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Geographic information system

Known as: Geographic information systems software, Geographical Information System, Geospatial Information Systems 
A geographic information system or (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographical… (More)
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2016
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2016
Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information
Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until… (More)
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
The credibility of volunteered geographic information
The proliferation of information sources as a result of networked computers and other interconnected devices has prompted… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Geographic Information Systems
datum Basis for measurement of position on the Earth’s surface. discrete object view Conceptualization of geographic phenomena as… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
Using Ontologies for Integrated Geographic Information Systems
Today, there is a huge amount of data gathered about the Earth, not only from new spatial information systems, but also from new… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
Semantic Granularity in Ontology-Driven Geographic Information Systems
The integration of information of different kinds, such as spatial and alphanumeric at different levels of detail, is a challenge… (More)
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2001
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2001
Community Participation and Geographic Information Systems
Geographic information systems (GIS) and geographic information technologies (GIT) are increasingly employed in research and… (More)
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1999
Highly Cited
1999
Ontology-Driven Geographic Information Systems
This paper introduces a geographic information system architecture based on ontologies. Ontology plays a central role in the… (More)
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1995
Highly Cited
1995
Integrating Geographical Information Systems and Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Methods
  • Piotr Jankowski
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  • 1995
Many spatial decision-making problems, such as site selection or land use allocation require the decision-maker to consider the… (More)
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1995
Highly Cited
1995
Virtual GIS: A Real-Time 3D Geographic Information System
Advances in computer graphics hardware and algorithms, visualization, and interactive techniques for analysis offer the… (More)
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modelling
Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read… (More)
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