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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Geographic Information Sciences"”.
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AI-Driven Suitability Modeling for Sustainable Olive Cultivation: An Environmental Assessment in a Changing Climate
… modeling (ENM), maximum entropy (MaxEnt), and geographic information systems (GIS) to capture complex, nonlinear interactions among bioclimatic, topographic, and soil variables. By employing AI and machine learning to enhance ecological modeling, this research establishes a foundation for …
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Unlocking Organizational Potential for GIS Collaboration in Higher Education
… interface issues are just a few barriers that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instructors must overcome when collaborative efforts extend beyond their classrooms. As GIS technologies evolve, instructors must adapt quickly to new tools and methods to maintain effective collaboration and …
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The Gundlach Collection : a study of projectile points from the Albeni Falls Reservoir
… Program provides stylistic, temporal, and geographic information for sites in the Albeni Falls Reservoir, Idaho. Specifically, there are 462 artifacts from 24 sites based on information derived from the collector’s and tribal archaeologist’s notes. Depositional information is unknown and …
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Utilizing geographic information systems to examine the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics in food oasis and food desert in Wayne County, MI
… absence of healthy food outlets leads to more geographical exposure to unhealthy food outlets.</p> <p>This study has found that people of color and low-income populations are more likely than White and high-income populations to be located in food desert areas. However, ethnicity (Hispanic, …
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Broken Windows and Shattered Trust: Analyzing the Geospatial Disparities in Law Enforcement Interactions
… criminology, criminal justice, statistics, and information systems. Specifically, this research will measure the racial disparity in the enforcement of this policy at the smallest geographic unit—the census block—to gain a concrete understanding of the geographic variation in policing and crime …
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United States Land Cover Land Use Change, Albedo and Radiative Forcing: Past and Potential Climate Implications
<p>Land Cover Land Use (LCLU) change affects Earth surface properties including albedo that impose a radiative forcing on the climate. Recent spatially explicit satellite derived contemporary LCLU, albedo, and projected LCLU data are used to study the impact of LCLU change from 1973 to 2000, and …
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Get To The “Point”: Improving Location Services in Tippah County Mississippi
<p>Point location using geographic information systems (GIS) technology has become integrated into everyday society and daily decision-making by utilizing addresses to provide goods and services. A need exists at a national, state, and local level for an address database. The objectives of this …
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Fire Type Classification in the Brazilian Tropical Moist Forest Biome
… fire types. Spatially and temporally explicit information on the incidences of fire types are important as they have widely varying atmospheric emissions and ecological impacts. Satellite based remote sensing is a practical means of monitoring the BTMFB that spans almost 4 million km2. However, …
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Evaluation and Application of a New Shape-sensitive Metric Useful for Characterizing Both Spectral Curves and Lidar Waveforms
<p>This dissertation seeks to investigate hyperspectral and waveform LiDAR datasets through a new analytical framework called Moment Distance method that uses a metric derived from the shape of the curve (spectral or waveform). In the case of hyperspectral data, the shape of the reflectance curve …
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'Amageddon': the unholy trinity of class monopoly rent in the Emerald City
<p>Intense redevelopment has steamrolled across Seattle’s South Lake Union and Belltown neighborhoods, home to the headquarters of the world’s largest ecommerce corporation, Amazon. After the corporation established a presence in what is now referred to as ‘Amazonia’ in 2007, the surrounding urban …
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Applying GIS Metrics to Determine Degree of Glacial Modification in Mountainous Landscapes
<p>The ability to quantitatively assess the degree of glaciation in mountainous areas can be a powerful tool in unraveling the evolution of landscapes, and provide key insights in regions where field research is difficult. Here we determine, test, and apply metrics that assess the relative degree …
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The Economic Impacts of Cougars in Western Washington
The combination of increasing cougar populations and the rising human population in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas suggests that the number of human-cougar encounters will rise as well. The increase in human-cougar encounters creates potential issues in regard to public safety, public policy, …
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Creation of a Spatial Decision Support System as a Risk Assessment Tool Based on Kentucky Tornado Climatology
… making the storms challenging to forecast. Using geographical information systems (GIS), a web-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) was created to help understand the spatial dimension of tornado risk assessment. The risk values are calculated using Tornado Days rather than taking a crude …
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THE PLAGUE AND THE PARTHENON: CRUSADE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN
<p>The present study examines the role epidemic diseases, specifically malaria and bubonic plague, played on the course of the Morean War (1684-1699). The Morean War was a major offensive by Christian powers, led by the Venetian Republic, against Ottoman controlled Greece. Christian victories …
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