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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
2012Geographic information systems (GIS) are an enabling computer technology for the collection and processing of geographic data. As a tool for representing geographic reality in the computer, GIS help us to compile, link, and query information about the state of the environment.
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Geographical Information System (GIS)
2010Geographical Information System, also called Geobased Information System (GIS), is a relatively new technology. It is a very powerful tool for processing, analyzing and integrating spatial data sets (e.g. Star and Estes 1990; Lo and Yeung 2006; Chang 2008; Harvey 2008).
B. B. S. Singhal, R. P. Gupta
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Geographical Information System (GIS)
2015© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Geographic Information System (GIS) is defined as a special type of information system that is used to input, store, retrieve, process, analyze and visualize geospatial data and information in order to support decision making, see e.g., Aronoff, Geographic information systems: a management ...
Sholarin, E., Awange, Joseph
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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 (GIS): Implications for Promoting Social and Economic Justice
Computers in Human Services, 1999SUMMARY This article is a consideration of the implications for the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology in social work practice as a tool for improved visualization of social and economic inequalities. Along with a brief, general introduction to GIS, overviews are included of the historical uses of geographic mapping, as well as ...
Paige L. Tompkins, Linda H. Southward
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Natural Hazards
2013Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is a computer-based information system designed for capturing, storing, analyzing, managing, and displaying spatial data representing human and natural phenomena from the real world. It may include application to remote sensing, land surveying, mathematics, and geography. Natural Hazard.
TAROLLI, PAOLO, M. Cavalli
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The Geographic Information System (GIS) of Turin Municipality
2000The essay bids a framing of the remarkable telematic services of the City of Torino. Core of the document is the description of the local Geographic Information System (GIS): the aim of the GIS on the Internet is to allow a shared use of data concerning land use and management, cartography, building rules, environment conditions.
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Geographic information systems (GIS) for microcomputers
ACM SIGUCCS Newsletter, 1989At The University of Calgary, courses in Geographic Information Systems are offered in the departments of Geography and Surveying Engineering and the Faculty of Environmental Design. In this article. Roger Wheate describes how the development of the microcomputer as a standard has made this technology accessible to a wide body of users and provides ...
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