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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"geospatial analysis"”.
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Geospatial Analysis to Site Urban Agriculture
… It proposes innovative applications of geospatial technologies for urban assessment. Studies on UA have typically focused on food insecurity, while studies on greenspaces focus on parks and tree canopy cover, without investigating interactions that promote synergies between these two …
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A geospatial analysis of Arctic marine traffic
… 2010 to 31 March 2011. Data sources, methods of analysis, and errors were discussed. Three principal topics were examined. First, sea-ice cover on the Arctic Ocean was analysed to determine the physical access for marine operations. Daily sea-ice concentration data based on satellite passive …
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Geospatial analysis of specific degradation in South Korea
… as ArcGIS version 10.3.1. The data used for the analysis included: (1) daily precipitation data at 60 stations from the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA); (2) a detailed soil map from the National Institute of Agriculture Sciences; (3) a 5m by 5m resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM); …
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Applications of geospatial analysis techniques for public health
Geospatial analysis is a generic term describing several technologies or methods of computational analysis using the Earth as a living laboratory. These methods can be implemented to assess risk and study preventative mitigation practices for Public Health. Through the incorporation Geographic …
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High Performance Geospatial Analysis on Emerging Parallel Architectures
… image feature transform, and feature analysis. It presents implementations of these algorithms that exploit parallel processing to reduce execution time, and analyzes the effectiveness of the implementations in their use of parallel processing.</p>
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Geospatial Analysis of Informal Settlement Development in Cape Town
… was conducted to validate any subsequent analysis that was completed from classified imagery. The overall accuracies ranged between 88-96%. Thereafter, change detection analysis would be used to understand how each informal settlement developed and would be compared to each other. Using …
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Geospatial Analysis of Forest Fragmentation and Connectivity in Virginia
… analyzed the accuracy of forest fragmentation analysis depending on the spatial resolution of the satellite imagery used. This analysis highlights the importance of using appropriate satellite images for forest fragmentation analysis. Secondly, this research focused on building a model to …
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Enhancing Competitive Intelligence Using Geospatial Analysis and Social-Media Corpora
<p>Competitors analysis, which is an essential element of corporate strategy, is a technique used to assess competitor (current and future) threats. Firms cannot ignore their competitors. The challenges of keeping their competitive advantage and increasing growth can be a difficult task for …
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Geospatial analysis of preventable emergency department visits in Chicago, IL
The use of hospital emergency departments (EDs) for conditions considered treatable in a primary care setting (PCED conditions) has become an increasingly prevalent health care inefficiency in the United States, leading to suboptimal primary care, significant ED overcrowding, and substantially …
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Identifying Healthcare Access and Enhancing Geospatial Analysis with Generative AI
This thesis brings together geospatial modeling and generative artificial intelligence to address healthcare accessibility and automation of spatial analysis. The first study examines disparities in dental care access across six regions of Virginia by comparing driving and public transit modes for …
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Far-Right Extremism in America: A Geospatial Analysis of Incident Distribution
<p>There has been little empirical research on the spatial relationship of violent far-right extremism. Previous studies have only focused on portions of far-right violent incidents, such as homicides, or amalgamated all far-right extremist activity, including legal incidents. This study uses data …
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Novel Applications of Geospatial Analysis in the Modeling of Infectious Diseases
… spatial epidemiology seeks to use the tools of geospatial analysis to answer questions about disease. In this work we explore two areas: the use of geostatistical modeling as an extension of niche modeling, and the use of mobility metrics to augment modeling for epidemic responses. Niche …
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Enhancing our understanding of accessibility to sport in Wales through geospatial analysis
… concerning the use of open-source, web-based geospatial technologies to compute spatial accessibility across all forms of service provision for different transport opportunities. This includes the development of a user-friendly interface that enables those less experienced in the use of GIS …
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Geospatial Analysis of Registered Sex Offenders: a case study from Pulaski County, Arkansas
<p>The objective of this case study was to analyze the spatial distribution patterns of the residences of registered sex offenders in Pulaski County, Arkansas to determine the impact of state enforced residence restrictions. Density and clustering factors were used to identify census tracts of the …
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Ecosystem services provided by agricultural land as modeled by broad scale geospatial analysis
… provided by agricultural land, using existing geospatial tools and preferably free and open source data, such as the Virginia Land Use Evaluation System (VALUES), the North Carolina Realistic Yield Expectations (RYE) database, and the land cover datasets NLCD and CDL. Furthermore I sought to …
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Burning questions: a geospatial analysis of fire regime change in Côte d’Ivoire, 1984-2014
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-04-30 at 13:24.
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School Facet Through Surrounding Factors: A Geospatial Analysis of Community Social Capital Impacting Elementary Schools
… In this study, the surrounding factors are geospatially analyzed to determine the extent of spatial variation in the availability and accessibility of community social capital resources to the elementary schools. Using geospatial research methods, the researcher created three service area …
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