International audience The aim of the work is the analysis of the distribution of different types of the landscapes in the wetland tundra of the Yamal Peninsula. The Yamal Peninsula is important biogeographic region of the Arctic. It is located in the subarctic continental climate zone and crosses t...

The need to take into account species displacement in biodiversity conservation has become urgent to implement in our increasingly fragmented territories. The conclusions of the recent Granelle de l’Environnement have been consistent with the results of the ecology of the landscape, which analyse in...

The Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities.  We welcome applications from recent Ph. D.s in any humanities fields who have expertise in digital approaches to scholarship, especially data mining, mapping and...

International audience Demand for vulnerability assessments is growing in policy-making circles, to support the choice of appropriate measures and policies to reduce the vulnerability of water users and resources. Through the SHIVA ANR project, we are seeking a method to assess and map the vulnerabi...

This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third-Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompassing general administrative constituencies (départements, arr...

Currently, technological advances allow maps to be made quickly and accurately. Thanks to the data provided by the different satellites, Global Positioning Technologies (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), maps can be generated with general territorial information, which facilitates scien...

This article is devoted to the methods of recording and exploiting the geographical referencing data of maps and plans in libraries’ catalogues. After taking stock of the practices that follow the standard and the difficulties in their implementation, the article presents the possibilities offered b...

The map, a powerful visual instrument, is then very popular and goes far beyond the circle of experts with professional geographies and maps. The profusion of cards raises questions about the usage of the card, but also about the training of maps in the face of new digital challenges and the develop...

International audience Most of the people infected in Morocco are triggered by the outbreak of COVID-19. The number of affected cases is currently rising day by day. As of July 16 th , 2020, In Morocco, 15,165 cases were tested positive for COVID-19, including 239 deaths and 11,417 patients cured th...

this article presents and analyses socio-environmental potentials and weaknesses and the impact of public policies on the territory and urban production of Japeri, RJ, municipality of West Metropolitano Fluminense. Political, urban and social challenges are amplified by socio-spatial inequalities; i...

Research Proposal for the PhD studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography (Autoreferat) The research proposal describes synopsis for the planned PhD research work. It describes methods of the environmental mapping of the Arctic Seas. Special focus is given to the complex struc...

This article aims to summarise the work done for doctoral dissertation in the field of Territorial Engineering on the topic: The geographical information systems for the detection of villages in rural areas in Portugal Romano: a predictive model. The work was structured to analyse the suitability of...

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This study examines the application of GIS and Remote Sensing in mapping Land Use and Land Cover change in Kilite Awulalo Woreda, Eastern Tigray Zone from 1972 to 2014. For this study, LANDSAT images of 1972 (Landsat-1 MSS); 1984 (Landsat-5 TM); 2000 (Landsat-7 ETM+) and 2014 (Landsat-8 OLI_TIRS) we...

In this paper, we are explaining a decade long investigation of historical, sacral and archaeological sites in the Toplica District (Serbia) as one of the significant cultural heritage sites in Europe with more than 226 objects with different time of origin. The survey was carried out for the purpos...

The geomorphologic mapping is receiving more importance day after day in works related to environmentaland urban planning. Any intervention in the landforms needs a relief identification, showing its organizationsand structures, which will help to get the objectives planned. There are a lot of techn...

The National Educational Map Project (MEN) is a GIS generated by the development and integration of 24 Provincial Educational Maps based on a general conceptual model, with a dynamic view of the 49.000 educational establishments and their territorial context. The objectives of the work are: (a) syst...

Research efforts focused on developing a better understanding of the evolution of mortality over time are considered to be of significant interest—not just to the demographers. Mortality can be expressed with different parameters through multiparametric prediction models. Based on the Beta Gompertz...

Besides OpenStreetMap (OSM), there are other local sources, such as open government data (OGD), that have the potential to enrich the modeling process with decision criteria that uniquely reflect some local patterns. However, both data are affected by uncertainty issues, which limits their usability...

GIS is a very interesting tool for the representation and analysis of historical data. Having worked with them for more than 15 years, this article pursues a twofold objective. On the one hand, to present some of the research carried out with GIS on the territory, economy and spiritual landscape of...

Речное русло в процессе своей эволюции подвержено деформациям, проявляющимся в виде размыва русла и поймы, переноса и аккумуляции наносов. Знание истории развития речных русел в условиях, характерных для данной территории, позволяет дать оценку их эволюции в будущем. Целью исследования являлось выяв...

Soil salinity is a major concern in the Uzbekistan. Fergana valleys agricultural lands, it negatively affects plant growth, crop yields, whereas in central part of the valley is semi-desert and desert affects agricultural areas due to subsidence, corrosion and ground water quality, leading to furthe...

In this paper, we are explaining a decade long investigation of historical, sacral and archaeological sites in the Toplica District (Serbia) as one of the significant cultural heritage sites in Europe with more than 226 objects with different time of origin. The survey was carried out for the purpos...

This research aims to explore tsunami-prone areas in the Bacan and South Bacan districts of South Halmahera Regency. The findings of this research are planned to assist all stakeholders, particularly in developing disaster risk assessment sheets. To estimate the tsunami hazard map, the susceptibilit...