**Meet the editor**

Dr. Rifaat Abdalla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University. He specialized in GeoInformatics with a focus on WebGIS applications and remote sensing modeling. Dr. Rifaat Abdalla is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) and Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) from Ontario, Canada. He was with the King Abdulaziz

University, Jeddah for five years prior to joining Sultan Qaboos University in 2017. Dr. Abdalla worked in the oil industry in Qatar and in the UK and has taught at York University and Ryerson University in Canada. His research interests include hydrography and marine applications for GIS; modeling and simulation; mobile handheld GIS visualization; and disaster management and emergency response mapping. Dr. Abdalla is a recipient of several prestigious international awards, including the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) PE&RS Best Scientific Paper by ESRI.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Rifaat Abdalla

**Workflows 5**

and Aysha Khalid

**Island, Mexico 33**

Colin-Olivares

Chapter 1 **Introduction Chapter: From Land Surveying to Geomatics - Multidisciplinary Technological Trends 1**

> **Groupware-Based Online Synchronous Collaborative PPGIS to Support Municipality Development and Planning Management**

> Muhammad A. Butt, Syed Amer Mahmood, Javed Sami, Jahanzeb Qureshi, Muhammad Kashif Nazir, Amer Masood, Khadija Waheed

> Oscar Frausto-Martínez, Norma Angelica Zapi-Salazar and Orlando

**Hydrographic Surveying Program in the Middle East 45**

Chapter 5 **Mathematical Analysis of Some Typical Problems in Geodesy**

Chapter 3 **Identification of Karst Forms Using LiDAR Technology: Cozumel**

Chapter 2 **Architectural Design and Prototyping of Co-PPGIS: A**

Chapter 4 **Lessons Learned from the Establishments of the First**

Rifaat Abdalla and Salim Al-Harbi

Hou-pu Li and Shao-feng Bian

**by Means of Computer Algebra 67**
