التقييم المكاني لأبراج الاتـصالات التابعة لوزارة الداخلية في محافظة بابل باستخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافية

Spatial analysis of communication towers affiliated with the Ministry of Interior in Babil Governorate using geographic information systems

This study dealt with the analysis and evaluation of the services of communication towers affiliated with the Ministry of Interior in Babil Governorate, which numbered fourteen, distributed over four districts in the governorate. The study aims to assess the spatial and functional suitability of these towers according to the spatial distribution of security institutions, and the approved global and local planning standards, to choose the best suitable sites for installing these towers in the study area now and in the future. To enhance the security aspect and to facilitate the official authorities who use these towers.
The study relied on the descriptive approach and the statistical analysis approach to present the conclusions it obtained, coupled with the inductive approach to extrapolate the current situation through indicators to show the deficit and the current and future need. The study took two aspects; The first: the office aspect of collecting data and information related to the towers, identifying the deficiencies in this service environment, and identifying what confuses its work and coverage within the boundaries of the study area, and the second aspect: the field and actual field that started from the questionnaire distributed to experts and specialists in the field of towers and its employees, in addition to a public opinion poll of the Ministry of Interior’s employees according to the need for this indicator. As well as the application of the technology and science of geographic information systems, as it is considered one of the modern technologies that contributed to the tabulation of the data of this study and to give a true picture of the role of towers with possible solutions in overcoming cases of weak coverage. Some indicators from the (ARC GIS10.8) program were used in mapping, analyzing the distribution of towers, determining the scope of the service, and estimating the future need. These indicators are the central parameter, mean center, distributive trend, standard distance, nearest neighbor, and kernel density.
One of the most important findings of the study is that approximately (20%) of the total security institutions are outside the scope of influence of communication towers, which is the result of the relative lack of balance between the distribution of security institutions used for communication towers and the distribution of these towers in the study area, and then The disproportion of their locations in a way that achieves them with spatial suitability and good functional efficiency. The results also include that the number of these towers is not sufficient for the area of the governorate, and therefore the total area of their network coverage is estimated (32%) for mobile devices and (53%) for mobile devices out of the total area of the governorate. The Ministry of the Interior does not operate in these spaces.