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What Is Gis
What Is Gis
What Is Gis
These data include anything that can be associated with a location on the globe,
or more simply anything that can be mapped. For example, roads, country
boundaries, and address are all types of spatial data.
Or future Analysis
Pieces of GIS
1. Spatial data
2. Non-spatial data or attributes data
1. vector data.
2. Raster data.
– Vector data includes spatial features (points, lines, and polygons) and
attributes about that data (descriptive information).
– Raster data are stored electronic images (e.g., pictures taken as an aerial
photograph or satellite images).
People: People use GIS to answer specific data-related questions. People collect
data, develop procedures, identify research questions and define analysis tasks to
run in GIS.
Analysis is the process of using spatial data to answer questions. There are many
different analysis techniques.
Hardware: GIS software is run on computers. Memory and computing power are
important because spatial data includes many attributes making it very large.