Gigabyte; Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austria)
GBA
GeoBusiness Assn.; George Butler Associates, Inc.
GB: Gigabyte
GBF: Geographic Base File
GFIS: Geographic Facilities Information System (IBM) ...
Coupling the multi-gigabyte appetites that clog the network with the huge processing demands of GIS solutions creates a technical bottleneck that is orders of magnitude larger than traditional non-spatial applications.
A terabyte of data is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes of data or 1,000,000 megabytes of data. One petabyte equals 1,000 terabytes. Computer unit, 1012 bytes.
2, with 16 mbytes of ram and 2 gigabytes of hard disk storage. Versions of Vistapro are also available for PC Windows and Macintosh platforms. Vistapro is a software package for three- dimensional landscape simulation that can use U.S.
Disk Copy Backup: The size of databases has increased dramatically in recent years, growing from tens of gigabytes to hundreds of gigabytes and, in many cases, terabytes of data.
Compared to a laptop or tablet where hard drives can be 100 gigabytes, rugged PDAs have up to 256 megabytes of on-board memory.
Lower Prices. The low-end 8 gigabyte model will sell for $200; the high-end 16 gigabyte will be priced at $300, or $200 below the existing non-GPS units and competitive with low-end personal navigation devices (PNDs).
It is not uncommon to have multiple gigabytes of hard drive on a single end-user machine and 10 - 20 gigabytes on a central data server. Luckily the prices of hard drives have been coming down and will continue to be affordable.
the information on all British topographic maps would require 150 gigabytes (150x109 bytes)
Spatial indexes
a map can show the boundaries of areas (e.g. land use zones, soil or rock types) and identify each area with a label ...
View, analyze, and model water distribution and consumption at the parcel level over time and retrieve charts, graphs, and reports for water demand.
Render hundreds of gigabytes of time-series vector and raster data in advance for fast retrieval ...
Terabyte, TBA measure of data size. A terabyte of data is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes of data or 1,000,000 megabytes of data. One petabyte equals 1,000 terabytes. Computer unit, 1012 bytes.
The scale and detail of this mapping project is unique. Around 440 million TOIDs have so far been assigned, and the database stands at 600 gigabytes in size. MasterMap is currently (August 2005) at version 6.
Computer memory and storage is measured in this unit, giving rise to terms such as Kilobyte (approximately one thousand bytes), Megabyte (approximately one million bytes) and Gigabyte (approximately one thousand million bytes).
 See also: Information, GIS, Geographic, Software, Feature
  
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