Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all ages is the 3rd Sustainable Development Goal(SDG).Inequality in access to health care remains one of the primary challenges in achieving the goal.With the ever-i...
Twitter is a well-known microblogging platform for rapid diffusion of views,ideas,and information.During disasters,it has widely been used to communicate evacuation plans,distribute calls for help,and assist in damage...
In 2016,Niantic Labs released Pokémon Go,an augmented reality smartphone game that attracted millions of users worldwide.This game allows users to“catch”Pokémons through their mobile cameras in different geographi...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40771166 );the Henan University Foundation (No.SBGJ090605)
Geographic Hypermedia(GH)is a rich and interactive map document with geo-tagged graphics,sound and video ele-ments.A Geographic Hypermedia System(GHS)is designed to manage,query,display and explore GH resources.Recogn...
This paper presents a component object model (COM) based framework for managing, analyzing and visualizing massive multi-scale digital elevation models (DEMs). The framework consists of a data management component (DM...
In order to set up a conceptual data model that reflects the real world as accurately as possible,this paper firstly reviews and analyzes the disadvantages of previous conceptual data models used by traditional GIS in...
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To improve the current GIS functions in describing geographic objects with fuzziness,this paper begins with a discussion on the distance measure of spatial objects based on the theory of sets and an introduction of di...
Temporal geographic information system(t_GIS) is a kind of computer information system that can display,process and analyze the micro_format distribution of temporal_spatial information of real world.It includes both ...
On the basis of the authors’ experiences of setting up an NGDC Web site,this paper attempts to present some significant aspects about the security of NGDC based on ASP.They include data storing,database maintenance,n...
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The current GIS can only deal with 2-D or 2.5-D information on the earth surface. A new 3-D data structure and data model need to be designed for the 3-D GIS. This paper analyzes diverse 3-D spatial phenomena from min...