GIS and Remote Sensing Lecture Notes
Introduction
What is a GIS?
The US Government says...
".. a system of computer software and procedures designed to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, and display of spatially referenced data for solving complex planning and management problems."
Antenucci, 1991, p. 7
Let's see what the US Geological Survey says....
How does a GIS move us toward understanding?
· How
much support can hardware and software give to the brain? (implying that our
brain is an expert pattern recognition machine)
vs
· How much better is a GIS at the task finding spatial patterns than the brain?
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