How GIS is Helping Electric Cars on the Road
GIS is playing an important role by helping drivers plan travel that factors in charging stations.
GIS is playing an important role by helping drivers plan travel that factors in charging stations.
GIS has been used to assist in showing strong or weak links for given health conditions to different types of pollutants.
The use of new data models has allowed more traditional GIS data models to be integrated with those used in atmospheric science.
GIS has been utilized in sailing and other small craft to help navigate not just the location of other vessels but also land features and obstacles that may arise or even cause danger to boats.
While GIS offers a way to digitize detailed historical records and maps, it can also provide a new way to understand history and trends over time.
Political geography focuses on past election cycles in order to look at how voting patterns develop and why. Mark Altaweel discusses how GIS can be used to study those patterns.
As smart phones and Quick Response Codes (QR codes) have become ubiquitous, it perhaps should not be surprising we are beginning to see applications integrating QR code data with GIS.
GIS has proven to be an immensely useful tool for police interdiction operations and crime prevention. One area, in particular, that has benefited from GIS is combating drug trafficking.
The use of GIS, through such spatial analyses as kernel density estimation or Monte Carlo simulation, is a growing strategy among small businesses looking to succeed.
GIS has been utilized to monitor tunnels and areas explored, as it provides both 3D visualization and abilities to integrate various sets of data for visual and quantitative analysis.
Researchers at Ohio State University developed GIS software to help track the movement of dancers over time to see their patterns, which was also then used to choreograph new classical routines
Historical geography is one area that has applied GIS to understand outcomes of battles, why cities were built in given locations, and using ancient technologies to understand length and difficulty of travel at different times of the year.