Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends

Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends

Donald P. Albert

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 423

ISBN13: 9781466602588|ISBN10: 1466602589|EISBN13: 9781466602595

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0258-8

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The availability of geographically referenced data, the proliferation of geospatial technologies, and advances in spatial analytics have been a boom to applied geographers.

Geospatial Technologies and Advancing Geographic Decision Making: Issues and Trends is a resource for private and public sector applied geographers engaged as geospatial technicians, analysts, scientists, and managers. It includes chapters that highlight the use of geospatial technologies to explore applied geographic issues and problems; studies from economic geography, urban geography, population geography, medical geography, political geography, geography of education, geography of crime, and transportation geography are considered.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Philosophy, Education, Training, and Prospects in Applied Geospatial Industries

Chapter 1

Significant Advances in Applied Geography from Combining Curiosity-Driven and Client-Driven Research Methodologies (pages 1-20)

Barry Wellar

The central thesis of the 2005 Anderson Lecture is that significant achievements in applied geography occur when the principles and practices of curiosity-driven and client-driven research are combined in the statement of problem...

Chapter 2

The Use of Geospatial Technology in Disaster Management (pages 21-34)

Scott Westlund

The daily use of geospatial technology, such as the global positioning system (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensing (RS), is increasing. The use of geospatial technology in disaster management is a natural...

Chapter 3

Geospatial Technology: Curricular Keystone of Applied Geography (pages 35-45)

Richard G. Boehm, Audrey Mohan

Research into the nature and function of curricular matters in applied geography has provided an opportunity to assess the penetration and relative importance of geospatial technology to the discipline of geography. Departments of...

Chapter 4

Beyond Class Hours: The GIS Lab as a Center of Geographic Education (pages 46-61)

Robert Hickey

Much has been written regarding the effectiveness of different teaching styles; however, considerably less has been written about the physical design of computer classrooms and their implications on education. To date, nothing has...

Chapter 5

Critical Incident Management and Geographically–Based Systems (pages 62-67)

David W. Webb, David R. Hoffpauir

In the United States there is a strong dependence on decentralized policing services, distributed by thousands of police departments. As a primary police professional development management institute in the United States, the Law...

Chapter 6

An Examination of Job Titles Used for GIScience Professionals (pages 68-81)

Thomas A. Wikle

Over the last 20 years the increasing availability, utility, and importance of geospatial data has led to new kinds of positions in government agencies, non-profit organizations and private businesses. While employment opportunities...

Chapter 7

Geospatial Workforce Trends in the United States (pages 82-89)

Lawrence E. Estaville

Because of definitional problems regarding what is meant by the term “geospatial workforce,” specific reliable data are difficult to obtain about this increasingly important employment sector. This study reviews pertinent literature...

Chapter 8

Geographic Disparities in Cancer Survival and Access to Care: Ovarian Cancer in Kentucky (pages 90-99)

Mary E. Gordinier, Carol L. Hanchette

From 1995-2005, ovarian cancer accounted for 2.7% of new cancer cases diagnosed among women in Kentucky and was responsible for 4.7% of female cancer deaths in the state. The five-year survival rate for ovarian cancer is 45% for all...

Focus on Human Geography Specialties in Applied Geospatial Research

Chapter 9

Varying the Variable: Presenting Different Cases for Visualizing the Relative Attractiveness of Retail Business Centers in New Britain, Connecticut (pages 101-113)

Zachary Klaas

It is common practice in business geography to use gravity models such as the Reilly’s Retail Law of Gravitation model to gauge the extent of presumed trade areas for retail sites based on a variable that models the general...

Chapter 10

Emerging Retail Strategies in Urban Canada (pages 114-131)

Tony Hernandez, Magnus Svindal

In this article, the authors examine the spatial distribution of major retail chains across Canada. Using store location data for 2001 and 2006, the geospatial approach adopted in this study allows for the analysis of retail chains’...

Chapter 11

Similarities between Competitors and the Implications for Location Strategies (pages 132-150)

Lawrence Joseph

Although Burger King and McDonald’s are widely recognized as direct competitors, there may be enough differences in customer profiles between the two chains to recommend or justify divergent location strategies. In this regard, the...

Chapter 12

Changing Retail Banking Supply-Demand Mismatch: A Tale of Two States (pages 151-169)

Bin Zhou

In this study, the author compares the supply-demand mismatch of retail banking services and the changing patterns in Illinois and New York from 1982 to 2007 amid fundamental banking transformation and geographical deregulation. The...

Chapter 13

Location Patterns of Section 8 Housing in Jefferson County, Kentucky (pages 170-187)

Wei Song, Karl Keeling

The controversial Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program is the largest federal low-income housing program. Using GIS-based spatial clustering analysis (Getis–Ord’s Gi statistic) and multiple linear regressions, in this paper, the...

Chapter 14

Spatiotemporal Pattern Analysis of Rapid Urban Expansion Using GIS and Remote Sensing (pages 188-204)

Hyun Joong Kim

Rapidly growing urban areas tend to reveal distinctive spatial and temporal variations of land use/land cover in a locally urbanized environment. In this article, the author analyzes urban growth phenomena at a local scale by...

Chapter 15

Practical Approaches to Spatial Estimation of Disaster-Affected Populations (pages 205-222)

Lisa Jordan, Benjamin Watkins, Patrick Biegon, Margaret Mwangi, Rob Rose

When a disaster occurs, the response depends critically on an estimate of the affected population. However, retrieval of crucial statistics can be time consuming, often at the expense of the neediest populations. This article reviews...

Chapter 16

A Geographic Analysis of Public-Private School Choice in South Carolina, USA (pages 223-238)

Haifeng (Charlie) Zhang, Lorin W. Anderson, David J. Cowen, Lisle S. Mitchell

Despite years of research and debate, household choice between public and private schools is not well understood. This article investigates factors associated with parental choice between public and private schools using unique...

Chapter 17

Impact of Spatial Filtering on the Least Cost Path Method: Selecting a High-Speed Rail Route for Ohio’s 3-C Corridor (pages 239-252)

Amy E. Rock, Amanda Mullett, Saad Algharib, Jared Schaffer, Jay Lee

In the face of renewed interest in High-Speed Rail (HSR) projects, Ohio is one of several states seeking federal funding to relieve pressure on aging, overburdened highway infrastructure by constructing passenger rail routes between...

Chapter 18

Disease, Death, and the Body Politic: An Areal Interpolation Example for Political Epidemiology (pages 253-272)

James L. Wilson, Christopher J. Mansfield

More than a trillion dollars of public money is spent annually on health care in the United States. In order to inform policymakers, health advocacy groups, tax-paying constituents, and beneficiaries, it would be useful to present...

Chapter 19

From Beats to Tracts: A Remote Sensing Approach to the Interpolation of Crime Data (pages 273-288)

Gang Gong

In this article, the author addresses the spatial incompatibility between different types of data that is commonly faced in crime analysis research. Socioeconomic variables have been proved valuable in explaining crime behaviors and...

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