Directions Magazine is pleased to welcome Eva Reid as a regular columnist. In her debut contribution, she examines how health data modeling—particularly through GIS and agent-based systems—will ...

At a basic level, geospatial data supports map production and navigation. That was one of the early reasons digital mapping took off in the first place, since updating a paper map used to be slow and ...

Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

Disaster response is a race against time. Hurricanes and wildfires, in particular, demand swift, coordinated, and informed actions to save lives and protect infrastructure. Historically, emergency ...

Recent studies highlight how artificial intelligence, geographic information systems, and cloud-based big data analytics are converging to improve environmental management and sustainable civil ...