Geographic Information System will help modernize Lebanon’s economy
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=107887
By Mohammed Zaatari, The Daily Star, Lebanon
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Posts Tagged ‘GIS’
GIS for economics in Lebanon
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Add street sense to GIS crime reporting
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009For law enforcement, a lot of “GIS” begins on the street as police officers generally possess an innate knowledge of what areas on their beats are trouble spots. Those who are back at the office and doing crime analysis don’t have that field knowledge, however, they can identify hot spots with the help of:
http://crimeinamerica.net/2009/10/26/hot-spots-key-to-crime-control/
Here’s an idea: What if the GIS could include the so called “ground truth” gathered by police officers, as a specific sort of user-generated data?
GIS and why government can’t be more like business
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Herhold: Government failures flourish in dark by Scott Herhold, October 19, 2009 - San Jose Mercury News
American Samoan GIS resources
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Here is a collection of resources for GIS data on American Samoa, the area hit by tsunami last week. GISCorps’ Shoreh Elhami said that as of yet, they have not received any requests for volunteers.
Fagatelle Bay National Marine Sanctuary
http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/samoa/
Pacific Disaster Center: http://www.pdc.org/pdf/factsheets/American_Samoa.pdf
NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management for American Samoa: http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/mystate/american_samoa.html
GIS system comes to Azerbaijan tourism
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
In 2010 Azerbaijan to introduce GIS system in tourism, September 30, 2009, Trend
Biggest challenge to GIS implementation is time
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009“Data managers at last weeks’ GIS Broadband Workshop in Denver talked about obstacles they’ve had to overcome in implementing geographic information systems (GIS) at their MSOs. One of the biggest challenges has simply been the element of time. It takes a few years to update a large operator’s subscriber databank with GIS data.”
Near real-time GIS data gets to firefighters
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009During the recent summer forest fire season, San Diego State University’s Homeland Security program developed a geographic information system that makes GIS data available to firefighters in the field in near real-time - even when they do not have wireless or landline networks available. These datasets, designed for firefighters specifically, are formatted for satellite delivery and include satellite and aerial imagery, weather radar and topographical data in a format optimized for delivery over the Inmarsat Plc. Broadband Global Area Network.
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/09/08/gis-wildfire.aspx
