Palma M Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Descriptive statistics, Inferential statistics
University of Salento, Department of Economics, Ecotekne Complex, Via per Monteroni, Lecce 73100, Italy
Monica Palma was born in Lecce. She had got a Degree in Economics (cum laude) at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) in 1996; in 2003 she had a PhD in statistics at the University "G. D'Annunzio" (Chieti-Pescara, Italy), with a dissertation in "Multivariate Geostatistics: some developments for spatial-temporal multivariate data". Since 2015, she is Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Salento. Monica Palma is author of several papers published on international journals, such as Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Mathematical Geosciences, Environmetrics and several monographs and text-books.
Special Issue Article Open Access
Author(s): Mariella L, Palma M and Pellegrino D*
The stray dogs represent a complex issue and the management of this phenomenon requires the use of a geographical information system, i.e. GIS and WebGIS, to support the policy makers in the definition of suitable control and prevention actions.
In particular, GIS and WebGIS are advanced information technologies for a) the implementation of spatial databases concerning different kind of data, b) the development of multiscale and multi-thematic representations of available information and c) the analysis of spatial information. Moreover, the WebGIS guarantees the simplicity of use, homogeneity and speed in updating geographic and alphanumeric data, as well as flexibility in database queries.
In this paper a WebGIS for stray dogs monitoring over the province of Lecce (Apul... view moreĀ»