Uses of GIS

What Can You Do With GIS?

October 17, 2012By Caitlin DempseyGIS Learning

As well has having significant application in the worlds of business and commerce and natural resources the largest pool of use for GIS is within the government, transportation and utilities sectors. For government to provide services, it is important that they have adequate analysis of data in order to target […]

Basic Uses of GIS

August 6, 2012By GIS ContributorSpatial Analysis

What are the basic uses of GIS? This article reviews some of the most common and basic users of GIS including mapping data, proximity analysis, buffers, cluster mapping, and querying a geographic area for features.

Land use map from CARETS Final Report, 1979.

GIS From the Past: CARETS

In the early 1970s, a joint pilot project between NASA and the USGS sought to test out the feasibility of integrating data from Landsat and high-altitude aircraft sensors into a regional land use database.

Geospatial Climate Models Show How Fire Seasons Are Changing

Changing technologies, including new satellite systems, and better climate and fire modeling, including the integration of these tools and data capture methods, will likely mean improved fire modeling in the future.

Elements of a Map

Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are visualized. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map and to document the source of […]

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