scholarly journals An Approach to Decompose and Evaluate a Complex GIS-Application Design to a Simple, Lightweight, User-Centered App-Based Design Using User Experience Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
David Kammerhofer ◽  
Johannes Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Discussion Panel

Working with contemporary, monolithic desktop Geographical Information Systems can be laborious and confusing, especially for non-experts. An alternative for a more user friendly approach to spatial data edition and spatial analysis may be an “app-based” web application that is offering single tasks for the user—“micro applications”. In this paper, a method for determining such “micro applications” based on user stories is presented and applied to a specific use case—the case is centered around an Austrian Governmental Institution that digitizes and edits infrastructure data. The results of this process are implemented in an app-based web application. To measure the impacts of the app-based approach, we evaluate the user experience of the app-based approach in comparison to a desktop Geographical Information System offering the same functionality. For the measurement of the user experience, we used a focus group. The group had to accomplish tasks with the desktop Geographical Information System and with the app-based web application. To measure their user experience, we employed the tool AttrakDiff. The app-based web application achieves significantly better results in terms of user experience. This result is confirmed in a discussion panel carried out afterwards. Test persons responded that positive aspects of the app-based web application were the easy and intuitive handling and reduced user interface that helps the users to focus on their tasks without any distraction.

scholarly journals A low-cost web-based smart street lighting geographical information system for smaller towns and villages

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 450-458
Author(s):  
Filip Pružinec ◽  
Peter Mego ◽  
Renata Đuračiová
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Light Control ◽  
Street Lighting ◽  
Lighting Control ◽  
Manual Adjustment ◽  
Control Service

AbstractThe use of LED lights in smart street lighting to save energy is efficient and very common in many developed cities. However, such a system results in higher initial costs, which may discourage smaller towns and villages from its purchasing. This paper therefore deals with the design and development of a smart street lighting control system for smaller cities and villages. Such a system is required to be economical from the perspective of development and production. Considering other requirements such as platform independence, high availability and broad support, we proposed to build a system as a web application using a custom light control service component. The result is a web application that consists of a user interface served by a web server and an application server used to communicate with light control service. In addition, the system is designed as a geographical information system to be easy to use for managing street lights in groups or individually, while displaying them on the map. The system allows automatic sensor-based light intensity modulation by default with the possibility of manual adjustment or override of the illumination. It also includes a device error notification system with a tool to navigate faulty devices. The presented system is a low-cost solution for intelligent street lighting control designed for smaller cities or villages. They can apply the designed architecture of the system and the specific technologies suitable because of their low-cost implementation.

Geographical Information System Applications Utilized in Museums in Turkey Within the Scope of the Cultural Heritage Tourism

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Aysu Altaş
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Written Information ◽  
Guided Tours

Technology has penetrated every aspect of life and it proceeds with the aim of facilitating people's lives. Geographical information systems as a part of the developing technology provide services in every area with different forms. One of these areas is museology. The desire to make visual and written information and cultural heritage that are presented by museums with auditory and interactive experiences has brought together digital technologies and cultural and historical activities. From this point of view, the “Müze Asist” is a remarkable application in terms of the fact that it is a local app and in use in most of the museums in Turkey and the convenience provided for all tourists who want to visit a museum, especially for those who prefer self-guided tours. This chapter may be a guide to its objects and to the next researchers.

Applications of Geographical Information System in E-Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 80-86
Author(s):  
Y. Yongling
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Real World ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
The Real ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
At Will

Geographical information system (GIS) is one kind of information system that handles spatial data. It is difficult to give one definitive definition about GIS (Heywood, Cornelius, & Carver, 2002; Maguire, Goodchild, & Rhind, 2001). This variety of definitions can be explained by the fact that any definition of GIS will depend on who is giving it, and their background and viewpoint (Pinkles, 2002). The complete definition of GIS is selected here as: “a set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving at will, transforming, and displaying spatial data from the real world for a particular set of purposes”(Burrough, 1986, p. 6). As an important part of e-government, is that it has functions of cartography, manages spatial data and spatial analysis.

scholarly journals Using Remote Sensing Techniques in Environmental Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Mihai Valentin Herbei ◽  
Roxana Herbei ◽  
Laura Smuleac ◽  
Tudor Salagean
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
Modern Solution

The Geographical Information Systems technology is used in many fields where the spatial information is very important and relevant, that means in all fields that use a system for saving, analyzing and representing the data which are processed. The aim of this paper is using modern technology for monitoring the environment. Geographical Information System together with remote sensing have a very important role in decision process regarding the environment. Integration of remote sensing images in a Geographical Information System which enables complex spatial analysis is a useful and modern solution for environmental management and decision-making process. Satellite images contain various information that can support environmental monitoring, images that can be analyzed and interpreted in various ways by using the Geographical Information System tools.

Building Locator Using Geographical Information System Application

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1396-1401
Author(s):  
A. A. Mustaffa ◽  
C. M. Iruthayam ◽  
S. Bukhari ◽  
A. H. Omar
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Main Campus ◽  
Attribute Data ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Senior Students

Rapid and fast-growing developments have increased the demand to build more facilities and buildings in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). In accordance with this statement, newly or senior students including lectures in UTHM finds it difficult to locate their accurate location or destination which causes their wastage of time and energy. Thus, studies on locating building using Geographic Information System (GIS) application were conducted. The main aim of this study is to develop a web based GIS application as a proper and effective solution which is intended to minimize the problems in locating buildings and facilities within main campus of UTHM. The objectives of this study are to develop a database for UTHM main campus buildings where it will be used to analysis building locator information and developing the database into a web-based application. The database system is designed using QGIS where geospatial and attribute data were used to create a database as a dataset to run the application. This application known as Campus Building Locator (CBL) was designed with suitable information such as block name, building name and block image to show building’s location and facilities. Questioners have been distributed to analysis the effectiveness of CBL based on users feedback. Based on the result obtained, 58% of the users strongly agree that CBL is a user-friendly application and 67% of users also strongly agree that the information provided as mentioned before is sufficient enough to locate building or facilities around the campus area. About 58% of users are satisfied with the components and features provided in this application where it attracts the user to use it more often for their search. Overall, CBL will introduce new searching approach, a very useful medium and standard references to all UTHM occupants.

Research on Visualization of Spatial Data and Symbols Based on ArcGIS

2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 3107-3111
Author(s):  
Xu Dan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Point Line

To the problem of visualization expression, under the ArcGIS space environment, I use the ArcObjects components to do the symbols allocation and visualization expression for spatial data and point, line and polygon target. Result shows that it has finished the visualization effect of spatial data and symbols in the geographical information system.

scholarly journals DETERMINAÇÃO DA CAPACIDADE DE USO DAS TERRAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO MANUEL - SP

Irriga ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-149
Author(s):  
Osmar Delmanto Júnior ◽  
Sergio Campos ◽  
Lincoln Gehring Cardoso ◽  
Zacarias Xavier de Barros
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Digital Storage ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Excellent Tool

DETERMINAÇÃO DA CAPACIDADE DE USO DAS TERRAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE SÃO MANUEL - SP   Osmar Delmanto JuniorSérgio CamposLincoln Gehring CardosoZacarias Xavier  de BarrosDepartamento de Engenharia Rural, Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP. CP 237, CEP 18603-970. E-mail: [email protected]  1 RESUMO  Esse trabalho objetivou a elaboração da carta de capacidade de uso das terras do Município de São Manuel - SP, visando o planejamento adequado da ocupação do solo, utilizado-se de Sistema de Informação Geográfica (SIG).  A bacia situa-se entre as coordenadas geográficas  22º 28’ 20” e 22º 53’ 10” de latitudes S e os meridianos 48º 21’ 52” e 48º 48’ 00” de longitudes W Gr., apresentando uma área de 60.988ha.   O mapa de capacidade de uso da terra do município foi elaborado a partir dos mapas de classes de declive e de solo, tomando-se por base as características de cada um e utilizando-se da tabela de julgamento de classes de capacidade de uso.  As áreas da classe e subclasses de capacidade de uso das terras determinadas pelo SIG –IDRISI foram:  IIe,s (22,64%); IIIe (8,62%); IIIe,s (15,83%); IIIs (29,97%); IVe (10,82%); VIe (3,95%) e VIIe (0,96%).  Os resultados permitiram inferir que as subclasses mais significativas foram a IIIs e IIe,s.  As classes de declive de 0 a 20% ocorrem em mais de ¾ do Município, sendo as áreas planas, as mais representativas, pois ocorrem em quase 1/3 da área total.  O SIG mostrou-se uma excelente ferramenta para determinação da capacidade de uso da terra, demonstrando que a utilização do geoprocessamento facilita e agiliza o cruzamento dos dados digitais, permitindo seu armazenamento, que poderão ser utilizados para outras análises em futuros planejamentos geoambientais.  UNITERMOS: Sistema de Informações Geográficas, unidades de solo, classes  de declive, capacidade de uso da terra   DELMANTO JUNIOR, O.; CAMPOS S.; CARDOSO, L.G.; BARROS, Z.X. LAND USE CAPABILITY DETERMINATION OF SÃO MANUEL MUNICIPALITY-SP   2 ABSTRACT  The present work purposed a land use capability chart development from São Manuel Municipality-SP using a Geographical Information System - Idrisi aiming to contribute for a better territorial organization and soil occupation planning. The basin is located in the 22º 28’ 20” geographical co-ordinates at 22º 53’ 10” S latitude, 48º 21’ 52” and 48º 48’ 00” meridian of W Gr. longitude, presenting an area of 9180,12ha.  The chart of the basin land use capability was elaborated from the soil and sloping class charts based on each one characteristics and using the class table of use capability. The class and subclass areas determined through the Geographical Information System IDRISI presented the following values: IIe,s (22,64%), IIIe (8,62%), IIIe,s (15,83%), IIIs (29,97%), IVe (10,82%), VIe (3,95%) and VIIe (0,96%).  The results allowed to infer that the most significant sub classes were IIIs and IIe,s. The 0 to 20% sloping classes have occurred in more than ¾ of the district. Plane areas were the most significant since they occur in nearly 1/3 of the whole area. The Geographical Information System IDRISI has been an excellent tool to determine land use capability, specially related with geo-processing use. The later also facilitates the input, analysis and display of spatial environmental information as well as data digital storage which could be used for other analyses in further geo-environmental design.  KEYWORDS: Geoprocessing, land-use capability, Geographical Information Systems.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Learning Applications in Archaeology

2008 ◽  
pp. 128-145
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Margounakis
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Made In

Progress made in the fields of designing and geometrically analyzing earth maps, has lead to the development of automatic techniques which are applied in collecting analyzing and representing any information relevant to geographical interest. Such a collection of techniques sets the frame of what we call geographical information system (GIS).

The Design of the DEAFIN Web-Geographical Information System

2011 ◽  
pp. 142-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio A. Schreiber ◽  
Alberto Belussi ◽  
Valeria De Antonellis ◽  
Maria G. Fugini ◽  
Letizia Tanca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Data Publishing

The design of a Web-geographical information system strongly requires methodological and operational tools to deal with information distributed in multiple, autonomous and heterogeneous data sources, and a uniform data publishing methodology and policy over Internet web sites. In this chapter, we describe our experience for the activities of requirement analysis and conceptual design of the DEAFIN Web-geographical information system whose objective is to improve the quality and the comparability of information about available industrial vacant sites, coming from different regional data sources. Heterogeneity and web availability requirements have been taken into account in the system architecture design. The DEAFIN system is thus conceived as a federated web-based information system, capable of managing and providing access to all the regional relevant information in an integrated and complete fashion. Furthermore, since the data available by a given DEAFIN region partner can be both spatial data and alphanumeric data, for each regional component system in the DEAFIN system, a Web-GIS system is defined.

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