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The web content grows annually by a geometric progression. Internet pages provide information not only through the markup language (X)HTML, which is used to create Web pages, but often in many different other formats and also web services. One task of this project is to make detail analysis of existing web services for obtaining the geographical coordinates of the given information and take advantage of them to extract spatial information from web pages. Positive results of this analysis in Czech information on th...

The SyNaRMa project realized under INTERREG IIIB Archimed resulted in the development of a Web-based GIS (http://gserver.civil.auth.gr/SyNaRMa\_app) for management of natural disasters (earthquakes, forest fires and landslides). The SyNaRMa system focuses on the three phases of disaster management, i.e., preparedness, response and recovery, improving the emergency plans applied by the competent authorities in order to handle natural risks more effectively. A directive process of preparedness realized in the frame ...

Geographic information systems (GIS) constitute a new powerful technology that can address many of the information needs of decision makers in state and local governments. Therefore this paper represents an attempt to use this technique to optimize Ghorabi iron ore grade for uses in blast furnace as the first step in steel industry in Egypt.

Land planning is more and more understood to be a decisive tool, by means of which the society secures the systematic solving of functional, economic and engineering problems of the arrangement of landscape settlement, the rational use and protection of natural resources. The paper deals with an evaluation of four selected geobarriers (flood lands, radon hazard, undermining and slope movements) by means of geographic information systems that are geofactors endangering or limiting landscape and environment or make ...

The research area is located in Calimani National Park, Eastern Carpathians, northern Romania. About 2\% of the park surface was seriously affected by the sulfur exploitation during 1977-1993. More than 300 ha of vegetation were destroyed revealing the rock surface, which was then excavated and deposited in four heaps close to the excavation. The main goal of this research was to map the favorability areas for natural recovery of the vegetation and the probability for plants to spread on barren substrates. The stu...

The basic precondition for town planning, foundation engineering in a certain area is the integrated knowledge of engineering-geological conditions that form a decisive factor for good-quality and functional foundation of potential structures. Research was carried out into a chosen model research area in the part of Ostrava-Karvina Coalfield with various characters of foundation soils, with significant influencing by anthropogenic and other geodynamic processes and geofactors, with a possibility of future applying...

The method of seismic refraction is widely used in many applied Geology fields and problems today. Although it has some limitations, in the case of detecting a lower velocity bounded layer, this method is well tailored to a crystalline environments where, more often, weathering degree is highest on the surface and gradually decreases in depth and thus can aid in associating the weathering degree to velocity. Some relationships have been made to establish a connection between velocities and the elastic properties o...

Nature 2000 is a protected-areas network implemented in Europe as a result of this community concerns about use of biodiversity and the quality of the environment. Every EU state member had to designate Nature 2000 sites in order to preserve the habitats and species listed in Habitats and Birds Directives. Romania faced this challenge by completing this process in a very short period, based on the literature and field observations gathered by scientists and other stakeholders in the field of biodiversity. For Cali...