What Is Gis

Question 1

Give a list of gis data sources

Answer 1

Remote sensing
Aerial photos
Field surveys 
Digital products
Maps

Question 2

Give the full meaning of the acronym GIS

Answer 2

G: geospatial

I : information

S: system
science
studies

Question 3

Gis : The common ground between information processing and the many fields using spatial analysis techniques.

Who coined the definition of gis and in what year

Answer 3

Tomlinson (1972)

Question 4

What is Burroughs (1986)’s definition of GIS

Answer 4

A powerful set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving, transforming and displaying spatial data from the real world.

Question 5

A computerized database management system for the capture, storage , retrieval, analysis and display of spatial data

Who’ s definition of GIS is this?
What year was this definition coined?

Answer 5

NcGIA (1987)

Question 6

What’s Cowen’s (1988) definition of GIS

Answer 6

A decision support system involving the integration of spatially referenced data in a problem solving environment.
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