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Please submit your answers via this web form before the class meeting on FEBRUARY 19TH, 2014
NO LATE SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED
Navigate to the following website:
Note the section on the webpage titled "Getting Started", "What is GIS?", "Who Uses GIS?", and "Careers in GIS".
Read the brief content in the following headings within this section:
Top Five Benefits of GIS
What can I do with GIS?
The Geographic Approach
and
What is GIS?
Who Uses GIS?
Careers in GIS
Overview
After reviewing these sections, answer the questions listed below by directly entering your responses into this webpage. When complete, click on the "SUBMIT" button at the end of the form. Your answers will be emailed directly to your instructor.
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After reading these sections, answer the following questions....
1. Provide 4 examples of what you can do with GIS from the readings?
2. Explain the 5 steps of the framework for GIS analysis? (don't just list them)
3. Fill in the Blanks:
"The Geographic Approach is a new way of thinking and that
integrates into how we understand
and our planet."
4. The benefits of GIS generally fall into five basic categories. What are they?
5. Fill in the Blanks (from "Managing Geographically"):
GIS is becoming essential to understanding - and
- in geographic space. Once we understand, then
we can ."
6. Give examples of how GIS can provide cost savings and increased efficiency.
7. Under the "Business" section, explain how GIS is used by at least two of the examples from the list provided (i.e., from Banking, Insurance, Logistics, etc).
8. Provide a few examples of how senators and representatives are using GIS.
Also, what goals are they trying to achieve through GIS use?
note: This section is voice-narrated. turn on/up your computer sound volume. If you have trouble opening the animation, try right clicking on the link and select "open in new tab".
Click on the link to "Videos". Then choose "GIS Analyst - Forester"
9. Explain how the use of GIS by the forest service has proved to be so much more powerful than what was done in the past with paper, pen, and markers.
10. What is done with the data once it is gathered by the "hand-held GPS enabled data collector" to help better plan a management strategy?
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