GEO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geographic Information System
8 Dec 2020
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A science which interprets relationships in space of both physical and human environments. Looks at many grey areas between the physical and the human environment. A region is an area of the earths surface which has distinctive characteristics based on certain criteria. Physical regions; location, landforms, climate, soil, vegetation, hydrology. Human/cultural regions; culture (shared history, language, religion, ethnicity), economy, political system, demographics, urbanization. Maps in our mind of spaces we go to (activity spaces) like school, work, home, or our city. As we add activity spaces we develop new mental maps. As knowledge of an activity spaces grows, so does the mental map. At age 6 you know a small map of your house and surrounding area, at the age of 10 your community develops further, and at age 13 it is developed fully to what you know. Remote sensing; scanners and cameras on satellites send information to earth.
