Title :
Geo-spatial database management system development in Gaza City using aerial images
Author :
Al-Hanbali, Nedal ; Aqel, Saed
Author_Institution :
Surveying & Geomatics Eng. Dept., Al-Balqa Appl. Univ., Amman, Jordan
Abstract :
Gaza strip and its major cities such as Gaza and Jericho are very old and heavily populated areas. Hence, building a modem infrastructure for such area is very complicated and, surely very demanding. Gaza Municipality as well as Rafah Municipality are building and developing a geo-spatial information system suitable for GIS and other planning processes. The main objectives are managing the natural resources, land use, transportation and urban facilities. An example of that is to improve the collection of tax revenues on land and buildings. The paper summarizes the first phase of the project success for Gaza City, in terms of data collection, evaluation and fusion, from all resources such as: digitized hardcopy cadastral maps, softcopy (AutoCAD) cadastral maps, digital orthophotos and availability of suitable satellite images
Keywords :
geographic information systems; image classification; remote sensing; sensor fusion; town and country planning; visual databases; GIS; Gaza strip; Rafah; data collection; data evaluation; data fusion; digital orthophotos; digitized hardcopy cadastral maps; geo-spatial database management system; geo-spatial information system; infrastructure; land use; natural resources; planning; satellite images; softcopy cadastral maps; tax revenues; transportation; urban facilities; Cities and towns; Database systems; Geographic Information Systems; Land use planning; Management information systems; Modems; Process planning; Resource management; Strips; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas, IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop 2001
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7059-7
DOI :
10.1109/DFUA.2001.985873
