Geographic Information System. generic name for computer programs used to integrate many kinds of data in a spatial display or map. Data can be streets, water features, gas lines, population, climate, plant or animal populations, watersheds, or just about any statistic that can be assigned to a geographic area. Simply put, a GIS combines layers of information about a place to give you a better understanding of that place. What layers of information you combine depends on your purpose, examples include finding the best location for a new store, analyzing environmental damage, viewing similar crimes in a city to detect a pattern, and so on.

Geographic Information System, such as ARC/INFO, Grass, MapInfo, etc. At Pattee Library, we use Arcview. To start Arcview, use the Start button in the lower left of the computer screen, go to Maproom Programs, then ESRI, then Arcview.

geographic information system. Set of hardware, software, and procedures used to capture, manage, manipulate, analyze, model, and display spatially referenced data for problem solving/planning purposes.

See geographic information system.

Computer-based technology composed of hardware, software and data used to capture, edit, display and analyze spatial information (that is, information tagged by location). GIS technology is used in many spatial-data applications, including marketing functions such as demographic analysis, and government functions such as zoning and census mapping.

Gender Information Sessions

Geographical Imaging Systems

this abbreviation stands for eographic nformation ystem. GIS is a combination of computer software and hardware tools used for creating maps and analyzing spatial data. GIS links the map and database information so that questions can be asked and answers given in map or visual form.

A system of computer hardware, software, procedures, standards, geographical data, and personnel for the capture, storage, maintenance, manipulation, analysis and display of all forms of geographically referenced (spatial) information. A GIS can be thought of as having three essential components: a graphical (or pictoral) interface, a database, and a capacity to perform spatial analysis (i.e. how many lakes are in a particular county and what proportion of land do they cover) from that database in a graphical way.

Guaranteed Income Supplement. The Guaranteed Income Supplement provides additional money, on top of the Old Age Security pension, to low-income seniors living in Canada. To be eligible for the GIS benefit, you must be receving the Old Age Security pension and meet the income requirements set by the government.

Global Information Society

Gas Imaging Spectrometer -- One of two types of detectors on-board ASCA. There are two of these referred to as "GIS2" and "GIS3".

A computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing data and events.

A computer based system that is capable of collecting, managing and analyzing geographic spatial data. This capability includes storing and utilizing maps, displaying the results of data queries and conducting spatial analysis.

graphic information system

as maging pectrometer. A type of detector on ASCA. There are two GISs called GIS2 and GIS3.

Describes any automated system for spatially managing and analyzing geographic information.

Geographical Information Services

The combination of hardware and software used to store and analyze features located on the earth's surface.

Geographic Informatino System

Geographic Information Science

Soft-ware that imports, exports, and processes data that is spatially and temporally distributed.

In archaeology, artifacts and features are related to two inseparable physical existences--time and space. GIS programs are designed to communicate both spatial and time related facts in an easy to read format. Interactive maps are produced which allow the viewer to obtain information about specific archaeological sites and specific areas of these sites.

Data management system designed to collect, analyse and report geographic and demographic information

A collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, storing, updating, manipulating, analysing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

GIS technology is used to develop maps that depict resources or features such as soil types, population densities, land uses, transportation corridors, waterways, etc. GIS computer programs link features commonly seen on maps (such as roads, town boundaries, water bodies) with related information not usually presented on maps, such as type of road surface, population, type of agriculture, type of vegetation, or water quality information. A GIS is a unique information system in which individual observations can be spatially referenced to each other.

A map-based database management system which uses a spatial reference system for analysis and mapping purposes.

Software application that provides a visual representation of geographic and demographic data.

MDS Grid Information System (for discovery and monitoring) is a service that allows the storage of information about the state of the Grid infrastructure. One of its services is to publish information via LDAP. The GIS functions as a yellow pages directory for retrieving a list of categorized entities. Examples of such categories are lists of computers or people.

(Geographical lnformation System): a complex system of hardware, software, human and intellective components aimed at acquiring, processing, analysing, storing and giving back in graphic and alphanumeric form data relative to a given territory. GPS (Global Positioning System): it is a system that by means of a receiver, a dedicated software and a satellite constellation allows to determine position at ground level and altimetry of a given point with a grade of precision varying from a few millimeters to some meters, depending from the kind of machinery and operative procedures of the survey.

Guidance Information System. A computerized data system available in the CRC. Especially helpful for cross–referencing student needs and college characteristics.

Geographic information system. A data-handling and analysis system based on sets of spatial attributes. The data sets may be map-oriented, when they comprise qualitative attributes of an area recorded as lines, points and areas (often in vector format), or image-oriented, when the data are quantitative attributes referring to cells in a rectangular grid (usually in raster format). It is also known as a geobased, or geocoded, information system.

Geographic Information System. Go to the What is GIS? page.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) link spatial data with maps. This means that spatial data can be directly displayed on maps. This is how spatial relations, dependencies and patterns become obvious. Typical examples are the display of population densities or purchasing power in various regions. Geographic Information Systems do not only simplify the display of data but also make many different kinds of analyses possible.

geographic information system. software which converts numerical geographic, environmental or demographic data into maps.

Geographic Information System. A computer-based system that links the geographic location of map features to text information or databases.

geographic information system. a computerized system used to compile, store, analyze and display geographically referenced information. Can be used to overlay information layers containing the distributions of a variety of biological and physical features.

Geographic Information System, or Graphical Information System

Geographic Information System. A system of information, organized in layers that can be applied to a specific georgraphic location to such things as population density, traffic volume, business development, etc.

Geographic Information System. a geographically referenced database that connects information about things to locations, which can be referenced by any convenient system such as latitude and longitude or three-dimensional coordinates.

Geographic Information System. A system that allows automatic location of information suitable for mapping. Usually involves a software system that takes geographic position data and other data (e.g., type of bottom sediment) in order to create a map. Data on processes (e.g., current speed) can be incorporated to make a geographic model of flow.

Geographic Information Systems. Systems used to gather, transform, manipulate, analyze, view, and generate information related to the surface of the earth. This can include maps, point nodes, zip codes, 3D models, tables, lists, x-y-z or lognitude-latitude-elevation coordinates, GPS (Global Positioning System), etc. This can be custom systems or utilize off the shelf software.

Geographic information system. An organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display a number of data items on maps.

Geographic Information System, a computerized mapping application.

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Geographic Information Systems. A computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations. Practitioners also regard the total GIS as including operating personnel and the data that go into the system.

Geographic Information System. A computerized data-base system for capture, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display of spatial data.

Geographic Information System. a computer system for capturing, managing, integrating, analysing and displaying data which are spatially referenced to the Earth.

eographical nformation ystem. A database system that links digital maps with attribute data, usually tabular in structure. Provides powerful and complex tools to visualise and analyse data in a spatial context.

Geographic Information System. A computer-based system that allows researchers to perform complex spatial analyses. These systems generate maps that show different layers and types of information. For example, a SpATS map generated by a GIS might show a study area with all the information gathered on where nests are located, where certain types of wetlands or uplands are found, breeding pair locations, etc. This allows scientists to determine the relationships between different factors on the land. For SpATS, they are trying to find out how the spatial arrangement of certain habitat types relates to breeding and nesting success of waterfowl.

A larger concept than often believed, GIS (geographic information systems) is the hardware, software, data, personnel systems, etc., involved with geographical coordinate data.

eographic nformation ystem - A system for storing map data and attributes of map features in its geographic context.

or Geographical Information Systems - The combination of maps with databases using computers. GIS is a rapidly emerging field, employed by corporations, the military, and all levels of government agencies.

Geographic Information System refers to a combination of computer hardware and software tools used for mapping and analyzing spatial data.

Geospatial Information System. A geospatial information system, or geographic information system, is a system for creating and managing spatial data and associated attributes. GIS is a computer system capable of integrating, storing, editing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information. It is a "smart map" tool that allows users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze the spatial information, and edit data. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)

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Geographic Information System - This is computer mapping that allows for comparison of multiple landscape features and allows the comparison of landscapes with occurrence of animal or plant species.

Geographic Information System. A system of hardware, software, data, people, organizations and institutional arrangements for collecting, storing, analyzing and disseminating information about areas of the earth.

geographic information system; global indexing system

Geographic Information Systems. Combine digitized mapping with key locational data to graphically depict such trading-area characteristics as the demographics of the population, data on customer purchases, and listings of current, proposed, and competitor locations.

See Geographic Information Systems.

Geographic Information System. A spatial type of information management system that provides for the entry, storage, manipulation, retrieval, and display of spatially oriented data

Geographic Information Systems. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Powerful computerized systems for compiling, analyzing and recombining spatial data; related to automated map making.

Geographic Information System. A system of spatially referenced information, including computer programs that acquire, store, manipulate, analyze, and display spatial data.

Geographic Information Systems. Computer programs, facilitated through computer hardware, that integrate spatial data with other forms of information. Geography Study of the earthâ€(tm)s surface, typically facilitated through the use of maps.

Geographic Information System. A graphics-based computer system that relates geographic features (such as census tracts, roads, or counties) to data about those features (such as population, race, or income).

Geographic Information System. A database of digital information and data on land-use, land cover, ecology, and other geographic attributes that can be overlaid, statistically analyzed, mathematically manipulated, and graphically displayed using maps, charts, and graphs.

geographic information systems. computer hardware and software for storing, retrieving, manipulating, and analyzing spatial data

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM. An information system used to store and manipulate (sort, select, retrieve, calculate, analyze, model, etc.) geographical data. ( système d'information géographique)

Geographic Information System. A computer system used to analyze and display data in a geographic context, e.g., on a map.

Geographic Information Systems GRank                                                  Global Rank

Geographic Information System. A computer and software system that links spatial or locational information with descriptive information.

Geographic information system. Combines modern computer and supercomputing digital technology with data management systems to provide tools for the capture, storage, manipulation, analysis, and visualization of spatial data. Spatial data contains information, usually in the form of a geographic coordinate system, that gives data location relative to the earth=s surface. These spatial attributes enable previously disparate data sets to be integrated into a digital mapping environment. (Healthy People 2010, chapter 23-22). Geographic information systems that are computer based processes for capturing, lining, summarizing, and analyzing data containing geographical location information. These systems are particularly useful in supporting visual analysis and communication of data using maps that display the geographic distribution of data.

Geographic Information Systems. "Decision support system involving the integration of spatially referenced data in a problem solving environment (Cowen 1988)".

Geographic information system. A computer system capable of storing and manipulating spatial (i.e., mapped) data.

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM. An electronic information system, which provides a geo-referenced database to support management decision-making.

Geographic Information Systems can be used to dramatically decrease fraud. It can be a great tool to help you: identify geographic areas to focus on, illustrate that fraud occurred, and identify participants in fraud rings.

Geographic Information System. An organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information.

Geographic Information Systems. Students Map Neighborhoods With GIS

Geopgraphic Information System

Geographic information system. a computer system designed to allow users to collect, manage and analyze large volumes of spatially referenced information and associated attribute data.

Geographic Information System. A computerized system used to input, manage, manipulate, analyze, and display geographic data in digital form.

Geographic Information System, a term that encompasses a broad field of computer software that integrates geography(where things are) and information and allows users to search data in many ways. The West Baton Rouge Parish Assessor's Office has implemented a digital base map using a GIS.

Geographic information system. A computer hardware and software system designed to collect, manipulate, analyze, and display spatially referenced data for solving complex resource, environmental, and social problems.()

Geographic Information System. The displaying of geographic information on a map via a computer.

Geographic Information System. a computerized data management system created by geographers for the capture, storage, analysis and display of data, most often on maps. Different "data layers" can be placed on top of one another on maps (for instance, the distribution of docks can be placed on top of the distribution of grass shrimp) to examine and analize relationships between the layers.

Geographic Information System. GIS is a computer technology that uses a geographic information system as an analytic framework for managing and integrating data; solving a problem; or understanding a past, present, or future situation. Using the City's GIS data along with collected field data, it will be used to analyze and report information on the nature, severity and extent of the disaster.

Geographic Information System. A computerized data management system designed to capture, store, retrieve, analyze, and report geographic and demographic information.

Geographic Information System (i.e. Computerized Mapping).

Geographic Information System. A computer system or software capable of assembling

Geographic Information System. A system of hardware, software, and procedures designed to support the capture, management, manipulation, analysis, modeling, and display of spatially referenced data for solving complex planning and management problems.

A system for capturing and manipulating data relating to the Earth. A common use of GIS is to overlay several types of maps (for example, train routes,...

Geographic Information System. A GIS is a collaboration of software, hardware, data and people. This system is used to visualize and solve problems that are geographic by nature.

Geographic Information System. A system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analyzing and displaying geographically referenced data.

Geographic Information System. a computer system capable of storing, analyzing, and displaying data and describing places on the earth’s surface.

Geographic Information System that is an integrated software package that relates real time demographic data to geographic data drawn from satellites

(Geographic Information System) A system of mapping software that integrates the collection, management and analysis of geographic data. This can be used to display the results of data queries as maps and analyse spatial distribution of data.

Geographic(al) Information Systems; the hardware and software systems necessary for capturing, storing, editing, integrating, manipulating, analysing and displaying spatially referenced data.

Geographic Information Systems. Refers to a database management system used to store, retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and display spatial information.

Geographic Information System/Global Information Solutions (ATT)

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GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is a very powerful online tool that allows information to be represented and analyzed spatially: people to an address, crime to a demographic area, species to a slope and aspect, etc.

(Geographic Information System) GIS is a system for viewing and manipulating map based information on a personal computer. Archaeologists use it to plot the distribution of archaeological sites and to investigate patterns and trends within the data.

A configuration of computer hardware and software that stores, displays and analyzes geographic data.

Geographic Information Systems. Systems which manage geographic information for map making, demography, geology, and the like. It has proved a lucrative market sector over the last 15 years, and IBM has set up a number of joint ventures to exploit it (e.g., with the University of California at Santa Barbara, UGC, the geoGPG product, and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis).

a range of techniques using the graphic capabilities of computers for an integrated analysis of maps, images, sites and finds. GIS has rapidly become essential in the interpretation of fieldwork data and is used within Units and County archaeological offices to interpret the landscape to asses potential for archaeology within an area.

geographic information system. A system in which maps of the United States combined with demographic data from the 1990 U.S. census can be used with special software to help companies choose sites for new stores, manufacturing plants, and other facilities or to plan transportation routes.

(Spatial User's Guide and Reference; search in this book)

Geographic information system. A computerized system for storing, analyzing, retrieving and displaying georeferenced (mapped) information

Geographic information system (GIS) is a combination of maps with tables and reports. GIS can answer location, condition, trends (what has changed in time), pattern, and model (simulation.) It is an useful tool to present EMIS geographically.

Geographic Information System – A computer system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analyzing and displaying data related to positions on the Earth's surface. Typically, a GIS is used for handling maps of one kind or another.

Geographic Information System. a system of computer hardware and software that is used for compilation, storage, analysis and display of geographic and associated tabular data. This system can be used to produce maps that overlay various environmental and physical features.

(Geographic Information System): A graphical mapping system where the graphical information is related or matched to data about that information. In this system a house shown on a map might be related to a data base that lists all pertinent information about the house and the owner/occupant.

Geographic Information System. Computerized systems used to compile, retrieve, analyze, and display spatially referenced data. Farming activities that utilize GIS typically include harvesting, fertilizing, pest control, seeding, and irrigation. Use of GIS is called precision farming.

Geographic Information System. Computerized data management system designed to capture, store, retrieve, analyze, and display geographically referenced information.

A software used for storing and producing spatial data (maps) in digital formats.

Geographical Information Systems. Software for creating and managing spatial data.

Geographic Information System. Information system These data can be of any kind: sales figures, revenues, population census, real estate, illness rates, etc. The fundamental issue that distinguishes it from other information systems is that of making the relationship between these data and the geographical coordinates of the Earth surface. They are mainly used in demography, town planning, natural resources management, business, marketing, logistics and distribution.

Geographic Information System. A system for capturing, storing and using data which is spatially referenced. The term is often associated with a specific set of information technology components.

Geographic Information Service (or Government or General)

Geographic Information System. Software that enables you to plot, analyse and view the addresses of individual pupils on maps.

Geographic Information Systems. Computer-based systems for storing and manipulating geographic (spatial) information.

(Geographic Information Systems) - a computer system that can spatially manage, analyze, and present geographic data tied to a particular location. A GIS combines layers of information about a place and allows the user to create customized maps and analyze patterns and relationships.

Geographic information system. Computerized mapping systems used to relate demographic, biological, habitat, and other characterization database information to location.

Geographic Information System (computer mapping software)

Geographic Information System. A computer system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analyzing and displaying data related to positions on the earth's surface. A GIS can be used for handling various types of maps. These might be represented as several different layers where each layer holds data about a particular kind of feature. Each feature is linked to a position on the graphical image of a map, and layers of data are organized to be studied and to perform statistical analysis.

Geographic Information System. A computer system that records, stores, and analyzes information about the features that make up the earth's surface. A GIS is designed to accept geographic data from a variety of services, including managers, satellite photographs, and printed text and statistics.

An acronym for Geographic Information Systems, a name to describe software programs that utilize the functionality of complex databases and searches with the ability to display the results graphically in a geographic context.  In short, you can search, query, buffer, or perform any database function using logic based search parameters and show it on a map.

geographic information system. a computer based system used to input, store, retrieve, and analyze geographic data sets. The GIS is usually composed of map-like spatial representations called layers which contain information on a number of attributes such as elevation, land ownership and use, crop yield and soil nutrient levels.

geographic information system. a package of computer programs specifically designed to deal with data that are spatially related; a set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving, manipulating, analysing and displaying mapped data from the real world

GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is computer modeling software that uses satellite imagery to depict landscapes and terrains. GIS uses lines, shading or symbols to show this information on computer-generated maps, and is used by planners, conservationists, and nonprofit organizations. Source: TechSoup.org

Geographic Information System. A computer system which allows for input and manipulation of geographic data to allow researchers to manipulate, analyze and display the information in a map format.

Geographic Information System. These are computer - based software systems designed to input, organize, and manipulate geographic data. Often information derived from remotely sensed datasets is an essential component of such geographic databases.

geographic information systems. Computer-based systems capable of integrating different types of geological and demographic information. By creating maps, one may depict an area's natural and human-made resources, including soil types, population densities, land uses, transportation corridors, waterways, street patterns, mass-transit patterns, sewer lines, water sources, and utility lines.

Geographic Information System. a computer system used to correlate maps and mapped features across many scales;

Geographic Information System – An organized collection of computer hardware and software designed to efficiently create, manipulate, analyze, and display all types of geographically or spatially referenced data. A GIS allows complex spatial operations that are very difficult to do otherwise.

Geographic Information Systems. computer-based systems that are designed to accept, organize, analyze, and display diverse types of spatial information.

Geographic Information System - A system of hardware and software used for storage, retrieval, mapping, and analysis of geographic data.

Geographic Information System. a database that uses spatial and geographic information to create detailed maps. These maps can include anything from the many streams that connect to a river, to the annual rainfall received across a region.

Geographic Information System. A computer database and data-manipulation system designed to use geographically organized data.

geographic information system. Computer based systems designed to efficiently organize, manipulate, analyze and display all types of geographically or spatially referenced data stored as layers of information.

(Geographic Information System) - Generally refers to a database of geographical data. In some circles, it refers to Graphics database .

Geographic Information System. A system which holds spatially referenced data which can be classified, overlaid, analysed and presented in map, tabular or graphic form. Forest Management

Geographic information systems. A computerized system for combining, displaying, and analyzing geographic data. GIS produces maps for environmental planning and management by integrating physical and biological information (soils, vegetation, hydrology, living resources, and so forth) and cultural information (population, political boundaries, roads, bank and shoreline development, and so forth) (USEPA Region 5).

Geographic Information System - A system of hardware, software, and procedures for drawing and analyzing maps and data referenced by spatial or geographic coordinates. Becoming a standard for government projects.

Geographic Information System: A category of computer programs and applications that are used to organize, analyze and display geographic information.

Geographic Information System. A system that supports plotting data in map formats.

geographic information system. Computerized multi-purpose system combining input, processing and output of geographically-referenced data, which often in­cludes maps and toponyms.

A computerized system for the collection, storage, and retrieval of geographic data.

Geographical Information Systems. a geographic database that contains information about the distribution of physical and human characteristics of places or areas. In order to test hypotheses, maps of one characteristic or a combination can be produced from the database to analyze the data relationships.

Geographic information system used by utilities and other entities to keep a record of the location of every peice of infrastructure they own or use

Geographic Information System. A computer-based system whereby mapping and information are linked for a variety of uses, such as capturing data justifying Local Development Documents.

Geographic Information System; software designed to store, manipulate and display geographic and spatial data such as maps

database arranged in the style of a map.

Abbreviation for 'Geographic Information System', the technical system used to drive the Map Search.

Geographic Information System, an information system that is designed to work with data referenced by spatial or geographic coordinates. In other words, a GIS is both a database system with specific capabilities for spatially referenced data, as well as a set of operations for working [analysis] with the data.

Geographic Information System, a software system of geographic mapping data

Geographic Information Systems. Computer system designed to allow users to collect, manage, and analyze large volumes of spatially referenced and associated attribute data. GIS's are used for solving complex research, planning, and management problems.

Geographic Information System. A computer-based graphics program that allows the superposition of plan-maps of thematic elements, such as roads, rivers, land use patterns, and the like to aid in local or regional planning activities.

Geographic Information System. Computer software that allows spatial data to be viewed, manipulated, and printed.

geographic information system. a decision support system designed specifically to work with spatial information

Geographic Information Systems Lab, Research Services, SSHL

Geographic Information System Software-A geographic information system uses computers and software to display information spatially. That is, information from databases and spreadsheets can be translated into maps.

Geographic Information Systems. A computer system capable of storing, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying geographic information.

Geographic Information System – Computer software and hardware designed to allow users to collect, manage, and analyze spatially referenced data.

Geographic Information System. A computer-based mapping system. Maps, including Ordnance Survey, linked to associated databases, e.g. census surveys.

a computer system capable of holding and using data describing places on the earth's surface.

Geographic Information System - A GIS is a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information; that is, data identified according to location. GIS technology can be used for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning.

Geographic Information System. A computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying graphically referenced information.

geographic information system; any map­based land or resource inventory system.

Geographical Information Systems. A collection of graphic and attribute data relating to the earth's surface, computer hardware and software, which are used to perform queries of the data and to create thematic maps.

A GIS (geographic information system) enables you to envision the geographic aspects of a body of data. Basically, it lets you query or analyze a relational database and receive the results in the form of some kind of map.

Geographic Information Systems. Computerized data management systems designed to capture, store, retrieve, analyze and report on geographic and demographic data.

Geographical Information Systems. Software that deals with locations on the earth.

Refers to Geographic Information System or Geographic Information Systems.  GIS also refers to Global Information System or Global Information Systems.

Geographic Information System. A system of computer hardware, software, and procedures used to store and manipulate electronic maps and related data to solve complex planning and management problems. [Source: 2005 SSP Glossary

Geographic Information Systems. A computer software application that relates physical features on the earth to a database to be used for mapping and analysis.

A system, usually computer based, for the input, storage, retrieval, analysis and display of interpreted geographic data. The data base is typically composed of map-like spatial representations, often called coverages or layers. These layers may involve a three-dimensional matrix of time, location and attribute or activity. A GIS may include digital line graph (DLG) data, digital elevation models (DEM), geographic names, land-use characterizations, land ownership, land cover, registered satellite and/or aerial photography along with any other associated or derived geographic data.

Geographic Information System; program designed to translate geographic information into a graphical overlay.

A 'geographic information system' is a computerised system that is used to input, store, retrieve, manipulate, analyse and output geographic data, all of which is referenced by coordinates to map projections

Geographic Information System. A computer system that allows information about land to be as maps. Different characteristics, such as vegetation or soil type, are stored as separate "layers." The layers can be combined to display interactions of characteristics.

A "GIS" (Geographic Information System) is a means of storing and manipulating a variety of geographic information (e.g. vegetation, animal species distributions, land use) in a computer in a way such that the information can be combined and analyzed in different ways for management purposes.

One type of computerized mapping system capable of integrating spatial data (land information) and attribute data among different layers on a base map. Also referred to as Geographical Information Systems.

Geographic Information Systems. An information system that is designed for storing, integrating, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data referenced by spatial or geographic coordinates.

Geographic Information System. A combination of software, hardware, data, and people used to input store, manipulate, analyze, and display geographically referenced spatial and associated attribute information.

Geographic Information System. GIS is used to join electronic files (databases) containing environmental measurements taken at a specific location, to maps showing geographic features. This approach allows scientists to show large amounts of data from specific locations on a map showing landscape features such as wetlands and land use.

Geographic Information System. a system for acquiring, processing, storing, creating and displaying spatial data; normally computer-based

Geographic Information System. Specialized database for storing and manipulating geographic information. Academic Technology Services supports the ArcGIS software used to access this data.

a) A computer system capable of storing and manipulating spatial (i.e. mapped) data. ( FEMAT, IX-14) b) GIS is both a database designed to handle geographic data as well as a set of computer operations that can be used to analyze the data. In a sense, GIS can by thought of as a higher order map. ( FS People's Glossary of Eco Mgmt Terms)

Geographic Information System. An application that stores complex spatial data in a layered structure. According to Dangermond (1992, pp. 11-12), “GIS is an organized collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, and display all forms of geographically referenced information”.

Geographic Information Systems. a combination of the geospatial data systems and software designed to support transportation routing and logistics, generally for a municipality or regional area.

Geographic Information Systems, a computer program that allows users to make “smart maps” that include not only locations of towns and streams, but also information about the area, such as watersheds, point dischargers, and agricultural activities.

Geographic Information System. A computerized data base of land use and other types of information referenced to a location; enables statistical analysis, comparison, and display of large quantities of data for planning purposes.

an acronym for geographic information systems. Programs for connecting maps to tabular information about places/areas/objects located on those maps. Important analytical capabilities are provided. See Mark Gillings and Alicia Wise, eds., AHDS GIS Guide to Good Practice (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis/) for an overview of the use of GIS in archaeology.

A Geographic Information System. A piece of software that stores detailed maps of a local government's jurisdiction. PTWin32 can share data with most GIS systems.

Geographic Information System (Unit)

Geographical Information System

Geographic Information System. A class of computer programs and applications used to organize, analyze and display spatial (geographic) data.

Geographic Information Systems. Software that links geographic information (where things are) with descriptive information (what things are). Unlike a paper map where “what you see is what you get,” GIS is a digital map and can present many “layers” of different information. See also, How We Make Determinations.

(Geographic Information System) A computerized method to gather, integrate, and illustrate data by geographic units (housing units, blocks, census tracts, etc.) CSSP Guide 6 p 76Source web site

geographic information system. System of computer hardware, software, and procedures designed to support the compiling, storing, retrieving, analyzing, and display of spatially referenced data for addressing planning and management problems. In addition to these technical components, a complete GIS must also include a focus on people, organizations, and standards.

Geographical Information Systems. Software designed to coordinate data gathered at various times and locations into an overall topographical map. This program allows integration of a variety of data to form a detailed picture of a given point in the field. As an example, grid soil test data, soil type, and past yield information can be combined to determine a map to vary the planting rate.

Geographic Information System. A computer system (including hardware, software, data, and trained personnel) which displays database information in a mapped, graphical format.GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). A type of graphics file originally developed by CompuServe which is easy to display on the standard PC monitor.

(geographic information systems) GIS is both a database designed to handle geographic data as well as a set of computer operations that can be used to analyze the data. In a sense, GIS can be thought of as a higher order map.

Geographic Information System. A computer based method for the automation, storage, manipulation, integration, analysis, display and dissemination of spatial data and related attribute data in the form of maps.

A set of powerful tools that visualize and manage large data sets with complex spatial and physical interactions. GIS helps identify potential problems and solutions, and facilitates alternatives and analysis using maps and other graphics depicting the outcome of each modeled alternative.

Geographic Information System, An electronic database for the environment.

Geographic Information System. All information system concerning a point or a group of points geo-referenced on the Earth's surface, such as maps or satellite images, digitally stored, processed and manipulated by a computer program.

geographical information systems. systems, linked to databases, specifically designed for graphically displaying geographical information

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Guaranteed Insurance Sum. A lump sum purchase price is given to purchase future pensions under the Jeevan Akshay Plan of Life Insurance Corporation of India. This amount is referred to as GIS. The monthly pension that is payable one month after payment of first premium is calculated on the basis of the age at entry.

Geographic Information System. Special-purpose digital databases in which a common spatial coordinate system is the primary means of reference. GIS contain subsystems for: 1) data input; 2) data storage, retrieval, and representation; 3) data management, transformation, and analysis; and 4) data reporting and product generation. It is useful to view GIS as a process rather than a thing. A GIS supports data collection, analysis, and decision making and is far more than a software or hardware product.

Geographical Information Systems. GIS allows for the analysis and visualisation of data with a spatial context. Further information.

Abbreviation for Geographic Information System. GO

Geographic Information Systems. A computer mapping program where land characteristics and/or demographic information are color coded and often overlaid. The purpose is to determine locations of certain activity.

Geographic Information System. A computer system designed for storing, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data in a geographic context.

Geographic Information System. automated systems for the capture, storage, retrieval, analysis, and display of spatial data. (Clarke, 1990)

Related Topics: [ gis] The acronym for Geographic Information System. It refers to a special type of database software that provides storage and analysis capability for geographically-referenced information. Geo-referencing implies information elements with known physical coordinates. Because of geo-referencing, a GIS is usually conceptualized as "information layers", e.g. planimetric map is a good metaphor.

Geographic information system. Where data is assembled, stored, displayed and identified according to its location.

Geographic Information System. A computer software system with which spatial information (eg. maps) can be captured, stored, analyzed, displayed and retrieved.

Geographic information system is an information system that used to input, store, retrieve, manipulate, analyze and output geographically referenced data or geospatial data for supporting decision making.

Geographic Information System. Geographic information systems (GIS) are computer-based systems for managing, analysing and presenting geographically referenced data.

Short for Geographic Information Systems, tools used to gather, transform, manipulate, analyze, and produce information related to the surface of the Earth. This data may exist as maps, 3D virtual models, tables, and/or lists.

Graphical Information Systems (GIS) is a system for storing, creating, analysing and managing map based data.