Aleksandar Rikalovic
Faculty of Technical Sciences
University of Novi Sad
Yugoslavia




ABSTRACT
Spatial Support for Industrial Site Selection Process
Site selection is one of the basic vital decisions in the start-up process, expansion or relocation of businesses of all kinds. Starting from the meeting criteria defined in the goal function of company, location selection process begins as recognition of existing or projected need to meet new or growing market. Conquer new territories for business starts collecting geopolitical data, where location is a part of it. The selection of an industrial site involves a complex array of critical factors involving economic, social, technical, environmental issues, etc. New trends in information technologies put Geo-information technology in the center of events in industrial locations science. Like any technology that is trendy Geographic Information Systems have exaggerated the benefits and latent defects, but in choosing the industrial location allowing multi-criteria decision making based on space and time, in this time of technology are indispensable. Geographic Information Systems are used in conjunction with other systems and methods such as expert systems (ES), systems for decision making (DSS) and the method for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). This paper presents development of model for industrial site selection, which is based on the integration of GIS and methods for multi-criteria decision making.

ABSTRACT
GIS Analysis of Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities in Local Government Areas of Nigeria
The objective of the National Health Policy (1988) in Nigeria is to provide the population with access to primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare as needed through a functional referral system. The situation in Giwa and Sabuwa Local Government Areas of Northwestern Nigeria is examined with a view to identify factors influencing access and utilisation of the healthcare facilities in the rural areas. Locational access to health facilities was established for all the 20 electoral wards across Giwa and Sabuwa LGAs. Using GIS, distance measures were calculated from the population weighted centroid of each electoral ward to the healthcare facilities that fall within its service radius. From these data, indices of community healthcare accessibility for the LGAs neighbourhoods were constructed. In addition, structured questionnaires were administered through a systematic random sampling to patients at the General hospitals in the LGAs and oral interviews conducted with those who do not patronise the hospitals. The data from the questionnaire survey was analysed using both the descriptive and inferential statistics. Results show a common patronage pattern of healthcare facilities in the LGAs, with variations in factors influencing accessibility to healthcare facilities across the LGAs. Findings revealed that the healthcare facilities are under utilised as a result of demand-side and supply-side barriers.

Dr. Rania Jafar Qutieshat
Lecturer
Balqa Applied Univerity
Jordan




ABSTRACT
Analysis and Profiling of the Potential for Regional Development in Jordan Using Factor & Cluster Analysis and GIS
Goal of this study is to determine the potential development of the twelve provinces of Jordan out map showing the potential development of it, to help decision-makers and planners in decision-making appropriate growth. A review of many previous studies found that there are gaps in the study of regional variation, where did not collect any of the studies between the variables describing the various aspects affecting regional development. Secondary data were collected from human and natural characteristics of the cases studied (ranges administrative supervision of the provinces) from several related government departments, where possible to obtain (60) each of which describes a variable property from the characteristics of the cases examined demographic, economic, functional, and environmental services. Employing a method of factor analysis method (basic components) can be derived five factors together explained about 85% of the variation in the original variables. Using geographic information systems, it could create a map that shows the development potential for the governorates of Jordan, to help decision-makers and planners in decision- making appropriate growth.

OJO Adebayo
Senior Scientific Research Officer
African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education
Nigeria




ABSTRACT
Use of Multi-Source Data Sets in Landcover Analyses in Southwestern Nigeria
The study aimed to assess the relative accuracy of feature definitions on the imageries; and examines the potentials and constraints of data seaming for complimentary usage of spatial data.
The study revealed that significant and positive correlated occurred within the visible bands in NigeriaSat- 1 (r=0.95; p ≤ 0.05) and SPOT (r= 0.98; p ≤ 0.05) while it was lower in Landsat TM imagery (r < 0.3; p ≤ 0.05) on the other hand the objects in the Near Infrared (NIR) correlated significantly with the red band (visible band) only in SPOT (r= 0.98; r ≤ 0.05) Landsat TM imageries (r = 0.98; r ≤ 0.05). Water today was however most accurately classified in SPOT imageries. Furthermore, the results of the accuracy assessment of the seamed set of the imageries showed that a merge of SPOT + NigeriaSat -1 correlation was however yielded higher 81.2% (k = 0.98) than other combination seamed was however yielded higher level accuracy for built up area (>96%) and were more defined than other landuse classes. The study showed that both SPOT and NigeriaSat-1 imageries are likely to be useful within acceptable accuracy for land use/ land cover in urban area in southwestern Nigeria.

Prabh Bedi
Research Scholar
School of Planning and Architecture
India



ABSTRACT
Indian National Urban Information Systems as Urban Planning Decision Making Tool
Planning is an activity of resource generation, development and management. Decisions in planning of urban areas involve an understanding of complex interactions between different facets ranging from its physical and social infrastructure, people and their culture, economic conditions and government policies. The Indian National Urban Information System (NUIS), one of its kind endeavours, is Government of India's attempt to build a national level database of urban areas. Apart from addressing issues as incoherent and duplicate data, unskilled and scarce users, lack of standards and difficulty in access to the data, NUIS can be effectively used in urban planning decision making. With its two main components, viz., the Urban Spatial Information System (USIS) that includes a GIS based multi-hierarchical database, with application tools and the National Urban Databank and Indicators (NUDB&I), NUIS can form a vital tool in decision making at the grass-root level as per the Constitutional guidelines (74th Constitutional Amendment Act) and contribute towards integration of predominant national level economic planning with the nearly non-existent spatial planning, such that plan preparation, review, implementation and other functions of the urban related authorities are within the framework of the national plans and also form a decision making input towards the policy formulation at the highest level.