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Surv220 - Geographic Information Science

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By: Alex Dench
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Decks in this class (12)

Week 1: Course overview + Applications of GIS
Gisystem is 1,
Giscience is 2,
Geospatial science is 3
27  cards
Week 2: Data capture, Acquisition and Big Data
The two types of data sources 1,
Data requirements are driven by 2,
Layers of data requirements data ...
78  cards
Week 3: Data management, Metadata, Neogeography and Web GIS
Metadata is from the greek meta m...,
Metadata is data about 2,
Metadata is useful for 3
36  cards
Week 4: Cartography I
What is cartography 1,
5 steps of creating a usuable pub...,
The figure ground phenomenon 3
3  cards
Week 5: Cartography II
Caricatures are 1,
Large scale would be ___ and smal...,
Small scale ratio 3
26  cards
Week 6: Georeferencing and projections
Enclave 1,
Geo referencing needs to be 2,
Latitude longitude is a 3
20  cards
Week 7: Data models, databases
The object model is implemented w...,
Phenomena can be represented with...,
Geographic information links a pl...
36  cards
Week 8: Spatial algorithms
Two approaches to gis 1,
Characteristics of on the surface 2,
Characteristics of under the hood 3
5  cards
Week 9: Vector analysis
A goal for spatial analysis is to 1,
Queries can be based on 2,
Spatial data contains 3
16  cards
Week 10: Topology and Network anlysis
Vector topology supports more adv...,
What is a gis topology 2,
Three types of relationships are ...
31  cards
Week 11: Spatial data uncertainty
All spatial data have some 1,
What determines if and what we ca...,
Uncertainty has three components 3
23  cards
Week 12: GIScience applications
Surveying and spatial are no long...,
The near future of giscience is in 2,
Drivers of development and advanc...
3  cards

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