Essay On Geographic Information System

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Yong Sha
Yu Sun
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04/07/2014

Geographic Information System

After I reading the document’GIS Soltution for Environment Management’, it is very interesting and I also learn a lot about GIS from it.
The technology of GIS is used to support and send information to environmental managers and mass. GIS allows the combination and analysis of various layers of those data in different areas including environmental measurements. According to the potential users, the environmental application areas of GIS are different, environmental spheres, and the specific environmental issue being investgated. In conclusion, Geographic Information System (GIS) is a kind of spatial information systems professionals in the form of a data management system. In a strict sense, this is a concentrated, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information that a computer system having. In addition, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology can be applied to scientific investigations, resource management, property management, development planning, mapping and route planning.
U.S. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc, Referred Esri) started to land use consultant's identity and it was established in 1969, and later became the world's largest provider of geographic information system technology, headquartered Redlands in California, sold its geographic information system software is currently the world's highest share of well-known products, including ArcGIS. With offices throughout the United States and in other countries have established branch offices or agents.
The scientists and environmental managers can use GIS to study the environment, report on environmental phenomena, and model how the environment ...

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...ntific and environmental monitoring and management automation.
Finally, GIS is also being used in the defense of our country. It tends to determines the success or failure of the war in some extent. Such as during the Gulf War, the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency for the needs of the war on the workstation to establish an integrated system of GIS and Remote Sensing and we can see that this really help them a lot in the war.
In conclusion, GIS is increasingly becoming an indispensable respective fields of national economy application tools, I believe it will make a greater contribution to social progress and development. I think this is all my learned about GIS, and I am sure this information will be useful for us in the future, I have a nice semester with our Geog professor and I hope all of us can have a excellent summer hoilday! Thank you for your valuable time!

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