GEOB 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Photogrammetry, Data Integration, Geodesy

• School: UBC
• Department: Geographical Biogeosciences
• Course: GEOB 270
• Professor: Samuel Walker

Document Summary

Gis = combination of people, software, data, network, hardware, procedures. What can gis do: map locations i. e earthquake locations (used for building codes, map quantities: Relative values (such as population: map surrounding areas i. e flood risks, mapping change. Increasing prevalence of spatial data: ability to assimilate divergent sources of fata both spatial and non-spatial (attribute data, visualization impact, analytical capability, sharing of information. Why geography matters? (almost) everything happens somewhere: nothing is atomic", must consider whole (context is important) Tobler"s first law of geography: knowing where some things happen is critically important.