Publications

This study proposes integrating GIS and FEATHERS in order to improve the capability of data management, spatial analysis and visualization in the model framework. GIS provides geodatabase for effectively storing and edit (non-)spatial data, useful functions of spatial analysis for defining spatial interactions between phenomena simulated by the modeling system, and interactive visualization tools. Thus, this study mainly focuses on three ...

Geographical information systems (GIS) have been a part of archaeological research practices for over two decades, yet many significant questions related to the technology remain unanswered. Long-standing ambiguities about GIS use in archaeology can be associated with a particular research atmosphere within the discipline, where a large number of practitioners consider theory-laden critical approaches to GIS optional, if not peripheral, to ...

In the last decades, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have shown their potential to uncover spatio-temporal relationships between various objects and layers. Although archeologists have more and more utilized these techniques to analyze and interpret relationships between features on site, a full understanding of the possible advantages of the technology is for many still lagging behind. This shows the need to develop a comprehensive GIS ...

Acquired using 3D technologies, archaeological data is increasingly represented via 3D visualizations. For analysing, interpreting and exchanging, these data are unfortunately mostly reduced to two dimensions. Therefore, a 4D archaeological GIS that integrates 3D representations and analytical functionalities will contrib-ute to different parts of the archaeological workflow from fieldwork preparation over analysis to reporting. Such a 4D ...

Spatial thinking in education should be a fixed value in addition to other such as linguistic and mathematical thinking. It is part of the everyday life. As research showed one of the best tools to introduce spatial thinking in education is geography. It offers al the tools for the three components of geography: skills, subject matter and perspectives. But nevertheless the introduction and use of GIS in education is not a success. Researchers ...

Recently, much attention has been devoted to the quality of public transport and more specifically to designating individuals and areas that suffer from public transport deficiencies. Various studies conducted in the domain of transport-related social exclusion have used geographical information systems (GIS) to unravel the linkage between social disadvantage, public transport needs and public transport provision. However, much of the empirical ...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate and compare the consistency of GIS-based heuristic and bivariate landslide susceptibility mapping techniques in the Himalayan region, taking the Kulekhani watershed of central Nepal as an example. For this purpose, a heuristic and two statistical bivariate landslide susceptibility mapping methods are applied, and three separate landslide susceptibility zonation maps are produced. The maps are compared using ...