Concept information
Preferred term
history of GIS
Definition
- Geographic information systems (GIS) benefited from a range of parentage disciplines. The advent of spatial information management and decision support systems can be traced to a range of development push disciplines, including transportation engineering, automated cartography, computer science, aerospace engineering, and remote sensing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; GIS, History of]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/history_of_GIS
{{label}}
{{#each values }} {{! loop through ConceptPropertyValue objects }}
{{#if prefLabel }}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
{{#if notation }}{{ notation }} {{/if}}{{ prefLabel }}
{{#ifDifferentLabelLang lang }} ({{ lang }}){{/ifDifferentLabelLang}}
{{#if vocabName }}
{{ vocabName }}
{{/if}}