July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
7h 17m
English
As stated in the previous section, GIS technologies heavily utilize digital information. There are quite a few different digital data formulation methods that are used. The most common method of data formulation, however, is digitization, for obvious reasons. Let’s take a quick step back and define digitization. Digitization is where you have a physical copy of a map or survey data and transfer it into a digital medium by means of CAD or similar programs that have georeferencing capabilities. With the abundance of orthorectified imagery devices such as satellites, aircraft, Helikites, and UAVs, heads-up digitizing is becoming the go-to resource by which geographic data is extricated.
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