Making decisions based on geography is basic to human thinking.
By understanding geography and people's relationship to location, we can make informed decisions about the way we live on our planet. A geographic information system (GIS) is a technological tool for comprehending geography and making intelligent decisions.
But a GIS is nothing but a tool, and it is not enough!
If you are a high-level government official entrusted with complex decision making, we have a solution for you.
Dashboards for Decision Makers - a NEW analytical framework in spatial decision-support systems for environmental and natural resource analysis and forecasting.
Integration within spatial data infrastructures is a necessary first step toward informed decision-making, for without accurate, reliable, and interdisciplinary data from variety of sources it will be difficult to evaluate the many facets of sustainable management. When observations are made on a routine basis, as can be done with remote-sensing, and when various sources and types of data are accessible and can be integrated into a GIS, the basic infrastructure exists for making informed decisions.
Our unique Dashboard for Decisions Makers toolbox allows a decision-maker to:
- Build relationships, both spatial and process-based, between different types of data,
- Merge multiple data layers into synthetic information,
- Weigh outcomes from potentially competing alternatives, and
- Forecast.
The fundamental analytical functions of SPIS’s spatial decision-support system include:
- Query analysis,
- Proximity or buffer analysis,
- Overlay analysis,
- Neighborhood analysis,
- Network analysis, and
- Modeling.
Various combinations of these functions are commonly used during the geographic data analysis process.