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This article discusses the pandemic of a novel strain of H1N1 swine-origin influenza A virus that emerged in the United States and Mexico in the spring of 2009. The ability of real-time reports of influenza-like illness symptoms and rapid influenza diagnostic tests were examined to approximate...

This study, conducted by Jamie Pearce, Karen Witten, Phil Bartie, looked at how accessible different communities were to different health related resources. They examined different resources such as: shopping, education, recreation, food stores, and health facilities. They broke down a map of an...

This authors of this review article discuss the latest applications for the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for ecological research. Since its development in 1981, researchers have greatly expanded the breadth of this technology's utility for studies of the natural world. NDVI has...

The authors of this study wanted to assess air pollution health hazards that lead to death, studying a specific location in Israel. The authors explained that because there are so many types of pollutants it is difficult to isolate and determine which pollutants are specifically causing harm...

In this article, the relationship between climate change and vector-borne diseases are examined. The vector-borne diseases Dirofliaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens are tracked over 15 years in Europe. The purpose of this article is to understand if climate change affects the number of...

This map displays the locations of all the places that have an open bar in Georgetown relative to the location of Southwestern. Georgetown is not a young demographic so there is an extremely limited amount of activities for young adults. Majority of the activities are in Round Rock or Austin...

This map displays the various location of apartments in Georgetown with a star rating of 3.0 or above that are within reasonable vicinity of campus. This map, using these apartments, can also provide the subsidiary purpose of showing places that students could investigate in terms of deciding...

This article examines the influence of socioeconomic status on obesity among the Mexican-American community. A study was conducted along the United States-Mexico border town Brownsville, Texas to track the obesity rates in citizens. The study was conducted to observe whether obesity was related...

This article discussed the use of geospatial data such as elevation data to estimate flooding in New Orleans. Light detection and ranging (lidar) remote sensing is a tool that is used to map this area. This data was used in response to Katrina to analyze inundation. Lidar data was collected in...

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In the map above, I mapped out nine restaurants that are open after 10pm in Georgetown, Texas. I picked restaurants that are close to Southwestern's campus so that this can be helpful for Southwestern students. Late night fast food is becoming an important culture and economic aspect of life. As...

This map shows all the chicken restaurants in Georgetown, Texas. As you can tell there are multiple places to fill your chicken needs. From fast food chicken places like Raising Cane's who only sells chicken, To places like Buffalo Wild Wings were there are a few other options. One thing is for...

As an environmental studies student interested in outdoor activities, I wanted to find out where the best hiking trails in Georgetown are located. This map shows several of the highest rated hiking trails in the Georgetown, TX area. Many of these trails are located around Lake Georgetown, along...

In their article 'Local food practices and growing potential: Mapping the case of Philadelphia' Kremer and DeLiberty set off by discussing the current state of the food system in the US. They write that because the system of food production has grown and become so removed from most people's...

This article is about why there has been an increase in land-use and changes in land use, as well as the effects this has on climate change. The main questions the authors set to address were: 1. How are land-use changes contributing to global environmental changes? 2. What social-economic...

Summary of Technological Change and The Spatial Structure of Agriculture By Sent Visser By Jimmy Brymer This article written in 1980 makes an interesting argument that although with all the advancement of society’s advancements that distance to market still matters for the amount of...

This article discusses how m-Health ("mobile-health", referring to the use of mobile and other wireless technology in healthcare) technologies and GIS can be used to improve access to medical services in Uganda's rural regions, where malaria prevalence is high and a significant portion of the...

This article concerns itself with the making of a traffic accident predictive model based on the Doppler data of Fairfax County, VA after an extreme weather event, in this case snowstorms. This will effectively estimate where hot-spots for accidents occur while increasing predictive capabilities...

In the wake of the modernization happening in Brazil a forest transition is happening in Paraiba Valley. In order to analyze this phenomenon the history of this land must be looked at. The forest cover over Paraiba Valley traditionally showed a period of afforestation followed by a period of...

This article discusses how multi-temporal remote sensing data and landslide information sources combined with GIS can be used to make a multi-temporal landslide inventory for South Kyrgyzstan. This would allow for more precise tracking of landslide activity and accurate landslide hazard...