Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
• Introduction
• Who use GIS? & what can we do with
GIS
• How does GIS work?
• Geography database & types of data
• Features of GIS
• SDI
• summary
We Live in Two Worlds
Natural World Constructed World
Self-Regulating Managed
. . . These Are Increasingly In Conflict
Context and Content
Seeing the Whole Managing Places
• Patterns • Watersheds
• Linkages • Communities
• Trends • Neighborhoods
• Districts
What is GIS?
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Geographic Information System (GIS) is a
computer-based system including software,
hardware, people, and geographic information
A GIS can:
create, edit, query, analyze, and display
map information on the computer
Geographic Information System
107’
Vectors
Topology Dimensions
• Roads
• Land Parcels Surveys
• Population ABC
• Utilities Networks
• Land Mines Images Annotation
• Hospitals CAD
• Refugee Camps 27 Main St.
Drawings
• Wells
• Sanitation 3D Objects Attributes
Addresses
Terrain
Two fundamental types of data
• Vector
A series of x,y coordinates
For discrete data represented as points, lines,
polygons
• Raster
Grid and cells
For continuous data such as elevation, slope,
surfaces
Raster
Vector
Real World
Attribute query: Lung disease in
the 1860s
Spatial data:
Registration Districts,
1/1/1870
Attribute data: Mortality
rate per 1,000 from lung
disease among men aged
45-64
Source: Registrar
General’s Decennial
Supplement, 1871
Query: Select areas
where mortality rate >
58.0
Spatial query: Lung disease in the
1860s
• www.GSDI.org
Citizens
Inventory
Geographic
Knowledge The World
Decision Support
World Summit on
Sustainable Development
2002
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