Advanced Surveying: Total Station, GIS and Remote Sensing

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Fundamental Concepts of GIS

Chapter Outline

 

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Various Definitions of GIS

1.3 Ordinary Mapping to Geographic Information Systems

1.4 Comparison of GIS with CAD and Other Systems

1.5 GIS Architecture (GIS Subsystems)

1.6 Components of a GIS

1.7 The Four Ms

1.8 GIS Workflow

1.9 Fundamental Operations of GIS

1.10 Levels of Use of a GIS

1.11 Objective of GIS

1.12 The Theoretical Framework of a GIS

1.13 Accuracy in a GIS

1.14 Data Exploration

1.15 Thematic Layering

1.16 Levels of measurement in GIS

1.17 Categories of GIS

1.18 Topology

1.1 Introduction

GIS stands for geographic information system. An information system is a computer program that manages data. A GIS is a type of information system that deals specifically with geographic, ...