Most of the contracting companies suffer from poor coordination between the projects that they implement at the same time, and in Shauria, the situation is getting worse due to the absence of the application of modern methodologies in project managem
ent, which causes a great waste of time and effort, especially for organizing and retrieving dozens of documents related to planning and follow-up, and consequently an increase in time, cost and poor quality.
The aim of this study is to assess the spatial distribution of health centers in rural Lattakia
governorate and to develop a scientific methodology to guide the growth of the health
sector by identifying the needs and adequacy of the primary health
care centers according
to the spatial distribution of the population within these rural areas using spatial statistical
techniques in GIS.
In order to achieve this objective, a spatial database was created, including the population
centers, the primary health care centers (health centers) with the population served by
them, as well as a group of fields on the specifications of these centers in terms of
ownership, floor space and human cadres.
A number of quantitative and spatial tests were conducted in order to measure the fairness
of the distribution of health centers according to the population distribution and determine
the need, while attempting to find an initial guidance on the locations of the supporting
centers according to quantitative and spatial analysis And then measure the degree of
improvement according to the study indicators.
The result of this research was to describe the current status of the distribution of health
centers in the northern Latakia countryside, identify areas of weakness and inadequacy,
propose supporting centers and develop an effective guideline for assessing and improving
the placement of primary health care activities in rural areas.
New sciences have greatly contributed in improving analysis processes and
subsequently lead to better understanding of the future. The more knowledge and
information are available, the better planning process will be. Furthermore, better data
lead
s to better decision-making. This is the basis of Geographic Information System (GIS).
Due to its great ability in processing and analyzing extensive and various amount of spatial
data, GIS has solved many obstacles in the research field since it was first launched.
GIS plays an important role in the field of tourism planning as it contributes in
developing new applications that serve modern touristic.
In this research paper, GIS will be used to build an effective system that will improve
touristic planning in Lattakia governorate. A spatial database will be created, that includes
the most prominent touristic places in the city, such as restaurants, hotels, religious and
historical sites.etc.
Each of the touristic attractions will be evaluated, and then a tool , created in GIS
environment, will be used for weighting roads network, in order to determine the touristic
weight for each path in roads network.
3D models of historical sites and monuments are very interesting in archaeology and digital tourism fields. These models help archeologists document historical sites and analyze the relationships between their components. Moreover, 3D models constitu
te an attractive factor that encourages visiting sites and presents virtual information about cultural heritage.
In this paper, we propose an approach that uses capabilities of CAD (Computer Aided Design) and GIS (Geographic Information System) systems to construct spatial and semantic database for historical sites and modeling them in 3D. Users of the mentioned database can use it to gather information about sites and to navigate across them via the animation capabilities in GIS.
The proposed ideas will be applied on the historical site of Ras-SHAMRA in Lattakia. Spatial data concerning the site will be acquired form a topographic plan designed in 2004. These data will then be processed and introduced into GIS environment. ArcGIS software will be used to achieve an Archeological Information System (AIS) for the site and to construct a 3D model of the site and the royal palace.
