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Geographical information systems and health
Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, 2022GIS is an information system that performs the functions of collecting, storing, analyzing, and presenting graphical and non-graphical data obtained through location-based processes in an integrity. It is a set of hardware, software, personnel, geographic data, and methods developed to assist users in location-based decision-making processes for ...
ŞAHBAZ, Kadir, ÖZKAN, Abuzer
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Geographic Information Systems
Computing in Science & Engineering, 2010This special issue addresses the challenges in handling geographic problems at a global scale, from earthquakes to climatic change, and from water-resource distribution to mountain classification. The various research and applications herein can help foster greater insight and understanding of specific geographic problems and share innovative ...
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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
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
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 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.
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Usability evaluation for geographic information systems: a systematic literature review
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2018The growing dissemination of geographic information systems (GIS) in recent years has increased the availability and use of geospatial tools. Despite this trend in GIS, usability is often not considered, and studies on usability are relatively rare ...
René Unrau, C. Kray
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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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