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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"geospatial technologies"”.
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Privacy and Geospatial Technologies
This research examines the role of geospatial and ancillary technologies in the erosion of privacy in contemporary society. The development of Remote Sensing, GIS, and GPS technologies are explored as a means of understanding both their current and predicted uses and capabilities. Examination is …
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Learning transfer of geospatial technologies in secondary science and mathematics core areas
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The Positive Developments and Applications of Geospatial Technologies in Archaeology on Fort Benning, Georgia
<p>This thesis explores the advantages of using geospatial technologies in the field of archaeology. The purpose of this study, conducted on Site 9CE16 on Fort Benning, Georgia, was to examine the ways in which Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to more accurately depict artifacts and …
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Integrating Geospatial Technologies into the Property Management Process of the Transportation Right-Of-Way
… an information management system. Because of the geospatial nature of many of these activities, geographic information systems (GIS) would increase the effectiveness of this system. A literature review and survey were conducted to understand the current state of practice for the use of GIS and …
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Opportunities in Non-Formal Education to Enhance Girls' Motivation Toward Learning Geography, Geospatial Technologies, and Related Careers
The growth of the geospatial industry demands that more workers are trained not only with technology, but also with specialized geographic knowledge to interpret data and solve problems. An important part of learning occurs in out-of-school contexts such as youth organizations that aim to develop …
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Integration of Geospatial Technologies in Monitoring Drought Events in a Coastal Area of Vietnam (Case study: Binh Thuan Province)
… and unable to recover). This research uses geospatial technologies to monitor drought severity and drought impacts on land use and land cover. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction and literature review of the drought context in Binh Thuan Province to place the research questions and objectives …
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IMPACTS OF A TEACHER GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON STUDENT SPATIAL LITERACY SKILLS AND INTERESTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN GRADE 5 – 12 CLASSROOMS ACROSS MONTANA
<p>This study utilized participants in a teacher geospatial technologies professional development project. Data was collected on the impact this professional development model, and the corresponding classroom implementation of the curriculum, had on student spatial literacy skills and students' …
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IMPACTS OF A TEACHER GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON STUDENT SPATIAL LITERACY SKILLS AND INTERESTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN GRADE 5 – 12 CLASSROOMS ACROSS MONTANA
<p>This study utilized participants in a teacher geospatial technologies professional development project. Data was collected on the impact this professional development model, and the corresponding classroom implementation of the curriculum, had on student spatial literacy skills and students' …
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Challenges of geospatial technology on national security in the 21st century: The case of the Namibia Defence Force
In the 21st century, geospatial technologies have evolved and dramatically converged and necessitated the security for human and state existence. Therefore, application of geospatial technology in the Namibian Defence Force is one of the greatest means of fighting threats to state security in this …
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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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Visualizing the Cherokee Homeland through Indigenous Historical GIS: An Interactive Map of James Mooney's Ethnographic Fieldwork and Cherokee Collective Memory
… when Cherokee perspective is synthesized with geospatial technologies to present the ancient stories of the Cherokee homeland in a way that weaves traditional and modern culture into its components.
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GeoBlockchain: The Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of a Spatially Enabled Blockchain
… and impact their ownership tracing processes. Geospatial and Blockchain technologies are two emerging trends that could help an organization add value in this manner. The combination of blockchain and geospatial technologies would result in the new concept of GeoBlockchain, defined here as an …
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For an Urban History of Milan, Italy: The Role of GIScience
… interpreted and explained by means of new geospatial technologies used to both corroborate and at the same time confute previous believes upon the history of the city. The body of this dissertation is divided into three main chapters that analyze the urban history of the city under …
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Geospatial Technology/Traditional Ecological Knowledge-Derived Information Tools for the Enhancement of Coastal Restoration Decision Support Processes
… the feasibility and benefits of integrating geospatial technology with traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of an indigenous Louisiana coastal population in order to assess the impacts of current and historical ecosystem change to community viability. The primary goal was to provide …
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Infrastructures for participation : institutional and technical considerations for new forms of participation in urban development
… through the various information communication technologies (ICTs) encountered in decisions affecting the material context of cities. In two ethnographic studies of information systems in municipal planning, technology-supported citizen participation is analysed. First, participation records for …
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GIS Modeling of the Prominent Geohazards in Arkansas
… abide; therefore, the best defense is employ geospatial technologies to plan for hazard mitigation. The mass wasting model developed in this study contributes pivotal information for identifying zones of high risk along roadways in NW Arkansas, which definitely can be adapted to avoid …
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Enhancing our understanding of accessibility to sport in Wales through geospatial analysis
… developments in open-source computer science technologies, when combined with the availability of innovative accessibility approaches based on floating catchment area (FCA) tools, hold promise in this regard. The thesis describes how such tools were developed in close collaboration with …
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Linking ecosystem services with state-and-transition models to evaluate rangeland management decisions
… rangelands management in the West. It applies geospatial technologies to map ecological sites and states on those sites, characterizes transitions between states and selects a desired state to manage towards based on a systematic assessment of the value of flows of environmental services. The …
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Opportunities and Limitations of Earth Observation Technology for Environmental Justice Advocacy: A Case Study of Toxic Prisons in the U.S.
… on applications of satellite-derived and modeled geospatial data for EJ. In Design/Prescription, first, supported by 3 years of community engagement with prison EJ activists, I present the Design of a GIS decision support system that features EO data responding to expressed needs of prison EJ …
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Assessing vulnerability and multi-hazard risk in the Nepal Himalaya
… of Dharan, Nepal, is presented. Freely available geospatial data in combination with socio-economic data collected from local government and secondary sources are used. Multi-hazard risk assessment is data intensive and requires considerable financial and human resources, which are lacking in …
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