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A New Gis Toolbox For Integrating Massive Heterogeneous Gis Data For Land Use Change Analysis, Birgit Laggner, Natascha Orthen
A New Gis Toolbox For Integrating Massive Heterogeneous Gis Data For Land Use Change Analysis, Birgit Laggner, Natascha Orthen
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
Agricultural land use in Germany and related impacts on the environment and the use of natural resources are key research topics at the Thünen-Institute of Rural Studies. As spatial context is essential for the analysis of causal connections, GIS data regarding all necessary information was gathered during different research projects and prepared for processing in a database. In particular, the Integrated Administration and Control System, which was available for certain project purposes for several Federal Laender and years, serves as a very detailed data source for agricultural land use. We use different Open Source GIS software like PostgreSQL/ PostGIS, GRASS …
Using Free And Open Source Gis To Automatically Create Standards-Based Spatial Metadata In Academia - First Investigations, Claire Ellul, Nart Tamash, Feng Xian, John Stuiver, Patrick Rickles
Using Free And Open Source Gis To Automatically Create Standards-Based Spatial Metadata In Academia - First Investigations, Claire Ellul, Nart Tamash, Feng Xian, John Stuiver, Patrick Rickles
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
The importance of understanding the quality of data used in any GIS operation has increased significantly as a result of the advent of Free and Open Source (FOSS) tools and Open Data, which in turn have encouraged non-specialists to make use of GIS. Metadata (data about data) traditionally provides a description of this quality information and permits data curation, but it is frequently deemed as complex to create and maintain. Additionally, it is generally stored separately from the data, leading to issues where updates to the data are not reflected in the metadata and to users not being aware that …