GIS

As new technologies are developed, businesses are discovering new ways to keep track of their customers and their needs. For many businesses, where their customers live, work and shop are crucial details for ensuring their marketing strategies are the right ones for reaching the right market. GIS, or geographic information systems, are growing in popularity among organizations who need to to enhance their location intelligence. Every business seeks to understand the wants and needs of its...Read Full Story

For many organizations, tracking and working with geographic data is crucial to their operations. Spatial data or geospatial data combines geographic elements with other data to create useful data that can make the challenge of managing operations over large areas easier to tackle. The military uses spatial data to identify enemy positions and enhance missions, and businesses like direct mail companies use spatial data to deliver more targeted messages to potential customers. Another...Read Full Story

Geospatial Data Specialist Responsibilities The primary responsibility of the incumbent is to manage and perform activities associated with the development and maintenance of SERVIR Africa’s geospatial infrastructure data. The activities are as follows: Identify, acquire, and evaluate spatial data and metadata from various sources. Support the design and development of data automation, database development and data migration projects implemented by SERVIR and its partners. Editing of...Read Full Story

Updated for ArcGIS Desktop 10, GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook offers hands-on exercises to help GIS users at the intermediate level continue to build problem-solving and analysis skills. Inspired by the ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis book series, GIS Tutorial 2 provides a system for GIS users to develop proficiency in various spatial analysis methods, including location analysis; change over time, location, and value comparisons; geographic distribution; pattern analysis; and cluster...Read Full Story

This book provides a clear conceptual framework, consistent terminology, reference cases, and recommended practices for design, implementation, and management of GII. It is meant for professionals in higher education, practitioners faced with the design, implementation, and maintenance of GII in municipalities, other levels of government and private sector enterprise, as well as the international financial institutions involved with underwriting GII projects...Read Full Story

This comprehensive look at GIS doesn't overwhelm with details, equations, or computer codes. Instead the author interweaves the ideas of geographic inquiry and spatial discovery, inviting readers to join in the excitement of discovery as it takes place within the computerized world of the digital GIS databases. After discussing spatial and mapping concepts, the author sequentially addresses the components of GIS systems. A final chapter spotlights the process of designing and implementing a...Read Full Story

This guide enables students of human geography to take a critical look at the set of practices, hardware and software that are together described as GIS.A guide to GIS for students of human geography. Outlines the distinct approaches to inquiry employed in GIS and illustrates their relevance for human geographers. Traces the history of GIS and human geography from 1970 to the present. Illustrates the challenges of data collection, classification in the context of multiple stakeholders and...Read Full Story