Abstract

Education services are a basic requirement in any community for they have the responsibility to develop and promote communities. They are one cornerstone of life and a strong pillar of civilization. The current study aims to evaluate the locations of public school buildings in Basra City ( at the south Iraq) using the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Artificial Neural Networks(ANN), thus adopting a set of planning standards. Thus classified school buildings into classes ranged from (3-5) depending on the degree of conformity of every study stage where the percentages differed (0.69% rejected, 52.09% unsuitable, 36.36% acceptable, and 9.99% suitable and 1.74 good. This could be attributed to the random selection and bad planning of these locations which, in turn, shows that there is a failure in the plans of developing education services in the city. That is why the study recommends adopting modern technologies to contribute effectively to raising the efficiency of urban planning processes and improve the performance of the planning process in and decision-making to provide the best community services for residents of Basra, including education.

References

• Al-Nassir, Khadejah A. Hussein and Ali A. Khedheer. (2016). ‘The Theoretical Frameworks and Technical Scientific Methods of Geo-Information Science’. Iraqi Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2.
• Jabir, Zeenah Ayad and Ali H. Saad. ‘Spatial Analysis of the Sites of Government Schools in the City of Najaf Using Geographic Information Systems’.Available at: www.uokufa.edu.iq/journals/index.php./kufa arts/article/view/348. Accessed 22 September, 2017.
• Al-Kahby, Murtada Mudafer. (2017). ‘Spatial Analysis of the Change in Residential Land Use in Basrah City by Using Remote Sensing and Graphic Information Systems, Part1’. PhD. Thesis. University of Basrah
• Al-Zuhairi, Ammar A. Dayish. (2016). ‘Reality of Enteretainment Services in Basrah City and Methods of Developing Them: A Study in Urban Geography’. Masters Thesis. University of Basrah.
• Abood, Salman Maghamis. (2012). ‘Educational Land Uses and Real Disparity in Basrah City (1977-2007)’. PhD Thesis. University of Basrh.
• Jabir, Zeenah Ayad and Ali H. Saad. ‘Spatial Analysis of the Sites of Government Schools in the City of Najaf Using Geographic Information Systems’. Available at: www. uokufa.edu.iq/journals/index.php./kufa arts/article/view/348. Accessed 22 September, 2017.
• Nooshi ,Wasan.(2009). spacial suitabilty of urban planning Efficiency and its impact on people of basrah city. Master thesis. University of Basra
• Basheer, I. A., & Hajmeer, M. (2000). ‘Artificial neural networks: fundamentals, computing, design, and application. Journal of microbiological methods’, 43(1), 3-31.
• da Cruz Albuquerque، H. C.، Cardoso Pedrosa Martins، F. M.، & Tomás Galiza Cardoso، L. M. (2014). Geographical information systems، tourism (pp. 1-3). Springer International Publishing.
• Sharma، H. S.، Prasad، R.، & Binda، P. R. (2006). Mathematical Modeling In GeographicalInformation System (GIS) & GPS An Overview. Concept Publishing Company.
• Wadah Razoqi . (2010) agricultural lands classification on GIS Using Neural Network.Master thesis, University of Babylon
• Araghinejad, S. (2014). ‘Artificial neural networks’. In Data-Driven Modeling: Using MATLAB® in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (pp. 139-194). Springer:Netherlands.
• Kubat, M. (2017). Artificial neural networks. In An Introduction to Machine Learning (pp. 91-111).Springer.
• Lowe, M. (2014). Night lights and ArcGis: A brief guide. Avaliable online: http://economics. mit. edu/files/8945 (accessed on 22 August 2014).