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The Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services was established on 16 May 2002 as a public trust. Following the flooding in 1987 and 1988 the government of Bangladesh felt the need for a detailed plan to prevent flooding and body to implement it.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman realized the importance of the shipping sector at that time. On 5 February 1972, he established 'Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) under the President Order no-10 of 1972. On 10 June of the same year, BSC acquired the first national ship 'Banglar Doot' which was the first registered ship in independent Bangladesh.
Example logistics: For the task to find the optimal location for a warehouse in a logistics network, so-called Center of Gravity models are being used. To minimize the cost, these models use transport volume data, customer locations, cost data, etc., in order to determine the optimal location.
Geographic information systems (GIS) play a constantly evolving role in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and United States national security.These technologies allow a user to efficiently manage, analyze, and produce geospatial data, to combine GEOINT with other forms of intelligence collection, and to perform highly developed analysis and visual production of geospatial data.
Notable companies Status: P=Private, S=State; A=Active, D=Defunct; Name Industry Sector Headquarters Founded Notes Status A K Khan & Company: Conglomerates - Chittagong: 1945 Textiles, logistics, water, financial services, telecoms, agriculture P A Aarong: Consumer goods Personal & household goods Dhaka: 1978 General retail P A Abul Khair Group ...
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.
A global information system (GIS) is an information system which is developed and / or used in a global context. [ 1 ] A global information system (GIS) is any information system which attempts to deliver the totality of measurable data worldwide within a defined context.