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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"GIS (geographic information systems)"”.
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Placing the dead: the spatial distribution and spread of HIV in a major South African city
… research techniques such as the use of GIS (geographic information systems) as a research tool contributed to disclosing the patterns of the HIV pandemic in the Nelson Mandela Metropole that were not obvious or visible before. GIS involved geographic maps that detect the spatial …
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A GIS and Remote Sensing Based Analysis of Impervious Surface Influences on Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Nest Presence in the Virginia Portion of the Chesapeake Bay
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and remote sensing techniques were used to predict relationships between bald eagle nest presences and land type, distance to land type and impervious surface cover area. Data plots revealed bald eagle nest presence decreases in response to an increase in area …
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Determining land use change and desertification in China using remote sensing data
… density can be correlated to land cover change. GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software is used to recognize locations of rapid land cover change. Statistical tests, such as unbalanced multi-way ANOVA, determine if climatic or anthropogenic factors can predict if an area is undergoing rapid …
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Viabilidad para generar territorios sostenibles. Aplicación ecoeficiente de materiales y sistemas constructivos en los desarrollos y rehabilitaciones urbanísticos.
… por las emergentes tecnologías BIM (Building Information Modelling) en los SIG (Sistemas de Información Geográfica) llegará a suponer una revolución para el modo en el que los profesionales de los campos de la AIC (Arquitectura, Ingeniería y Construcción) desarrollan su trabajo día a día, ya …
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The Effects of Acculturation, Health, Socioeconomic Status, and Perceived Respect on Older Adult Depression: Analysis of Korean American Older Adults in Chicago
… or moderated by perceived respect and current geographical background of 121 Korean-American older adults in the Chicago metropolitan and its suburban area.</p><p>A multi-method approach was imported to analyze self-collected quantitative survey data from two groups of 80 participants in …
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Modelling Avian Distributions of the Navarrese Region in Northern Spain with a Geographic Information System
<p>GIS (Geographic information Systems) technology was used for identifying relations between environmental characteristics and the breeding distributions of nine avian species of the Navarrese region in northern Spain. Data overlays of multiple GIS layers derived the explanatory variables for …
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Detection of potential arable land with remote sensing and GIS. A Case Study for Kjósarhreppur
… Farmland Database (Nytjaland), Icelandic Geographical Land Use Database, digital network of drainage ditches and cropland obtained from the Agricultural University of Iceland, aerial photographs, contour lines, lakes and rivers, roads from the municipality Kjósarhreppur and finally aerial …
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Vegetation cover change on Tindfjöll mountains, Iceland, assessed by aerial photographs, topography, and climate
Climate change is having a great impact on the fragile High Latitude environment where warming is occurring at a rate at least double the global average. It is urgent to understand the relationship between climate and vegetation cover, which is playing an important role, as a carbon sink, for …
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Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age
VISUALISING SOUTHERN AFRICAN LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE studies the visualisation of Southern African Late Iron Age Settlements (LIAS) (c. 900–1800) across the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries (1871–2020), as found in a survey of the cultural …
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GIS-based reservoir planning with limited data in developing nations: a case study of the Lower Mekong River Basin
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GIS Modeling of Desert Root Crop Maturation on the Mid-Columbia Plateau
… maturation rates of these desert root crops, a GIS model was developed using lntergraph's GeoMedia Grid Software. By modeling the potential growth patterns of these plant resources, it is possible to predict the movements of the peoples involved in this particular subsistence activity. The …
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An Analysis of National HIV/AIDS Education Efforts Among 15-39 Year Olds and Health Care Workers Applying the Health Belief Model (HBM) in Six Cities in Sonsonate, El Salvador
… throughout the State of Sonsonate, El Salvador. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was also utilized to display the results of this population study. The study population was composed of 15-39 year olds consisting of a total sample size of 1,500 (250 participants from each of the six cities). …
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The Development of the Contaminant Exceedance Rating System (CERS) for Comparing Groundwater Contaminant Data
… from Summer/Fall 2009 was utilized. ESRI¿¿ ArcGIS Version10.0 was used to map the resultant CERS Values, symbolized by their Ranking Categories. By implementing the CERS, the following were successfully determined for this data: the most concentrated contaminant in each sample, the most …