Web-Based GIS and the Future of Participatory GIS Applications within Local and Indigenous Communities

Urbanization is spreading across the world and beyond metropolitan areas. Medium-sized cities have also undergone processes of accelerated urban expansion, especially in Latin America, thanks to scant regulation or a complete lack thereof. Thus, understanding urban growth in the past and simulating it in the future has become a tool to raise its visibility and challenge territorial planners. In this work, we use Markov chains, cellular automata, multi-criteria multi-objective evaluation, and the determination of land use/land cover (LULC) to model the urban growth of the city of Temuco, Chile, a paradigmatic case because it has experienced powerful growth, where real estate development pressures coexist with a high natural value and the presence of indigenous communities. The urban scenario is determined for the years 2033 and 2049 based on the spatial patterns between 1985 and 2017, where the model shows the trend of expansion toward the northeast and significant development in the western sector of the city, making them two potential centers of expansion and conflict in the future given the heavy pressure on lands that are indigenous property and have a high natural value, aspects that need to be incorporated into future territorial planning instruments.

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Web-based collaborative learning: a perspective on the future

Computer Networks and ISDN Systems ◽

10.1016/s0169-7552(98)00129-9 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 30 (1-7) ◽

pp. 634-635 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Karen E. Goeller

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Learning ◽

Web Based ◽

The Future

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Web-based Questionnaires: The Future in Epidemiology?

American Journal of Epidemiology ◽

10.1093/aje/kwq291 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 172 (11) ◽

pp. 1292-1298 ◽

Cited By ~ 325

Author(s):

M. M. H. J. van Gelder ◽

R. W. Bretveld ◽

N. Roeleveld

Keyword(s):

Web Based ◽

The Future

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The development and customization of GIS-based applications and Web-based GIS applications with the CASE tool AIGLE

Proceedings of the eighth ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems - GIS '00 ◽

10.1145/355274.355307 ◽

2000 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Ahmed Lbath ◽

François Pinet

Keyword(s):

Web Based ◽

Case Tool ◽

Gis Applications

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A Web-Based Software Platform for Restoration-Oriented Species Selection Based on Plant Functional Traits

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ◽

10.3389/fevo.2021.570454 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Chen Wang ◽

Shuguang Jian ◽

Hai Ren ◽

Junhua Yan ◽

Nan Liu

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Functional Traits ◽

Selection Process ◽

Plant Functional Traits ◽

Species Selection ◽

Software Platform ◽

Web Based ◽

Successful Case ◽

The Future ◽

Degraded Ecosystems

Plant functional traits are fundamental to the understanding of plant adaptations and distributions. Recently, scientists proposed a trait-based species selection theory to support the selection of suitable plant species to restore the degraded ecosystems, to prevent the invasive exotic species and to manage the sustainable ecosystems. Based on this theory, in a previous study, we developed a species screening model and successfully applied it to a project where plant species were selected for restoring a tropical coral island. However, during this process we learned that a software platform is necessary to automate the selection process because it can flexible to assist users. Here, we developed a generalized software platform called the “Restoration Plant Species Selection (RPSS) Platform.” This flexible software is designed to assist users in selecting plant species for particular purposes (e.g., restore the degraded ecosystems and others). It is written in R language and integrated with external R packages, including the packages that computing similarity indexes, providing graphic outputs, and offering web functions. The software has a web-based graphical user interface that allows users to execute required functions via checkboxes and buttons. The platform has cross-platform functionality, which means that it can run on all common operating systems (e.g., Windows, Linux, macOS, and others). We also illustrate a successful case study in which the software platform was used to select suitable plant species for restoration purpose. The objective of this paper is to introduce the newly developed software platform RPSS and to provide useful guidances on using it for various applications. At this step, we also realized that the software platform should be constantly updated (e.g., add new features) in the future. Based on the existing successful application and the possible updates, we believe that our RPSS software platform will have broader applications in the future.

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Transitional Justice and Reconciliation through Identification

Andean Truths ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9781781382516.003.0003 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 60-87

Author(s):

Anne Lambright

Keyword(s):

National Culture ◽

Transitional Justice ◽

Subject Matter ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Horizontal Position ◽

Indigenous Culture ◽

The Public ◽

The Future ◽

National Subject ◽

Ethical Stance

This section examines Claudia Llosa’s 2009 film La teta asustada in contrast with Paloma de papel (2003, Fabrizio Aguilar). While the latter promotes traditional, paternalistic, and objectifying images of rural indigenous culture, Llosa’s film, which focuses on indigenous immigrants in Lima, assumes a horizontal position with respect to indigenous communities. With over 40% of its dialogue in Quechua, La teta asustada, both through its circumstances of production and its treatment of its subject matter, is unique in that re-locates national culture and redefines the national subject, suggesting that the future of Peru lies greatly in an urban indigenous culture sustained by an inevitable heterogeneity of knowledges and practices. Furthermore, the film demands a new ethical stance on the part of the larger audience, obliging the public to take a position less of a far-away empathizer and more of solidarity.

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Towards Ubiquitous and Adaptive Web-Based Multimedia Communications via the Cloud

Resource Management of Mobile Cloud Computing Networks and Environments - Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8225-2.ch011 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 307-360 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Spyros Panagiotakis ◽

Ioannis Vakintis ◽

Haroula Andrioti ◽

Andreas Stamoulias ◽

Kostas Kapetanakis ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Web Applications ◽

Multimedia Communications ◽

Web Based ◽

Client Server ◽

Web Technologies ◽

3D Environment ◽

The Future ◽

Web 3D ◽

Service Adaptation ◽

The Web

This chapter at first surveys the Web technologies that can enable ubiquitous and pervasive multimedia communications over the Web and then reviews the challenges that are raised by their combination. In this context, the relevant HTML5 APIs and technologies provided for service adaptation are introduced and the MPEG-DASH, X3Dom, and WebRTC frameworks are discussed. What is envisaged for the future of mobile multimedia is that with the integration of these technologies one can shape a diversity of future pervasive and personalized cloud-based Web applications, where the client-server operations are obsolete. In particular, it is believed that in the future Web cloud-based Web applications will be able to communicate, stream, and transfer adaptive events and content to their clients, creating a fully collaborative and pervasive Web 3D environment.

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Ideas on the Future of Intelligent Web-Based E-Learning

Intelligent Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5643-5.ch101 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 2274-2287

Author(s):

Utku Kose

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Current Status ◽

Learning Approaches ◽

Learning Tools ◽

Web Based ◽

The Future ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Important Approach ◽

E Learning

With the outstanding improvements in technology, the number of e-learning applications has increased greatly. This increment is associated with awareness levels of educational institutions on the related improvements and the power of communication and computer technologies to ensure effective and efficient teaching and learning experiences for teachers and students. Consequently, there is a technological flow that changes the standards of e-learning processes and provides better ways to obtain desired educational objectives. When we consider today's widely used technological factors, Web-based e-learning approaches have a special role in directing the educational standards. Improvements among m-learning applications and the popularity of the Artificial Intelligence usage for educational works have given great momentum to this orientation. In this sense, this chapter provides some ideas on the future of intelligent Web-based e-learning applications by thinking on the current status of the literature. As it is known, current trends in developing Artificial Intelligence-supported e-learning tools continue to shape the future of e-learning. Therefore, it is an important approach to focus on the future. The author thinks that the chapter will be a brief but effective enough reference for similar works, which focus on the future of Artificial Intelligence-supported distance education and e-learning.

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