gis 1001 introduction to geographic information systems
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GIS 1001Introduction to Geographic
Information Systems
Instructors
Jeff Fesperman: B309, 224-0356Mike Phillips: B318, 224-0394
Texts
Concepts & techniques of Geographic Information Systems
Getting to Know ArcView GIS
Organization
LectureLab
Exercises Projects
Course Outline & Schedule
http://www.ivcc.edu/phillips
Chapter 1
Introduction to Geographic
Information Systems
Definitions
“…a system of hardware, software, and procedures designed to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, modeling, and display of spatially referenced data for solving complex planning & management problems” (Rhind, 1989)
Definitions
“…a computer system capable of assembling, storing, amnipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information…” (USGS, 1997)
“…a set of computer-based systems for managing geographic data and using those data to solve spatial problems” (Lo & Yeung, 2002)
Definitions
a computer system that allows the analysis and display of data with a spatial component (Phillips, 2002)
Definitions
data: collection of facts/figuresinformation: data in useful formknowledge: what you haveintelligence: what you use
Information System
allows the transformation of data into information via: structuring formatting conversion modeling
GIS: transforms data with a spatial component
Geographic Dataspatial data referenced to “geographic space”
coordinate system• grid• other
projection source
• land survey• GPS• aerial imagery
represented at a “geographic scale”
Geographic Information Science
approach to using GISystemswhat to do & how to do it
GIS History
Table, page 61960’s & 1970’s - mainframe
computers1980’s to mid 1990’s - mainframe &
minicomputersmid 1990’s to present - PCs &
workstations
GIS data types
geodetic control network: surface location topographic base: point elevation graphical overlays: thematic data
representation vector: point, lines, polygons raster: grid cells surface
metadata information about the data key when sharing data
GIS technology
hardware organization• intranet: servers & client computer stations• PCs• internet
considerations• processing power• file size (very large)• data access
GIS technology
software proprietary open standard
companies ESRI
• ArcInfo & ArcView
• ArcGIS Intergraph MapInfo
Application of GIS
table - p 12academicbusinessgovernmentindustrymilitary
Users of GIS
Specialist: includes programmers, designers, developers
General Users: planners, scientists, administrators (us)
Viewers: everyone (our “clients”)
Core concepts
figure: p 17
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