GIS mapping data can be of great assistance in the greater public health community in responding to emerging infectious disease outbreaks and humanitarian emergencies.

This technology is better known as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which are computer systems that manage, model, analyze and display geographic information and data through live web maps ...

Visual inspections of the power grid have traditionally relied on manual methods and reactive responses. These inspections, ...

“The HERE GIS Data Suite comes pre-processed and ready for use, giving users a single, trusted source of data so they can focus on building powerful, accurate maps and delivering insights.” ...

ColorBrewer is an online color palette tool specifically designed for mapping and data visualization, developed by Cynthia Brewer, a geography professor at Pennsylvania State University, and her team.

In this article, we illustrate several statistical techniques that can be used in resource selection studies involving GIS with data from a study of winter habitat selection by moose (Alces alces) on ...

In my column earlier this month, I discussed the use of consumer GPS receivers for GIS data collection. Remember the analogy I used?a Volkswagen Beetle wasn?t designed to run in a Formula One race?

See Chapter 5, "Customizing Maps," in SAS/GIS Software: Usage and Reference, Version 6 for more information about assigning themes to map layers. Defining actions that display or manipulate the ...

The SnowEx23 GIS References and Field Maps, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set contains ...