Geographic Information Systems

GIS (Geographic Information System) integrates data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

GIS has many applications in various fields today – environmental impact assessment reports and natural resource management – and is used for traditional geographically related fields like urban planning and cartography.

1. GIS is able to bring together information from multiple sources so that various types of work can be done. In order to do this though, the data must be tied to a specific location on the Earth's surface. Latitude and longitude are usually used for this and the locations to be viewed are attached to their points on the geographic grid.

2. Database Integration (file geo database) for large quantity of data saving time and integrating the data.

3. Manage intelligent maps and that show features and feature relationships on the earth's surface.

4. This technology support queries, analysis, and editing of the information.

5. GIS is capable of translating a raster to a vector in order to make analysis and data processing easier. It does this by creating lines along the raster cells that have the same classification to create the vector system of points, lines, and polygons which make up the features shown on the map.