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What is the GIS?

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Question added by Ali Abdul Jabbar Abdul Hassan Albasri , Director of Design, Surveying and GIS Department , Eyoon Al-Basra Engineering Co
Date Posted: 2017/06/19
younes idriss
by younes idriss , مدير مركز بحوث وتطبيقات الاستشعار عن بعد , الهيئة العامة للاستشعار عن بعد

GIS (geographic information System) is a system (software)designed to capture,store,anlysis, and present all types of geographic data.

Ervin Dervisevic
by Ervin Dervisevic , Member of the Commission for Commerce and economic policy , Ministry of economy BPK Goražde

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographic information science (GIScience) to refer to the academic discipline that studies geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of geoinformatics. What goes beyond a GIS is a spatial data infrastructure, a concept that has no such restrictive boundaries. In general, the term describes any information system that integrates, stores, edits, analyzes, shares, and displays geographic information. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. Geographic information science is the science underlying geographic concepts, applications, and systems. GIS can refer to a number of different technologies, processes, and methods. It is attached to many operations and has many applications related to engineering, planning, management, transport/logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and business. For that reason, GIS and location intelligence applications can be the foundation for many location-enabled services that rely on analysis and visualization. GIS can relate unrelated information by using location as the key index variable. Locations or extents in the Earth space–time may be recorded as dates/times of occurrence, and x, y, and z coordinates representing, longitude, latitude, and elevation, respectively. All Earth-based spatial–temporal location and extent references should be relatable to one another and ultimately to a "real" physical location or extent. This key characteristic of GIS has begun to open new avenues of scientific inquiry.

Refilwe Chabo Prisca Baeletsi Baeletsi
by Refilwe Chabo Prisca Baeletsi Baeletsi , Junior Administrative Assistant , Rhoss (PTY) LTD company secretaries

A geographic information system (GIS) lets us visualize, question, analyze, and interpret data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends.

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data

Akshay  Verma
by Akshay Verma , Sr.GIS Associates , Petro IT Solutions Private Limited

Geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of information into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes. With this unique capability, GIS reveals deeper insights into data, such as patterns, relationships, and situations—helping users make smarter decisions.

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

Ali Akbar
by Ali Akbar , GIS Data Developer , Dasu Hydropower Consultants

A geographic information system is a special case of information systems where the database consists of observations on spatially distributed features, activities or events, which are definable in space as points, lines, or areas. A geographic information system manipulates data about these points, lines, and areas to retrieve data for ad hoc queries and analyses

Isummailha Abodunde Nafiu
by Isummailha Abodunde Nafiu , Yaba Zonal Office , Lagos Building Control Agency (LASBCA)

GIS is an acronym of Geographic Information System. It is a system of hardware, software and procedures designed to support the capture, management, analysis, modelling, displaying of spatially referenced data for solving planning and management problems.

Naresh Vijayakumar
by Naresh Vijayakumar , Design & Project Engineer , Tamilnadu Water Investment Company Ltd

A computer-based system that allows the user to question and manipulate various layers of spatial data. The system is designed to answer questions and explore relationships. The data represents real-world entities (trees to woodlots to forests to world scale) including both spatial (georeferenced) and quantitative 

attributes of these entities.

 

Asma Salah
by Asma Salah , GIS officer , Ministry of Industry & Investmen

gis is a system of hardware and software helps us to decision making by manipulate and analyse data to get information

Nabeel Abid
by Nabeel Abid , Sr. Commissioning Engineer , Xervon

Gas Insulated Switchgear. Typicaly GIS is used in electrical sub stations.

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