The major areas of GIS application
- Local Government
- Public works/infrastructure management (roads, water, sewer)
- Planning and environmental management
- property records and appraisal
- Real Estate and Marketing
- Retail site selection, site evaluation
- Public safety and defense
- Crime analysis, fire prevention, emergency management, military/defense
- Natural resource exploration/extraction
- Petroleum, minerals, quarrying
- Transportation
- Airline route planning, transportation planning/modeling
- Health Management (Health Systems, Health Centers, Management Beds)
- Public health and epidemiology
- The Geospatial Industry
- Data development, application development, programming
Examples of Applied GIS
- Urban Planning, Management & Policy
- Zoning, subdivision planning
- Land acquisition
- Economic development
- Code enforcement
- Housing renovation programs
- Emergency response
- Crime analysis
- Tax assessment
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- Environmental Sciences
- Monitoring environmental risk
- Modeling stormwater runoff
- Management of watersheds, floodplains, wetlands, forests, aquifers
- Environmental Impact Analysis
- Hazardous or toxic facility siting
- Groundwater modeling and contamination tracking
- Political Science
- Redistricting
- Analysis of election results
- Predictive modeling
- Civil Engineering/Utility
- Locating underground facilities
- Designing alignment for freeways, transit
- Coordination of infrastructure maintenance
- Business
- Demographic Analysis
- Market Penetration/ Share Analysis
- Site Selection
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- Education Administration
- Attendance Area Maintenance
- Enrollment Projections
- School Bus Routing
- Real Estate
- Neighborhood land prices
- Traffic Impact Analysis
- Determination of Highest and Best Use
- Health Care
- Epidemiology
- Needs Analysis
- Service Inventory
GIS in Education
- Geography
- Geology
- Meteorology
- Oceanography
- Law Enforcement
- Public Health
- History
- Sociology
- Urban/Regional Planning
Agriculture
- Farm management
- Pest/Disease tracking
- Crop monitoring
- Yield prediction
- Soil analysis
Natural Resource Management
- Forestry
- Ecology
- Mining
- Petroleum
- Water Resources
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Planning and Economic Development
- Land Use/Zoning
- Emergency Preparedness
- Population Forecast
- Market Analysis
- Property Tax Assessment
- Transportation
Geographic Information Technologies
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- a system of earth-orbiting satellites which can provide precise (100 meter to sub-cm.) location on the earth’s surface (in lat/long coordinates or equiv.)
- Remote Sensing (RS)
- use of satellites or aircraft to capture information about the earth’s surface
- Digital ortho images a key product (map accurate digital photos)
- Geographic Information Systems (GISy)
- Software systems with capability for input, storage, manipulation/analysis and output/display of geographic (spatial) information
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GPS and RS are sources of input data for a GIS.
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A GIS provides for storing and manipulating GPS and RS data.
How Does GIS Provide Benefit?
- GIS improves efficiency
- GIS identifies opportunities
- GIS improves decisions by providing needed tools and data
BENEFITS OF GIS
- improves/enhances the effects of physical/environmental growth
- better management of resources
- adding new value-added services
- perform analysis on spatial and non spatial components
- fast recall of data
- ability for complex analysis
- recalling of non spatial data through object location
- display of information in a different light/view
- multiple scenario in planning can be performed easily
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