Geographic Information System

GIS

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is an information technology system that enables the storage, manipulation, analysis, and visualization of data with a geographic component, also known as geospatial data. This type of data links information to specific locations on the Earth's surface, such as coordinates, addresses, or regions.

GIS is crucial for faceless®, our interactive platform, as it enhances the ability to analyze health data across various geographical areas. By integrating GIS into our system, faceless® can provide users with deeper insights into health trends, comparing data across different regions or demographics. This enables our members to view not just raw data, but spatially-referenced information, helping them understand how health outcomes vary geographically and identify potential hotspots or patterns. Through GIS, faceless® supports more informed decision-making, allowing users to explore health data in the context of their surroundings, be it local, national, or global. This is especially important for addressing health disparities, tracking disease outbreaks, and planning interventions at the community or global level.

Technologies

faceless® will utilize geospatial technology from ESRI, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. ESRI’s geographic approach to problem-solving is brought to life by modern, enterprise-grade GIS technology. faceless® GIS maps and database will be interactive for its users.

GIS integrates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of information into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes. With this unique capability, GIS reveals deeper insights into data, such as patterns, relationships, and situations helping users make smarter decisions. GIS data visualization display and decision are important aspects of all data produced by the faceless and GeoHealth system.

Real Time Information

The comprehensive research capacity of GeoHealth, utilizing state-of-the-art computational techniques for modeling, processing, and integrating enormous quantities of data, in real-time, represents an unparalleled capability to identify and implement solutions to global problems using advanced social and life sciences research methodologies. Automated fusion of disparate data types and reasoning methods unifies understanding and eliminates significant research bottlenecks that currently exist.

Interactive GIS and Data Base

Daedalus intends for the users of faceless to be able to access the interactive GIS site and the faceless®/GeoHealth interactive database via the www.myfaceless.info site where they will be able to view absolute and comparative data from other users. User GIS data will reflect geoproximity and not geolocation to ensure privacy and anonymity.

GIS Problem Solving

Results of a study published in 1996 in the American Journal of Public Health entitled: Cancer Risk and Residential Proximity to Cranberry Cultivation in Massachusetts (Aschengrau et al) demonstrated through GIS presentation and analysis a confoundingly high incidence of cancer in Cape Cod that led to the identification and documentation of unrecognized contaminants in the aquifer. Those results and the critical importance of GIS in problem identification formed the impetus behind creation of faceless and GeoHealth and the use of geospatial technologies to address public health issues.

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