Did your first GIS class create an interest in learning more advanced skills? Are you getting ready to start an undergraduate or graduate research project that requires spatial modeling and analysis, ...

Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had several interesting ...

Project delays and failures can eat up time, resources, goodwill and -- not infrequently -- professional reputations. Over the years, a number of Geographic Information System (GIS) projects have ...

Raster-based GIS routing models prevent pipelines from becoming an economic burden on the companies and countries involved in their construction and operation by minimizing not just the economic costs ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 2 (July to December 2014), pp. 168-174 (7 pages) Abstract: The paper presents a case study integrating hydrologic models, hydraulic models ...

Proposed by Egyptian scientists, the proposed GIS technique considers a pumped-hydro project’s head and elevation difference, the penstock-length distance from the base plant, the site’s slopes and ...

The United Kingdom Department for Transport has embarked on a world-leading infrastructure project. By the 2030s, London will connect to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester via a new rail line with 18 ...

When an additional 50,000 residents were predicted for the population of Uppsala, Sweden, by 2050, the city’s planners set out to create a new district with 33,000 housing units—and they wanted do so ...

Already reeling from the impact of the pandemic, supply chain disruption, and geopolitical trade conflicts, many business leaders are preparing to face the biggest disruptor yet: climate change.