User-friendly GIS Research Articles

Fault locking and alternate fault activity revealed by simple tools and approaches — Examples from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin with implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production

The geology toolkit that is used to reveal faults and fractures is much wider than before. This is due to 3D and 4D views in exploratory statistics programs and to the availability of user-friendly GIS software. These tools allow us to visualize a multitude of parameters that will be briefly explored here. A review of many geologic and nongeologic parameters led to evidence of fault locking and alternate fault activity. It also resulted in new structural models for the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). The presented data sets include earthquakes, drilling, production, well data, aeromagnetic data, and more. Various integrated approaches reveal well-defined fault patterns that are typical of a strike-slip regime and the existence of previously unrecognized detachments that are important for hydrocarbon exploration. Some of the new geometries and associated mechanisms are illustrated here with outcrop analogues and present-day cross sections, maps, and 3D views. Only the most recent of the two identified strike-slip regimes is covered in this paper. Some emphasis is given to the recognition of detachments at various scales. Among these is the importance of megadetachments displacing the sedimentary cover by up to 16 km with respect to the aeromag. Hence, there is a need for reconstruction before making conclusions. The WCSB has a lot more to offer to explorers who understand faults, fractures, and migration paths. Integrating many types of information in map or 3D views offers new tools to identify and characterize faults.

Design and Develop the B2C Farming Information System Solution using Mobile and Web Geospatial Development Technologies for Smart Supply Chain of Fruit Crops of UP, India

The main objective of writing this paper is to use innovative blend of open source geospatial and software development technologies, for maximizing benefits to both exporter/buyer and grower/farmer, by establishing smart supply chain of the fruit crops of UP, India The striving endeavour drone to build and/or utilize develop GIS, web GIS Portal, and Mobile Application by synergizing computer . In this, this anomalous problem can be solved by creating a web GIS portal and mobile application by coordinating computer science, GIS, remote sensing and mobile technology. After analyzing the satellite remote sensing data, the information of various Orchards are extracted and converted to GIS feature geodatabase. The format is converted and imported into the mobile application, with the help of Geographical Coordinates, the fruit related information of their field be filled by grower/farmer through handy user-friendly vernacular Mobile Application. The submitted information pulled on created user-friendly GIS Portal. After filling it, the web will be updated automatically on the GIS portal. With the help of latitude and longitude, all the information of crop information of the farmer such as which variety of fruit is available in the field and how much quantity can be filled in the mobile application. After filling it, the web will be updated automatically on the GIS portal. All buyer's list will already be available on the web GIS portal, this will end the problems of both the farmer and the buyer.

Possibilities of including surface runoff barriers in the slope-length factor calculation in the GIS environment and its integration in the user-friendly LS-RUSLE tool

The effect of the morphology is key aspect of erosion modelling. In Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) type methods, this effect is expressed by the topographic factor (LS). The LS calculation in GIS is performed by a unit contributing area (UCA) method and can mainly be influenced by the pixel resolution, by the flow direction algorithm and by the inclusion of a hydrologically closed unit (HCU) principle, the cutoff slope angle (CSA) principle and the ephemeral gullies extraction (EG) principle. This research presents a new LS-RUSLE tool created with the inclusion of these principles in the automatic user-friendly GIS tool. The HCU principle using a specific surface runoff interruption algorithm, based on pixels with NoData values at the interruption points (pixels), appears to be key. With this procedure, the occurrence of overestimation results by flow conversion was rapidly reduced. Additionally, the reduction of extreme L and LS values calculated in the GIS environment was reached by the application of the CSA and EG principles. The results of the LS-RUSLE model show the prospective use of this tool in practice.

GIS Based Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Crimes, a Case Study of Mardan City, Pakistan

This paper is aimed to study the crime with special reference to its spatial and temporal distribution. It also tries to analyze and estimates the impact of weather on the prevalence of criminal activity in Mardan City. Studying the crimes with reference to its spatial and temporal distribution is important because information about the occurrence of crime is one of the most crucial tools in combating crime. It allows understanding how crimes are distributed through space, and hence can help in combating them. The Geographical Information System is an important tool for dealing with spatial and temporal analysis and thus fighting crime. The advent of desktop computers has significantly increased the role of computer mapping. The availability of user-friendly GIS applications has further increased the use of GIS in crime mapping. For the present study the data was collected about homicide and aggressive assaults from all the three police stations covering Mardan City. The collected data was analyzed under different scenarios. The temporal based analysis of data reveals that almost 50% crimes reported in 2009, took place from May-September (summer) compared to 32% in winter (October to February). The spatial analysis of data reveals 05 hotspots. Sikindary area was identified as the most crucial hotspot where within a 05 km radius, 11 crimes were committed in 2009 followed by Kalpani Bridge area from where a total of 10 crimes of aggressive nature were reported. Similarly police station wise the City Police Station accounts for 47% of the aggressive crimes committed in 2009.

Google Earth: Low-Investment GIS for Extension Professionals

Extension professionals need geospatial and remote sensing solutions that meet their varied needs; however, training time and funding for expensive software packages can be limited. Google Earth is a freely available, user-friendly GIS that can meet many of the day-to-day needs of Extension professionals by providing high-quality current and historical aerial photography, length and area measurement tools, GPS integration, and simple mapping capabilities. Third-party add-ons can increase the somewhat limited capabilities of Google Earth. Google Earth's general accessibility also lends itself to innovative, collaborative uses with clients, youth, and the general public.

Designing and Developing an AIDS Transmission Management and Spatial Decision Support System Based on GIS

BACKGROUND: AIDS is a significant threat to global human health and raises many concerns with regards to social development. The prevention and control of the spread of this incurable disease is of utmost urgency with long-term efforts required to make it a reality. Our country is now at a pivotal time point in the fight against AIDS. Due to the increasing urgency in AIDS prevention, control, and treatment, we need to reexamine our approaches to tackling this disease from a scientific perspective. MOTIVATION: Designing and developing a powerful and user-friendly GIS which is data-rich and has a reasonable structure. This GIS should allow easy sharing of data while maintaining high data security in addition to being a highly scalable system that has the capability of monitoring and preventing AIDS transmission. RESULTS: The system is able to show the spread of AIDS and other aspects of the overall process by charts, virtual environments, and output files. Furthermore, the integration of ABM and GIS allows the system to predict future trends of the AIDS epidemic. Thus disease control departments can set different predictive and decision-making measures to control the impact of the AIDS epidemic spread more effectively.

ES4LUCC: A GIS-tool for remotely monitoring landscape dynamics

Given the potential impacts of land cover changes on surface processes, accurate mapping of landscape dynamics is a crucial task in environmental monitoring. The use of commercial software for remote sensing of landscape changes requires appropriate expertise in sensor technology and computing resources that are not always available to decision makers. This paper presents the development of an experimental prototype of a lightweight and user-friendly GIS tool – ES4LUCC – a semiautomatic software for change detection and classification of land use/cover. The tool is based on image processing techniques applied on multi-temporal remotely sensed spectral and surface model data. The GIS-based tiling approach allows to non-specialists of remote sensing to manage high-dimensional data even from low performance computing platforms. The paper synthesizes the implemented digital image processing that form the basis of ES4LUCC, including data correction, classification and change detection, map refinements. It also describes the software architecture, the main IDL modules and the integration with GIS through a tight coupling approach and.dll calling functions. The main modelling process is controlled through a powerful GUI developed as part of the ArcMap component of ESRI ArcGIS. The software is tested by using bi-temporal color-infrared ADS40 and Light detection and ranging data acquired on a 80-km transect of the Marecchia river (Italy). The outputs of ES4LUCC give an understanding of the natural- and human-induced surface processes, such as urban planning, agricultural and forest practices, fluvial dynamics and slope instability. The model provides reliable maps (90.77% overall classification accuracy) that represent useful layers for environmental landscape management.

Community Environmental Mapping Using User–Friendly GIS:A Case Study in Muko Neighborhood, Amagasaki

This study examines a method for producing a ″Community Environmental Map″ through public participation by using a Community Environmental Mapping Support System (CEMSS; user–friendly GIS). The authors developed a CEMSS and, as a case study, hosted a Community Environmental Mapping (CEM) Project employing the CEMSS. They describe the CEMSS and CEM project within the context of the following points: (1) Effectiveness of the CEM. (2) Effectiveness of the CEMSS in CEM. (3) Future challenges for improving the CEMSS. The findings revealed that participants were able to produce accurate maps using the CEMSS and that they were able to increase their knowledge of environmental design through CEM. For these reasons, the CEM Project was considered effective for community–scale spatial planning. Results from a questionnaire survey showed that CEMSS appears to be relatively easy for non–expert users of GIS to adopt, but that sufficient scope exists for improving the CEMSS. The potential for using CEMSS on a PDA with GPS in the field was considered particularly important as several participants found that they were unable to find their location on paper maps in areas with no obvious landmarks.

User-Friendly GIS Applications for Managing SSO and MOM Challenges

User-Friendly GIS Applications for Managing SSO and MOM Challenges