Recent Case Studies

The night pictures taken from the International Space Station (ISS) and other NASA missions as DMSP can be used to compute light emission from ground based locations. We need a complete GIS toolkit to study correlations among the satellite images and light sources. So we can get information about individual buildings or geographical areas.
We need also a tool which can use standard OGC services to access Geographic information and Layers from other SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure), as IDEE. The connection to spatial databases, as PostGIS, would be the last requirement.

The regional government of Andalusia (Junta de Andalucía) used gvSIG as its GIS desktop tool and their technicians used gvSIG to access dozens of geographical layers. The usual way to load layers on gvSIG had some difficulties because the sources are multiple and discovering them is not always easy.

In 2007 an adaptation and creation of a new group on gvSIG functionalities to pre-plot maps, to register mining records on a base map and to obtain reports was developed by the company Prodevelop for the Industry, Trade and Innovation Ministry of the Valencian Community.

For a good evaluation of the works and actions proposed by municipalities to get federal funding is necessary to have the geographical location of those works with exactness and on time for the various branch offices and central areas of the organization.