A Geographical Information System Primer |
Contents
THE NATURE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION | 8 |
FUNDAMENTAL GIS CONCEPTS | 14 |
DATA SOURCES AND DATA INPUT | 27 |
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ability Alberta Township System analysis techniques analytical functions ARC/INFO ASCII attribute column attribute data Boolean Boolean logic buffers Burrough capability commonly coordinate create Dangermond data capture data input data layer data manipulation data modelling data sources data storage data structure database deciduous depletion digital data Digital Elevation Model error example exist forest inventory format geographic data geographic features Geographic Information Systems GIS applications GIS product GIS project GIS software GIS users hardcopy hardware integrated land base layer contains limitation for road manipulation and analysis map represents Merchantable Coniferous Stands nested reclassification non-spatial attributes OPEN WATER perspective view Point in polygon polygon data Proximity analysis quadtree querying raster Remote Sensing reports resource road location scanning selected features severity disturbance code simple reclassification based Slope Classes soil texture spatial and attribute spatial data specific study area tessellated topological overlay topological structure user defined vector data