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Geographic information systems
Water Environment Research, 1996Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and relational database management system technology have increasingly provided a foundation for integration and analyses of water environment data in context with other geographically related data.. While large scale GIS projects can pose expensive undertakings, an ever-widening variety of applications are ...
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Geographic information systems
Progress in Human Geography, 1988Geographic information systems (GISs) are defined as software systems. In this article, the relationships between GIS and other activities having to do with geographic information are reviewed. The use of GIS in social and behavioral sciences is discussed as an increasingly essential component of the research infrastructure and as a tool for acquiring ...
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Geographic information systems and cartography
Cartography, 1990The GIS phenomenon shows no sign of weakening, but cannot last for ever. The paper addresses the long-term significance of GIS from three perspectives. First, the various application fields are reviewed and used to define four views of GIS. Second, the paper looks at some new and continuing debates in GIS and their significance for cartography.
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Geographical information systems (GIS)
1999Geographical information system, also called geobased information system (GIS), is a relatively new technology. It is a very powerful tool for processing, analysing and integrating spatial data sets (Aronoff, 1989; Star and Estes, 1990; Maguire et al., 1991; Attenucci et al., 1991; Heywood et al., 1997).
B. B. S. Singhal, R. P. Gupta
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Geographic information systems
ITNOW, 1989Abstract For many centuries a variety of means have been used to represent the earth’s surface and associated environment. Early maps were usually intended to guide travellers from one place to another and used pictorial representations of the route. But increasingly other information was added to the map.
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Geographical Information Systems
Geographical Review, 1993From the Publisher: Integrating theory and practice, it takes a look at GIS from the dual perspective of information systems and the applications of GIS in business. Considers the development of GIS from specialist geographical systems to business information systems supporting organizational needs. Also examines the contributions that GIS can make to
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Geographic Information Systems
2020The chapter presents the geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that allows various sources to gather and organize, manage, analyze and combine, develop, and present geographically located information contributing in particular to the management from space.
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Geographical Information Systems
Archaeological Dialogues, 1997It is one o clock in the morning of December 20. Buffalo is cold, five degrees below zero Fahrenheit with a wind chill of minus twenty five degrees. The Niagara River is frozen solid except at the Falls. Sounds travel far on these cold nights. I hear a loud crash as if the ice is beginning to crack.
Milco Wansleeben, Leo Verhart
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Geographic Information Systems
2012A geographic information system (GIS) is any system that captures, stores, analyzes and displays data that are linked to location (i.e., are georeferenced). GIS broadly refers to all aspects of managing, manipulating, and using digital georeferenced data.
Robert Maliva, Thomas Missimer
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Geographical information systems
2004The chapter gives an introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with particular focus on their application within environmental management.
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