Background: A Community health assessment (CHA) involves the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with other software to analyze health and population data and perform ...

Increasingly, businesses are turning to geographic information systems (GIS) to develop new markets, solve supply chain problems, predict growth, improve efficiency of routes and services, gain ...

After retiring from the Navy in 1993, my first GIS-related position was with the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). I was tasked with building the agency’s GIS and promoting GIS within the 10 member ...

Geographic information systems (GIS), which store, manipulate, and analyse spatial data, have a pivotal role in facilitating (or controlling) mobility. By interrogating spatial databases, GIS is able ...

For decades, GIS has been an indispensable tool in many state and local government agencies, and now that it’s being more widely adopted, governments are finding new, unexpected uses. Even with ...

LAS CRUCES - With 5.4 million acres of public land and 7 million acres of federal mineral estate in southern New Mexico, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the steward of some important and ...

This book proposes the development of spatial humanities that promises to revitalize and redefine scholarship by (re)introducing geographic concepts of space to the humanities. Humanists are fully ...

Huge maps, posters and geographic displays greeted people Wednesday who were passing through the East Baton Rouge City Hall lobby. The maps were part of the city-parish’s celebration of International ...

Approximately 500 recruitment emails were sent out for the online survey with a total of 27 responses received (~ 5% response rate). Of the individuals deciding not to respond, some of the reasons ...