Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling integrate geospatial technologies, crop simulation techniques and statistical methodologies to illuminate the complex interactions within agricultural ...

Back in the mid-1980s, when I established the U.S. Navy’s first GIS, we used mapping software from a company called National Planning Data Corporation (NPDC). In the process, I had several interesting ...

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Testing of data provided by the Second Pipeline Construction Co. of China National Petroleum Corp. (PetroChina Pipeline) shows that using a 3D pipeline spatial-data model (PSDM) not only can further ...

Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

Retail trade area analysis has long been central to retail site selection and market evaluation. Analysts rely on it to define and characterize the geographic area from which a store draws the ...

Every database platform is architected for its initial use case. The progression over the decades of new database platforms with new capabilities has been driven by more than just the changing ...

In this piece, I highlight one particular talk that caught my interest — given by Elana Fertig, Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed ...