Geographic Information Systems
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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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Keywords
- Geographic information system
- Computer science
- GIS and public health
- Local information systems
- Information system
- Set (abstract data type)
- Space (punctuation)
- Information retrieval
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