GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hectare, Permafrost, Crop Yield
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Gis technology allows interpretation of satellite data to identify different types of land use. New technologies aren"t any more objective than old maps, there is still some sort of bias. We are telling the satellite what to see. Seeing the connecting up of technology and maximizing agricultural production. The ability to see changes in the ecology and all are growing in unpredictable ways with layers of information. We have soil and elevation and air pollution attributes and aspects of a map that we can put into one condensed map to make an analysis. The best way is to have these layers interact with each other as in reality. A great deal of land resource can now be obtained via mapping. A lot of the problems on human kind have a prospect of being solved but this also gives other problems. Ability to map both creates and solves problems. There is a lot of competition on who gets to explore what.
