GIS applications

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Geographic information systems (GIS) (also known as Geospatial information systems) are computer software and hardware systems that enable users to capture, store, analyse and manage spatialially referenced data ^[1].

GISs have transformed the way spatial (geographic) data, relationships and patterns in the world are able to be interactively queried, processed, analysed, mapped, modelled, visualised, and displayed for an increasingly large range of users, for a multitude of purposes^[1]^[2]^[3]

1 Examples of GIS applications
2 See also
3 External links
- 3.1 GIS Applications: General
- 3.2 GIS Applications: Archaeology
4 References

[edit] Examples of GIS applications

User's of GIS's range from indigenous peoples, communities, research institutions, environmental scientists, health organisations, land use planners, businesses, and government agencies at all levels ^[3].

Uses range from information storage; spatial pattern identification; visual presentation of spatial relationships; remote sensing - all sometimes made available through internet web interfaces, involving large numbers of users, data collectors, specialists and/or community participants.

Some examples include:

[edit] GIS Application: Archaeology

Archaeologists were some of the early adopters, users, and developers of GIS and Geographic Information Science.^{[citation needed]}

Increasing numbers of archaeologists have found GIS to be a cost effective, accurate, and fast means of both analysing large volumes of data, and visually displaying the spatial dimensions of people's behaviour within mapped landscapes, through time.^{[citation needed]}

Over a period of 10 years or more, the use of GIS in archaeology has transformed both the way archaeologists acquire and visualise data, plus the way in which archaeologists think about space itself.^{[citation needed]}