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Determining the suitability trends for settlement based on multi criteria in Kirkuk, Iraq

Swift population growth and unplanned settlement led to the phenomenon of informal urban in Iraqi cities because of warfare, political instability and economic blockage for more than three decades. Economic st...

Authors: Najat Qader Omar and Aram Mohammed Raheem

Tools to operate and manage early warning systems for natural hazards monitoring in El Salvador

This article explores the concerns from the institutions to include information from the field into geographical information systems (GIS). This task is becoming an essential action to strengthen and speed up ...

Authors: Jacqueline Yamileth Rivera

How is an informal transport infrastructure system formed? Towards a spatially explicit conceptual model

The informal transport infrastructure is an inseparable and critical element of the transportation system in that it provides pedestrian accessibility in planned or unplanned environments. Despite this importa...

Authors: Hossein Vahidi and Wanglin Yan

Empowering citizen science through free and open source GIS

This article presents an overview of the GIS components of the COBWEB software framework, designed in order to support a collaborative citizen science environment. It describes the overall architecture of the ...

Authors: Maria Arias de Reyna and Joana Simoes

Geodata for everyone - model-driven development and an example of INSPIRE WFS service

On the first January 2013, everyone in Denmark received a wonderful new year present from the Danish government: “Free and Open Geo-data”. This means that everyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute the ge...

Authors: Meixia Feng

Development and testing of geo-processing models for the automatic generation of remediation plan and navigation data to use in industrial disaster remediation

This paper introduces research done on the automatic preparation of remediation plans and navigation data for the precise guidance of heavy machinery in clean-up work after an industrial disaster. The input te...

Authors: G. Lucas, Cs. Lénárt and J. Solymosi

Supporting the measurement of the United Nations’ sustainable development goal 11 through the use of national urban information systems and open geospatial technologies: a case study of south Korea

Geospatial information has drawn substantial attention as a means for building a common measurement and monitoring framework that can be employed across different countries all over the world for the sustainab...

Authors: Junyoung Choi, Myunghwa Hwang, Gayeon Kim, Janghwan Seong and Jaeseong Ahn

Model driven architecture engineered land administration in conformance with international standards – illustrated with the Hellenic Cadastre

Over the last years, the new role of Land Administration in realising the Information Infrastructure and the need to address spatial and non- spatial land related data exchange between countries emerged and si...

Authors: Styliani Psomadaki, Efi Dimopoulou and Peter van Oosterom

Spatio-temporal quality control: implications and applications for data consumers and aggregators

Quality control for real-time spatio-temporal data is often presented from the perspective of the original owner and provider of the data, and focuses on general techniques for outlier detection or uses domain...

Authors: Douglas E. Galarus and Rafal A. Angryk

Open geospatial data, software and standards

Authors: Mohamed Bakillah and Steve Liang