Author Dave Peters, director of systems integration for ESRI, shares a tried-and-true methodology for building a successful system for GIS that's rooted in ESRI's consulting experience and feedback ...

The Las Vegas Wash was a typical desert wash before settlement began in 1905. Upstream population has grown from about 5,000 in 1930 to about 1.6 million in 2004. Concurrent with a growing urban ...

Geographic information systems (GIS) represent more than a tool for spatial data handling. Qualitative and mixed-methods approaches with GIS value the suite of spatial methods and technologies, while ...

The purpose of this study is to devise a GIS methodology to study the potential utility of these data for historical geographical research, and to determine the approximate changes in cultivated land ...