NRC140 PART 1.1

What is GIS?

• A system for gathering, managing, and analyzing temporal data

• A system for gathering, managing, and analyzing spatial data

• A system for gathering, managing, and analyzing textual data

• A system for gathering, managing, and analyzing numerical data

What does GIS integrate?

• Spatial and attribute information

• Numerical and attribute information

• Textual and attribute information

• Temporal and attribute information

What questions can GIS answer?

• Who is at a location, where is it, what has changed, what spatial patterns exist, what if

• What is at a location, where is it, what has changed, what spatial patterns exist, what if

• What is at a location, when is it, what has changed, what spatial patterns exist, what if

• What is at a location, where is it, what has changed, what temporal patterns exist, what if

What is GIScience concerned with?

• The 'what' and 'where' of GIS

• The 'how' of GIS

• The 'who' and 'where' of GIS

• The 'when' and 'where' of GIS

Who is credited as the 'Father of GIS'?

• Michel Paradis

• Jack Dangermond

• Roger F. Tomlinson

• John Snow

When did GIS evolve into using computers?

• 1990

• 1975

• 1854

• 1968

What was the first vector GIS called?

• ODYSSEY GIS

• ARC/INFO

• PC ARC/INFO

• CGIS

When was the first GIS meeting held?

• 1968

• 1975

• 1981

• 1990

What marked the start of epidemiology?

• The study of geological formations

• The study of the spread of disease

• The study of climate change

• The study of spatial patterns

What is the vision of geomatics?

• To master GIScience

• To master GIS software

• To master spatial analysis

• To master individual technologies and geographic data collection techniques