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Geographic Information Systems

Advances in public policy and administration (APPA) book seriesPublished 1 January 2020
Citations1,768

Abstract

The chapter presents the geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that allows various sources to gather and organize, manage, analyze and combine, develop, and present geographically located information contributing in particular to the management from space. A geographic information system is also a database management system for entering, storing, retrieving, querying, analyzing, and displaying localized data. It is a set of data located in space, structured so that it can conveniently extract syntheses useful to the decision.

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Social SciencesComputer Science