GIS

AS A TOOL IN ASSESSING THE

ENVIRONMENT
 I NFORMATION S YSTEM

INVENTED BY ROGER TOMLINSON (FATHER OF GIS) AS A

WAY TO ANALYZE GEOGRAPHIC DATA.

GIS IS A FRAMEWORK FOR GATHERING, MANAGING, AND

ANALYZING DATA. ROOTED IN THE SCIENCE OF GEOGRAPHY,
INTEGRATING MANY TYPES OF DATA. IT ANALYZES SPATIAL
LOCATION AND ORGANIZES LAYERS OF INFORMATION INTO
VISUALIZATIONS USING MAPS AND 3D SCENES. ​

GIS STORE, ANALYZE AND VISUALIZE DATA FOR

GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONS ON EARTH’S SURFACE.
Components of Geographic Information
Systems
 1. HARDWARE: Hardware runs GIS software. It could be anything from
powerful servers, mobile phones or a personal GIS workstation.. Dual monitors,
extra storage and crisp graphic processing cards are must-haves too in GIS.
 2. SOFTWARE: ArcGIS and QGIS are the leaders in GIS software. GIS
software specialize in spatial analysis by using math in maps. It blends geography
with modern technology to measure, quantify and understand our world.
 3. DATA: GIS stores location data as thematic layers. Each data set has an
attribute table that stores information about the feature. The two main types of
GIS data are raster and vector.
 I NFORMATION S YSTEM
4 MAIN IDEAS OF GIS

CREATE GEOGRAPHIC DATA.
MANAGE IT IN A DATABASE.
ANALYZE AND FIND PATTERNS.
VISUALIZE IT ON A MAP
Municipality of Balete
Lifeline Facilities (Roads Risk to Flooding)
USES OF GIS
• IDENTIFY PROBLEMS
• MONITOR CHANGE
• MANAGE AND RESPONDS TO EVENTS
• PERFORM FORECASTING
• SET PRIORITIES
• UNDERSTAND TRENDS
Advantages
 It has the ability of improving the organizational integration. GIS would then
integrate software, hardware and also data in order to capture, analyze, manage and
so display all forms of information being geographically referenced.
 GIS would also allow viewing, questioning, understanding, visualizing and
interpreting the data into numbers of ways which will reveal relationships, trends
and patterns in the form of globes, maps, charts and reports.
 Geographic Information System is to provide a help in answering questions as well
as solve problems through looking at the data in a way which is easily and quickly
shared.
 GIS technology could also be integrated into framework of any enterprise
information system.
 And there would be numbers of employment opportunities.
Disadvadntages
 GIS technology might be considered as expensive software.
 It as well requires enormous data inputs amount that are needed to be practical for
some other tasks and so the more data that is to put in.
 Since the earth is round and so there would be geographic error that will increase
as you get in a larger scale.
 GIS layers might lead to some costly mistakes once the property agents are to
interpret the GIS map or the design of the engineer around the utility lines of the
GIS.
 THANK YOU!
References:

https://www.esri.com/en-us/what-is-gis/overview

https://gisgeography.com/what-gis-geographic-information-systems/

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