Research Proposal Flow Chart
Research Proposal Flow Chart Read More »
Project
Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision
Revised draft based on feedback provided following the Second Session of the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management January 2013 The use of geospatial information is increasing rapidly. There is a growing recognition amongst both governments and the private sector that an understanding of location and place is a vital component of effective decision-making. Citizens with no recognised expertise in geospatial information, and who are unlikely to even be familiar with the term, are also increasingly using and interacting with geospatial information; indeed in some cases, they are contributing to its collection – often in an involuntary
Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision Read More »
Location-Based Service (LBS)
A Location-Based Service (LBS) is usually a service running on a mobile device that provides facts or recreational information. It employs geolocation to make the facts or entertainment more personal to the user of the application. An example of a typical LBS is one that identifies the location of a device and then discovers the location of restaurants in the immediate vicinity of that location. As LBS become more common, their commercial value will become more readily evident to corporations, who can use them to personalize users’ experiences with location-aware weather, coupons, and advertising. This is already becoming more common,
Location-Based Service (LBS) Read More »
Mobile Application Development
Mobile computing has changed the way we learn, interact with online services, and manage information. The popularity of handheld devices among people of all ages and cultures has increased the demand for highly interactive and user-friendly mobile apps. The multitude of sensors available on mobile devices such as GPS, ambient light sensing, and accelerometers have broadened the use of mobile apps in various application domains. Mobile apps vary widely, from weather forecasting and managing a patient’s health to providing online education, among many others. Both students and lecturers of software engineering with a particular focus on mobile app development struggle
Mobile Application Development Read More »
GIS-Based Success Factors
Besides conducting a comprehensive needs assessment that helps adequately define the user needs and identify the available resources within the NSO and in the country, particularly the funding requirements, we need to consider critical factors to succeed in a full digital GIS-based census program. Chief among these factors are: ensuring senior management commitment to developing a long-term digital program; building the technical and human capacities required for sustaining the GIS-based systems and databases and setting up an independent unit for cartography and GIS activities within the NSO; using technical standards; forming a partnership to work together with the NMA and
GIS-Based Success Factors Read More »
Top five trends in GIS technology
According to Dangermond, the top five trends in GIS technology today are as follows: Location as a service Advanced analytics Big data analytics Real-time GIS Mobility Dangermond continues: “The last leap in computing was the shift from the server to the cloud. Software as a service (SaaS) opened a world of opportunities for GIS, as shared map services like the World Imagery basemap are no longer separate from the unique services offered to users. GIS users can share data, collaborate, make mashup maps in the server, and then connect to the cloud. The next leap in GIS technology and computing
Top five trends in GIS technology Read More »
Esri Geodatabase
“The Esri geodatabase is object-relational and illustrates the object-oriented concepts extension brought to relational-based databases. The subsequent examples will rely on the use of this geodatabase.” Excerpt From: Amor Laaribi. “GIS and the 2020 Census.” iBooks.
Geocoding
Geocoding (geographically enabling unit records) is defined as the process of finding associated geographic coordinates (expressed in latitude and longitude) from other geographic data for the statistical units, such as street addresses or postal codes. (Geocoding is a way to ensure that the data “knows” where it is.) In other words, geocoding involves taking location information for these statistical units (such as address) and linking this information to a location coordinate (i.e., x,y,z coordinates) and/or a small geographic area. The geocodes (the location coordinates and geographic areas codes) obtained from this process can be stored directly on the statistical unit record
Open
“Many other considerations pertain to “open”: open data, open specifications, open APIs, open source, and, most importantly, open systems that are standards-compliant and interoperable for an open community.” Excerpt From: Amor Laaribi. “GIS and the 2020 Census.” iBooks.
Development of Web-Based Application for Shapefile Coordinate System Conversion for Malaysia
Elysonia Alim and Shahabuddin Amerudin Department of Geoinformation, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia Email: elysoniaalim@gmail.com; shahabuddin@utm.my KEYWORDS: coordinate system, conversion, shapefile ABSTRACT: It is difficult to process GIS vector data when they are not aligned with one another. The need for different coordinate systems rose from the fact that some coordinate systems are better fitted to describe the geographical phenomenon occurring in a specific area. However, even commercial software had been proven to have questionable accuracy in coordinate system conversions. The purpose of this study is to develop a web application capable
GIS research topics to explore
spatial computing infrastructure, spatial cognitive assistance, volunteering geographic information (VGI), GPS-denied environment, statistically significant spatiotemporal pattern mining, mobile economy, mobile recommender systems, spatial network routing, spatial optimization, web-based GIS (industry perspective), location-based recommendation systems, linear anomaly window detection, intelligent transportation, GPU-based spatial computing, spatiotemporal analysis of climate data, geospatial weather and climate nexus, spatial statistics, concepts in spatial statistics, data science for GIS applications, 3D modeling and analysis, geometric nearest-neighbor queries, modelling of spatial relations, concepts in statistics for spatial and spatiotemporal data, high-performance computing in GIS, road network databases and constraint databases and data mining.
GIS research topics to explore Read More »
WHAT A PHD IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT
WHAT A PHD IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT After having completed a PhD degree myself, and having supervised, co-supervised and examined a number of PhD students over the years, I would like to offer some humble advice and pointers to those aspiring to pursue a PhD degree themselves. I find that many Malaysians misunderstood the purpose of getting a PhD degree and the commitments and sacrifices that it calls for. A PhD is the highest academic and research degree from a university. I have seen both remarkable successes and disappointing failures amongst students pursuing this academic accolade. It takes
WHAT A PHD IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT Read More »
Google Summer of Code Projects: Open Source Geospatial 4 every student
Are you are university student who has solid programming skills, geospatial knowledge and is continuously aiming to become better at developing open source software? Then you are in for a great summer of coding. This article is about the opportunity to become a better programmer while working on some really popular open source geospatial software. Does this sound interesting? Keep reading. What is the Google Summer of Code? In short, taken from the official website “Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source
Google Summer of Code Projects: Open Source Geospatial 4 every student Read More »