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Preferred term
geographic information systems
Definition
- Geographic information systems (GIS) are computer-based systems for managing, integrating, and analyzing geographic data. Geographic data are observations or measurements of objects or events referenced explicitly to their locations on the earth. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health Services Research; Geographic Information Systems (GIS)]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- analytical operations in GIS
- automated geography
- business models for geographic information systems
- CAD systems
- client-server architecture
- collaborative GIS
- computational models of space
- conflation
- critical GIS
- database management systems
- database versioning
- data compression methods
- data editing
- data format conversion
- data indexing
- data querying in GIS
- digital terrain model
- digitizing
- distributed computing
- dynamic and interactive displays
- enterprise GIS
- environmental model integration and GIS
- error propagation
- exploratory spatial data analysis
- geocoding
- geocollaboration
- geocomputation
- geospatial semantic web
- GIScience
- GIS design
- GIS implementation
- GIS in archaeology
- GIS in disaster response
- GIS in environmental management
- GIS in health research and health care
- GIS in land use management
- GIS in local government
- GIS in public policy
- GIS in transportation
- GIS in urban planning
- GIS in utilities
- GIS in water management
- GIS software
- GIS web services
- Google Earth
- GPS
- ground reference data
- heuristic methods in spatial analysis
- high-performance computing
- humanistic GIScience
- information ecology
- internet GIS
- interoperability and spatial data standards
- legal aspects of geospatial information
- limits of computation
- linear referencing and dynamic segmentation
- location-based services
- metadata
- mobile GIS
- multicriteria analysis
- navigation systems
- neogeography
- network analysis
- network data model
- neural computing
- ontological foundations of geographical data
- open geodata standards
- Open Source GIS
- overlay
- privacy and security of geospatial information
- public participation GIS
- representation of time
- scale in GIS
- semantic interoperability
- semantic reference systems
- social informatics
- spatial data infrastructure
- spatial data integration
- spatial data mining
- spatial data models
- spatial data structures
- spatial decision support systems
- spatial dependence
- spatialization
- supervised classification
- temporal GIS
- temporal resolution
- terrain analysis
- three-dimensional data models
- topological relationships
- triangulated irregular networks
- unsupervised classification
- usability of geospatial information
- vagueness in spatial data
- vectorization
- viewshed analysis
- virtual and immersive environments
- web geoprocessing workflows
- web service architectures for GIS
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/geographic_information_systems
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