scholarly journals GIS “Spatial Mobility of the Szlachta under Peter the First” in a Prosopographic Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-218
Author(s):  
Andrei Viktorovich Zakharov ◽  
Alexey Frolov
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Data Representation ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Web

The article discusses possibilities of geochronological tracking technology for studying the spatial mobility of social groups in Russia in the past. The GIS proposed is necessary to visualize and analyze spatial data in a prosopographic research of about 400 szlachta representatives in Peter’s Epoch. Spatial mobility is understood as the intensity of person's translocation through settlements and his ability to respond to external challenges by moving. The archival materials of the Senate inspection of the szlachta (1721-1723) served the basis for the study and the resource formation. Particular attention is paid to the design of software research tools – the PostgreSQL database and the web GIS based on the latter. It is the first time when geochronological tracking as a geoinformatics method was used to prosopographically study the Russian nobility. The methods of historical source spatial data representation and visualization are implemented in the form of a geodatabase that is publicly available. Two program modules (the GIS among them) grant a wide range of Internet users an access to historical sources text data as well as synchronically visualized data on the szlachta service under Peter the first.  The authors conclude that it is promising to create a special web interface which provides users with flexible text and geodata filtering and analysis. The web project created can be used both for research in the field of social history, historical geography, genealogy and for educational purposes in such courses as “historical computer science” and “digital humanities”.

scholarly journals WEB-BASED GIS FOR MAPPING FIRE REGIMES OF PECHORO-ILYCH RESERVE AND ITS ENVIRONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
A.S. Plotnikova ◽  
◽  
A.O. Kharitonova
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Fire Frequency ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Reference Information ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mean Fire Interval ◽  
The Web

The article is devoted to the description of the web-GIS for mapping fire regimes in the Pechora-Ilych reserve and its environs. The main purpose of the resource is to provide the results of mapping fire regimes in the designated area to a wide range of researchers in an accessible form. Web-GIS allows organizing and storing the received thematic spatial data. The resource performs research and educational functions. The structure of the web-GIS includes the following sections: the study area, fire frequency indicators, fire regimes, fire regime condition class, and fire cycles. The web GIS was created using the ArcGIS StoryMaps tool on the ArcGIS Online platform. All sections use data from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Web-GIS allows receiving reference information about the indicators of fire frequency, fire cycles and regimes, as well as their deviations within the boundaries of the Pechora-Ilych nature reserve, district forestries, and spatial units. In particular, the results of a retrospective statistical analysis of forest fire indicators within spatial units (fire frequency, mean fire interval, etc.) are available for users.

Ireland

2010 ◽  
pp. 105-130
Author(s):  
Edward Dwyer ◽  
Kathrin Kopke ◽  
Valerie Cummins ◽  
Elizabeth O’Dea ◽  
Declan Dunne
Keyword(s):  
Reference Material ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Internet Resource ◽  
Digital Atlas ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Gis Environment ◽  
Data Layers ◽  
Additional Reference

The Marine Irish Digital Atlas (MIDA) is an Internet resource built in a web GIS environment, where people interested in coastal and marine information for Ireland can visualize and identify pertinent geospatial datasets and determine where to acquire them. The atlas, which is being constantly maintained, currently displays more than 140 data layers from over 35 coastal and marine organizations both within Ireland and abroad. It also features an “InfoPort” which is a repository of text, imagery, links to spatial data sources and additional reference material for a wide range of coastal and marine topics. The MIDA team has been active in the creation of the International Coastal Atlas Network and the Atlas was chosen as one of the nodes for the Semantic Interoperability Demonstrator.

Examples of Applications and Study Cases

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-263
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Thematic Maps ◽  
Decentralized Planning ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
The Web

The chapter presents examples of applications and study cases of platforms of geospatial decision support systems for national public policies and strategies. The rapid progress of internet with the combination of GIS has paved the ways for web distribution of spatial data. Users can access the spatial data through a Web-GIS website, make thematic maps, and perform all types of spatial queries and analysis. In the context of an increasing emphasis on decentralized planning, the need for collection and dissemination of data at local levels has been increased. Use of the web as a dissemination medium of geographic data in the form of interactive maps can be regarded as a major advancement in digital cartography and opens many new opportunities, such as real-time maps, cheaper dissemination, and decentralized sharing of geographic information.

scholarly journals Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet McCalman
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Social History ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nations People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Poor White ◽  
First Nations People

Australia is rich in population datasets generated to manage convicts, civilians, stock, land and the colonised and displaced First Nations people. It has also preserved all service and pension data from both world wars. Through nominal linkage using volunteers and paid research staff, it has been possible over the past twenty years to build four cradle-to-grave datasets derived from administrative cohorts: poor white babies born in a charity hospital 1858–1900; Aboriginal Victorians from 1855 to 1988; convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1818-1853 and servicemen who embarked for World War I from the State of Victoria. The abundance of digitised historical sources from government archives to historical newspapers enables the practice of demographic prosopography, with a wide range of variables that have yielded new insights into Australia’s population and social history.

Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Infrastructure

2017 ◽  
pp. 272-295
Author(s):  
Somnath Chaudhuri ◽  
Nilanjan Ray
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Formal Interface ◽  
Spatial Display ◽  
Spatial Source ◽  
The Web

A Mashup is the process of merging multiple sources of data, both spatial and non-spatial, into a single integrated spatial display. It is about extracting spatial data from a non-spatial source and combining with other spatial data and finally displaying it on a map. Mashups can potentially combine any type of contents and functions over the web, regardless of whether a formal interface of programming is available (Fu et al., 2011). The present study discusses the basic architecture of the Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS and its application in tourism promotion.

Web-Based Geoprocessing and Workflow Creation for Generating and Providing Remote Sensing Products

GEOMATICA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Eberle ◽  
C. Strobl
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Data ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Web

With the implementation specification of the Web Processing Service (WPS), a standard to process spatial data on the web is available from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This new possibility in web-based information systems allow an interoperable processing of different data based on service-oriented architectures. This paper describes requirements and an implementation for web-based processing and workflow creation to generate and provide remote sensing products like fire hotspot points and land surface temperatures based on NASA MODIS data. Therefore, a WPS as well as service chains to process these remote sensing products are implemented. PyWPS is used as WPS and tested with focus on processing remote sensing data. To chain the developed processes, software like 52° North Orchestration Engine, Apache ODE and internal software for executing processing chains and providing a workflow as WPS process are tested. A Web-GIS with open-source software was developed to manage started and finished processes, to search for available satellite data and to create processing chains interactively. An interface to retrieve and process archived data was integrated; the user of this system can search interactively for archived satellite data and process it with the developed processing services and workflows. The Web-GIS also acts as a WPS client, client for visualizing processed data and creator as well as security layer for processing chains. These developments and research work show that there is additional work to improve the WPS specification for example by adding domain-specific profiles for working with large raster data to define standardised rules for data-exchange between the processes. In the field of process orchestration, no standardised data format describing processing chains exists yet.

scholarly journals Web-based GIS for mapping fire regimes of Pechoro-Ilych reserve and its surroundings

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
A.S. Plotnikova ◽  
◽  
A.O. Kharitonova
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Fire Frequency ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Information Collection ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Reference Information ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

The article focuses on the description of fire regimes mapping environment for the Pechora-Ilych nature reserve and its surroundings. The purpose of the system is presentation of fire regimes maps of the studied territory to a wide range of researchers in a convenient way. In addition, web-GIS allows to organize and store derivative thematic spatial data. The resource performs research and educational functions. The web-GIS structure includes sections: study area, burnability indicators, fire regimes, deviations of fire regimes, fire cycles. The system was created using the ArcGIS StoryMaps tool on the ArcGIS Online platform. All sections use data from the global geographic information collection ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Web-GIS allows you to get reference information about the burnability indicators, fire cycles and regimes, as well as their deviations within the Pechora-Ilych nature reserve, local forest areas and spatial units boundaries. In particular, the results of a retrospective statistical analysis of forest burnability indicators within spatial units (the fire frequency, the average number of years between fires, and others) are available.

Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Infrastructure

2019 ◽  
pp. 1334-1352
Author(s):  
Somnath Chaudhuri ◽  
Nilanjan Ray
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Formal Interface ◽  
Spatial Display ◽  
Spatial Source ◽  
The Web

A Mashup is the process of merging multiple sources of data, both spatial and non-spatial, into a single integrated spatial display. It is about extracting spatial data from a non-spatial source and combining with other spatial data and finally displaying it on a map. Mashups can potentially combine any type of contents and functions over the web, regardless of whether a formal interface of programming is available (Fu et al., 2011). The present study discusses the basic architecture of the Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS and its application in tourism promotion.

Web GIS in mountaineering in Croatia

GeoScape ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zvonimir Nevistić ◽  
Drago Špoljarić
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite Systems ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Satellite Systems ◽  
Hiking Trails ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
The Web

Abstract Using maps is inevitable in many human activities as well as in mountaineering. Until recently, most of the spatial and attribute data of the mountaineer’s interest could have been found only in analog form. With the development of information technology, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), easily accessible measuring sensors and digital cameras, it is easier to collect, store, visualize, share, and update spatial data. The web GIS with its associated applications assumes dominance in browsing and dissemination of spatial data, and is applied in areas where there is a need for processing, analysis and visualization of various data that contain a spatial component, including mountaineering. When planning hiking, mountaineers need both spatial and attribute information on mountaineering facilities, checkpoints, and hiking trails in the form of GNSS traces. Through the interactive web application interface, it is possible to connect all these data, enabling easy viewing, browsing and analysis, or performing various spatial queries, which greatly facilitates the planning of hiking excursions. This paper presents a review and comparison of four most visited Croatian mountaineering portals: HPS’s Interactive Mountaineering Map of Croatia, Mountaineering portal and Geodetic mountaineering portal developed at the Faculty of Geodesy of the University of Zagreb and planinarenje.hr portal developed by the group of mountain enthusiasts. Numerous data on Croatian mountains and peaks, mountain facilities, huts and hiking trails are now accessible through portals to anyone with Internet connection, either with the computers, tablets or smartphones. All users can browse, filter and download data from the portal, and there are additional options for authorized users such as commenting on portal content. Several thematic portals of neighboring countries were also analyzed (portal of the Slovenian Mountaineering Association, Slovak mountaineering portal and one Swiss mountaineering portal) and compared with Croatian portals. Finally, the importance of the web GIS portals for the development of mountaineering tourism was emphasized, as well as the ecological culture and the sustainability of the mountaineering environment (preservation of mountain trails and facilities, protection of endemic plants, karst and geological features, etc.). Highlights for public administration, management and planning: • The presented web GIS represent an effective and efficient tool for planning and conducting trips in mountain areas as it allows better organization and management of mountain content for the tourists and other hikers. • Registered users can participate in the portal update (e.g. peak or hill endonyms) and this can be used by State Geodetic Administration for their register of geographical names (http://rgi.dgu.hr/pretrazivanje) • The Web GIS can also be used as a support in the tourism development of local mountain areas with respect to the ecological culture and sustainability of the mountain environment.

scholarly journals A WEBGIS TO SUPPORT GPR 3D DATA ACQUISITION: A FIRST STEP FOR THE INTEGRATION OF UNDERGROUND UTILITY NETWORKS IN 3D CITY MODELS

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W7 ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Tabarro ◽  
J. Pouliot ◽  
R. Fortier ◽  
L.-M. Losier
Keyword(s):  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
3D Data ◽  
Ground Penetrating ◽  
The Web

For the planning and sustainable development of large cities, it is critical to accurately locate and map, in 3D, existing underground utility networks (UUN) such as pipelines, cables, ducts, and channels. An emerging non-invasive instrument for collecting underground data such as UUN is the ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Although its capabilities, handling GPR and extracting relevant information from its data are not trivial tasks. For instance, both GPR and its complimentary software stack provide very few capabilities to co-visualize GPR collected data and other sources of spatial data such as orthophotography, DEM or road maps. Furthermore, the GPR interface lacks functionalities for adding annotation, editing geometric objects or querying attributes. A new approach to support GPR survey is proposed in this paper. This approach is based on the integration of multiple sources of geospatial datasets and the use of a Web-GIS system and relevant functionalities adapted to interoperable GPR data acquisition. The Web-GIS is developed as an improved module in an existing platform called GVX. The GVX-GPR module provides an interactive visualization of multiple layers of structured spatial data, including GPR profiles. This module offers new features when compared to traditional GPR surveys such as geo-annotated points of interest for identifying spatial clues in the GPR profiles, integration of city contextual data, high definition drone and satellite pictures, as-built, and more. The paper explains the engineering approach used to design and develop the Web GIS and tests for this survey approach, mapping and recording UUN as part of 3D city model.

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