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| Geographic Information System |
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| Study of the physical features on Earth and its atmosphere. |
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| How Are Humans Affecting Geography? |
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Population Distributions
Land Use
Land Cover Changes
Resource Depletion |
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| What is the Geographic Information System? |
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| Framework for gathering managing and analyzing data, that integrates different types data that analyzes spatial locations and organizes layers of information with maps and 3D scenes. |
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| Hardware, Software, Data and the people who analyze data. |
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| What are the data layers of GIS? |
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Street
Buildings
Vegetation
Integrated |
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| What are the two types of models for representing reality in computers using points, lines and areas? |
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| What are Raster Models Like? |
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| Each point is one pixel, lines are lines of pixels and areas are just groups of pixels. |
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| Collecting and interpreting information about the environment from a distance, by primarily sensing radiation naturally emitted or reflected from the Earth's surface or atmosphere. |
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| What is an unnatural way of Remote Sensing? |
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| Using a device to send signals to be transmitted and reflected back. |
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