Geographic information system

Geographic Information System (GIS): A computer system designed for storing, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data in a geographic context.

geographic information system (gis) A computerized graphics and database system designed for storing, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data in a geographical context.

Geographic Information System: computerized database system containing natural resources and land use data that can be used to analyze and display information in spatial, or map, format.

Geographic information system (GIS)
A mapping system that uses computers to collect, store, manipulate, analyze, and display data.

Geographic information system (GIS)
A computer hardware and software system designed to collect, manipulate, analyze, and display spatially referenced data for solving complex resource, environmental, and social problems.(4) ...

geographic information systems (GIS)
Computer programs linking features commonly seen on maps (such as roads, town boundaries, water bodies) with related information not usually presented on maps, such as type of road surface, population, ...

geographic information system (GIS) = information technology with a specific focus on the spatial attributes of the World creating a system for visualising, capturing, storing, analysing and managing data based on spatial reference; ...

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Group of principles, methods, instruments and geo-referenced data used to capture, store, extract, measure, transform, analyse and map phenomena and processes in a given geographic area.

Geographic Information System (GIS): a set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving, transforming and displaying spatial referenced data. CanSIS uses a GIS called ARC/INFO.
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Geographic Information Systems; Global Indexing System
GLC
Gas Liquid Chromatography ...

Genetic Engineering: A process of inserting new genetic information into existing cells in order to modify a specific organism for the purpose of changing one of its characteristics. Geographic Information System (GIS): A computer system designed for ...

The system is based on a set of integrated software programs consisting of a relational database (Oracle), computer-aided design (AutoCAD), geographic information system (GIS), and groundwater flow model (MODFLOW) ...

See also: Water, Environment, Waste, Environmental, Concentration