Sigla WEBGIS portal: an open source Web-based GIS application for the portuguese bluetongue Entomologiacal surveillance program.

• Author(s): Martins, Hugo Filipe Pinto
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5472
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): Bluetongue; Geographic information systems; Geospatial free and open source software; Internet; Open specifications; Spatial epidemiology; Língua Azul; Sistemas de Informação Geográfica; Software Geo-espacial livre e de código aberto; Especificações abertas; Epidemiologia Espacial
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Rocha, Jorge Gustavo Pereira Bastos
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

Dissertação apresentada como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência e Sistemas de Informação Geográfica

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are now considered a valuable and essential tool to epidemiology. Spatial analysis through visualization, exploration and modelling allow for a deeper comprehension of the spatial and temporal dynamics of diseases and may be used to suggest and support epidemiologic hypotheses. The Internet is nowadays the preferred means for the electronic sharing of data and it still evolving. Its advent has also pushed for the development of powerful proprietary and Open Source (OS) technologies to provide a standard platform for the management, visualization and analysis of spatial epidemiologic data. (...)