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Geographic Information Systems
2021This chapter focuses on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which appeared in China between the late 1970s and early 1980s. GIS development in China can be classified into three stages: early preparation 1970 and 1980s; accelerated development and industrialization 1990s, and popularization and standardization 2000+.
Yixin Hua, Tao Feng
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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 as a marketing information system technology
Decision Support Systems, 2004Marketing information systems (MKIS) are decision support systems targeted at marketing-specific decisions. One of the most widely disseminated MKIS models divides the marketing decision universe into four domains and links these domains to each other and to other marketing activities.
Hess, Ronald L. +2 more
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Geographic Information Systems
2020Today, GIS constitutes a fundamental geocomputational approach and tool in the analysis and mapping of past or present processes of the environment, territory, and landscape. GIS provides an opportunity to analyze spatial data using both multiscalar and diachronic approaches, and—quite importantly—in a digital and quantitative manner.
Carol Hanchette, J. A. Magnuson
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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: an Example
1994Geographic information systems (GIS for short) are computer based information systems supporting input, storage, processing and output of spatial data. Spatial data means data objects characterized by its position and shape in a given application-specific data space, like e.g.
Thomas Ohler, Peter Widmayer
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An introduction to geographic information systems
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 1977Abstract Geographic information systems are concerned with the organization, handling and retrieval of data whose spatial position or geographic pattern is of concern. This paper defines a geographic information system, explains some terms associated with geographical or spatial data, and discusses methods of organizing such data for flexible and ...
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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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Geographic Information Systems Grid
2005GIS Grid (geographic information systems grid) is a combination of geographic information systems and grid technology. Existing non-standardized multi-sources and multi-scales data have a shortage of spatial information shared in either internal and external organizations or departments, especially in national or global applications.
Dan Feng 0001 +6 more
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Geographic information systems in the U.S.
Proceedings of the November 16-18, 1971, fall joint computer conference on - AFIPS '71 (Fall), 1971A Geographic Information System (GIS) can be defined as one which is oriented to supplying information pertaining to the geography or spatial relationships of the information in the system.
Robert Amsterdam +2 more
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