GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Geographic Information System
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The last point also returns us to something we said at the very beginning of lesson 1: that. Human geographers analyse how people and places are interconnected, and how they influence each other. Now that lesson 2 has given us a better idea of the concept of "place", we are ready to examine how human geographers actually do this. Chapter 1 briefly introduces you to what human geographers do. Let"s say we are interested in finding out how healthy the remaining forest areas around. Once they act in concert, however, forest health will suffer. We could then apply this insight to other situations: for example, we might want to advise city council against allowing a heavy polluter to build a plant upwind from forests growing on light, sandy soils. In this example, we used very advanced tools: satellite imagery, digital data processing, a gis.
