtual reality technology and visualization technology. Based on computers and network communication, the Digital Mine realizes the digitization of storing, transporting, expressing and applying of all the relevant spatial data and attribute data, including mine construction, exploration, development, mining, environmental protection and control. In addition, it is also a huge artificial intellectual system that integrates digital construction, digital exploration, digital mining, digital environmental protection and digital forecasting based on data dictionary technology, data warehouse technology, WebGIS, virtual reality technology, multimedia technology, CASE technology and artificial intelligence technology.

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