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Geographic Information Systems

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, (2012), 457-473
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29104-3_19
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Abstract

A geographic information system (GIS) is any system that captures, stores, analyzes and displays data that are linked to location (i.e., are georeferenced). GIS broadly refers to all aspects of managing, manipulating, and using digital georeferenced data.

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Maliva, R., & Missimer, T. (2012). Geographic Information Systems. In Environmental Science and Engineering (pp. 457–473). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29104-3_19

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