resulting from these initiatives facilitates and promotes the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in planning … GIS supports and enhances environmental planning processes, enabling a rapid and objective analysis of environmental … successful application of spatial data and GIS, and a number of issues remain affecting consistency and validity of results. This …

services using GIS and readily available, existing land use/land cover datasets. Critical components of the methodology, in …

Across the public sector, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis are increasingly ubiquitous when … making decisions involving people and places. However, historically GIS has not been prevalently applied to the various types … England to examine how embedded GIS, spatial analysis and visualisation practices are to the process of conducting impact …

spatial inventory data. The output is a comprehensive GIS layer containing silvicultural, geophysical and climate data, and … site-specific decision support system outputs. This paper describes the climate and inventory data, models, GIS methods …

This study investigates the engagement of communities with little or no GIS expertise in the use of publicly available …

pressure on the existing water resources. This research was based on the use of GIS techniques to select the optimum sites for … water harvesting ponds within the basalt aquifer. Buffering, Union and arithmetic operations in GIS were all used in … analysing the data based on different socio-economic and physical criteria. The outcomes of the GIS analysis resulted in …