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Monitoring Electromagnetic Pollution: A GIS-Based Visual Approach

Profile image of Giuliana VitielloGiuliana Vitiello

2001

https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44819-5_8
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In the last years, the attention of the public community on electromagnetic pollution has continuously grown. In this paper we argue that the use of Geographic Information Systems in this domain should be encouraged as a valid support to the monitoring activities related to this phenomenon. In particular, our proposal of a visual environment, the Metaphor GIS Query Language is shown to provide a fruitful combination of GIS technology and visual languages, which have the double advantage of assisting electromagnetism experts in the measurement tasks, and facilitating non-expert users who might be interested in the level of EMF pollution in a given area.

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