Geography SSS1 First Term

Week 9

Basic Concept Of Geographic Information System (GIS)

Performance Objective

• Meaning of Geographic Information System and examples(GIS)
• Points for bore-holes, settlements
• Source
• Importance of Geographic Information System
• How to use GIS

Meaning

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.

The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of Geoinformatics. What goes beyond a GIS is a spatial data infrastructure, a concept that.... View More