Essays about: "geographic information systems"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 148 essays containing the words geographic information systems.
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11. Developing a Geographical Information System for a water and sewer network, for monitoring, identification and leak repair - Case study: Municipal Water Company of Naoussa, Greece
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : This thesis presents the design and implementation of a Geographic Information System (GIS) for the Naoussa Municipality Water and Sewer Company for better water utility management. The methodology contained field data collection like the valves, sewer manholes, hydrometers, and hydrants in two ways, UAV photogrammetry, and traditional surveying, the georeferencing process, photogrammetric processing, the digitization of old paper maps and the geodatabase design. READ MORE
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12. Drought and Communal Violence : A study of the relationship between drought and communal violence in Kenya from 1997 to 2012
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : This thesis explores the impact of drought on communal violence, posing the research question: How does drought influence the occurrence of communal violence? Considering empirical evidence and theoretical postulations from previous research, economic grievances are introduced as a crucial factor in the causal pathway between drought and communal violence. Thus, two hypotheses are put forward to address the research question: incidences of communal violence will increase following droughts (H1), and an increase in economic grievances is associated with an increase in communal violence incidence in instances following drought (H2). READ MORE
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13. Landslide Susceptibility Analysis Using Open Geo-spatial Data and Frequency Ratio Technique
University essay from KTH/GeoinformatikAbstract : Landslide susceptibility maps are useful for spatial decision-making to minimize the lossof lives and properties. There are many studies related to the development of landslidesusceptibility maps using various methods such as Analytic Hierarchy Process, Weight ofEvidence and Logistic Regression. READ MORE
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14. Assessing the potential impacts of tall buildings on a predominantly low-rise built urban environment : A case study from Västerås, Sweden
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografiAbstract : Tall buildings have been constructed in many cities over the world to accommodate the demographic and economic growth in urban areas. These structures, however, have been widely discussed concerning their potential negative impacts on urban life. READ MORE
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15. Adapting Marching Squares to operate on sparse matrices
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskapAbstract : Marching Squares is an algorithm that iterates over a given matrix filled with data points and outputs lines depending on the values in the grid. The algorithm iterates over the matrix four data points at a time in the shape of a square, hence its name. READ MORE
