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GRASS GIS – extensible GIS for image processing and analysing raster, topological vector and graphic data. OSSIM – Libraries and applications used to process imagery, maps, terrain, and vector data. Marble – Virtual globe and world atlas. gvSIG – Desktop GIS for data capturing, storing, handling, analysing and deploying. Includes map ...
A Land Information System (LIS) is a geographic information system for cadastral and land-use mapping, typically used by local governments. [1]A LIS consists of an accurate, current and reliable land record cadastre and its associated attribute and spatial data that represent the legal boundaries of land tenure and provides a vital base layer capable of integration into other geographic ...
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization that develops and maintains international standards for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web, Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing. The OGC was incorporated as a not for profit in 1994.
GIS data acquisition includes several methods for gathering spatial data into a GIS database, which can be grouped into three categories: primary data capture, the direct measurement phenomena in the field (e.g., remote sensing, the global positioning system); secondary data capture, the extraction of information from existing sources that are ...
Geographic information science (GIScience, GISc) or geoinformation science is a scientific discipline at the crossroads of computational science, social science, and natural science that studies geographic information, including how it represents phenomena in the real world, how it represents the way humans understand the world, and how it can be captured, organized, and analyzed.
"Two things went through my head: 'Alan, save me. Alan, let me go.'" Donny Osmond is remembering the rush of performing in front of crowds of screaming fans as a member of his family’s band, the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A large number of Americans' metadata has been stolen in the sweeping cyberespionage campaign carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed "Salt Typhoon," a senior U.S ...
Geoinformatics is a scientific field primarily within the domains of Computer Science and technical geography. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It focuses on the programming of applications, spatial data structures , and the analysis of objects and space-time phenomena related to the surface and underneath of Earth and other celestial bodies.