Assessment of School Infrastructure at Primary and Upper Primary Level A Geospatial Analysis英文文献资料.docVIP

Journal of Geographic Information System, 2012, 4, 412-424 /10.4236/jgis.2012.45047 Published Online October 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jgis) Assessment of School Infrastructure at Primary and Upper Primary Level: A Geospatial Analysis Gouri Sankar Bhunia , Pravat Kumar Shit , Soumen Duary 1 2* 3 1 Rajendra Memorial Research Institutes of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Bihar, India Department of Geography Environment Management, Vidyasagar University, Medinipur, India Office of the Sarva-Siksha-Mission (SSM), Paschim Medinipur, India Email: rsgis6gouri@, Pravatgeo2007@, duarysoumen.economics@ 2 3 * Received July 27, 2012; revised August 28, 2012; accepted September 24, 2012 ABSTRACT With the introduction of powerful and high-speed personal computers, proficient techniques for infrastructure develop- ment and management have advanced, of which Geoinformatics technology is of great significance. An attempt has been made for broad mapping and analysis of existing infrastructures in the context of planning scheme in Paschim Medinipur district, and to delineate the development zones of educational infrastructure facilities. The thematic layers considered in this study are infrastructure accessibility, type and condition of classroom and number of classroom allo- cated for the educational system at primary and upper primary level. Moran’s I statistics was used to estimate the spatial distribution of elementary infrastructure across the district. All these themes and their individual features were then as- signed weights according to their relative importance in educational development and corresponding normalized weights were obtained based on the Saaty’s analytical hierarchy process. The thematic layers were finally integrated in GIS software based on multi-criteria approach to yield educational development infrastructure ind