GIS-1: SCIENCE, APPLICATIONS, COHERENCE

A Historical Keynote Address

Order No:

GIS-1

Reference No:

GIS 1-1

Length:

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.

 

Lecturer:

  • John R. Borchert, Regents Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota

With
responses
from:

  • Stephen C. Guptill, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  • James L. Clapp, Director, Center of Geographic Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • F. Larry Stover,Vice President, Land and Facilities Management Division, SE Technologies Inc.
  • R.G. Congalton, Director, GIS Division, University of California
  • Barry S. Wellar, Professor of Geography, University of Ottawa

Suitability for
Level of
Instruction:

  • High School/General Public
  • University (Undergraduate)
  • Advanced Research
  • Professional

Year of
Presentation:

1990

Suggested
Presentations:

GIS-11, GIS-20-4, GIS-51, GIS-52

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