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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"historical GIS"”.
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Reconstructing the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Daily Life in the 19th Century City: A Historical GIS Approach
In recent years, historians and historical geographers have become interested in the use of GIS to study historical patterns, populations, and phenomena. The result has been the emergence of a new discipline, historical GIS. Despite the growing use of GIS across geography and history, the use of …
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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
In 1887, the Bureau of American Ethnology appointed James Mooney to work among the Eastern Band of Cherokee. From 1887 to 1916, Mooney documented the sites and stories of the Cherokee homeland as shared with him by members of the community. Mooney's working maps and field notes were recently …
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Analysis of Mammoth Cave Pre-Park Communities
… of the pre-park area. Through the use of a Historical Geographic Information System, 1920 Edmonson County manuscript census data, and statistical analysis, the demographic composition of these lost communities was explored. This project not only brought to light a past that is not well …
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Methodology and Algorithm Development for Historical Addresses
Historical GIS is a unique relationship between historical studies, geography, and geographic information science (GIS). This area of study combines several components of various fields and the use of new techniques and technologies to yield new questions, answers, and perspectives on datasets. In …
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La città di Bologna e la sua storia: diffusione e condivisione delle conoscenze attraverso Webgis open source e Web Mapping
… to study its history. This is feasible through GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and its by-products on the web. Starting from a cartographic view they allow an initial understanding of, and a comparison between, present and past data together with an easy and intuitive access to database …
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Participation: A Legacy In Motion (1971-1999)
… ethnicity, and region. Through the use of Historical GIS mapping, oral interviews, and archival records, this dissertation offers a history from creation to closure of this national agency and its place in Canada’s social history.
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Behind the Waterfront: Enduring Inequities and Illusive Renewals in the Making of Mediterranean Port Cities
… From a methodological perspective, it employs historical GIS techniques on primary sources collected in more than thirty archives in Barcelona, Marseille, Rome, Naples, and Beirut. It models socioeconomic data and urban morphology features extracted from archival materials spanning a period of …
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For an Urban History of Milan, Italy: The Role of GIScience
… Italy, employing Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Using historical maps and ancillary data, the spatiality of historical events that interested the city is analyzed, interpreted and explained by means of new geospatial technologies used to both corroborate and at the same time confute …
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Historical Local Knowledge and Cartography:Within GIS: Kaua`i, Hawai`i
… and maps into Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Maps remain an important and convenient source, snapshots in time that portray landscapes of the past, containing information that has been compiled, filtered and summarized. Maps as historic documents are sources for local knowledge, serving …
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Impacts of Hard Stabilization on the Shore of Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
… of this study incorporated the use of Historical GIS techniques to extract quantifiable data from construction drawings in order to be compared with the contemporary data collected from 2005 to 2007. Results revealed that, while both the non-engineered and engineered shore segments …
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Mapping Women's Movement in Medieval England
… about individual travel patterns. The study uses GIS to analyze gendered mobility patterns, and to investigate whether there were noticeable differences in the distance which men and women traveled and the geographical area of the country they originated. It also analyzes the nearness of men’s and …