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Adding Human Health Risk Analysis Tools to Geographic Information Systems
Author(s) -
Hellweger Ferdi L.,
Wilson Lesley Hay,
Naranjo Eugenia M.,
Anid Paul J.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
transactions in gis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9671
pISSN - 1361-1682
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9671.00123
Subject(s) - geographic information system , computer science , human health , data science , risk analysis (engineering) , geography , data mining , cartography , business , environmental health , medicine
The development of a module for performing human health risk analysis is presented. This risk module differs from other tools in that it is integrated into a geographic information system (GIS) in a plug–in fashion. The main challenge in the development of the risk module was handling the many different spatial data structures in an open GIS environment. Selection of programming language and other development issues are discussed. The application of the risk module to two mining activities in Bolivia is described.