Geospatial Information and Reasonable Advancement Objectives

One troublesome issue for nations to meet the United Nation's feasible improvement objectives (SDGs) is an absence of access to pertinent geospatial information. The UN is frequently underfunded and nations just don't have the assets to gather information as well as to guarantee their quality.

As of late, the UN has gone to significant privately owned businesses, for example, Google and Alibaba, to enable nations to arrive at their advancement objectives. Where these organizations can help is especially with geospatial information that can be utilized to screen a wide range of SDGs. The new activity, called Data for the present, will see the linkage of Google Earth satellite information with UN information. The information will likewise incorporate telephone information that can be utilized to evaluate nourishment weakness or wellbeing arrangement in provincial districts. Information can be utilized to follow people or screen land use land spread change in connection to environmental change and land use approach in conceivably powerless nations.

A reliable issue is SDG information have for the most part been dated to preceding 2015; this presently gives an approach to get significantly more late information gathered. Up until this point, explicit needs have not been resolved, despite the fact that that ought to occur by November 2019. Current nations that have marked on the activity are Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, Nepal, Colombia, and Paraguay. Google has vowed to give noteworthy and opportune information, while Alibaba will make a computerized appetite guide to help with following nourishment instability. Vodafone is additionally banding together in bringing spatial telephone information. Almost 240 activities, our of the 17 significant objectives of SDG, have been distinguished, in spite of the fact that not organized, for consideration in the UN effort. In this first UN meeting setting up the objectives that satisfy SDG, it was at that point perceived that geospatial information will be basic in tending to a large number of the issues nations have recognized. Specialists have even been making systems, for example, the Maturity Matrix Framework, to help with information combination and spotlight for examination on how geospatial information, specifically Earth Observation (EO) information, can satisfy SDG needs.

While information have been one significant issue in acquiring auspicious and precise data to meet SDG, more governments are presently lso being urged to utilize open source programming, including geospatial programming, to spatially investigate information to gauge how objectives are being met. Tools will likewise progressively need to incorporate techniques that permit fast evaluation of how information show if SDG targets are fullfiled. This is the situation, for example, in the SDG for land debasement. Information, over existence, are gathered and examined, where gathered data coordinates different sub-markers to frame a bigger pointer of land debasement. Variables measure land spread, land profitability and carbon stocks, which at that point survey if a give nation is satisfying its territory debasement objectives. Such techniques could be straightforwardly coordinated with spatial apparatuses so investigative execution isn't just encouraged however evaluations should be possible all the more intermittently and rapidly for every nation paying little heed to their degree of improvement and access to information.

One steady issue with information applied to meet UN objectives has been acquiring information and information quality when they are accessible. The Data until further notice activity should help address a considerable lot of the issues plot in SDG as significant organizations that approach huge client information and satellite informational collections could enable nations to all the more likely survey their improvement objectives in an all the more opportune way. This likewise requires new apparatuses and open information when all is said in done and these are additionally progressively being set up. The pace will probably need to animate as nations face numerous difficulties and are endeavoring to meet huge numbers of the objectives by 2030. For issues, for example, environmental change, there is no opportunity to lose. Nonetheless, with governments currently being urged and prepared to use either open source information and devices or make organizations with significant organizations to acquire free information, it may be conceivable to meet a large number of the 17 significant objectives by the 2030 date.

Superior decisions are Made With Superior Information

GIS software is often referred to as "mapping software" and associated with physical geography. But GIS technology is flexible enough to map any kind of terrain, even the human body, for a myriad of purposes.

DBSysgraph is a leader in the application of GIS technology and can help you map any data you wish. We apply advanced management information technologies to support the need for timely, accurate, and meaningful information by integrating technologies such as:

• Geographic information system
• Data warehousing
• Web reporting tools, and
• Custom intranet sites

We put your information to work as a part of an overall, enterprise-wide system or a specific, customized information system, providing detailed information in the form of thematic maps, tables, and charts -- whenever and however you need it.

We can provide GIS based solutions for:

Automated Vehicle Location (AVL)

Chemical & Environmental Monitoring

Facilities & Asset Management (GIS)

Land-use & Coastal Land Management

Maritime

Public Safety

Transportation

Automated Vehicle Location AVL

Efficiently locate and monitor your fleet using (GPS) Global Positioning System

DBSysgraph's consulting services and solutions in (AVL) Automated Vehicle Location offer a range of messaging, mapping, and communication options – solutions that enable you to manage your fleet for maximum productivity while protecting your company's greatest assets.

Benefits:

• Tracking vehicles, vessels, and mobile assets
• Real-time display on the client's internal network
• Configuration for real-time display of tracked vehicles on the client's website

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Chemical & Environmental Monitoring

We use GIS technology to efficiently and cost-effectively monitor the environment and those products that pose environmental, ecological and community hazards. It is also the key to helping organizations comply with the multilateral regulations that are the result of growing global markets.

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Facilities & Asset Management GIS

Many facility/asset management systems rely on state, federal, or regional digital maps for general information. For facility (sewer, water, drainage, road, signage, public building inventory) and revenue-based information (land parcel data, taxation parcels) in geographic coordinates, they rely on conventional data collection sources, such as surveyors.

DBS provides support in streamlining these methodologies for the selection of attribute data, collection schedules, mapping, and data interfacing.

Asset Management Examples:

GIS applications including field information management:

• Incident analysis
• Urban tree planting
• Parking meter analysis
• Bridge mapping and inspection
• Pavement management systems
• Levee maintenance and management systems

Organizations that manage urban assets:

• State and local transportation departments
• Municipal gas utilities
• Municipal water utilities
• Municipal sewage utilities
• Regional planning bodies
• Downtown development districts
• Levee districts

Examples of urban asset features and attributes to be mapped: 

• Storm drains
• Hurricane protection levees
• Culverts and driveways
• Access points (manholes) for underground electric, water, sewage, and gas distribution systems
• Street light poles and utility poles
• Fireplugs and other emergency equipment, and emergency water supplies
• Street signs (general, regulatory, and directional)
• Traffic signs
• Property boundaries (zoning, land-use, planning, jurisdictional, and tax collection)

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Land-use & Coastal Land Management

The classic tasks of land-use GIS include the analysis and alpha-numeric/graphic presentation of spatial data. However, the functionality of classic GIS can be significantly enhanced with the addition of new data sources like:

• Vector and raster GIS data
• Sound, image, and video data

DBSysgraph offers a comprehensive group of solutions for creating, deploying, and maintaining multi-media GIS. We also incorporate the Internet to further improve communication between all parties involved in land-use planning processes.

Benefits and Features:

• A repository for information on the region and its community
• A brief overview of the current forms of land-use in the region andtrends in development
• An analysis tool for landscape architects in identifying potential land-use conflicts
• A framework for the landscape architect who, while working in consultation with various stakeholders, must provide workable solutions to land-use conflicts and prepare guidelines for future development in the region
• Assistance in handling and analyzing an increasingly large and complex body of data
• Clear, presentable communication of data to stakeholders
• An opportunity for landscape planners to react to proposed approaches
• An analysis to determine the usefulness of an approach to a local community and its citizens

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Maritime

GIS technology keeps you sailing.

DBSysgraph offers a full array of consulting services to develop a set of (GIS) Geographic Information System and geoprocessing tools allowing online access to a baseline map, asset management, and imagery data for different port jurisdictions. This specialized area of GIS focuses on select geographic informational resources for various port jurisdictions and takes a regional, as opposed to a thematic, approach to examining distributed, networked data-access issues.

Through the application of GIS technology, the Maritime Industry can now:

• Display graphical summaries for precise areas and specified months of the year
• Supply on-line, maritime navigational charts
• Allow access to global communities and trading partners
• Provide a base for evaluating Homeland Security Threats
• Provide a venue for port-owned or subsidized properties to be marketed globally
• Furnish detailed resident industry information
• Provide support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) operations to seamlessly integrate suppliers, shippers, and clients
• Give detailed routing and logistics support for shipments
• Maintain support for Vessel Tracking Control (VTC) and integrate with current port operations
• Ship's database formation and support
• Ship's movement simulation based on operator's data

DBSysgraph's Marine Environmental Sciences provide a complete set of GIS services, from database development to data analysis and visualization, application development, and GIS infrastructure counseling. Driven by our customers' need to work with the marine geo-technical data generated, we specialize in innovative methods of accessing, visualizing, delivering, and storing data for clients using GIS and related technologies.

A key link in our intermodal transportation infrastructure is port and waterway facilities. For many nations and communities, they represent the only economical choice for the import or export shipments of raw materials and manufactured goods. Planning, operating, and maintaining these complexes effectively and efficiently require accurate and timely information. Many of these facilities are used beyond their original capacities. In order to continue to use these facilities effectively, managers must review changes in plans in order to redirect limited resources.

GIS allows data integration in a way that facilitates timely understanding and decision-making. In addition, many bodies of water are extremely sensitive to pollutants and excessive traffic. GIS helps engineers and planners more easily accommodate design goals and environmental constraints. This also provides a sys-temic, intermodal view of new plans, which can also include landside road and rail transportation facilities.

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Public Safety

Knowing where and when is critical.

Our (GIS) Geographic Information System team has the precise tools to model and analyze complex spatial systems. In addition to possessing the right set of tools and applications, we offer all-inclusive consulting and implementation services to assist law enforcement agencies in data acquisition, data conversion, application development, systems management, and ongoing database development and management. 

GIS Databases allow Law Enforcement to:

• Define and submit a series of parameters on a form and receive a map of incidents in return
• Report on summaries of activity for a user-specified period
• Report on lists of incidents occurring at a single address
• Chart and analyze day-of-week and time-of-day relationships for crimes

DBSysgraph specializes in producing detailed, interactive maps to be used for the investigation of homicides, aggravated assaults, rapes, robberies, and property, vehicle-related, and narcotic crimes. The Crime Analysis and Mapping Unit have the capability of producing customized maps for special requests, such as gunshot incident density. 

Key Benefits and Features:

• Maps identify high crime patterns and police patrol zones can be modified and realigned
• Stolen vehicle tracking applications enable officers to visualize the relationship between the location of recovered vehicles and the area in which they were stolen
• Building footprints can be overlaid with crime densities to enable effective planning
• Decentralized mapping functions allow each district to generate customized maps
• Internet-based applications permit an immediate turn-around for late-breaking information
• Application Distribution

DBS offers a full complement of consulting services on applications such as ArcView IMS Server, MapObjects Internet Map Server, GeoMedia Web Map, and GeoMedia Web Enterprise to enable the quick delivery of dynamic maps and data on a variety of servers. From a single server, a law enforcement agency will be able to serve multiple applications to any number of clients. This method also centralizes the administration of both data and applications and easily accommodates system expansion as clients' increases. 

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Transportation

Reduce system cost through improved planning processes and/or other changes

DBS offers a comprehensive range of services for travel forecasting models which are used to predict changes in travel patterns and the use of transportation systems in response to changes in regional development, demographics, and transportation supply. Transport-ation modeling allows decision makers to clearly visualize the consequences of each transportation project being considered. This service is recommended for any customer wanting to reduce transportation cost through improved planning processes and/or other changes. Modeling is a challenging but necessary task for the rational planning and evaluation of transportation systems. 

DBS supports and offers consulting services for Caliper's TransCAD® Travel Demand.

• Travel demand modeling
• Travel time data collection
• Routing and 911 logistics
• Pavement management systems

Mapping technology allows for the creation of dynamic map images that can greatly improve decision-making at all levels of your organization - from marketing to the executive level, field technicians, and customer service representatives.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide an important information technology tool, which is gaining greater usage around the world. GIS software is often referred to as "mapping software" and associated with physical geography. DBS is a leader in the application of GIS technology and can help you map any data you wish. We apply advanced management information technologies to support the need for timely, accurate, and meaningful information by integrating technologies such as:

• Geographic information systems
• Data warehousing
• Web reporting tools
• Custom internet sites

Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) offers a range of messaging, mapping, and communication options. These solutions enable you to manage your fleet for maximum productivity while assisting you in protecting your company's greatest assets. 

• Accurate tracking of vehicles or mobile assets
• Real-time display your internal network
• Configuration for real-time display of tracked vehicles on your
• Intranet web site

CAD and GIS Integration

CAD and GIS Integration

 

When used together effectively, computer-aided design (CAD) and geospatial information systems (GIS) have a solid track record for streamlining decision making and reducing inefficiencies in the design, planning, and execution of critical operations and projects. And a growing number of engineering tasks in numerous fields—including design, architecture, construction, and asset management—now require the knowledge of many interrelated yet disconnected CAD/GIS tools and task-specific software

 

A multidisciplinary resource delineating existing and emerging solutions for CAD/GIS integration issues, CAD and GIS Integration provides a clear understanding of the state of the art in this area of growing importance. It brings together in-depth descriptions of existing and emerging techniques, methodologies, and technologies to examine approaches that enable data and operations interoperability between CAD/GIS. Starting with a review of fundamental concepts and theories, the book
Addresses contemporary issues and challenges

 

Provides a collection of helpful methodologies, techniques, and technologies for integrating CAD and GIS

 

Presents balanced coverage of CAD and GIS technologies and applications

 

Highlights emerging trends in CAD/GIS integration

 

Explores the state-of-the-art in the application of CAD and GIS technologies, data, and operations for decision making

 

From early developments to current trends and future directions, this concise resource allows you to get up to speed quickly on what it takes to get the most of these two dynamic technologies. Numerous example applications of effective CAD/GIS integration provide the understanding needed to improve designs, make better decisions, and reduce or even eliminate costly errors in your next project

 

About the Author
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Date 2009
Pages : 247
Format : PDF
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1420068059

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Gis Designing our Future

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.

A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.

GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.