A Historical Keynote Address
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GIS-1 |
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GIS 1-1 |
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120 minutes |
Overview of GIS as the understanding of the evolving geographical structure of human settlement, through description and classification, organizing and analyzing data, addressing problems of heterogeneity and diversity, to arrive at decisions affecting specific locations.
Defining a digital equivalent for the language of maps. Spatial data modeling: how to model the geographic reality that historically has been portrayed using the map model.
AM/FM International: System-oriented association, formed to address specific technological applications.
Errors associated with GIS: Scale, indirect data layers, data variation, processing. Decision Support Systems (DSS); Geo-factors and public policy.
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1990 | |||
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